Well, we are not here to look into the costs and benefits of this new addition at a time when Nigerians are clamouring for a review of the cost of the machinery of the government and the implementation of the Oronsaye Report on the cost of governance. Our focus is on the strategic relationship between government and citizens, as explored in ‘Media, democracy and the public interest’.
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He spoke at a valedictory service in honour of the outgoing Vice-Chancellor of Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Prof. Chinedum Babalola.
Moro made the description in a statement by his Media Adviser, Emmanuel John, and made it available to the New Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Makurdi.
The entire voting population should also see this exercise as their civic responsibilities towards good, effective and efficient governance in the country.
He said this on Thursday in Abuja at the second edition of ThisNigeria Newspaper Gold Prize and Annual Lecture Awards.
Undaunted by the lingering severity of the separation from our respective families for months and years for some of us
President Tinubu spoke at the Democracy Day banquet which was held on Wednesday in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
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It reaffirmed that media freedom, freedom of expression and access to public information are crucial to democracy.
Okechukwu is a founding member of the ruling All Progressives Congress.
He spoke in an address at a high-level consultation themed: “Rethinking Western Liberal Democracy for Africa.”
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday charged leaders at all levels to embrace democracy that promoted prosperity, poverty eradication, employment and adequate security for the betterment of Nigeria.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Muhammed Idris, has called for collective unity amongst people to achieve the dividend of democracy.
Former President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his happiness with ruling of the Presidential Election Petitions Court affirming the victory of the All Progressives Congress and its candidate, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his running mate, Vice President Kashim Shettima, in the February 25, 2023 polls.
For Nigeria and the rest of Africa to make genuine progress and development, democracy must be nurtured and sustained, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said.
The Executive Director, IPC, Lanre Arogundade, in his opening remarks said the event was pursuant to the aims and objectives of Component 4: Support to Media of EU-SDGN II project.
Lest we forget, the evolution of democracy has its rich history in a rebellion against dictatorship, against monarchical institutions, against bigotry, and anything that prevents mass participation. Be that as it may, democratic governments function only to the extent of the understanding of the society and the political gladiators practising it. So, for the society to have a functional democratic system, it must have a robust understanding of the tenets as well as the intrinsic attributes of democracy so that it won’t appear alien to its practitioners and/or those over whom it is being practised. Since everybody will have to be part of it, it also has to be a general, not restricted, knowledge.
In other words, it wouldn’t have been in the best interest of the political leadership at the time to dig its own grave!
This was the position of the Initiative for Good and Informed Citizenship, conveners of Rescue Nigeria, in a statement.
With insecurities ravaging the country and tensions, especially among political parties, Director, of Political Affairs, ECOWAS Commission,