Resurgence of coup-de-tat in West Africa and it’s implications to Global Stability The obvious cases of leadership failure, corruption and decay in institutions driving good governance and many other lapses gave rise to the resurgence of coup-de-tat in the West African sub-region. Young military officers in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger have within a spate of three years overthrown democratically elected governments in their countries. Expectedly, the global school of thought which subscribed to the maxim of, “the worst form of democracy is better than the best of military government has risen in condemnation of the coups.” Nations…
Author: Sunday Ajibade
A Latin phrase: “nil admirari (wonder at nothing) comes originally from Horace’s Epistles, in nil admirari (proper res est una … quae possit facere et sevare beatum) [“to wonder at nothing (is just about the only way a man can become contented and remain so)].” Though the veracity of the above submission could not be vitiated, however, nothing could make one cease from wondering how Mr. Rotimi Amaechi undertook a full-time study at Baze University, Abuja, during his stewardship as the Federal Minister of Transportation in Nigeria. Again, though learning starts from conception till death, and educational pursuit is neither…
