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Questions for the Coming Election Cycle
The Advocate By Onikepo Braithwaite Onikepo.braithwaite@thisdaylive.com In 2018, I wrote a piece in which I referred to Nigeria as a ‘dysfunctional, fragile, crisis State’. Some of the reasons that I
9/11 @ 25 Years, 6/30 @ 3 Months, 9/30 @ 2 Weeks to Come: How 9/11 @ 25 Will Undermine Global Security
Bola A. Akinterinwa 9/11 is the shortened form for September 11, 2001. This was the day 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four different commercial airlines and launched their very heinous attacks
Of Politicians Threatening Voters
Femi Akintunde-Johnson There was a time when Nigerian politicians threatened one another with defeat at the polls. It was part of the theatre: “We will send you home.” “We will
Law and Morality: A Tale of Two Courts
The Advocate By Onikepo Braithwaite Onikepo.braithwaite@thisdaylive.com Court of Public Opinion v Court of Law: Law and Morals I have said a few times that the way issues are considered and litigation works
NIGERIANS AND THE YOKE OF SUFFERING
MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE writes that the people’s sorry living conditions can become tools for holding the ruling elite accountable When President Bola Tinubu declared to his guests at the Villa the
Bad Behaviour: Between China and Nigeria
The Advocate By Onikepo Braithwaite Onikepo.braithwaite@thisdaylive.com “For me, it was a reminder of the fact that, nobody would dare misbehave in China.” -Vimbai Mutinhiri-Ekpeyong The Chinese/Nigerian Collaboration and Illegal Mining
Change of Names in International Relations: From Appreciation and Self-Protection to Cold War Politics
Bola A. Akinterinwa Name is an identity and a reflection of personality. It is particularly important in international relations because it serves as a potent tool in defining, asserting sovereignty,
The Two Nigerians We Live In
Femi Akintunde -Johnson There is a Nigeria where a woman stands before a food seller, calculating how many cups of rice her remaining money can buy before deciding that perhaps
Credibility in Osun, Questions for Wike and the NBA
The Advocate By Onikepo Braithwaite Onikepo.braithwaite@thisdaylive.com Different people had different things that caught their attention, about the recently concluded Osun State Gubernatorial election. But, the fact that Accord Party’s Governor Ademola
International Law and Refund of Deportation Bills: The Case of Nigeria and Ghana versus South Africa
Bola A. Akinterinwa International law and reimbursement of deportation bills is quite interesting a topic in intra-African relations for various reasons. First, there is no general rule regulating the need
