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June 12: Nigeria has left dictatorship forever behind – Tinubu

Ihesiulo Grace 11 June 2020 0

The National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has said that if Nigerians look at where they were and where they are now, they have cause to be thankful. Tinubu in his Democracy Day message titled, ‘June 12: A milestone for democracy’ on Thursday said that Nigeria has left

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Invasion of court by DSS confirms Nigeria, under sliding into dictatorship – PDP

Ihesiulo Grace 6 December 2019 0

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the furious invasion of the sanctity of the Federal High Court by the Department of State Services (DSS) further confirms that Nigeria, under the Buhari Presidency, is finally sliding into a frightening dictatorship. The party alerted that the invasion of the court is a vindication of its […]

Crime Law Politics

Dictatorship and democracy: strange bedfellows

Ihesiulo Grace 4 September 2019 0

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 […]

Today In History

1965: U.S. Troops Land in the Dominican Republic

Ihesiulo Grace 28 April 2015 0

In an effort to forestall what he claimed will be a “communist dictatorship” in the Dominican Republic, President Lyndon B. Johnson sent more than 22,000 U.S. troops to restore order on the island nation. Johnson’s action provoked loud protests in Latin America and scepticism among many in the United States. Troubles in the Dominican Republic […]