Too many fake tendencies in Nigeria, by Tonnie Iredia
Notwithstanding its nebulous status, the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) was able to appoint a director-general and hundreds of staff. It also secured an office space at the federal secretariat and indeed found its way into the nation’s budget with a Budget Code 0111062001 assigned to it. This huge achievement was attained by the […]
Respect for Nigeria’s National Assembly
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 […]
Keyamo’s Saga: NASS needs to watch 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 […]
Do we really need elections in Nigeria?
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 […]
APC urgently requires experienced party managers
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 […]
Understanding the avoidable APC crisis
By Tonnie Iredia Certainly, this is not the best of times for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Early warning signs of her decline which later became visibly ominous replicated what political analysts had seen in the past with the former leading party-the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before it lost the 2015 general elections. On at […]
