Nigeria, Sept. 14 -- Ministerial appointments are not beer-parlour decisions. They are not WhatsApp polls either. They have a history. In Britain, monarchs relied on advisers who later became ministers. Nigeria inherited this idea through the Macpherson Constitution of 1951, then the Lyttleton Constitution of 1954, which made ministers heads of departments in a federal system. At independence in 1960, Tafawa Balewa appointed Nigerians fully into his cabinet. Today, under the 1999 Constitution, ministers are presidential appointees confirmed by the Senate. That is settled law. Which is why the ongoing campaign of insults against the Minister of Women Affairs, Barr. Imaan Suleiman-Ibrahim, is misplaced-like trying to collect NEPA bill from ...