Politicians, privileges and Islamic law

WERE the fine points of the well known Hobbesian postulation to be reckoned with, the state would come across as a leviathan, a ubiquitous machine of power that controls and deploys coercive instruments on behalf of, and for the benefit of the rest ...

Google Reader is being shut down on July 1st . Sign up for my mailing list to make sure you don't miss anything. Join here . Michael Norton Michael Norton is an associate professor of marketing at Harvard Business School. He is co-author of the ...

Moldovas tripartite government, the Alliance for European Integration (AEI), has foundered over its internal contradictions, and will no longer be resuscitated in its previously existing form. Two of AEIs parties have scuttled Prime Minister Vlad ...

New York folk heroes are born with an act of brazenness. And not just any kind: the heroic act has to give voice to the voiceless (or at least the passive-aggressive), display moxie where others have buried their heads in frustration. You will ...

Being a sports fan becomes, at a certain point, a constant mocking timeline measuring your own age. This is not a problem when we're young, when we need our teams with the weirdest and deepest hunger. But as we get older and the perspective widens ...

In Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution Francis A. Boyle tells the story of what happened, why it happened, and what went wrong between the United States and Libya from a perspective of ...

The octopus called the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) has carried the day again. It warned President Goodluck Jonathan to steer dear of declaring state of emergency in any part of the Federation. That was only on Monday. The peremptory ...

All residents of Nigeria are currently living in fear, even though the country is not at war. No day passes without reports that scores of human beings have been killed here and there. From Bayelsa through Borno to Adamawa and Nasarawa, the story is ...

by Wole Olanipekun Leave a Comment Wole Olanipekun | credits: I shall restrict myself to juxtaposing the topic and the ingredients and constituents of law against the background of our nation's experience in areas of security, constitutionalism and ...