The Senate yesterday charged the Federal Ministry of Aviation on the need for proper surveillance of all persons arriving from China, especially Chinese citizens from Nigeria who traveled for the Chinese Lunar New Year festivities against Corona virus. It also charged the ministry to extend such surveillance to all arrivals from any country that has a major disease outbreak to ensure that they are isolated by staying indoors for at least two weeks before mixing up with the Nigerian public. This followed a motion on Corona virus outbreak and preventive response towards stemming its spread in the country. The Senate also urged Nigerians with any reported cause(s) of likely infection or symptoms that approximate to those associated with Corona virus to visit the hospitals for urgent health check. It advised Nigerians to wash their two hands with soap, clean water, preferably from a running tap at all times. Senate also urged Nigerian traveling public desirous of trave...

As the days goes by, Political participation increasingly takes place on Digital Platform, where individuals have full access to relates and voice out things that are bothering them and those things they feel the government of the day need to put in place. These are the digital platforms that enables the people and the Government to communicate. Radio: in 1920 radio started to connect with a great many individuals, and by the 1940's it was utilized to spread Political and purposeful publicity messages globally. Television: In the 1960's TV evacuated radio as Political shows, discussion, and addresses were broadcast to hundreds of  a large number of Individuals. Telephones: As the scope of Technology has extended, with more than 66% of the Worlds populace currently having a Mobile telephone, so has inclusion of general Citizens in the Political procedure.

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From Nigeria’s seat of power, one of the talking points last week was President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement on the country’s ability to end the insurgency war in the North-East. Buhari, who spoke when Janez Lenarcic, the European Union (EU) Commissioner for Crisis Management paid him a visit at the State House, Abuja, had said: “If we were capable to fight a 30-month civil war and reorganized our country, I wonder why people are thinking that Nigeria cannot do it (overcome Boko Haram). The President went further to tell his visitor, “We have the experience of the civil war. I could recall the role of the military, the army and each commander had in his pocket how to behave himself and how to allow international bodies like yourself to go round and see for themselves that people are treated in the most humane way. We have this experience and I assure you that we also have this confidence in your organization. “That is why I feel that Nigeria is c...

The problem with politics, Oscar Wilde once complained, is that it “takes up too many evenings”. In the digital era, though, it’s increasingly easy for people to engage one another and their political representatives without ever leaving home. That’s an attractive proposition for politicians: in 2002, then-leader of the House of Commons, Robin Cook, called the internet “a tool for participation without precedent in democratic history”. The subsequent coalition and Conservative governments echoed New Labour’s techno-optimism, pushing ahead with e-government initiatives ranging from online forums to petition tools. Jeremy Corbyn has been getting in on the act too, peppering David Cameron with crowdsourced questions during his first prime minister’s questions as Labour leader. But despite such efforts, British e-democracy initiatives remain “limited and largely unsuccessful,” according to University of Leeds researchers Giles Moss and Stephen Coleman. That’s not to say Brits...