Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo has cleared his stand on the tussle for 2023 Igbo presidency. Uzodimma made his reactions while addressing State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Uzodimma said presidential candidates should come on the basis of party system and not tribal basis. […]
Tinubu gave the advice on Friday in his Democracy Day message with the theme, ‘June 12: A milestone for democracy’. June 12 is celebrated annually to commemorate the annulment of June 12 Presidential election. According to the APC national leader, we must keep and nurture democracy, not for its own sake, but for ours. He […]
Former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has criticized President Muhammadu Buhari over his nationwide broadcast to Nigerians in celebration of 2020 Democracy Day. Omokri took to his twitter handle on Friday to enumerate and explain ”20 lies from the president Buhari’s speech. Democracy Day: I have recorded notable achievements- Buhari Buhari in his […]
Malachy Ugwumadu is the immediate past national president of the Committee for the Defence of Human Right (CDHR). In this interview he assesses the human rights record of the current administration and suggests what Nigeria must do to deepeen democracy among other issues. #########You took over CDHR and revived the organisation, how was the experiences? Thanks for […]
Hon. Lukman Olumo is the member representing Ajeromi/Ifelodun Constituency 1 in the Lagos State House of Assembly. He says he is passionate about extending the dividends of democracy to his people. In a recent interview, Olumo stated that he has been reaching out to his people for many years, but that the process is taking […]
With the rash of protests that have greeted the draconian and militaristic purported deregistration of some political parties in Nigeria, I believe it is high time to alert the INEC and every right-thinking Nigerian that there is a possibility of a constitutional crisis brewing from the act of recklessness and impunity. It is trite to […]
Mr Emeka Ihedioha, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Imo, said his faith remained strong in Nigeria, its democracy and institutions, in spite of the Supreme Court judgment that removed him as governor of the state. Ihedioha stated this on Saturday when he received members of the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) led […]
President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, said on Thursday that Nigeria has made significant progress over the last 20 years since the country’s return to democratic rule in 1999. Lawan stated this in a speech delivered at the 17th edition of the Daily Trust Dialogue with the theme: “20 years of democracy in Nigeria: […]
Lagos – A former British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Senior Producer, Kadaria Ahmed, on Monday said that the Social Media Bill in the National Assembly was a threat to democracy and journalism. Ahmed told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of the 2019 Future Awards in Lagos that the bill would undermine the […]
Abeokuta – The President, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Mukhtar Sirajo, on Thursday, stressed the need for building strong institutions towards strengthening and improving the nation’s democracy. Sirajo, who spoke in Abeokuta at the 2019 annual colloquium of the Ogun chapter of NIPR, bemoaned the spate of impunity in governance and the public sector, saying […]
For a nation to develop rapidly, its citizens must learn the act of questioning settled political answers and demand answers to unsettled political questions-analyzing both formal and informal communication/proposition from the government. Such an opportunity to question the so called settled political answers again came the way of Nigerians following a recent report that President […]
Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN Strange bedfellows as an idiom was probably invented by legendary William Shakespeare in his epic, “The Tempest” (2-2): “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows”. Democracy is not only antithetical to, but constitutes a strange bedfellow with dictatorship. Dictatorship, as we have given in part 8, is nothing but despotism, autocracy […]
The Bayelsa Chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged politicians to stop the gale of defection and play politics by the rules to safeguard democracy in the country. The state Chairman of NLC, Mr John Ndiomu, gave the advice in an interview with journalists on Friday in Yenagoa. Ndiomu decried the gale of defection […]
May 29, 2018, Nigeria again celebrated another Democracy Day, marking the return of civil rule in 1999 after many years of military dictatorship. While leaders at the national, states and local government levels and their aides celebrated how many years they have been in office, the people of Nigeria were concerned about how their lives […]
Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has congratulated Deltans and Nigerians as the nation mark Democracy Day celebrations. The Governor thanked the citizenry for their support for his administration in the last three years and enjoined them to uphold the prevailing peace in the state and the Niger Delta, adding that development can only take […]
Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has described Democracy Day as a day of extreme significance to Nigerians and urged support for the system of government in order to enlarge its associated gains. Obaseki who said this in his Democracy Day Message in Benin City, noted that: “This day is one of extreme significance in […]
The administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC), led by President Muhammadu Buhari, has been rated low on national economy as the Country celebrates its democracy day with political parties and politicians giving their assessment of the state of affairs in Nigeria with the impression that the party has not done well. The National Chairman […]
My Dear Nigerians! Today marks the 19th year of our nascent democracy and the 3rd Anniversary of this administration. I am thankful to Almighty God for bringing us thus far. This administration came at a time that Nigerians needed Change, the Change we promised and the Change we continue to deliver. We have faced a […]
Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Thursday said it has uncovered an ongoing secret exercise where eligible Abia electorates are being deceived to present their permanent voter cards’ serial numbers so as to be offered employment opportunities. The party described the exercise as fraud being carried out secretly by some […]
The Enugu State governor, Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has been commended for presenting a “realistic budget proposal” to the State House of Assembly for approval for the 2018 financial year. Giving the commendation, Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province (Anglican Communion), Most Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuma expressed optimism that Ugwuanyi will implement to the letter the budget, […]