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GEJ2027: Will most likely suffer a Judicial Abortion

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Lagos, Aug. 31, 2025 – Seven years ago, in 2018, my good friend and former Dean of Law at the University of Ghana at Legon, Professor Raymond Atuguba, undertook a path-breaking study which sought “to move away from the perception that Justices of the Supreme Court dispense justice impartially under a constitutional democracy and reflect on the influences on the Justices as they are taking decisions.” The focus of the study was the influence of politics on judicial decision-making in the Supreme Court of Ghana. For this …

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Passport fees hike constitutes additional burden on poor masses – Peter Obi

Lagos, Aug. 29, 2025 – Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 Elections, says the new hike in passport fees will constitute additional burden on the poor masses. Peter Obi expressed his reaction to the hike in the passport fees on Thursday in a post on his X account. He described the decision as insensitive as it will add to the current economic hardship in the country. Obi wrote: “The obsession of this administration with putting a burden on the populace is becoming legendary and …

Politics

Trump’s latest Fed jab breeds more dismay than drama

Singapore, Aug. 26, 2025 – Global investors were shell-shocked on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump struck another blow at the Federal Reserve’s independence, caught between the concerns over politicisation of policy and the payoffs for markets. Trump’s announcement he was firing Fed Governor Lisa Cook surprised markets, even though he had made clear last week that Cook was a target and has for months attacked Chair Jerome Powell as part of his campaign to get the Fed to cut rates. “It’s another crack in the edifice of the United States …

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Presidency refutes claims of over 33 million Nigerians at risk of hunger

Abuja, Aug. 8, 2025 – The Presidency has denied a recent claim by a Nigerian newspaper that over 33 million Nigerians are at the risk of hunger. Sunday Dare, a Special Adviser to President on Media and Public Communications, rebutted the claims in a statement on Friday. A Nigerian Newspaper recently published an editorial titled “Nigeria is Collapsing under Tinubu’s Watch”, which painted a gory picture of the state of Nigerian economy. Dare described the claims in the publication as exaggerated and not grounded on facts.   He accused the media …

Politics

Fuel Subsidy Withdrawal:  Atiku still confused, repetitive like a broken record – TDF

‎Abuja, July 19, 2025 – The Democratic Front (TDF) has condemned the insistence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar that the removal of fuel subsidy by President Bola Tinubu was ‘hasty and thoughtless’. ‎The group said it was embarrassed by such insistence and wondered why the former Vice President has not come up with a better alternative to what President Tinubu did. The TDF expressed its position in a statement signed by its Chairman, Mallam Danjuma Muhammad, and Secretary, Chief Wale Adedayo. ‎It said: “It is even more worrisome that …

Money market Politics

Is BRICS sliding towards irrelevance?

By Amalendu Misra Nepal, July 17, 2025 – The BRICS group of nations has concluded its 17th annual summit in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. But, despite member states adopting a long list of commitments covering global governance, finance, health, AI and climate change, the summit was a lacklustre affair. The two most prominent leaders from the group’s founding members-Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa-were conspicuously absent. Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, only attended virtually due to an outstanding arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court over his …

Foreign Politics

US Senate passes Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill, Vance breaks 50-50 tie

Washington, July 1, 2025 – Senate Republicans hauled President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cut bill to passage Tuesday on the narrowest of margins, pushing past opposition from Democrats and their own GOP ranks after a turbulent overnight session. The outcome capped an unusually tense weekend of work at the Capitol, the president’s signature legislative priority teetering on the edge of approval or collapse. In the end that tally was 50-50, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote. Three Republican senators — Thom Tillis of North …

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Sierra Leone’s Bio succeeds Nigeria’s Tinubu as Chair of ECOWAS Authority

By Paul Ejime Abuja, June 23, 2025 – West African leaders at their 67th Ordinary Summit in Abuja on Saturday, June 22,  2025 chose Sierra Leone’s  President Julius Maada Bio as the new rotational Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government for the next one year. He succeeds Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu who served for two terms from 2023. A retired army Brigadier, Bio, 61, ruled Sierra Leone as military head of state from January to March 1996. As civilian politician, he won the presidential election …

Foreign Politics

ECOWAS @50 with leadership crises in member states

Paul Ejime Abuja, June 3, 2025 – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) marked the fiftieth anniversary of its establishment last month. Amidst the celebratory activities, like ‘a thief in the night’ (not related to the Bible or the popular song), Togolese leader Faure Gnassingbé, on Saturday, May 3, 2025, completed a controversial constitutional reform which opponents and analysts see as the fulfilment of his life ambition for perpetuating himself in power and prolonging the Gnassingbé Eyadema dynasty. Faure will be 59 years old on June 6, 2025. He first seized power with the support of …

Politics Trade

China ‘firmly rejects’ US claim that it violated tariff deal

Beijing, June 3, 2025 – China said Monday it “firmly rejects” US claims that it had violated a sweeping tariffs deal, as tensions between the two economic superpowers showed signs of ratcheting back up. Beijing and Washington last month agreed to slash staggeringly high tariffs on each other for 90 days after talks between top officials in Geneva. But top Washington officials last week accused China of violating the deal, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick saying Beijing was “slow-rolling” the agreement in comments to “Fox News Sunday”. China hit back …