By Tonnie Iredia Many Nigerian political office-holders who cannot for one minute, withstand criticisms, hide under the social responsibility principle of the media to dissuade journalists from focusing on negative issues in society. They say such posture often distorts societal progress. However, they consciously forget that Section 22 of the Nigerian Constitution empowers the media […]

By Tonnie Iredia The word ‘disrespect’ aptly represents how best to describe events that have in the last few weeks, happened to Nigeria’s federal legislature, the National Assembly (NASS). However, the recent hike in disrespect for the Assembly is not due to the nature of the happenings because none of them is new, rather it […]

By Tonnie Iredia For one week, I tried in vain, to understand the purpose of the invitation by the National Assembly to Chris Ngige, Labour and Employment Minister, after having a shouting match with another Minister, in the same ministry, Festus Keyamo. I had hoped that the federal legislators were not planning to report Keyamo […]

By Tonnie Iredia Any citizen who attempts to answer the question crafted as the topic of this piece, is likely to ordinarily support the necessity for elections. Indeed, some would argue rightly that apart from the ‘Sovereignty of the people’ and the ‘Rule of law’, the other major pillar of democracy is ‘Free and fair […]

By Tonnie Iredia Nigeria has enjoyed more than two decades of unbroken democratic government since 1999 when democracy was restored in the country.  Thus, one would have thought we have had enough time to stabilize our political system, but this has not been so, because political parties which produce governments at state and federal levels […]