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A former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo is presently holding a State of the Nation briefing. The event is taking place at his Pent House Residence, inside Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Oke-Mosan, OOPL, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday said President Muhammadu Buhari has succeeded in deceiving Nigerians for the first time and they would be fools to play into his hand for the second time. He likened Buhari’s government to “Abacha era”, saying the security institutions are being misused to fight all critics and opponents of Buhari. “Buhari has succeeded in deceiving us first time and we will be fools to allow ourselves to be deceived the second time,” Obasanjo said in the state of the nation address titled “Points of Concern and Action.” Obasanjo spoke at his Pent House Residence Inside Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Oke-Mosan, OOPL, Abeokuta, Ogun State. The lastest address is coming barely a year Obasanjo issued

According report reaching The Young League from bbc.com Ivory Coast ex-President Gbagbo has been acquitted at ICC court in The Hague The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has acquitted Ivory Coast ex-President Laurent Gbagbo. He had been charged with crimes against humanity in connection with violence following a disputed 2010 election that left 3,000 dead and 500,000 displaced. Mr Gbagbo was captured in 2011 in a presidential palace bunker by UN and French-backed forces supporting his rival, Alassane Ouattara. He was the first former head of state to go on trial at the ICC. What was Mr Gbagbo accused of? The violence in Ivory Coast, the world's biggest cocoa producer, came after Mr Gbagbo refused to accept that he had lost a disputed election run-off to Mr Ouattara in 2010. The five months of violence that followed were described as some of the most brutal clashes the country had ever seen. During the political stand-off there were bloody clashes and targe

Nigeria has been Ranked the 22nd Most Democratic Country in Africa,108 in the World by The Democracy Index The country, which was scored 4.62 in 2015 scored a not-so-impressive 4.44 in the recently released 2018 study. The Democracy Index reviews the state of democracy in 165 independent countries worldwide using five parameters: process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture. Based on the performance of the countries in the five categories they are then classified into four regimes namely: full democracy”, “flawed democracy”, “hybrid regime” and “authoritarian regime ”. A full democracy is the best rating while authoritarian regime is rated the worst. Nigeria, which is Africa’s biggest democracy, was ranked 20 out of the 44 sub-Saharan African countries and 108 in the world. Nigeria was classified a hybrid regime, meaning it is a combination of democratic traits such as regular elections and autocratic o

G8 AND G27      G8 stands for “the group of eight” most industrialized, developed and richest countries in the world. In other words, it is an inter-governmental organization composed of the eight wealthiest developed countries on earth. The eight countries are: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, Russia and the United States. Russia is suspended from the organization in 2014 till date (when this research is being conducted) due to her roles in Ukrainian crisis with led to the annexation of Crimea by Russia which violates the sovereignty of Ukraine. Presently, G8 is made of 7 countries which made some analysts to refer to it as G7, but since Russia is not expelled from the group, the suspension will be lifted in due time.        The G8 was originally known as the G6, later as the G7 before it metamorphosed into G8 (Obi, Ozor, and Nwokoye 2008:141). According to Bird (cited in Obi, Ozor and Nwokoye, 2008) the G8 formerly the G6 and the G7, is a forum created by France,

FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS       Fundamental human rights are inalienable rights, and entitlements enjoyed by human beings as guaranteed in the constitution of a state. These rights are the fundamental bases for human existence. Fundamental human rights as its name implies are fundamental, basic and specific rights of individuals in a state. They are some of the human rights a state deemed necessary to incorporate in its constitution for optimal protection. Human rights are broader than fundamental human rights because the latter are subset of the former.         The question of human rights has remained a bone of contention since the evolution of man. The universal Declaration of human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 to ensure that all nations preserve and respect these rights. That day marked a new dawn in a quest to liberate man from injustice, forced labour, exploitation and other forms of man’s inhumanity to man. Human right

FIRST WORLD       The world is economically cum politically divided or categorized into three namely: the First World, the Second World and the Third World. However, terms like First World, Second World, Third World, or developed nations, developing nations , underdeveloped nations, industrialized nations, imperial nations, metropolitan nations, mother nations, centre nations, periphery nations, capitalist nations, socialist nations, communist nations or countries etc., have dominated contemporary literature in social sciences and have also posed great challenges to average learners of government and political concepts especially on the ideas or rationales behind these classifications. All these classifications are more economical than political. The economic status of any nation determines where she will be classified into whether as a First, Second or Third World.       Hence, the First World is a term used to describe all the western developed capitalist nations like the United

FEUDALISM      Feudalism was one of the basic stages in the human evolution. It can be defined as an economic and political system of production based on land-ownership. Under this system land was accorded the highest priority in society before other things. As a result of this, the owners of land were the possessors of political and economical power in society. Power follows through the possession of lands.       This system of capital accumulation that is based on land ownership was practiced in Europe during the middle Ages before the industrial revolution that overthrew the aristocratic feudal lords and which led to the introduction of capitalism. Under feudalism, economic and political intercourse was based on the following classes of people: 1. The Lords: These were the land owners who gave land to the Vassals and Serfs to farm for them in which they (Vassals and Serf) were obliged to return profits and other economic gains got from the farming to the lords. 2. Vass

Units or Tiers of Government in a Federal System       As we have vividly mentioned from the foregoing section that federalism entails power sharing or devolution from central or federal level to federating units. This shows that in federalism, besides federal government, there are other tiers of government. In Nigeria and some other federal state, they are classified into three tiers via which power is being constitutionally exercised. These are: 1. First Tier -- represent federal government 2. Second Tier – represent state government 3. Third Tier – represent local government        In similar contents but different expression, Roskin et al (19988: 263-264) argue thus: in many federal states, there are three levels: the national (or federal) government, the state or provincial governments, and local governments.”         Hence, constitutionally under federalism, power and functions that exist in a state are divided or shared into three lists which are also exercised by