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Social & Political Issues / Jun 08, 2004

The Unlearned Lesson of Plateau Emergency Rule

By Bolaji Akinyemi

culled from GUARDIAN of June 8, 2004SINCE the proclamation imposing an emergency on Plateau State, the mass media has been awash with comments and com...

Social & Political Issues / May 29, 2004

Nigeria Social Forum (NSF) Charter of Principles

By Otive Igbuzor, PhD

Nigeria Social Forum (NSF) Charter of Principles[1]After evaluating the results of the past World Social Forums, held first in January 25-30, 2001 in ...

Social & Political Issues / May 23, 2004

The President Cannot Suspend A Governor

By AKPO MUDIAGA ODJE, ESQ

culled from PUNCH Sunday, May 23, 2004In retrospect, it was the sagacious P.P. Craig who opined in his book:Administrative Law (1994) “ at page 287 ...

Social & Political Issues / May 20, 2004

The Rape of Constitutionality in Plateau

By Ben Nwabueze

culled from GUARDIAN, May 20, 2004THE suspension of the Governor and House of Assembly of Plateau State and their replacement temporarily by an Admini...

Social & Political Issues / May 19, 2004

The 1962 State of Emergency, West and the First Republic

By Jide Ajani, Political Editor

culled from VANGUARD, Wednesday, May 19, 2004LAGOS-The 1962 State of Emergency in Western Regionstarted with an intra-party crisis between ObafemiAwol...

Social & Political Issues / May 19, 2004

Nigeria's Case Laws on Emergency Rule

By Gbolahan Gbadamosi,

culled from GUARDIAN, May 19, 2004IT is not for nothing that the appelation 'Timi TheLaw' given to Chief Frederick Rotimi Alade Williams(SAN) was made...

Social & Political Issues / May 19, 2004

State of Emergency : What the constitution says

By Gbenga Odugbesan

culled from PUNCH, May 19, 2004Under the miscellaneous provisions in Part II of the 1999 Constitution,Subsection 1 of Section 305 provides that, "Subj...

Social & Political Issues / May 09, 2004

SOUTH-SOUTH AND THE PRESIDENCY

By Nsikan Ekong

culled from THISDAY , May 9, 2004Looking at the Nigerian political landscape critically, one cannot but admit that the Niger Delta question will conti...

Social & Political Issues / May 06, 2004

Politics and Coups in Nigeria

By Edwin Madunagu

culled from GUARDIAN, May 6, 2004THE present intervention was inspired by recent political developments in Nigeria and the animated public discussions...

Social & Political Issues / Apr 26, 2004

The Politics of Military Coups

By Sam Nda-Isiah

culled from DAILY TRUST of April 26, 20041966 was a very bad year for the British. Harold Wilson, the Labour prime minister who had only recently won ...

Social & Political Issues / Apr 21, 2004

Rhetorics That Binds And Blinds

By Wole Soyinka

BBC 2004 Reith Lecture Three with First Broadcast On April 21, 2004 8pm GMTculled from British Broadcasting Corporation BBChttp://www.bbc.co.ukAUDIO V...

Social & Political Issues / Apr 19, 2004

Nigeria And The Millenium Development Goals

By Otive Igbuzor PhD

 The problem of development has occupied the attention of scholars, activists, politicians, development workers and international organization fo...

Social & Political Issues / Apr 05, 2004

Technical Solution for Nigerian 419 e-mails

By Femi Oyesanya

From a technical standpoint, Nigerian Email Cybercrime is rather challenging. Whilst the rest of the world tries to engineer technical controls to fil...

Social & Political Issues / Apr 02, 2004

Re-visiting the Electoral Act 2002 case

By Ben Nwabueze

culled from GUARDIAN , April 2, 2004THE Nigerian public appears not to be sufficiently informed about the Court of Appeal decision on the Electoral Ac...

Social & Political Issues / Mar 25, 2004