As in the Cold War, Washington has continued to support various democratic forms. It backed color revolutions in post-Soviet and post-Yugoslav countries to encourage parliamentary rule, while ...

My impression of our democracy is that democracy is yet to come. What we are having are attempts towards democracy. So, we are like people who want to study medicine and they are doing pre- med ...

The Standard can today reveal the genesis of proposal for a pure presidential system of government adopted by the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional Review. We established the system, ...

Suddenly, almost out of the blue, debate has begun over what system of government Nigeria should adopt or return to. It is not certain that the debate stands any chance of gaining sufficient traction, ...

Ango Abdullahi, Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), has expressed support for the plan to introduce the parliamentary system of government to the country. Recall that the introduced bill, ...

The elephant in the house is not the people of Kenya who cannot all accept the president we elect to rule us. Not at all. The elephant in the room is that, by the very nature of our society, we are ...

Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed to switch from a two-chamber parliament system to a one-chamber system by eliminating the Senate. “This reform of the highest representative ...

An aggregate of 60 members of the House of Representatives have jointly sponsored the bill aimed at amending the 1999 Constitution to transition from the current presidential system to a parliamentary ...

Prof. Ango Abdullahi, a member of the Northern Elders Forum, has endorsed moves by some lawmakers to return Nigeria to the Parliamentary System of Government. Abdullahi, a former Vice-chancellor of ...