SUPREME COURT: WERE THE JUDGMENTS REALLY INFLUENCED?

Since the Supreme Court heard and delivered judgments in the governorship election petition appeals, especially from Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Abia states, there have been scathing remarks, most often with more syllables than sense, often low on logical or legal reasoning.

OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT: IS THE JUDICIARY REALLY GETTING WORSE?

"Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself…" Desiderata found in Old Saint Paul's Church, Baltimore AD 1692.

CAN SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENTS END ELECTORAL FRAUDS?

An Italian engineer and economist, Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923) seems to have had the Judiciary in mind when he posited that the optimal efficiency of resource allocation is attained only when a distribution strategy exists where one party's situation cannot be improved without making another party's situation worse.

CAN WE REFORM JUDICIARY WITH N70b BUDGET?

Despite the wailing and crying in the Judiciary over the declining budget share for this Third Arm of Government, the Federal Government has proceeded to budget N70 billion for the entire nation’s Judiciary in the 2016 Budget proposals. This is N3billion lower than the 73 billion appropriated for the Judiciary in 2015.

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