I will come back to the matter in some detail shortly. But let me preface my comments by asserting that the subliminal issue behind this request is the ongoing conversation about restructuring Nigeria ...

My impression of our democracy is that democracy is yet to come. What we are having are attempts towards democracy. So, we are like people who want to study medicine and they are doing pre- med ...

Orange Party leader Raila Odinga (left) during the launch of 'Presidential or Parliamentary Democracy in Kenya? Choices to Be Made' book authored by Kisumu Governor Anyang' Nyong'o in Nairobi on ...

THE first and second parts of this column series portrayed an aberrant Senate, their expedient political party memberships, and a cursory depiction of an anomalous political architecture of governance ...

Former Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says when the parliamentary system of government was practiced in Nigeria, it led the country into disaster. Information Nigeria reports that ...

Building Bridges Initiative chairman Yusuf Haji (left), vice-chair Adams Oloo and the task force secretary Paul Mwangi address the media in Nairobi. [Collins Kweyu, Standard] It is possible that those ...

Mr Chike Uzoma, an Abuja-based Legal Practitioner, threw his weight behind the system, stating that it was less expensive than the Presidential system currently being practised. house-of-reps2 N News ...

Former governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, has called for parliamentary System of government, saying that presidential system won’t take the country to any progressive stage. Aregbesola led this ...

A Lagos lawmaker said the move was to start a national conversation on the need for a transition from a presidential to a less expensive parliamentary system of government. Rep. Abdulsamad Dasuki (PDP ...

The ongoing debate in South Asia is part of a larger conversation about what type of democratic governance is best. With the notable exception of China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and a handful of ...

The House of Representatives has passed to the second reading a bill to return Nigeria to a parliamentary system of government This was part of the 31 constitutional amendment bills that passed the ...