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Unbridled ambition and party supremacy

Every performance was heralded with the song: “Come and see American wonder… hiyo o la lai la, hiyo o la lai la”. That song rang in my head like a sir

In Praise of Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila

For one, he is truly a rare party man in this age that political parties are seen as ladders to highest offices rather than bodies of shared values an

Dramatic emergence of the 8th National Assembly

The key issues emerging, however, from the dramatic elections have to do with the state of our democracy – internal democracy among the parties

Does Egypt have a government?

Military officers often take over countries, but only a fool would call the result a government. Governments do not have to be democratic, but they do

‘Super Tuesday’ at the National Assembly

The Thought Police, or Thinkpol, in the novel’s Newspeak, became, for generations, the shorthand of the behavior of dictatorships and undemocratic gov