THE name of this country is the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Yet, there are some who opine that, in reality, Nigeria operates a unitary system of government rather than a federal system that the ...

Centralism and uniformity were the two directing principles of the unitary features that the military rulers foisted on the country. Two crucial illustrations relate to (a) the concentration of ...

In May 1966, General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigeria’s first Military Head of State—also known as Johnny Ironside for his exploits in a peacekeeping mission in the Congo—promulgated the ...

It does not foresee that Kenya is one country consisting of 47 counties ... is an example of a unitary state akin to Kenyan system save ... federal states have unitary lower levels of government.

AMANDA HOLLIS-BRUSKY: Many of the judges currently on the Roberts court who embrace the unitary executive theory, which is a muscular understanding of a president's Article II powers - part of it ...

Mark Gannon, discusses the UK Government’s creation of unitary authorities as part of the abolition of the two-tier local ...

John Yoo, former deputy assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush, talks about executive power, and the tug of war between Congress and the White House over the Mueller report.

Under the Constitution, the U.S. government is divided into the executive, legislative and judicial branches - set up in the 18th century to ensure checks and balances within the American system.

Federalism is a system of government where power is shared between a central authority and smaller regional governments. Many countries adopt federalism to manage ethnic diversity within their ...