Author: Emporium Reporters

Northern Nigeria is angry. This anger is not strictly borne from the unremitting, horrific spillage of blood on its soil. Rather, Northern Nigeria is angry because it has been rightly called by the name it gave itself.   Recently, the progeny of Shehu Usman dan Fodio – the 19th-century Islamic scholar and founder of the Sokoto Caliphate – have been losing their crème de la crème. Northern Nigerians are dying in droves, mostly at the hands of their own sons who have made the thick forests their comfortable abode. The…

When dispassionate commentaries are made by independent analysts in the fullness of time about the Tinubu presidency, a striking reality will emerge: he infused the political economy with fresh thinking. Let us be clear: it is not just about a birth date. As former Governor and Minister Babatunde Raji Fashola has often indicated, leadership is less about biological age and far more about the currency and age of one’s ideas.   President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has infused the polity with a new age predicated on fresh thinking, sweeping away the…

There are few spectacles more embarrassing in politics than a man arguing passionately against himself while pretending to be attacking someone else. Psychologists call this cognitive dissonance. The rest of us call it eating your own words without choking. It is a difficult performance. The audience remembers the speech made earlier out of conviction, the newspapers preserve the quotes, and the politician is left insisting that black is white and that he has always believed the reverse of what he said. This is a classic Catch-22 situation. Senator Adams Aliyu…

The implications of judicial politicization for opposition parties in Nigeria refer to the consequences that arise when the judiciary is perceived to be influenced by political interests rather than acting independently and impartially. In Nigeria, debates about judicial independence frequently emerge in relation to election petitions, party leadership disputes, and constitutional cases involving major political parties.   The long-term strength of democracy depends heavily on public confidence that courts apply the law fairly and impartially to both ruling and opposition parties. However, political actors often interpret the same court decision…