Nigeria and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have partnered to strengthen democratic institutions in West Africa through the Regional Partnership for Democracy.This initiative aims to ...

Since the rift between Nyesom Wike, the former Rivers State governor, and Siminalayi Fubara, his successor, blew open in ...

A s Nigeria commemorated Democracy Day on June 12th, it is crucial to revisit Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s critique of democracy, coined as “Demonstration of Craze.” Fela, an iconic Afrobeat ...

Elder statesman and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Bode George has replied former president, Olusegun Obasanjo ...

The former Anambra state governor claimed that the standards for measuring democracy do not exist in Nigeria. “I have said it, and I maintain that there is no democracy in Nigeria today.

Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has faulted the governance system in Nigeria, submitting that the ...

Captain Ibrahim Traor eacute;, the 37-year-old military leader of Burkina Faso, recently declared that no country has developed under democracy, insisting instead that his country is undergoing a ...

He said: “Democracy is not working in Nigeria. Everything has been knocked down. I didn’t pay a dime to retrieve my mandate. When I was impeached, Obasanjo called to ask about my welfare.

Despite the challenges of nation-building, Nigeria remains a democracy destination undergoing consolidation, the director general of Michael Imoudu National Institute For Legislative Studies ...

Speaking in separate interviews with Vanguard in Abuja on Tuesday, they supported former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s assertion that Western-style democracy is failing in Nigeria due to its ...

But Obi disagreed with Kukah’s assertion that Nigeria’s democracy was a work in progress. According to him, many progressive minded leaders from 1999 have been striving to raise the bar of the ...

“Dr Okupe played a vital role in the evolution of Nigeria’s democracy. He was a voice of reason in critical moments and took a stand without fear or favour. “One of Dr Okupe’s most notable ...