By Aminu Habibu Jahun Slightly over two decades after the take-off of the Fourth Republic, democratic rule has been so grotesquely disfigured in the hands of a few ‘democratic suitors... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki The ideas of civil society or civic humanism as earlier proposed by Niccolo Machiavelli, James Harrington, John Locke, Adam Ferguson, Baron de Montesquieu, David Hu... Read more
Prof Lasse Thomassen, one of Europe’s rising stars in political theory, particularly in Deconstruction, offers in the piece below an incisive clinic on democracy at a time democracy is emitt... Read more
By E. Remi Aiyede “I don’t think any person in Nigeria today of 200 million people, can say this is my turn. Now, it is never your turn. Even if you want to say it is the turn of the people... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki There is the need to define the parameters of the concepts of foreign policy and diplomacy as they relate to the practical conduct of inter-state relations. While p... Read more
“In arriving at the decision, I held wide consultations with various stakeholders in our party including our Governors, National Working Committee, Board of Trustees, and other leaders to se... Read more
By Ike Okonta It was the late Claude Ake, one of Africa’s foremost political economists, who observed in his book ‘Democracy And Development in Africa’ that Africa remained underdeveloped be... Read more
Lagos lawyer and writer makes a literary intervention in the crisis of mission circumscribing elite leadership and politics in Nigeria, well, Africa if you like! By Chiemeke Onyeisi “Power h... Read more
The piece below is considered a very comprehensive and well written review/critique of the recent World Bank’s report on targeting. The authors are Shahra Razavi, Christina Behrendt, Valeria... Read more
It is good that President Buhari has not spoken in direct reply to Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu’s Abeokuta outpouring last Thursday. To that extent, the president has a unique opportunity to go beyo... Read more
