Raymond Nkannebe
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Lagos, LA, Nigeria
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Hope, excitement as #NigeriaDecides2023
After a protracted military interregnum, Nigeria's democracy appears to be on a cruise with fears of a potential military incursion almost no → Read More
The judiciary and 2023 general election
One of the unintended consequences of the zero-sum nature of Nigeria's politics and the historical electoral heist that has characterized electioneering in Nigeria is the foray of the judiciary → Read More
Deconstructing the Atiku Arise TV interview
It is no longer news that I am an ardent supporter of the former vice president of Nigeria and presidential flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ─Alhaji Atiku → Read More
Atiku Abubakar, PDP and the vexed zoning question
Rising from its 95th National Executive Council meeting last Wednesday, the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) announced that it ha → Read More
Buhari, Nnamdi Kanu and the ‘political solution’ question
In a series of interviews granted by President Muhammadu Buhari at the turn of the New Year to some media houses; particularly the one granted to Channels Television; the president → Read More
An agenda for the bar and the bench in 2022
The year 2021 tested the Bar and the Bench in their joint commitment to justice and defence of the Rule of Law, in various respects. Whereas → Read More
The politics and politricks of 'state of emergency' in Anambra
The statement credited to the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN at a press briefing on Wednesday, 6th October, 2021 to the effect that all options will → Read More
One year anniversary: How Olumide Akpata is repositioning the NBA
August 28, 2021, marked one year anniversary of Olumide Akpata’s historic swearing-in as the 30th President of the Nigerian Bar Association → Read More
2023: The politics and politricks of electronic transmission
After the controversies that rocked the 2019 election, it was clear Nigerians weren't going to the polls in 2023 without a review of the 2010 Electoral Act. → Read More
The legality or otherwise of Matawalle's defection
The People's Democratic Party (PDP), according to Kola Olagbodion, is perfecting plans to challenge the defection of Governor Matawalle → Read More
Nigeria, Biafra and the denial of history
“Fellow Citizens, we cannot escape history“—Abraham LincolnAdvertisement The above quote taken from President Abraham Lincoln’s famous State of the Union Address on the 1st of December, 1982 where he, amongst → Read More
The judiciary and Cross River north senatorial district legal conundrum
While the crisis rocking the Cross River North Senatorial District over who is the authentic candidate of the PDP at its primary election may → Read More
Ebube Agu, ESN and matters arising
Nigerian police amongst other stakeholders, announced the formation of a regional security outfit, by the name, Ebube Agu, to checkmate → Read More
#Anambra2021: Who is afraid of Prof Charles Soludo?
Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, the Isuofia-born Professor of Econometrics, and former Governor of Nigeria's Apex Bank, under whose visio → Read More
As Nigeria continues to decline under Buhari
If the millions of Nigerians who trooped out en masse (bustling with energy and optimism) to vote President Muhammadu Buhari into power som → Read More
Tochukwu Maduka: the man who will be silk
Indeed as Chinua Achebe wrote of his tragic character, Okonkwo, in his magnum opus, Things Fall Apart, if there was a man who deserved his success, that man was Tochukwu Maduka. → Read More
Achebe at 90: What would he have said?
As the literary community marks the 90th posthumous birthday of Chinua Achebe, it is an opportune moment to wonder what the literary c → Read More
Mahmood, INEC and the next five years
President has approved the re-appointment of Professor Mahmood Yakubu as the head of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), → Read More
#EndSARS: Police brutality and the intervention of the judiciary
Nigerian youths filtered into the streets of at least 26 state capitals of the federation in condemnation of the history of police brutality → Read More
What do we do with SARS?
If the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Unit of the Nigerian Police was established 28 years ago to checkmate notorious cases of armed robbe → Read More