Nigeria for sometime now, especially in the recent months has witnessed serious constitutional misplacements. And these have grossly resulted into a kind of mess that everyone has to be involved in its timely cleansing! The current constitutional crisis is basically as a result of bad leadership. Politics in Nigeria according to history, had in no time been devoid of selfishness, nepotism, malpractices, man know man, moneybags and tyrants to say the least. No wonder the nation has always been stuck in one political quagmire or the other.
I actually stopped writing about politics in Nigeria for an internet blog and publications recently, when I discovered that the people in question refuse to turn a new leaf. But the recent happenings in the country for over two months now have woken my pen in this regard. The question is what is the constitution? Why do we have it? Is it that we don’t have competent hands to handle it anymore? Or we are simply playing politics? The worst of the scenario is that the national assembly is like a paper tiger. I may not really place the blame on them because they are more or less extractions of the “business as usual mentalities” that would preferred to trade the sanctity of our constitution for paltry crap! Most of them I believe are only opportunist, they do not really understand the essence of the mandate they enjoy even those that can still be vouched for have long sacrificed their integrity on the altar of greed. There is really no difference between these so called lawmakers and drunken brats.
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Greece; ever since I moved to America and for years thereafter, I have been trying to find news, any news about Greece in the local and national US newspapers. But, after years of failing to do so, I came to the realization that Greece, is really too small – it does not matter. This of course was to change with 2010 rolling in…
It has been now about two months that, to my shocking surprise, we have been bombarded with news about Greece. Every single day, there is one or more stories in the front page of the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers, all analyzing the importance of Greece in the European Union in particular, and the world’s financial health in general. I have spent the last few days in Denmark and Germany and a day does not go by without seeing Greece in the front, middle and back pages of the Financial Times and other newspapers written in languages beyond the four I can personally speak. So the question is, what makes little-tiny Greece, all of a sudden the center of the universe again? Don’t get me wrong, I am thrilled that Greece is in the news daily, but the question is why does Greece matter?
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Referendums offer the entire electorate the chance to participate in decisions on specific issues. The UK has thus far held six referendums.
The first UK-wide referendum was held in the 1975 and was concerned with continued membership of the European Economic Community (EEC), also known as the Common Market. The poll, held on June 5th, 1975, commanded a high turnout (65%) and resulted in almost two-thirds in favour of continued membership. Every administrative area in the UK voted ‘Yes’, bar two small Scottish island regions.
The question put to the electorate was this: “Do you think the UK should stay in the European Community (Common Market)?”
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