In my article of 3 November 2023 on, How Democracy Dies in Nigeria, I made extrapolations from the 2018 publication on comparative politics by Harvard University political scientists, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, titled; ‘How Democracies Die’. The book alerts on how leaders can subvert the democratic process to increase their power. It warns; “Democracies may die at the hands …

The Organised Labour, Abia State chapter on Sunday warned the state government that failure to adhere to and implement the Memorandum of Understanding reached at the meeting by July 28, 2024, “no other notice will be given to the government than to proceed on an indefinite strike.” The union has once threatened to go on strike on Monday, June 8, …

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) counterpart have issued a 14-day nationwide strike notice to the Federal Government over the failure of the Bola Tinubu-led government to implement the agreements reached on 2nd October 2023, following the removal of the subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol. Leaders of the …