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BOLA Ahmed Tinubu, the newly installed president of Nigeria, is a product of two great institutional anomalies. One is a deeply flawed Constitution designed to delegitimise the presidency of Nigeria. The other is a Might-Is-Right state that manipulates state agencies to impose its will on the people. These anomalies deny Tinubu’s presidency the strong mandate and legitimacy it badly needs to govern. Let’s start with the constitutional anomalies. Under section 134 (2) of the 1999 Constitution, a candidate is deemed elected as president, where there are more than two candidates, if: a) he has the highest number of votes cast at the election, and b) he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two thirds of all the states in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. My concern is section 134(2)(a), which requires the winning candidate to have “the highest” number of votes cast at the election. In other words, he doesn’t need to have

Former US President Donald Trump, Greg Norman, LIV Golf CEO, right, and Paul Myler, deputy head of mission for the Australian Embassy in Washington, left, watch the second round of the LIV Golf at Trump National Golf Club, Saturday, May 27, 2023, in Sterling, Va. (AP/Alex Brandon) WASHINGTON — US Justice Department prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of former president Donald Trump from after he left office in which he talks about holding onto a classified Pentagon document related to a potential attack on Iran, according to media reports. CNN, which first  reported  on the tape, said Trump suggested on the recording that he wanted to share information from the document with others but that he knew there were limitations about his ability to declassify records after he left office. The comments on the recording, made in July 2021 at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, would seem to undercut the former president’s repeated claims that he declassified the documents he took

This is ue to regular attacks by bandits who often set up roadblocks on the road, kidnapping and robbing people of their hard-earned money. It was a quiet evening on the road connecting Ifon to Okeluse community in Ondo State, southwest Nigeria. The driver who conveyed Dataphyte’s reporter noted that the once busy route had now become a shadow of its former self. He noted that passing through the area showed courage and boldness. This is due to regular attacks by bandits who often set up roadblocks on the road, kidnapping and robbing people of their hard-earned money. True to his words, when our reporter passed, neither any human being nor vehicle passed through the road, which is federally owned. The driver kept a high speed and cracked some jokes to subdue his apprehension while intermittently muttering words of prayer that the journey would not become a disastrous one. Not being able to complain about his speed, the reporter and the driver managed to reach the community situated in