When the smoke has cleared, and the tears have dried, and the dead have been buried and INEC is finally confident enough in the results it announced to post them on its website, the irresistible conclusion will be that these just-concluded general elections have been a step backwards for democracy in Nigeria. And unlike the…

Part of giving the electorate the chance to periodically conduct performance appraisals on political office holders, elections in young democracies like...

It is election week finally, and while a vote for any of the numerous candidates on the ballot will be one that has been validly and lawfully cast, it is my earnest wish that when the tally is taken, the incumbent president will not be declared the winner.

In the movie Groundhog Day, the protagonist is trapped in time and finds himself reliving the same day over and over again. After cynically finding it fun, he inevitably grows bored and frustrated at not being able to move forward. He eventually breaks out of the single day loop, but not until he acquires several…

It was the night of Christmas Eve when the whole house was still and even the drop a pin could be heard. But the bigwigs at the Central Bank of Nigeria and mobile network...

It was reported last week that a Kenyan High Court had ruled that the practice of parading suspects is unconstitutional. It was poignant because in the same week...

A few years ago, while researching on a lady that was about to hire me, I discovered from one of her online profiles that her doctorate...

Omnia praesumuntur rite esse acta - “all things are presumed to have been done rightly.” This maxim is a fancy way of expressing the legal principle known as the presumption of regularity.

Once again, the quality of the legal advice being dispensed at the presidency has come under scrutiny. Following the recent decision of the Federal High Court in Abuja...

Once again, the quality of the legal advice being dispensed at the presidency has come under scrutiny. Following the recent decision of the Federal High Court in Abuja, striking out a legal challenge to Executive Order 06, the Presidency purported to commence enforcement of the Executive Order with a statement that began as follows –…

The most remarkable thing about the just-concluded elections in Osun State was not the marginally inconclusive win of the PDP in what many considered an APC stronghold...

Discretion is a huge part of administrative law in most national systems across the world. The constitution and other legislation cannot possibly contemplate or provide a remedy for every single situation, so the government’s powers are delegated to agencies to administer laws in a more tailored fashion.