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The State Of Education In Nigeria

By Otive Igbuzor, PhD

A KEYNOTE ADDRESS DELIVERED AT A ROUNDTABLE ORGANISED BY CIVIL SOCIETY ACTION COALITION ON EDUCATION FOR ALL (CSACEFA) ON 3RD JULY, 20061.  &nbsp...

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That "Tokunboh" Plane And Sedition In Nigeria

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

INTRODUCTIONBoeing Inc, with headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, is the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world, followed closely by Airbus of Franc...

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Presidency 2007

By Bola Adebiyi, Tunde Rahman and Ike Abonyi

culled from THISDAY, June 13, 2006Since the crisis broke in August last year,  President Olusegun Obasanjo has left no one in doubt that he will ...

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Update on Recommended Dates for 2007 Elections

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

A consensus is building within Nigeria that in order to provide enough or greatest amount of time to resolve the problems that might arise from the 20...

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The Choice Before Obasanjo

By Patrick Wilmot

culled from THISDAY, June 6, 2006The end of President Obasanjo's bid for a third term may be the beginning of genuine democracy in Nigeria. Many of th...

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The Candidates That Nigeria Needs For Her Democracy To Survive

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

 INTRODUCTION"It is wrong to ask who will rule.  The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough.  That is democracy." - K...

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The President Nigeria Truly Deserves

By D. Akinsanya Juliuson

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This was said by John Acton, the famous historian. He did not go on to suggest that th...

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Recommending Dates And Ballot System For The 2007 Nigerian Elections

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

IntroductionNow that the Third-Term Agenda (TTA) is dead and buried – even though the dead body is still stinking up the country   – it looks...

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Nigeria Faces The Future

By Olusegun Alebiosu

culled from GUARDIAN, May 30, 2006Singapore's Lee Kwan Yew in 1992 told an audience in Philippines "I do not believe that western democracy leads to d...

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South South And The Presidency

By Reuben Abati

culled from GUARDIAN, May 26, 2006The struggle for the post of the President of Nigeria by 2007, now effectively vacant, has begun with the North and ...

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Obasanjo Is Not That Desperate After All

By Farouk Martins

Some people do not know when to stop chasing a snake until it turns back and strike with venom. By Nigerian standard, leaders who were desperate for p...

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Wither Nigerian Youths! Wither My Jeans

By Jaafar Jaafar

It was my favourite jeans. It was a straight-tailored Levi’s denim I bought just recently. The type only those at MTN, PTDF, NLNG (not in any order)...

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Saving Democracy: Who Is Fooling Who?

By Femi Soneye

It has been interesting reading the show of shame going on between the President of Nigeria, Rtd General Olusegun Obasanjo his vice-president Alhaji A...

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Obasanjo's Dishonest Honesty

By Seyi Oduyela

If there is any military officer lucky in Nigeria, it is General Matthew Aremu Okikiola Olusegun Obasanjo. He is lucky because he never participated i...

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Obasanjo: An Exit Strategy

By Reuben Abati

culled from GUARDIAN, May 12, 2006The President's political strategists, faced with the widespread opposition to the now infamous third term agenda, a...

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