Government of Nigeria

Lagos Town Council

Lagos Town Council was the administrative unit of Lagos created in 1950 under a new local government law in succession to the council created by the ordinance of 1941. Although the Oba of Lagos,…

Meritocrat Nigerian students at Harvard converse with friends.

Meritocracy

Meritocracy is an elite group whose progress is earned with their intellectual prowess, rather than wealth or class privilege. The term also describes the practise of this form of government….

Adunni Oluwole

Adunni Oluwole was a Unitarist, and anti-independence activist. Adunni, a small, almost fragile woman, was one of Nigeria’s most colorful female leaders in the decade prior to independence….

Adubi Riot

Adubi Riot was the revolt of June 1918 in Abeokuta, following the discontent inherited from the Egba United Government period, in which about thirty thousand Egba people tore up the railway line…

Photo of Abraham Adesanya in his younger days

Adesanya Abraham

Abraham Adesanya was a political leader, honored in the line of Obafemi Awolwo and Adekunle Ajasin as Asiwaju of Yorubaland. Adesanya was born on 24 July 1922 in Ijebu Igbo to a popular…

Corruption

Corruption, according to the World Bank and Transparency International, is the abuse of public office for private gains for the benefit of the holder of the office or some third party. Nigeria has…

Edun Adegboyega

Edun Adegboyega was the secretary of the Egba United Government from 1902 to 1918. He was born in June 1860 as Jacob Henryson Samuel, but changed his name by assuming his ancestral name in 1904….

Babatunde Fashola

Babatunde Fashola is the Thirteenth governor of Lagos State, (2007-2015), publicly acclaimed for his analytical skill and administrative competence. He is a recipient of the 2009 Yitzhak Rabin…

Socialism

Socialism is an ethical science and a universal set of principles conceived as a guide to progressive governance. It is a principle that militates against the aiding and abetting of private…