The assurances of the INEC about competent management of the election were always empty and lacking in credibility.
One question to be answered in this election could be whether the country has the imagination and resilience to find pathways beyond these traditional fissures.
Could the Supreme Court be hard at work to ensure democratic government and society as a whole don’t function?
Where the violence of the war had failed, the soft power of the indomitable spirit of Rangers International had persuaded Nigeria into a love affair with their origins.
How does a judge who sits in a court built by one man avoid the impression that he or she has a special relationship with the “owner” of the court?
Even if voting eventually were to occur in many places, violence could have such a chilling effect as to mar election administration or deplete turnout.
In democratic politics, these implicit bargains begin, of course, with the understandings that govern membership of political parties.
For young people in particular, one question may be important: what would you think of a politician who promises to make the country too attractive for Japa?
Football may indeed mirror life but it is not a cure for all of the world’s problems — nor is it meant to be.
To survive in Nigeria’s legal profession these days, practitioners and judges require skills in martial arts.
