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.
Browsing: democracy
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.
The Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, has cautioned against any attempt to undermine Nigeria’s democracy.
Retired Justice Olufunlola Adekeye of the Supreme Court says rule of law is the bedrock of every democratic society. Adekeye…
Justice Edward Asante, President of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has warned that the recent political upheavals in Guinea…
Governors elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will on Monday meet in Bauchi, to deliberate on…
Yesterday, I saw a video clip of the Emir of Muri giving Fulani bandits a 30-day ultimatum to stop killing…
The Inter-parliamentary Relations Committees of the Houses of Assembly in the South-West have assured of their commitment to strengthen democracy…