“The Chilean constitution mandates that the executive provide the legislature its budget 60 days before the end of the fiscal year. While this time- frame is comparable with a number of countries, the consequences of Chilean legislative inaction are especially significant. If the legislature does not approve the budget within 60 days, it automatically becomes law in its entirety, thus under- cutting the leverage of the parliament. I have no doubt that the same can be replicated here in Nigeria”

It will be patently unethical for the cattle owners to use public funds to further their private interests; again that smells like corruption in my nose

Nothing about the Nigerian society or our system of education provides young people with the independent, free thinking necessary to give them the confidence to stand up for themselves or to challenge the status quo

Why is nobody surprised now that the President is once again railing against an act he openly condoned?

If true democracy is to be indigenised in Nigeria, INEC must play interventionist role in party structure and organisation