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(With the theme, ‘Enhancing Accountability: Limiting Vulnerabilities’, the Nigeria Accountability Summit 2024 continues today in Abuja. Below is my keynote speech at the opening session yesterday morning) I am aware that when you talk about accountability, people think you are referring to money. But accountability is much more than that. For me, nothing illustrates the real essence of accountability […]
Continue ReadingMy Lord, I write, as a concerned member of the Nigerian bar, regarding a subject which has generated controversy among members of the bar and indeed the larger public in the past week. Confidence in the judiciary is at an all-time low. On 22 May 2023, at the opening ceremony of the annual conference of […]
Continue Reading“If everything is for sale, including the courts and the police, trust evaporates, credit vanishes and business withers” – Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, p 257 (2016) It is no longer news that Nigeria’s courts have normalised corruption and abuse of power. They have also put the corruption of courts […]
Continue ReadingThe debate for restructuring Nigeria along the path of a weaker and leaner central government and more autonomous and stronger federating units has been ongoing for some time. Although there has been no consensus about the exact contours of the restructuring process, especially whether states have to remain as they are, or some states will […]
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