Anger and madness are brothers —African proverb THE current situation in Niger Republic provides a good lesson in how conflicts are started and prolonged. Not all conflicts, but many that ought not to start if language, contexts, and motives are better understood. Timing also plays a major role, specifically in terms of the actions or […]

From last week, this is the concluding part of the narrative pertaining to some ambiguities in the 1999 Constitution which must be amended so as to save the local government from total collapse  THE need to reform the local government has been on the table for some time. Since 1976, the central government has been […]

From last week continues the narrative that the federating states in an undiluted federal system reserve the power to create or establish a system of local government which takes account of their internal diversity or recognises the plural character of the nation IN that case, it was strongly canvassed that local governments should be relatively […]

From last week, continues the narrative of how failure to keep to the principle of separate development as espoused by the colonial authorities has led to the gradual death of the local government in Nigeria LARGELY, because of this, the respective colonial administrative regimes of the British in Nigerian found it plausible to insist on […]

From last week, continues the narrative of how nepotism has over the years been elevated to being the rule rather the exception by certain political leaders in many countries of the world, with specific reference to Iraq among others. Iraq has a population of over 40 million people. The country also has over 150 tribes. […]