President Emmanuel Macron of France arrived in Nigeria on the 3rd of June 2018 on an official visit. He was received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama. While in Nigeria, he visited the famous African Shrine. He announced the launch of African Cultures Season in 2020, an event to promote African culture aimed at changing clichéd perceptions of Africa. The visit was a homecoming of sorts for Macron. He once spent six…

1983 saw Shagari Overthrown in a coup d’état, Buhari succeeded him. He was appointed Chairman of a new Supreme Military Council of Nigeria and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces by the junta. He ruled for two years and was overthrown in 1985 by Ibrahim Babangida. What happened during the Military regime was; a military commander establishes a Government in a territory he had conquered. And in this territory, he administers the military law declared under…

The 2015 Elections were scheduled to be held on 14 February 2015. However, INEC, the nation’s electoral body shifted it to 28 March. They gave a poor distribution of Permanent Voter Cards and Boko Haram insurgency as reasons for the postponement. The Election was recorded to be the most expensive election ever to be held on the African continent. And this didn’t come as a surprise noting that Nigeria with a population of over 180million…

Sani Abacha is by some records the most successful coup plotter in the history of Nigeria’s military. On 17 November 1993, Abacha overthrew the government of Chief Ernest Shonekan. In September 1994, he issued a decree that placed his government above the jurisdiction of the courts, this gave him absolute power, and the right to detain anyone for up to three months without trial. Needless to say, the man ruled with terror. Abacha was listed…

In the United States of America, they are called the ‘deep state’. There is a deep state or shadow government that operates, unelected, behind the scenes of governments. They make key financial market decisions, geopolitical decisions and are involved in limiting humanities potential. Barack Obama’s alleged lack of success of his campaign promises relating to the Afghanistan war and civil liberties has been attributed by Micheal J. Glennon to what he calls the “double government”;…