Time for Judges to be Statesmen, By Sam Amadi

As Nigeria wraps up its election, attention shifts to the judges. With over seven hundred cases filed at the tribunals, the judiciary will be overworked. Yet we expect wisdom, courage, and intelligence to correct all errors, deliberate or otherwise, made by the political branches of government. We rest our hopes on the judges, and their […]

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2019 Election and Judicial Activism, By Sam Amadi

The famous French political philosopher, Alexis Tocqueville, in his classic: Democracy in America, wisely observes that in the United States no sooner does a political controversy arise than it transforms into a legal dispute. In that disputatious society, the law court is an extension of the public square. Now that the US model of constitutional […]

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