Nigeria’s political space is not merely shrinking – it is being deliberately constricted,engineered into a narrow corridor where dissent is tolerated only in symbolic doses andopposition is perm...
The controversy surrounding the purported passage of the amended Electoral Law – trumpeted by the Senate President and then openly disputed by fellow senators – has opened a troubling wind...
During the November 11, 2023 elections in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo States, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) Election Analysis Centre highlighted the ‘need to separate the unpredictable tech...
The North of Nigeria, once admired for its systems and quality of leadership, is now plagued by a leadership crisis. The current leaders and elites in the region, ill-prepared and ill-equipped to lead...
There are ominous signs from the 11th November Off-Cycle Elections and from Election Petition Tribunals that electoral democracy is under serious threat in the country today. The CDD Election Analysis...
…Bayelsans should develop themselves to survive current challenges – Gov Diri Fiery critic and Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, has warned that if Nigeria does not...
Jibrin Ibrahim, Deepening Democracy, Daily Trust, 20th October 2023 The West African Sahel has recently been rocked by military uprisings and coups. In the past three years, rogue soldiers have taken ...
“ Examine the cloth worn by the man who promises to dress you up”. African proverb. The coup d’etat in Niger Republic is re-focussing bright light on an awkward debate that had existed on the fringes ...
We have looked at various forms of government in the first part of this treatise. We ended with the posers, “Can we continue this way? Is it the fault of the system or the operators of the system? Sho...
First published on September 23, 2019, and repeated on August 22, 2022. Since man became aware of himself and realised that whether by mutual arrangement or contrived by nature, there are always leade...
