There are two models of democracy. One is a direct democracy; the other is a representative democracy. In the former, citizens elect people as “delegates” to the legislature to formulate laws and ...

Most democratic countries in the world operate a representative democracy. Nigeria is, in theory, one of them! But a representative democracy is predicated on two fundamental assumptions.

as one of the strongest pillars of democracy in Nigeria. To this end, Babayemi described the Ila-Oragun-born APC leader as an individual who deserves to be celebrated and immortalised by the ...

When the time came to vote in Nigeria’s first national elections last week, the candidates were too tired and hoarse for last-minute attacks on opponents, instead led their numbed election-eve ...

Since the restart of democratic rule in Nigeria ... democracy. The question of promising so much in a book of close to 2,000 pages on public expenditure, and delivering so meagre at the end of the ...

The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), on Tuesday, called on Nigerians to unite to deepen democracy and build ... to rededicate ourselves in making Nigeria great again. The challenges ahead ...

will have severe repercussions on Nigeria’s democracy. Zikirullahi The Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education (CHRICED) has warned that ahead of the 2027 elections, the gale of ...

Nigerian authorities in northwest Sokoto state launched a probe Thursday into a Christmas Day airstrike by the military ... Amnesty’s country director in Nigeria. “I believe that they have ...

Speaking during his visit to Enugu on Saturday, Tinubu acknowledged Nnamani’s courage, describing his intervention as a defining moment that safeguarded Nigeria’s democracy. During his meeting with ...

Instead, she spoke passionately about Nigeria – the huge potentials and daunting challenges, democracy and the flawed ... all that but at the end of the day, it comes down to the will because ...

It's easy to think that once our preferred candidates win, our obligations to democracy are finished until the next election. Scholar and author Eddie Glaude Jr. has spent his career studying the ...