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Nigeria becoming less democratic; Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso ahead — Report

Nigeria has dropped 18 decimal points since 2015 in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy index.

The country, which was scored 4.62 in 2015 scored a not-so-impressive 4.44 in the recently released 2018 study.

The Democracy Index reviews the state of democracy in 165 independent countries worldwide using five parameters: process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.

Based on the performance of the countries in the five categories they are then classified into four regimes namely: full democracy”, “flawed democracy”, “hybrid regime” and “authoritarian regime”.

A full democracy is the best rating while authoritarian regime is rated the worst.

The country, which is Africa’s biggest democracy, scored the same point it in 2017 and was ranked 20 out of the 44 sub-Saharan African countries and 108 in the world.

Nigeria was classified a hybrid regime, meaning it is a combination of democratic traits such as regular elections and autocratic ones, such as political repression.

Nigeria was left languishing behind countries such as Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Uganda (which has had the same ruler for 31 years), and Sierra Leone, who were ranked 19th, 18th, 17th, and 16th respectively.

In fact, in the West African sub-region and among member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Nigeria was among the poorest rated ranking only better above Togo, Guinea, Gabon, Niger, Côte d’Ivoire, and Gambia.

Cape Verde is the highest ranked ECOWAS country ranked second in Sub-Saharan Africa and 26 in the world with a score of 7.88. Ghana, with a score of 6.63 is ranked 6th in Sub-Saharan Africa and Senegal is ranked 8th with a score of 6.15 while neighbouring Benin is ranked a close 9th with a score of 5.74.

Other West Africa countries which ranked better than Nigeria, are Mali and Liberia.

This year’s report is the 11th edition of the Democracy Index.

“For the first time in three years, the global score for democracy remained stable. This result disguises some movement across regions and across categories,” the report, which rated Costa Rica as the most improved country last year, stated.

On the other hand, the report, rated Nicaragua poorly performed country, slipping from a flawed regime to authoritarian regime

“A total of 42 countries experienced a decline in their total score compared with 2017; 48 registered an increase in total score. But as a percentage of the world’s population, fewer people lived in some form of democracy (47.7%, compared with 49.3% in 2017).

“Very few of these (4.5%) were classified as living in a full democracy. Just over one-third of the population lived under authoritarian rule, with a large share represented by China,” the report claimed.



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In just 3 years of Buhari Nigeria has fallen behind in every known human development index or ranking , there is not a single one where the dullard climbed up absolutely non !!!!! yet some wicked satanic no goods want us to vote this man for another term of four year .. GOD FORBID... A man that was a beneficiary of commendable democratic practice cannot now uphold democracy ...Buhari is an Omni Directional failure and that's a fact!!!

SalamRushdie:
hahahahaha

Why won't we fall when;

Our police force has been compromised and used as tool against the Legislative arm

Our Arm forces are weapon for crackdown against peaceful protest

And the anti corruption agencies are selective club to beat opposition members to the side of the ruling party.

Not surprising, especially with one undemocratic wicked vindictive Lifeless dullard holding sway.

The best democracy is the one in which leaders do NOT acquire democratic licence to convert both tangible and intangible national resources to their personal use to the detriment of the nation and its people.

The best democracy is in which both tangible and intangible national resources are used to empower the people by building vital infrastructures and activating productiveness and wealth creation among the populace.

By design, democracy is about the people. But in Nigeria, democracy is about individual politicians and their interests. If things favour them then it is yipeeee! democracy is working. If things work against them then it is oh nooooo! democracy is not working.

It is high time democracy worked for the general populace in Nigeria, whether they like it or not.

Dividends of playing for the Lifeless FC.

Buhari destroyed our democracy in 1983 by removing Shagari and making himself head of state. He's about to repeat the same thing like he did to recession.

Buhari is a disaster. But some refused to see it because of 2023

SalamRushdie:
In just 3 years of Buhari Nigeria has fallen behind in every known human development index or ranking , there is not a single one where the dullard climbed up absolutely non !!!!! yet some wicked satanic no goods want us to vote this man for another term of four year .. GOD FORBID... A man that was a beneficiary of commendable democratic practice cannot now uphold democracy ...Buhari is an Omni Directional failure and that's a fact!!!

My brother Buhari is no longer our problem, Tinubu and his gang of hungry erats changing the narratives with their cooked up lies are the biggest problem.
Can you imagine Nigeria was ranked bellow Burundi, South africa. Ghana and over 8 african country of best place to do business, a whole TVC hailed the report as an achievement? SMh