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That this course is one that is bound to stir up trouble sooner or later has been highlighted in a recent statement attributed to Yoruba leaders flaying the President’s choice of appointees that seem to smell of tribal leanings as opposed to the more pronounced federal character reflected in the appointments made by his strongly hated predecessor. The President is obviously bowing to the agitations of disgruntled northern stalwarts like former military President Ibrahim Babangida, who are making a big deal of the return of the Presidency to a northerner. A dangerous direction indeed.

The governments new term: A whole lot is going wrong!!
by Frisky Larr

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One of William Shakespeare’s plays is revered for the saying: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them!” If William Shakespeare were asked to comment on the Nigerian political scene, no doubt, he would probably have identified a pattern of Nigerian leaders, who seem to be having greatness thrust upon them and those who achieve greatness by the butt of the gun. Thank goodness though that the apex of political leadership of the country at large is now getting used to leaders, who have greatness thrust upon them. From a prison inmate-turn-President to a low-keyed provincial governor who had no Presidential ambitions, the center is slowly building up a discernible pattern.

Whether or not the identical characters of this pattern will end at the point of personnel selection will surely be a matter of subtle appraisal in a period of four years. At the moment however, the current President oing to the agitations of disgruntled northern stalwarts like former military President Ibrahim Babangida, who are making a big deal of the return of the Presidency to a northerner. A dangerous direction indeed.

The governments new term: A whole lot is going wrong!!
by Frisky Larr

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criminal law to matrimonial law – is being improvised as a constitutional judicial instance and the judges are simply pretending to be experts in constitutional law.

Indeed, seeing the amount of applause generated amongst intellectual Nigerians and the speed of the emergence of such applause at an extremely outlandish judgment of this sort, I begin to wonder aloud, if the level of education that has steadily deteriorated over the past years is now beginning to take its toll on the general quality of intellectual reasoning in Nigeria. No doubt, this will earn me some serious verbal lynching amongst our folks, I’d be sounding untruthful though if I claimed not to be used to such personal attacks.

People may then want to ask what solution jurisprudence should have had in resolving the dispute in Anambra State if not the one propounded by the Supreme Court. To avoid upsetting the political process, the law indeed holds several options handy. First, it is so incomprehensible that INEC is held responsible for the malaise because it conducted elections when the time was due. If it was as simple as that to frustrate INEC from performing its duties when election timeve the process the option of a weary and long-drawn political debate. Alternatively, constitutional courts order the legislature to draw complex and detailed legislation on specific issues to cover an existing juristic loophole. In today’s Nigeria however, we have a judiciary that simply plays to the gallery as if it lacked the substance of jurisprudence. Nigeria’s judiciary does nothing substantial these days other than aggravate if not add to the existing constitutional crises of the country.

One clear example is the removal of an elected governor Uba for the fortunate and at the same time, unfortunate Peter Obi in Anambra State. This delicate issue is one that is fraught with a multifaceted manifestation of historical dimension.

While I personally congratulate Governor Peter Obi as a true child of destiny, who God obviously doesn’t wish to abandon, I cannot disguise my pleasure at seeing the back of Andy Uba who won