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There are a number of reasons why men have a higher chance of winning elections in Nigeria than women. | Pulse Nigeria

However, in developing nations, the legislature is defined by weak institutional capacity. It faces the challenges of executive dominance, public trust deficit, poor democratic culture manifesting as a weak electoral system and disrespect to democratic tenets and then disruptions through elections, leading to a high turnover of legislators. 

An officer of the Nigerian Navy, Orukevwe Eritomi Augustine, has reportedly brutalised a 64-year-old grandmother with clubs and cables over a land dispute in Delta State, SaharaReporters has learnt.   Augustine, a naval rating, in company with two colleagues and some of his relations on Tuesday, reportedly stormed the residence of Mrs Odafe Utobore and ordered her to leave the house immediately, claiming the land on which the property was built belonged to his father.  

Ironically, it is not the military, being the conventional enemy of democracy, that is culpable, but the people whom democracy is meant to protect are killing democracy. Put succinctly, democracy is killing democracy in Nigeria.

Let the poor breathe: How not to love Nigeria, by Mon-Charles Egbo. The famous quote by Socrates that “an unexamined life is not worth living”