Reps task media on fourth estate role media in democracy
Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the House of said the media is the fourth and last pillar of democracy, and the press must ensure that the exercise of state and economic power is fair and…
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Nigeria, and hard choices
A significant chapter of global history was closed on 30th August 2022. On that day, an equally substantive champion of reforms passed and bequeathed us a mixed assessment of his…
NASS seeks protection of legislature to sustain democracy
The management of the National Assembly has called on Nigerians and all lovers of democracy to protect the legislature which is the symbol of democracy across the globe.
Amos Oladele-Ojo,…
A Libertarian press searches for democratic consensus under authoritarian regimes (3)
In 1975, about five years after the bloody Nigerian civil war, the military government began the process of dismantling parliamentary democracy, a British colonial legacy. The Daily Times of…
Hijack 93: The Mad Men & The Aircraft
“Ladies and Gentlemen, this plane has been taken over by MAD Men; Movement for the Actualization of Democracy… MAD…. Remain calm, we will not harm you. You will be told where the plane will…