The Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI) has decried how some individuals and groups are laying the groundwork for insurrection under the cover of a peaceful protest. In a statement signed by its Chairman, Niyi Akinsiju, the policy analyst group noted that although protests are acceptable in a democracy, no government will tolerate a call to anarchy, riots, disturbance of …

Despite its challenges, democracy in Nigeria must be protected by every citizen, speakers at an event to commemorate the country’s 25 years of unbroken democratic governance organised by the Lagos State House of Assembly have warned. In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Eromosele Ebhomele, the Speaker of …

The Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, on Sunday, said the enthronement of the nation’s fledgling democracy was made possible by human rights icons, such as the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Beko Ransome-Kuti, Alhaji Balarabe Musa and a host of others, past and present. The governor stated this on Sunday at the 86th Gani Fawehinmi posthumous birthday celebration and immortalisation …

The immediate past Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has urged Nigerians not to be weary over present difficulty they are going through. Aregbesola spoke on Saturday in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, at the inauguration of projects and empowerment programme sponsored by Osun Economic Development Team. The former Osun State governor, who sought the cooperation of all stakeholders particularly …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Friday, said a democratic system bedevelled by insecurity, unemployment and other socio-economic challenges must be ditched. He said any democratic system that failed on the tenets of democracy was not need in any society or country. Obasanjo, who was hosted by the Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, at the inauguration of internal roads in …

A former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani has blamed the military takeover in the Republic of Niger, and the rise of military coups in West Africa on what he described as the “shrinking civic space and strangulation of democracy by the political class”. In a live broadcast last Wednesday on national television in the Republic of Niger, the coupists announced the …

The United States has imposed visa restrictions on some Nigerians accused of undermining democracy, noting that this was part of the action to advance democracy and tackle corruption in Nigeria. The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, said that the sanctioned individuals, whose names he did not reveal, would be ineligible for …