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Social & Political Issues / Mar 19, 2004

Obasanjo struck mortal blow against June 12

By Dangiwa Abubakar Umar

culled from Sun News Monday, March 29, 2004Blind ambition for power without purpose or with the wrong purpose had gripped Abacha. He was unyielding. W...

Social & Political Issues / Mar 08, 2004

Rethinking Political Opposition in Nigeria

By Azeez Olugbenga Mabawonku

culled from THIS DAY of March 8, 2004.I read with utmost interest the article entitled Nigeria: Politics of Finance and Democracy by Ndubisi Obiorah i...

Social & Political Issues / Feb 27, 2004

The Right To Talk

By Michael Agbamuche

culled from GUARDIAN, February 27, 2004As I write this piece the national political reforms conference has taken off. Even though I am not a nominee o...

Social & Political Issues / Feb 13, 2004

Nigeria and the Beautiful Game of Soccer

By Mobolaji E. Aluko

INTRODUCTIONIn the last few days, I joined millions of other Nigerians to watch our Super Eagles defeat our perennial nemesis Cameroun in the Quarter-...

Social & Political Issues / Jan 21, 2004

The Devil Is It, Mr. President

By Dangiwa Abubakar Umar, rtd Col.

An Open Letter to President ObasanjoJanuary 21, 2004Mr. President,Although this wish or prayer may be totally unnecessary, since leaders who believe t...

Social & Political Issues / Jan 20, 2004

The Coming Anarchy

By Ujudud Shariff

culled from DAILY TRUST  - January 20, 2004By now, it appears beyond all reasonable doubt that Nigeria is not only becoming a "failed" state but ...

Social & Political Issues / Jan 08, 2004

Nigeria Struggles Against The Curse Of Oil

By Jonathan Power

culled from International Herald TribuneThe gift that corrupts LAGOS Nigeria, already the world's sixth-largest oil producer and with large untap...

Social & Political Issues / Jan 07, 2004

Untangling the Nigerian Top Domain Level Registration Palaver

By Mobolaji E. Aluko and Sunday A. Folayan

INTRODUCTIONFor a number of years now, an imbroglio has been quietly brewing in the Nigerian Internet community over who or what institution (private,...

Social & Political Issues / Dec 22, 2003

Nigeria's Officialdom and Public Expenditure Waste

By Mobolaji E. Aluko

The GuardianSunday, December 21, 200340 Per Cent Federal Workers May Lose JobDirectors Write Exams To Determine SuitabilityFROM MARTINS OLOJA (Abuja B...

Social & Political Issues / Dec 21, 2003

Nigeria: Politics of Finance and Democracy

culled from THIS DAY of December 21, 2003The term 'political finance' can be defined as the use of money or the use of other material resources for po...

Social & Political Issues / Dec 11, 2003

The Arithmetic of PMB, PSB and Interconnectivity Telecommunications Charges in Nigeria

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

INTRODUCTIONOne of the dividends of privatization, deregulation and consumer democracy in Nigeria has been the recent “forcing” of the GSM operato...

Social & Political Issues / Dec 02, 2003

The Supremacy Of People Power

By Pini Jason

culled from VANGUARD Tuesday, December 02, 2003There is a profound statement President Jimmy Carter made to me in 1992 during one of his election moni...

Social & Political Issues / Nov 14, 2003

"Nigeria is Poor, O!" says President Obasanjo

culled from The GuardianNovember 14, 2003Nigeria is poor, says ObasanjoFrom Madu Onuorah, AbujaPRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday painted a gloomy ...

Social & Political Issues / Oct 23, 2003

The Press and The Nigeria Project

By Chimaraoke Nnamani, Governor of Enugu State

When it pleases the State to say it is half-full, why would it displease the same State that the Press says it is half empty? Mokwugo Okoye …in Stor...

Social & Political Issues / Oct 21, 2003