… insists on restructuring The pan Yoruba socio-cultural and political organisation, Afenifere, has lauded the National Assembly for waking up to the reality of the need to cut costs of governance and restructure the political system in Nigeria. The organisation, in a press statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, was however quick to add that while the proposed change in the political system from presidential to parliamentary “is okay, what the...

Sixty members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives are pushing for a return to the parliamentary system of government. They argue that it would make for the efficient utilisation of the country’s resources. Nigeria adopted the presidential system in 1979 19 years after independence from Great Britain, borrowing from the model of the United States of America. The Representatives, from different party affiliations, think the American system has been nothing but a huge failure. The bill...