Patience Jonathan: Toeing Simone Gbagbo’s Path?‎ By Kayode Fakuyi

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Globally, the nexus between democracy and peace is intertwined and related by direct variation.‎ Many people say, democracy is a representative system based on elections through universal suffrage, with entrenched freedom of expression and association, within a nation-state.

Indeed, war itself – the negation of peace, or civil unrest is not unassociated with democracy. Civil unrest in the form of local insurrections, inter-group hostilities and unrest resulting from the siege on the lawmaking institutions which played out in Rivers and Ekiti States in recent times.

According to a disturbing report from the internationally reputable GlobalSecurity.org‎, Nigeria has one of the highest …Read More

Source:: PM Newspaper