A New Nigerian Federal Architecture: A Pathway for Equitable, Inclusive and Participatory Governance with Dr Sam Amadi (Faculty) and Century Favour (Moderator)
This course will look into the history of Nigeria's "federalism", inherent gaps in the current federal system, existing proposals for redesigns through National Conferences and regional agitations.
This course will draw lessons from a functional state that applies taxes, decentralised power and rule of law in the protection of social contract and development of an equitable society.
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Forming and Strengthening Political Parties in Nigeria to Global Best Practices with Sesugh Akume @sesugh_akume (Faculty) and moderated by Shona Olalere (@shonalere)
Political Parties are very large groups of individuals with a set of shared interests attempting to influence the political process, elections, policy outcomes, etc. A political party is a group of people who come together to contest elections and hold power in the government.
They in a quest for elective power, agree on some policies and programmes that will be presented to the society for the collective good.
Resources are finite and so, failure to make informed decisions can severely constrain the capacity of governments at all levels to successfully deliver good and targeted outcomes.
Whenever public choices and decisions are not grounded in strong analysis and shaped by factual evidence and statistical data, the result will be unfavourable to citizens.
At #SPPG yesterday, we had a very engaging evening on electoral discourse. The office of the citizen has never been more important, and the principal-agent dilemma more apparent.
@faithlyn_7 was brilliant in her dissection of the electoral law and processes and on top of her game as one who is not merely academic about the gaps needing remediation.
Her capacity to provide solid answers to the diverse range of questions from a super-engaged class made yesterday very special for the Office of the Citizen.