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 borders ...

In this Independence Day piece, Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai calls for credible elections, stronger governance, and renewed ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and elections have dominated the public conversation for nearly a year now. An unintended consequence of this is that state governments have proven that they can protect and ...

Last week in this column, in the article titled “Federalism and the local government autonomy verdict”, it was argued that, due to the natural tendency for the meanings of words to change through ...

What is federalism? To answer this question, let us look at Princeton University’s Encyclopedia Princetoniensis, which has an entry on “Federalism and federation” authored, ostensibly around 2015, by ...

“The struggle to maintain the Constitution of the United States is an unending one. The battle is always on, although the fact be little appreciated,” wrote James M. Beck. Beck was a constitutional ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Angry over Shiite calls for regional governments, many Sunni preachers urged their followers Friday to register and vote in the October constitutional referendum -- but against the ...

The Biden administration wants electric vehicles to make up half of car sales by 2030, but that plan depends on action from the states. Yogi Berra told us that “it's tough to make predictions, ...

The Presidency has dismissed criticisms by the African Democratic Congress (ADC) over President Bola Tinubu’s handling of the ...

Resolving federal-state disputes, Kramer said, is no longer dependent on the existence of rigid rules to govern the relationship. Instead, it requires a “genuine deliberative debate” among ...