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‘Our Doc, Who Art In The National Palace’

Global UpfrontMar 30, 2025March 30, 20250

By Festus Adedayo On April 23, 1971, the New York Times did a feature on Haitian tyrant, Francois Duvalier, infamously known as Papa Doc. It

Dictatorship Of The Progressives

Global UpfrontMar 26, 2025March 26, 20250

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu There was a time in this country when today’s turncoat activists of Nigeria were mouthing pat phraseologies of Marxism and hollering:

Tinubu Is The Law!

Global UpfrontMar 23, 2025March 23, 20250

By Festus Adedayo “Everything is my business. Everything. Anything I say is law…literally law.” Barbara Geddes, et al in their How dictatorship works (2018) quoted

There Was A Democracy

Global UpfrontSep 25, 2024September 25, 20240

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The ultimate recommendation of democracy is this: where a party performs badly it gets voted out. In these shores, it is

Tinubu’s Government: Sliding Towards Dictatorship

Global UpfrontSep 23, 2024September 23, 20240

Editorial By Premium Times In the last few weeks, serial anti-democratic indications have reinforced public concerns about the creeping dictatorship in the 16-month administration of

Dictatorship Of Democracy

Global UpfrontAug 21, 2024August 21, 20240

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Democracy has become a game of blackmail in Nigeria. It is only in Nigeria that some characters are making the mad

Creeping Dictatorship: Speaker Abbas Withdraws Anti-democracy Bill Criminalising Abuse of Politicians, Reciting Anthem, etc

Global UpfrontAug 15, 2024August 15, 20240

Stung by criticisms, Speaker of House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, on Tuesday withdrew the controversial Counter Subversion Bill 2024 termed by Nigerians as “anti-people” akin

Nigerian Media Must Stand Firm Against Dictatorship, By Dele Sobowale

Global UpfrontJun 9, 2024June 9, 20240

The Nigerian media, print, electronic, main line and online, except the traitors in the industry, is under attack now as never before since the late