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General / May 25, 2005

The Limits of Executive Extortionism

By Paul mamza

It was Professor Wole Soyinka, the noble laureate, who coined these right words to describe President Olusegun Obasanjo’s excessiveness in Abeokuta,...

General / May 18, 2005

The Nigerian Reform Agenda: What Options For Nigerians?

By John Moru

The National Political Reform Conference (NPRC) is winding down its committee deliberations, and would be reconvening from the 23rd of May for the fin...

General / May 16, 2005

PANEL ON THE RE-ORGANISATION AND REFORM OF CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (1994) (The Okigbo Panel Report)

By http://www.nigerianmuse.com/nigeriawatch/okigbo/

source: http://www.nigerianmuse.com/nigeriawatch/okigbo/On January 15,  1994, as part of his early moves to convince the nation of  a new br...

General / May 13, 2005

THE MORAL COALITION AGAINST SELF-SUCCESSION

By JAMES DANJUMA CHOLOM

The greatest imaginable folly of all is to assume that you can insult and assault the collective intelligence of your fellow citizens. Such is the sic...

General / May 11, 2005

OPERATION DECLARE YOUR ASSETS OR FORFEIT YOUR SURPLUS

By Farouk Martins

Please let us stop chasing the ghost, cut the chase and go after the individual surplus. Every Nigerian knows where the money is. We know there is eve...

General / May 03, 2005

Parable Of The Tortoise

By Pekulia Meesi

culled from NEWAGE, May 03, 2005I would have said that President Obasanjo would not be foolish enough to succumb to any idea from any quarter whatsoev...

General / May 03, 2005

The Meaning of Pope John Paul II’s Acknowledgement of African Traditional Religion

By Hilary O. Evbayiro

March and April this year were significantly difficult for Christians, especially the Roman Catholics.  As Christians were celebrating Easter, th...

General / Apr 29, 2005

On The Euphemisms and Iniquities of Corruption

By Paul Mamza

Vanities are claims of corruption but the iniquities of corruption are not vanish-able in a glimpse because old habits die-hard. While both vanities a...

General / Apr 25, 2005

The Indigene And Settler Problem

By Babs Fafunwa

culled from GUARDIAN, April 25, 2005The indigene/settler issue first reared its ugly head in 1861 when King Dosunmu of Lagos ceded Lagos to the Britis...

General / Apr 22, 2005

The Open Sore of A Continent

By Olaewe Ewegbemi

The title of this piece is borrowed from Wole Soyinka’s book, THE OPEN SORE OF A CONTINENT, A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (Oxford Univ...

General / Mar 26, 2005

The Lost Glory - The Awo Era In Yoruba Land

By Senator Femi Okunrounmu

 My first reaction when contacted by Mr. Wale Adedayo to give this lecture was to wonder, why me?  After all, I am known as a die-hard Afeni...

General / Mar 25, 2005

PEACE FALLS APART The Emergence of Self Determination Groups in Nigeria

By Roy Chikwem

Judgments by Self Determination Groups (SDG) in Nigeria are becoming increasingly problematic in recent years, especially those groups that adduct vig...

General / Mar 22, 2005

THE MANY SINS OF A TRANSGRESSOR

By Paul Mamza

It seems majority of Nigerians have gone through the school of mischief and had in the process learnt and imbibed good lessons of sortie which hampers...

General / Mar 21, 2005

Power Reform and Electricity Generation

By Victor Ifedi

culled from GUARDIAN, March 21, 2005The law which established the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) in 1972 stipulated that it should develop a...

General / Mar 14, 2005