INTRODUCTION – BATTLE OF THE GENERALS DEFERRED I know that Generals Obasanjo and Buhari, two (re)tired army generals, announced their president...
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Read moreThe full court of the Supreme Court of Nigeria had, in a landmark judgment delivered on 3rd April, 2002, [sic 5th APRIL] fundamentally effected ...
Read more CONTENT1. THE CONCERN ABOUT THE 2002 BUDGET2. HISTORY OF NIGERIA’S PROBLEMATIC FISCAL FEDE...
Read moreAddress by Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, governor of Enugu State address to the Conference of Southern Governors. January 2001.THE summit today and your pres...
Read moreIntroductionThe Supreme Court, as its name suggests, is a court of last resort. Itsjudgment is supreme as it carries the weight of finality. This fact...
Read moreINTRODUCTIONHonourable Ministers, Governors, Distinguished guests, ladies, and gentlemen:I am pleased that the Council on Foreign Relations could join...
Read moreculled from VANGUARD, July 04, 2005Since the beginning of the 21st century, scholars and political leaders have shown an uncommon interest in federali...
Read morePresented at the Integrative National Conference on Sharia, Resource Control and Anti-terrorism in Nigeria organized by the Faculty of Arts, Universit...
Read moreINTRODUCTIONLet’s cut to the chase and lay out the history of revenue allocation in Nigeria in tabular form: see Table 1. With 1 Federal...
Read moreIN colonial times, the authorities acknowledged theneed to recognise the derivation principle in revenueallocations. Between 1949 and 1964, the follow...
Read morePresented this paper in Kaduna at lecture organised by the Northern Youths Consultative Forum. I wish to thank the leaders and the members of th...
Read moreTuesday, December 31, 2002 culled from Vanguard NewspaperLet me begin by expressing my profound concern about the ongoing public controversy over the ...
Read moreINTRODUCTIONPeriodically, I give over my Essays to others whose contributions I wish to highlight. This time, I give it to two recent contributo...
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From the Powell Memo to Project 2025: How a 1971 Corporate Strategy Became a Global Template for Power In August 1971, a corporate lawyer named L...
The Market’s Mood Ring: How Volatility Across Assets Traces a Hidden Geometry of SentimentIf you want a fast, honest way to describe modern markets,...
Nigeria’s grid collapses are not ‘bad luck’ – They are a design failure, and we know how to fix themFirst published in VANGUARD on February 3,...
Islands of Credibility: Nigeria’s Best Reform Strategy Starts in the StatesFirst published in VANGUARD on January 31, 2026 https://www.vanguard...
Project 2025 Agenda and Healthcare in NigeriaThe US and Nigeria signed a five-year $5.1B Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on December 19, 2025, to bo...
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