REPORT OF NATIONAL CONFERENCE: NEED FOR A REFERENDUM (3) “Sovereignty belongs to the people. It does not and cannot belong to their elected representatives. Indeed the Section 14(2) of the Constitution provides that sovereignty belongs to the people from whom the government through the Constitution derives its authority and power… the National Assembly cannot without...Read More

PREMATURE DISSOLUTION OF GOVERNING COUNCILS (3) “It would appear, that the Federal Government is quite aware of the error inherent in its dissolution of the Governing Councils of Universities for on the 1st August 2015, the Government announced that the Governing Councils of Universities had been granted an exemption from the dissolution earlier announced on...Read More

 PREMATURE DISSOLUTION OF GOVERNING COUNCILS (2)   “Some Nigerians feel that the only way they can contribute to National development is to bring children to the world and leave everything about their welfare including their education to the government”.   Last week I began an examination of the recent dissolution by Government, of the Governing...Read More

 PREMATURE DISSOLUTION OF GOVERNING COUNCILS   “Whilst some Nigerians continue to complain that the standard of education in the country has fallen, I prefer to say that what we have is a problem of low quality… The guidelines laid down by the NUC acting pursuant to this provision and which are applicable to all Nigerian...Read More

    “Approximately half of the world’s sovereign states are presently unicameral, including both the most populous (the People’s Republic of China). With the adoption of unicameral legislation the waste which has for long been associated with maintenance of political structures in Nigeria will reduce drastically”.   Two weeks ago, I started an examination of...Read More

I would like to start this write-up by commending of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, for the well informed and highly commendable business tour of China in his avowed and continued determination to see that Nigeria plugs into the new wave of development that is currently blowing across the length and...Read More

”The background and history of United States of America do not justify the application of presidential system of government to Nigeria. The adoption and wholesale application of American federalism and Presidential System of Government by the Military is a monumental mistake in the first place. The importation of the system has not done the Country...Read More

I would like to start this write-up by commending President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, for the well informed and highly commendable business tour of China in his avowed and continued determination to see that Nigeria plugs into the new wave of development that is currently blowing across the length...Read More

“The period of military interference in politics in Nigeria also brought with it the enthronement of the Presidential system of Government which in my estimation accounts for many of the ills currently associated with Nigeria” Nigeria has since 1914 gone through many phases in its political development. It has passed through the colonial era, the...Read More

The 2015 Presidential elections have been keenly contested, won and lost. As noted by local and international observers, this is the first time that a change would occur in federal government in Nigeria from the ruling party to the opposition through the means of an election. World over, an event like this is seen as...Read More