Disempowering The NDLEA: Insider’s View
Disempowering The NDLEA: Insider’s View The 2019 elections have come and gone. It has produced its victors and losers, no matter how illegitimate the ballot was. We did not even…
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Pirate-Captain Entities and Democracy
Pirate-Captain Entities and Democracy There is a keen fascination among young men, most at leading schools and universities around the world, with the “captain-pirate” mode. Its germ is of rebellion…
Nigeria Needs Strong Social Movements
Nigeria Needs Strong Social Movements Voting, votes and honest election results are not enough to prevent elected officials from misbehaving or misgoverning once they get into office. Constitutional checks and…
Nigeria Decivilising
Nigeria Decivilising The complete metamorphosis of the butterfly is a thoroughly adequate analogy for civilisation: the gradual progression from egg to slug to pupa to imago . In the Nigerian…
Trapped by the Guilty Accuser Syndrome
Nations Trapped by the Guilty Accuser Syndrome Numerous factors are acutely responsible for the persistence and worsening of the phenomenon of corruption in many democracies. These factors include regulatory capture,…
The Crisis of Leadership: Part 2
The Crisis of Leadership: Part 2