•Rafsanjani The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, has lamented over Nigeria’s democracy sliding backwards with the collapse of accountable governance, as the nation marks another Democracy Day. The Executive Director, CISLAC, Auwal Rafsanjani, in a statement signed by him, asserted that the democratic system in Nigeria is expe...
Prof. Tony Afejuku A retired professor of English at the University of Benin, Prof. Tony Afejuku, has described Nigeria’s Democracy Day celebration as hollow, declaring that there is nothing worth celebrating in the country’s democratic experience. Speaking in Asaba, Afejuku accused the political elite of hijacking the democratic system for th...
•Dickson and Tinubu Senator Seriake Dickson representing Bayelsa West has criticised President Bola Tinubu over what he described as putting the country’s democracy at risk. Dickson’s criticism followed Tinubu’s refusal in his Democracy Day speech at a joint sitting of the National Assembly today, to reverse the state of emergency ...
•Peter Obi The Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has asserted that ‘there is no democracy in Nigeria’, citing the President Bola Tinubu-led government’s failure to meet essential democratic standards. He made the assertion during an exclusive interview with Arise TV today. “As far as I’m concerned and I maintain it, there ...
•Tinubu As June 12 Democracy Day 2025 comes up on Thursday, the question on the lips of citizens remains: To what extent has the nation’s democracy stabilized, considering the attitude and character of the ruling class. Barrister Olalekan F. Ojo, a Lagos human rights lawyer and strong advocate of social justice, in an interview with [&hellip...
•Trump United States President, Donald Trump escalated his criticism of Harvard University today, calling the institution a “threat to Democracy” in a fiery social media post. “Harvard is an Anti-Semitic, Far Left Institution, as are numerous others, with students being accepted from all over the World that want to rip our Country apart. “The ...
•Captain Ibrahim Traoré Burkina Faso’s president, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has declared that his country is not operating under a democratic system but is undergoing what he described as a “popular, progressive revolution.” Speaking during a flag-raising ceremony at the Koulouba Palace recently, Traoré challenged the widely held belief that dem...
•Dele Momodu and Tinubu A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dele Momodu, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, describing it as “anti-democratic”. In a move that was greeted with backlash, Tinubu suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy Ngozi Odu, and the Rivers State...
•Tinubu and House of Representatives Hon. Dennis Adikwuru and Dr. Rexkennedy Saltlove, both political activists, have expressed dismay over the bungling of democracy in Nigeria. They noted that the Executive arm of government has swallowed the legislative and judicial, reports Sunday Independent. In separate interviews with our correspondent a...
•Udenta and Tinubu The founding National Secretary of the Alliance for Democracy, Prof Udenta Udenta, today accused the Bola Tinubu Presidency of dismantling democratic values and weaponising the judiciary, and the 1999 Constitution (as amended) against Nigerians. Prof Udenta, a distinguished fellow of the Abuja School of Social and Political ...
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