Author: Clifford Ogbeide

Still on Nigeria @51

Wednesday, October 5, 2011
The basic existence of government any where in the world, is the provision of security of lives and properties of its citizenry. Some Nations (including ours) further enshrined it in the constitution, which is usually the conscience of the Nation. When al Qaeda and its affiliate terrorized the ...

GENDER INEQUALITY AND OFFICIAL DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN BY NIGERIA AGENCIES.

Sunday, February 21, 2010
According to section 17 (1) (2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which say: That every citizen shall have the equality of right, obligations, and opportunity before the law; section 42 of the same constitution also says that no Nigerian citizen shall be discriminated agai ...

Coup d'état: An Alternative to Democracy?

Tuesday, February 2, 2010
The recent calling by some segments of the Nigerian society for military interregnum as a result of the epileptic leadership and vacuum in the management of state affairs in Nigeria due to the continuous absence of President Musa Yar'Adua, was not only uncalled for, worrisome, barbaric, ill-conceiv ...