Several people, including Nigerian leaders, have said that democracy, as a form of government, has no better alternative. And why…
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President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday said that the 2025 appropriation bill would be ready before the National Assembly soon. The…
Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris
For those of us in Africa, especially West Africa, and particularly those along the coastline, that America ruptured family cohesion, ties and lineage by forcefully taking our able-bodied forefathers and enslaving them, was either forgotten, forgiven, or both.
The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa says the military is happy and better under democracy and, hence will not act against a democratically elected government.
The directorate of technical aid corps (DTAC) says Nigeria possesses a population of skilled youths capable of providing technical assistance to African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries.
The ambassador of the republic of Korea to Nigeria, Mr. KIM Young-Chae, says the 2024 Korea-Africa summit will lead to deeper mutual understanding, increase in more investments and humanitarian assistance to Africa.
Dr Ugo Aniga of the Department of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo State, says Africans can only achieve full democracy when its leaders jettison foreign aid.
The West African Sahel has recently been rocked by military uprisings and coups. In the past three years, rogue soldiers have taken over power in Chad, April 2021, in Mali (August 2020 and May 2021), in Guinea (September 2021), in Burkina Faso (January and September 2022) and in Niger, July 2023. This means much of the eastern Sahel is in the hands of the military. ECOWAS is greatly affected because its political map at the beginning of 2020 showed a West Africa where the political convergence principles directing all States to operate democratic regimes based on regular multiparty elections has been profoundly transformed and the Supplementary Protocol of Democracy and Good Governance that guides democratic practice profoundly breached.
Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d’état that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.