I have spent the last week reflecting on hilltop palaces and misrule in my dear country Nigeria. I could not…
Browsing: Prof. Jibrin Ibrahim
The Confederation of the Sahel States, which will use the acronym AES, is headed by Mali in its first year. AES regroups 72 million people in the central Sahel.
The story of UCG is always complex and while there should be no justification, the context is always important. The Mali coup had roots in the then president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, using the constitutional court to remove elected opposition legislators and make himself “sole authority”.
The Governors and representatives of the United Nations all emphasized the abundant population, land and natural resources available in the North with its promising investment opportunities in agriculture, tourism, manufacturing, mining, and energy sectors.
Vladimir Lenin said it so many years ago that the pathway for placing Russia on the path to development: “Communism…
As we celebrate the great events that followed the annulled election of June 12 1993, let us not forget that…
The following day, NEC will accept to temporarily call off the general strike after accepting the meagre offer on the table while claiming offer demands will be eventually met. Workers who had been mobilised, riled up and emotionally charged would be demobilized, downcast and disappointed with their radical leaders who suddenly turned coat and became docile and “reasonable”. That’s the end of the story until the next general strikes.
To distract Nigerians from the first-year poor performance in governance, the President and his cronies in the National Assembly decided to divert attention from ongoing criticisms by passing and signing the Bill on reverting to the old National Anthem.
The Emirate which predates the Nigerian State is not a product of statute and cannot therefore be disbanded by statute as the Ganduje Government did. The Government can remove Emirs with just cause as allowed by law but cannot dissolve the Emirate and recreate new ones.
Judicial corruption constitutes a major challenge to anti-corruption work in Nigeria. The looters have repeatedly used their influence to manipulate the judicial process and system, to block and/or delay the arrest or prosecution of suspects.