The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday February 2nd, 2022 – Australia Day – National Crepe Day
Interim National Government: A Political Contraption Set up to Fail by Kola King
The Head of the Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan who passed away on January 11,2022 took on an assignment that seemed far beyond his usual corporate brief. It must have been the toughest assignment he had ever handled in his chequered career as a businessman and lawyer.
Chief Shonekan, a corporate chieftain and former chairman of the United African Company (UAC), the company with deep roots in British swashbuckling buccaneering, had found himself in the murky terrain of Nigerian politics, especially the cloak and dagger type of the military, which he had no affinity for. In short, Shonekan a thoroughbred boardroom executive was not cut out for that type of stuff.
For a man used to dealing with facts and figures, data and projections, as well as spreadsheets and comprehensive analysis of business trends, he found himself in the labrinythine complexity of dark politics driven by deception, guile and subterfuge. The two worlds were poles apart. Besides, the military were steeped in intrigues, schemes and stratagems. As a political neophyte, it appeared Shonekan was determined to navigate the murky waters of Nigerian politics.
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On a Journey #poem by Bohdan Yuri
“On a journey to nowhere,
I arrived at now.
The surrounding sky
Withdrew into a hole;
Lights turned off,
A change in scenery.”
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Off to the Supreme Court: Assange’s Appeal Continues by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
With December’s High Court decision to overturn the lower court ruling against the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States, lawyers of the WikiLeaks founder immediately got busy. The next avenue of appeal, strewn less with gold than obstacles, would be to the Supreme Court. The central question remained: Should the publisher be extradited to face 18 charges, 17 of which use the bricks and mortar of the US Espionage Act of 1917.
This raised the thorny issue of whether a direct appeal to that body against the High Court finding would be permitted. Ease and smoothness were unlikely to be permitted – judges are not necessarily in the habit of clearing the thick undergrowth that presents itself in appellate proceedings. Doing so would have allowed all points of law raised by Assange to be considered, a dangerous prospect for the establishment fogeys.
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Tang & Ram #027 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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