Nigeria: Lawan And Supreme Court Of Shameless Judicial Bandits

 By Farooq Kperogi

I was awoken on this side of the world by news of the reversal by the Nigerian Supreme Court of Senate President Ahmed Lawan's primary election loss. I was already mentally prepared for it after the same Supreme Court affirmed Godwin Akpabio's fraudulent primary win a few days ago. It's a well-planned judicial choreography. 

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 The Nigerian Supreme Court is straight-up the most hopeless Supreme Court in the history of the world's supreme courts. The same Court violated common sense and the will of voters and gave us a "Supreme Court governor" in Imo State who never even pretended to have won an election. 

That Unprofitable Ministerial Screening In Nigeria!

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

Working as a political appointee in Nigeria is, perhaps, merely an exercise in extreme perfunctoriness. I doubt if those who accept these offices, those who offer them and those who “screen” and confirm the appointees, are driven by any vision at all, any objective to achieve for the progress of the country.

What is very clear is that whereas work for these officers is largely undertaken desultorily (with little or no intention to achieve any significant outcome), what appears to drive most of them is the opportunity to arrange or negotiate what might enter their private pockets from the public purse. It is at the point when there are funds to loot that one would be startled to discover that the Nigerian public office holder is, indeed, capable of being very zealous, thorough and focused, that he can conscientiously pursue a set goal and achieve it with amazing aplomb and precision.