Genocide of Christians: A smokescreen – Olurode

Over the past couple of years, Nigeria has consistently been under indiscriminate terrorist attacks. These attacks target military institutions including military barracks, public institutions providing social services, all religious and worship centres have been targets and foreign offices in Nigeria. There’s hardly any state in the country that has not fallen victims of terrorist attacks….

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Local Government Autonomy: A Gateway to Enhanced Democratic Dividends

A PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AND FORMER INEC NATIONAL COMMISSIONER, LAI OLURODE IN TODAY’S VIEWPOINT WRITES ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTONOMY A GATEWAY TO ENHANCED DEMOCRATIC DIVIDENDS Recently, the federal government took the thirty-six state governors to supreme court for illegally withholding funds mean for local governments in their jurisdiction. This is in contravention of section 7 of the 1999 constitution as amended. The relevant section stipulates that the…

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