Nigeria's Budget 2012: Three Billion Daily for Insecurity? (2)

We will revisit our analysis of the security sector budget beginning with some clarifications and rebuttal of the Budget Office's right of reply to last week's column titled - "Where el-Rufai Got it Wrong". I commend the Budget Office for choosing to respond this way instead of asking the SSS to arrest me as the president did on July 1, 2011.

The democratic space can only be expanded with...

Why Supreme Court Sacked These Five Governors

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Dahiru Musdapher and six of his colleagues, all justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria  on Friday unanimously agreed that the controversial elongation of the tenure of five state governors was illegal. 

Delivering the lead judgement, Justice Walter Samuel asserted that...