Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is currently battling to survive the onslaught of centrifugal forces tearing at its foundation of nationhood. Caught between waves of separatist agitations in its eastern geopolitical ...

In view of the threat by the Egmont Group, a 152-nation network of national financial intelligence units, to suspend Nigeria in 2018, the bill to grant financial and operational autonomy to the unit the Nigerian Financial ...

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The legislature as First Estate of the realm represents citizens and sovereignty. It makes the law, serve as checks on the activities of the executive (oversight) and represent the citizens in constituencies. The ...

This paper interrogates the postponement of the 2019 general elections in Nigeria and the attendant international responses it elicited. It noted that Nigeria’s national elections had been similarly postponed in 2011 and ...

This study “Nigeria’s Federalism and the Implementation of the Child Rights Act 2003”, examined the burden of federalism imperatives on the implementation of the Child Rights Act 2003. The objectives of the study were to, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to exacerbate Nigeria’s current housing deficit and limit access to affordable housing and long tenured mortgage financing. Social distancing protocols and lockdown rules have exerted ...

This paper examines the role of the fourth and fifth Nigerian National Assembly in interparliamentary diplomacy. Using historical method, the paper established that the re-entry of the National Assembly into the global ...

Information for Subscribers: The Journal of Democratic Studies (NILDS-JDS) is published Bi-annually. For submission instructions, subscription and all other information visit http:nilds.gov.ng or email nildsjds@nils.gov.ng. Aims ...