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Since return of democracy in 1999 and particularly following the 2019 general elections, the citizens were very hopefully of renewed vigor in addressi

Fifty civil society organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria have raised the alarm over the threat of the anti-corruption war in the country.

A coalition of 50 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on Thursday in Abuja, raised the alarm over the state of corruption and malicious attacks on anti-corruption agencies in Nigeria. Speaking on behalf of the CSOs, Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Mallam Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, said that the…

Otive Igbuzor, PhD, Founding Executive Director, African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD), in this submission, advises the new government at the federal level on how to tackle the myriads of problems plaguing Nigeria in different sectors.

The agenda of an administration is normally encapsulated in its manifesto. During the 2023 elections, most of the political parties rolled out their agenda. Our analysis indicated that most of the political parties focused on eight issues:

President Muhammadu Buhari had snubbed the order of the Supreme Court suspending the deadline for use of the old naira notes.

"The government needs to apologise to Nigerians for deceiving them. This administration sold an empty moral capital to the people! Today, it has shown itself morally bereft."

The task of nation building is always work in progress. All over the world, there is consensus that democracy is the best form of government.

STATE OF NATION: Stop the bleeding, end carnage now, CSOs urge Buhari On Hundreds of Civil Society Organisations in Nigeria have petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, stop the escalating security concerns in the country. They further alarmed that the first quarter of 2021 witnessed an all-time high fatalities mass atrocity incidences across the country. The petitio signed by the Joint Action Civil Society Coalition/Nigeria Mourns Secretariat and made available to ...

Introduction Nigeria is in dire straits.  All over the country, Nigerian citizens, including children, are killed daily by terrorists and criminals as well as in extra-judicial killings by state actors with the government doing little or nothing about it. The government, through the Minister of Defence, has instead callously abdicated its responsibility and called Nigerian citizens ‘cowards’ and urged Nigerians to ‘defend themselves’. Kidnapping for ransom has assumed an industrial and...