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Politics of The American Report

By Ebere Onwudiwe

Now that the dust has settled on the statement by the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) about a failed Nigerian state that could drag down much o...

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Seven Years After, General Sani Abacha Still Glitters: His Dreams, His Mission And Vision

By Paul Mamza

By Wednesday, 8th June, 2005 General Sani Abacha will be remembered seven years after his death on the 8th of June, 1998.   Below, is a special t...

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Nigeria, Bursting At The Seams

By Mike Thomson

Nigeria, Bursting At The Seamsculled from BBC News, June 3, 2005In the six years since Nigeria passed from military rule to democracy, an estimated 10...

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The Limits of Democracy

By 'Lai Olurode

culled from Guardian, June 1, 2004D EMOCRACY is now a catch-phrase, in fact since the mid-80s the wave of democratisation as a derivative of structura...

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What Nigeria Lost By Abacha's Untimely Death Well-thought Out Provisions Of The 1995 Constitution

By Alex Ekwueme

I was an elected member of the 1994-1995 National Constitutional Conference, which sat exactly for one year (June 26 1994 -June 26 1995) and had reaso...

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Nigeria: We The People And Our Impediments

By Habu Dauda Fika

We must stop this constant adolescent fight to identify ourselves as the South, the North, the South-south, the Middle belt, the West, and/or any such...

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Untested Spirits; For Democracy

By Larry Ubochi

As the faithful were asked to test the spirits to determine if it’s from God or from Satan, in the same context one can ask Nigerians to test these ...

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The Blair-Brown Partnership: A Lesson For Nigerian Politicians

By Danlami Alhassan Giwa

Anyone who had been chanced to watch Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain and his articulate Chancellor of the Exchequer, (Finance Minister), Mr. Gord...

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What We Owe, What We Are Doing About It

By Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Nigeria's external debt stands presently at $34 billion. About $28 billion or 85 per cent of the debt is owed to the Paris Club of 15 creditors nation...

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Nigeria's Constitution And Militocracy

By Uchenna Osigwe

culled from GUARDIAN, May 08, 2005Those who are familiar with the documentary movie on Patrice Lumumba, first Congolese Prime Minister, would recall a...

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Traditional Rulers and Democracy

By Jide Oluwatobi

culled from PUNCH, May 08, 2005Apologists of traditional institutions are often eager to sing its praise and assert its relevance, even in a democracy...

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Reforming For Sustainable Development And Democracy

By Joseph Ohiaba Suleiman

culled from THISDAY, May 06, 2005The greatest thing in the world is not so much were we stand as in what direction we are moving. – Oliver Wendell H...

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Re-Structuring Nigeria - Towards Regionalism in the South-West and Ekiti State of Nigeria

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

INTRODUCTION – REDUCING ADMINISTRATIVE OVERHEAD  In a pair of previous essays, I have expressed support for a return to a uni-cameral mixe...

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ONDO STATE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES: A CELEBRATION OF MEDIOCRTITY

By Abiola Olawole

Despite the fact that the elections of 2005 were massively rigged in favor of the PDP led administration including that of Ondo State. Some of the gov...

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Review of ICT Development Memorandum Submitted By ICT-G22 to NPRC

By Femi Oyesanya

A Nigerian Internet group calling itself the ICT-G22 recently submitted an ICT development memorandum for inclusion at the National Political Reform C...

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About Edo History and Culture

CORAL BEADS worn by OBA AKENZUA 11 and his chiefs

The Festac Mask - A carving of the Face of Queen Idia - mother of Oba Esigie

OBA OVONRANMWEN before exile

Pictography - a form of writing like the Egyptian Hieroglyphics

A TEMPLE IN OGIAMEN'S PALACE