The restoration of civil rule in Nigeria in 1999 raised a lot of hope among the citizenry on the readiness of the nation to achieve a clean break from its protracted leadership crises and put in place the enabling environment for quality governance to flourish.
11th June, 2009
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Democracy and Leadership
The quality of leadership in any nation is largely determined by the kind of politics the people play. When the ballot box loses the ability to enthrone and remove leaders, impunity receives generous incentive to flourish, and those in authority become less accountable to the people, since they know too well that they do not need the people’s votes to be in office.
11th June, 2009
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Foreign Relations
Nigeria’s contributions to the maintenance of peace, stability and democracy in Africa can hardly be denied. It played major roles in the sacking of the obnoxious Apartheid rule and installation of popular democracy in South Africa, independence of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Namibia and other African nations, and restoration of peace and democratic rule in Liberia and Sierra Leone, etc.
11th June, 2009
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Human Rights
Hopes that human rights violations had gone with military rule have been sufficiently abridged in the face of intimidating evidence that under successive civilian administrations the rights and freedom of the citizens have been progressively violated.
