The Nigerian Elections Debate Group (NEDG), a coalition of broadcast organisations, civil society organisations and professional groups that are committed to the entrenchment of an enduring democratic culture in Nigeria via organised television debates since the country’s return to democratic rule in 1999 was founded in 1999 to deepen Nigeria’s fledgling democracy at that time.…
In societies with established system of values there is usually the principle of collective responsibility, which demands that you do not openly criticize the government that you are part of. On that basis, Agwai might have been the victim of his own making The Presidency early this week relieved the Sure-P Chairman, Gen.Luther Martin Agwai…
Politicians on the other hand should not drag religious leaders into the political fray, nor polarize Nigerians along religious divides for their selfish interest. It is instructive that Nigerians have over time demonstrated that though religion has the capacity to divide and hurt the nation, they can handle it. Politicians are at it again, campaigning…
In Nigeria we really should admire the life of this outstanding man who unlike most of those strutting around our corridors of power dedicated his life to his country without thinking of personal interest. Not many in state houses in the developing world commemorated the burial a few days ago of Vo Nguyen Giap, they…
The call to reduce the high cost of governance in the country made recently by Dr. Sheikh Ahmed Lemu, Chairman, Federal Government’s Investigation Panel on the 2011 Election Violence and Civil Disturbances is a reverberation of what Nigerians have been clamouring for over the years. Lemu while presenting the panel’s findings and recommendations to President…
Political reorientation and civic education agencies, including civil rights groups must begin to teach citizens about the value in employing discernment in the choice of candidates for political offices. In what could have been dismissed by the average US citizen a decade ago as a mere political shadow-play with no real prospect of actually happening,…
PLAN by Nigeria’s foremost business tycoon and Africa’s richest personality, Alhaji Aliko Dangote to establish a N2 billion 1,000-bed capacity hospital in Kano, Kano State, is a step in the right direction. The multi-billion naira world-class ultra-modern five-storey medical facility named Mariya Sanusi Dantata Ultramodern Theatre Complex will when completed be one of the enduring…
But the easy way the terrorists have been reaching schools and wreaking havoc suggests that the security operatives have not managed checkpoints and barricades efficiently. As attacks on defenceless civilians by the Boko Haram group continue in the North-East zone of Nigeria, the one launched against students of the College of Agriculture, Gujba, Yobe State,…
The late much revered Professor Claude Ake identified the biggest debilitation of Nigeria’s ruling establishment as a lack of self esteem. It is virtually impossible to contradict the erudite political scientist whose inspired insights are still missed today. It is from Professor Ake’s prism that we analyse the establishment’s latest faux pas. Having exhausted funds…
We urge the present administration of President Goodluck Jonathan to heed to the demands of these ex-Biafra leaders by paying them their entitlements. We consider it unfortunate the reports emanating from the media last week that several ex-Biafra soldiers have threatened to engage in a show down with the Federal Government over its failure to…
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