President Bola Tinubu declared on Tuesday that military interference in democratic government would no longer be tolerated in West Africa and the rest of the continent....
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday expressed happiness about the future of democracy in Nigeria. Buhari, who fielded questions from journalists after the Eid-el-Fitr prayers in Abuja,...
Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari praised Nigerian democracy following the outcome of the 2023 general elections. Two other stories from the Aso Rock Villa were also...
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thursday the 2023 General Elections has demonstrated the power of the Nigerian electorates. This was contained in a statement issued by...
Former Senate President, Adolphus Wabara had slammed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), over the conduct of the February 25 presidential election which he says was...
The United States has slammed a visa ban on some Nigerians and their family members for undermining the country’s democracy. The US Secretary of State, Antony...
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STRICTLY speaking the above headline is not original to me. It is an adaptation of a seminal book written in 2018 by two highly regarded Harvard...
The Governor of Cross-River State, Ben Ayade, on Sunday berated the current democracy being practised in Nigeria. Ayade made this criticism while addressing some stakeholders of...
The Progressives Governors Forum has criticised political parties in the country for the shoddy management of electoral processes within their systems while failing to entrench democratic...
The Federal Government has restated the possibility of the imposition of a state of emergency in Anambra State if violence keeps spiralling in that state. This...
During the week in review, the Senate literarily became a war zone as supposedly distinguished lawmakers turned into warriors as the debate on the need to...
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has rejected the resolution of the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) for the 2023 Presidency to be zoned to the south,...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Saturday pledged to continue to sustain democracy and democratic tenets among member-countries via the conduct of free,...
Renowned legal luminary, Afe Babalola has stated that the country is yet to entrench deep democratic ideals for the benefit of the citizenry. According to him,...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, has faulted governors in Nigeria holding separate meetings, saying it is detrimental to democracy. Jonathan, however, backed the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF),...
The Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has boasted that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has, in six years, eclipsed whatever achievements the Peoples Democratic...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday urged countries in Africa to comply with tenets of multi-party democracy. Buhari, according to a statement issued by his Special Adviser...
I heavily grieve for those who have lost their lives or been injured during the period of these protests. My deepest sympathies go to their families...
Democracy (demokratia; demos for “people” and kratos for “rule”) as a term appeared in the 5th century. It started as a system of government in the...
The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), a coalition of over 400 civil society organisations has faulted the presence of state governors in Ondo State ahead of Saturday’s...
Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has said that the former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole and a national leader of the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the President Muhammadu Buhari Democracy Day address as a huge and unpardonable slap on the face of Nigeria’s democratic...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Friday called for equitable redistribution of the country’s wealth to improve the quality of lives of Nigerians as...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has regretted that Nigerians were yet to enjoy enough dividends of democracy since 1999. Nigeria returned to democratic rule in 1999...
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams has said that democracy in Nigeria was yet to measure up to the expectations of the people. According to...
Governor Godwin Obaseki has reacted to the claim that he forged his university certificate. Three persons in the state, Edobor Williams, Ugbesia Abudu Godwin and Amedu...
Prior to the re-emergence of democracy in Nigeria in May,1999, political pundits specifically blamed the socioeconomic and political instability on the military. Specifically, while many at...
The 21-gun salute fired in eastern Cairo during the burial of the late president Hosni Mubarak was an elegant end to the life of a man...
The National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, on Tuesday called for the amendment of the nation’s electoral laws to guarantee free,...
Lt. Gen. Jeremiah Useni (retd.) has blamed some of the problems in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration on bad advisers. Useni, the governorship candidate of the Peoples...
A retired Archbishop of the Catholic Diocese of Lagos, Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, on Friday lamented that the country is sliding back to military era dictatorship with...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has told the All Progressives Congress (APC) that its “coup” against democracy in Nigeria cannot stand. The opposition party, in a...
The Presidency on Sunday said democracy and not violence was a known constitutional means of ensuring changes in a country. The Presidency, in a statement issued...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday charged President Muhammadu Buhari to address the challenges of electoral violence, killings and alteration of election results rather dissipating...
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Tuesday expressed concern over the level at which participatory democracy had been haunted by illiteracy, poverty and unemployment in the...
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has stated that Nigeria’s democracy under President Muhammadu Buhari was derailing. The bishops said the Buhari administration was lacking in...
Tunisia has been popularly hailed as the only successful political transition to emerge from the wider Arab Spring movement. The culmination of this transition was the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said he was humbled by the support Nigerians showed for the “democratic values of modern-day Nigeria” by deliberately ignoring calls for the...
The US State Department on Tuesday revealed that it has imposed visa restrictions on Nigerians it said were involved in trying to undermine democracy in presidential...
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Osun State governor Gboyega Oyetola for his triumph at the Supreme Court in the legal battle following the state’s governorship election....
Istanbul is gearing up for a rerun of March’s mayoral contest this weekend, a vote that could have far-reaching implications for democracy and the rule of...
The recently performed ritual tagged; Democracy Day offered me the ample opportunity to ruminate over the marriage of two unwilling brides who had no say in...
Nigerians were either in their various homes, stadia, shopping malls, amusement centres or other places of their choice, because the federal government declared Wednesday, June 12,...
All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday appraised Nigeria’s democratic evolution, saying as important as it is, May 29 does not carry the...
Senate President Bukola Saraki on Wednesday urged Nigerians to imbibe the culture of holding their leaders accountable in the cause of governing them. Saraki in a...
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has described the process of his reelection as “democracy in action”. He thanked all his supporters for coming out in their...
The vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the February 23 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has hailed the presidential candidate of the party,...
The presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Obiageli Ezekwesili, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the amended Electoral Act, promising stiff...
By Joseph Edgar… What does he represent to the national body politic? This is the question and, at first glance, would be easy to answer. But...
By Reuben Abati… The second wave of democratization in Africa, beginning in the 80s, and the gradual establishment of democracy as the new normal in the...
