NADECO
3 Oct
President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, departed Abuja for the United Kingdom to begin a two-week holiday amid pressure from some ministers to retain their positions in the impending cabinet reshuffle...
24 Sep
When Major-General Muhammadu Buhari overthrew the elected civilian administration of President Shehu Shagari on the last day of 1983, he inherited an economy in a mess and a political system in a turmoil.
9 Aug
Nigerians have the right to complain because this is a democracy – the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
12 Jun
‘Democracy without democrats and remarkable dividends’ aptly captures the mood of most Nigerians on the commemoration of the June 12 anniversary that now symbolises the peak of the struggle for democracy in the country .
12 Jun
A former vice president and presidential aspirant in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, and other Nigerians, yesterday, toed a different path from President Bola Tinubu’s “understanding” of the country’s economy and the pains felt by the citizenry.
20 May
A group under the aegis of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), United States of America (U.S.A), yesterday, urged the people of Rivers State to rally behind Governor Siminalayi Fubara and reject alleged machinations of those seeking to impose godfatherism
29 Mar
Professor Omajuwa Igho Natufe is a high quality Nigerian political scientist who has been in exile for long years which only he can accurately give a precise period or duration - or account of – to our pleasure or displeasure.
14 Jan
Like an albatross that will not go away, the issue of restructuring of the Nigerian polity has returned to the front burner of public discourse in this country. Besides regular reminders of the issue by stakeholders including civil society groups,
7 Jan
Sir: Olajumoke Ogunkeyede is a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State. JMK, as Ogunkeyede is popularly called, was also a chieftain of the now-rested National Democratic Coalition (NADECO).
29 Dec 2023
Nigeria’s pro-democracy group, the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), United States of America (USA), has urged Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, to exercise caution in the implementation of the peace accord entered with his predecessor and Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.
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