DEPARTMENT: Democracy and Governance

Overview

The department is headed by a Director who leads a team of experts (research fellows). The key objective of the Department is to facilitate training courses on democracy, political culture and development. It will also promote democracy issues in Nigeria and beyond through training, advocacy, networking, action-oriented research, publications and documentation

Resources

Committee Manual

The structure of the National Assembly 

National-Assembly

Law Making

Powers and functions of the National Assembly

Law making

NASS Admin

The Administration of the National Assembly

NASS Admin

Budget

The government budget is a very important tool of economic management.

The budget

NILDS Quiz

NILDS Quiz Thematic Areas

Quiz time concept, speech bubble with pencil on yellow background

The NASS

Find out more about the people, places and events in the parliament. 

NASS
Christopher Ochanja Ngara, PhD

Christopher Ochanja Ngara, PhD

Christopher Ochanja Ngara is the Ag. Director, Department of Democracy and Governance at the National Institute for Legislative & Democratic Studies (NILDS), National Assembly, Abuja. He holds a PhD degree in Political Science from Benue State University, Makurdi. He is a specialist in the legislature and foreign policy. He has coordinated several national and international engagements for NILDS, including Election Observation in several general and off-season elections. His research interests include Foreign Policy, Women in Politics, Election and Party Politics, Legislative Studies, State-Society Relations, and Politics and National Development. He has published several research articles in local and international peer-reviewed journals.