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General / Aug 09, 2004

The Barbarous Acts of Okija

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

INTRODUCTIONOn November 15, 1957, during colonial Nigerian time,  a group of Nigerian policemen from the Criminal and Investigation Department (C...

General / Apr 25, 2004

Promoting Religious Tolerance And Co-operation In The West African Region: The Example Of Religious Pluralism And Tolerance Among The Yorubas

By J.F ADE AJAYI

culled from GUARDIAN, April 25 2004RELIGIOUS tolerance and pluralism are usually discussed in the context of a major politically dominant community ha...

General / Apr 14, 2004

Power And Freedom

By Wole Soyinka

culled from British Broadcasting Corporation BBChttp://www.bbc.co.ukAUDIO VERSION The totalitarian state is easy to define, easy to identify and ...

General / Apr 09, 2004

How the Ongoing NIDO Controversy Will Eventually be Resolved

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

PROLOGUE My fellow Nigerians, I am in a jocular mood this Easter, with my last fortieth birthday just past (on April 2), and that of many members...

General / Mar 03, 2004

Our Superlative Country Called Nigeria

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

INTRODUCTIONThere are 191 member-countries in the United Nations and about 262 countries and areas world-wide.  So when a country like Nigeria is...

General / Feb 14, 2004

The Murder Of Dikibo Another Lesson For Niger-Delta

By Gani Fawehinmi, LLD, SAN

CULLED FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE FEBRUARY 14, 2004IT appears to me that there is a deliberate but undeclared policy of the Nigerian state, through success...

General / Jan 05, 2004

Physics Of The Tsunami - and Understanding Why It Causes Devastation -

By Mobolaji E. Aluko

IntroductionOn Boxing Day December 26, 2004, the world awoke to a horrific news: a tsunami had “boxed” out whole towns and villages in and around ...

General / Nov 16, 2003

Of Religion, Humanism and All That

By Muyiwa Awe

culled from THISDAY November 16, 2003I had already written a Tract with the title: Humanism as a Religion when my attention was drawn to the article b...

General / Nov 07, 2003

Principles For Nigerian Renaissance

By Prof. Sola Adeyeye,

culled from GUARDIAN November 07, 2003Their latest buzz word is optimism. The grand apostles of OFN (Operation Fool the Nation) are now telling us tha...

General / Oct 06, 2003

Poverty in Nigeria

By Chimaraoke Nnamani

The fifth edition of pre- convocation Dignity of Man Lecture series of the University of Nigeria Alumni Association (UNAA) Princess Alexandria Hall, U...

General / Sep 03, 2003

Privatisation In Nigeria: Critical issues of concern to civil society

By Otive Igbuzor, PhD

A PAPER PRESENTED AT A POWER MAPPING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON THE PRIVATISATION PROGRAMME IN NIGERIA ORGANISED BY SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS INITIATIVE (SE...

General / Aug 31, 2003