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Social & Political Issues / Dec 22, 2004

Review of Proposal for the Management of Nigeria ’s ccTLD (.ng)

By Femi Oyesanya

The Nigerian CCTLD Working Group finally submitted a joint proposal for the administration of the .ng Top Level Country domain.  Supposedly, the ...

Social & Political Issues / Dec 18, 2004

Nigerian Cyber-crime: A Performance Review of EFCC and The Nigerian Cyber-Crime Working Group

By Femi Oyesanya

When President Olusegun Obasanjo inaugurated the Nigerian Cybercrime Working Group (NCWG), on March 10, 2004, the intentions were noble.  However...

Social & Political Issues / Dec 12, 2004

Nigeria Needs A Confab of The Rich

culled from VANGUARD Sunday, December 12, 2004SOME weeks ago, I watched Tony Blair address the British Labour Union Convention in Brighton. He used th...

Social & Political Issues / Nov 30, 2004

Towards Peace In Northern Nigeria

By Samuel Peter Aruwan

I do not wish to give the impression that I have the solutions to all the problems facing Northern Nigeria. My effort here is to contribute one or two...

Social & Political Issues / Nov 26, 2004

Nigeria: Information Does Not Want To Be Free, Freedom of Information and the Nigerian Dilemma

By Femi Oyesanya

A recent article by Reuters News Service, exemplified how questionable the integrity of processed Nigerian data has become.  According to the art...

Social & Political Issues / Nov 21, 2004

Nigeria: Silicon Valley Transplant

A recent Nigerian Newspaper article cited the Nigerian Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nasir El-Rufai, as saying that the Nigerian Go...

Social & Political Issues / Nov 18, 2004

Re-reading The man died

By Edwin Madunagu

culled from GUARDIAN, November 18, 2004One of the many and essays written in commemoration of Wole Soyinka's 70th birthday a couple of months ago was ...

Social & Political Issues / Nov 18, 2004

TERRORISM IN ANAMBRA STATE

By TERRORISM IN ANAMBRA STATE

culled from THISDAY, November 18, 2004The November 10, 2004, mayhem in Anambra State is a continuing saga of events that are steeped in constitutional...

Social & Political Issues / Nov 11, 2004

Socio-Cultural Persistence And Gender Under-Representation In Nigeria

By Michael B. Obot

Women involvement in politics and public services has remain consistently low. Though international and constitutional provisions have been made to ad...

Social & Political Issues / Nov 01, 2004

The Problems of Funding and Utilisation in Tertiary Institutions

By Tom Chiahemen

culled from THE INDEPENDENT, November 1, 2004Mallam Nasir Bello, the Liaison cum linkages officer of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, was caug...

Social & Political Issues / Nov 01, 2004

THE YORUBA, NIGERIA AND THE FUTURE

By Lateef Adegbite

culled from VANGUARD, Monday, November 01, 2004INTRODUCTIONA preliminary clarification is called for. I am too much of a Nigerian, indeed a Universali...

Social & Political Issues / Oct 29, 2004

That “Independent Cushion Committee” of Senator Ibrahim Mantu

By Mobolaji E. Aluko

INTRODUCTIONIn May 1998, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) under Paul Ogwuma wrote a nine-page review paper (in its maiden issue of its Special Econom...

Social & Political Issues / Oct 22, 2004

Politics of a Sovereign National Conference

By Levi Obijiofor

culled from Guardian, October 22, 2004EVER since the return to democracy in May 1999, calls for a sovereign national conference (SNC) to discuss Niger...

Social & Political Issues / Oct 16, 2004

OWNERS OF NIGERIA -PART 7

By Seyi Oduyela

We experienced an unprecedented treasury looting under Abacha, like in the time of his predecessor. While that of Babangida was a type of dishonestly ...

Social & Political Issues / Oct 16, 2004