Post Tagged with: "democracy"

Nigeria: #OccupyNigeria and Occupy their lives

Nigeria: #OccupyNigeria and Occupy their lives

0 / January 17, 2012 4:16 pm

The next stage of the #OccupyNigeria movement is a tenacious occupation of all political space to ensure our democracy is responsive, cost effective and working for the people.

Nigeria: The NEXT awards expose an unconscionable kakistocracy

Nigeria: The NEXT awards expose an unconscionable kakistocracy

0 / November 4, 2011 1:49 am

The citations for the awards won by NEXT newspaper reporters show that they did expose a seriously corrupt enterprise in out premier revenue industry and all those who matter either ignored or sanctioned it.

Nigeria: Government Dishonesty About Fuel Subsidy

Nigeria: Government Dishonesty About Fuel Subsidy

0 / October 14, 2011 10:59 pm

When you look at the issue of fuel subsidy in Nigeria against the indeterminate cost and the proliferation of refineries everywhere but in Nigeria where the petroleum is produced, it raises a number of pertinent questions about the honest brokerage of our government.

Nigeria: Definitely time to give June 12 a decent burial

0 / June 21, 2011 5:11 pm

Making history history On June 12 2011, I wrote a piece titled Nigeria: Time to give June 12 a decent burial [1] for a number of reasons which already appear in that piece. Basically, June 12 1993 is an important [...]

Nigeria: Time to give June 12 a decent burial

Nigeria: Time to give June 12 a decent burial

0 / June 12, 2011 11:03 am

Yes, the hope died June the Twelfth, 1993 has for years been marked as the day that Nigeria’s hopes for democracy died or as Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa would have so eloquently put it when he made his speech [1] [...]

Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review XIII – Ideas for Electoral Reform

Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review XIII – Ideas for Electoral Reform

0 / May 6, 2011 10:14 am

This is cross-posted from my blog at http://akinblog.nl As we savour the returns As the election season ends in Nigeria it is important to lay out in some form a whole series of ideas for electoral reform to improve on [...]

Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review IX – Analysing the Presidential Results

Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review IX – Analysing the Presidential Results

3 / April 19, 2011 4:07 am

The spread of the results in the recently concluded presidential elections in Nigeria are a serious talking issue, I present an analysis of the figures that make a lie of the accepted narrative about Nigeria. This is cross-posted from my [...]

Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review VIII – A President-Elect

Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review VIII – A President-Elect

0 / April 18, 2011 10:19 pm

This was cross-posted from my blog at http://akinblog.nl Done and dusted A new Nigeria just hatched out of its egg in the last 48 hours wherein the presidential elections took place and all results announced with the declaration of a [...]

Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review VI – Report to Prevent Rigging

Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review VI – Report to Prevent Rigging

0 / April 14, 2011 5:31 pm

This was cross-posted from my blog at http://akinblog.nl Being aware of rigging opportunities Giving some flesh to a tweet – @boosoolalab The problems could be efficiency, intimidation, access, bias and violence barring people from exercising their rights. In some Twitter [...]

Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review V – Concerns after the elections

0 / April 12, 2011 11:57 pm

This is cross-posted from my blog at http://akinblog.nl INEC failing itself Now over 72 hours since the National Assembly elections were concluded in Nigeria, we find ourselves at crossroads of hope and possibility without the clearest indication of what the [...]