After five election cycles (1999, 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015), Nigeria’s party system has remained fundamentally weak.  Strong evidence of this weakness is provided by the current inchoate state of the two major parties, the All Progressive Congress (APC) that controls the federal government and twenty-three of the thirty-six states and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that ruled at the centre from 1999 to 2015 and controls twelve states.  Besides the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) that controls one state government, all the other 65 registered parties (27 of them were registered in 2017) largely exist only on paper, notwithstanding the requirements for effective national spread prescribed in Part III, D of the 1999 Constitution.

WITH roughly six months to the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship primary in Delta State, hustling for the party’s governorship ticket is increasingly being redefined along sectional lines in a way that could put the opposition party out of depth in its challenge to the dominance of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.

THE Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, recently made a commendable intervention in Nigeria’s broadband development by seeking a favourable pricing model for broadband services in the country.

Renowned playwright and Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop shedding unjust tears and deal with bloodthirsty terrorists unleashing mayhem in the country.

APC chieftain and former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu  Wednesday, boasted that the party would win Abia State in the 2019 elections, saying the party has mobilized enough to give the ruling PDP run for its money.