Tag: Professor Jibrin Ibrahim

The composition of successive governments since 1999 have however been heavily skewed in favour of men. What is most alarming, ...

Flooded aerial view of Maiduguri town, Tuesday morning. It is distressing that this is not the first time that the ...

Does it make sense to increasingly criminalise peaceful protests, portraying them as attempts to undermine state authority? Why should activists ...

The consensus at the meeting, as stated in its communique, is that the return of political instability to West Africa ...

I worry for this country because for years we have had successive leaderships that have basically abdicated their responsibilities to ...

The Nigerian National Assembly, Abuja The essence of the bill was in its provisions for fines and prison sentences for ...

Nigeria appears to be at a dangerous crossroad. As concerned citizens, we have found it necessary to put out in ...

#EndBadGovernance: How police attacked peaceful protesters in Abuja As the government's panic grew, a brilliant government Minister then initiated a ...

Trust them, it was not just another formal meeting but a street party, which saw the leaders walking through massive ...

The Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, asked for more sincerity in addressing the crisis of violent banditry in the zone. ...

The larger question is that since Bola Ige’s promise to sort the problem 25 years ago, five successive presidents have ...

...the desired outcome is a change of gear in which the governing class wakes up to its sense of enlightened ...

We in the civil society decided to start a protest movement but it was very weak because of our low ...

Nigeria's President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The other element about this government is the recurrent use of lies as a governance ...

...the desired outcome is a change of gear in which the governing class wakes up to its sense of enlightened ...

The Nigerian National Assembly, Abuja. The real issue was that the National Assembly members were not aware of the content ...

Central to our concerns is the importance of responding to current geopolitical dynamics in our region and, indeed, in the ...

President Bola Tinubu There have been several allegations of judicial officers receiving bribes from politicians and politically exposed persons in-order ...

The final benchmark, eleven, is the need for collective consciousness that the state of the Nigerian state is serious and ...

The Nigerian state is undergoing a three-dimensional crisis. The first one affects the political economy and it is generated mainly ...

This demand for democracy is often strengthened by the fact that it tends to be accompanied by strong media and ...

The problem is that everybody in this country knows that this is a lie and no sector of society regularly ...

The Nigerian National Assembly, Abuja Padding has a long history. In 2000, former President Olusegun Obasanjo refused to sign the ...

The objective, in other words, is to orient Nigerians away from the divide-and-rule politics of brinkmanship they have developed and ...

Increasingly, the rights of the citizens of Nigeria to protest against bad governance, the right to dissent and to freedom ...