In my view, there are at least four principles that should guide true fiscal federalism. The first is that each federating unit continues to be as aut...
Read moreMy beloved people of Anambra State.Today the Anambra State Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Awka announced to the world that I, Peter Obi, am th...
Read morePoverty survives, in part, because it provides a baseline of failure which tends to reassure the non-poor of their worth; something akin to a reliable...
Read morespeakable poverty for the majority, who strike, claw and bicker at one another for the pleasure of that few Marius N'yoyergo ( ...in Africa is Sinking...
Read moreculled from VANGUARD, July 24, 2005I do not wish to be a spoilsport. But I hope that there will be something to celebrate in the future; right now, ho...
Read moreculled from Guardian, July 22, 2005Last week, the National Political Reform Conference (NPRC) formally closed deliberations begun five months ago on a...
Read moreA cloud of duplicity, preferential treatment, injustice, contempt to law, intractable inflation, obnoxious laws, poor infrastructure and political int...
Read moreIntroductionTwenty-four hours before the first part of Dr. Bolaji Aluko's article (entitled "Mid-Week Essay: Derivation, Resource Control and the NPRC...
Read moreWhen I read Dr. Muhammad's article on the invading forces in Aso rock, I was rather impressed at the obvious patriotism of this intellectual. He was n...
Read moreAfrican fathers and mothers are not necessarily the ones that gave birth to you. They are the ones you look up to and turn to in time of need, trouble...
Read moreThe convocation of the National Political Reform Conference (NPRC) in Abuja was compelled by the need to review the state of federalism in Nigeria. Th...
Read moreIt is human for anyone under tension, especially when it stems from the psychological trauma of wounded pride, to lose mental balance and resort to re...
Read moreThe ardent readers of my column may find the current topic juddersome if not alarming but not without an iota of a stuff for exultations. Those whose ...
Read moreWe feel highly honoured to have been invited to participate in this historic occasion of the 12th anniversary, commemorating June 12, 1993 presidentia...
Read moreAs the Nigeria Political Conference winds up, there is the need to revisit the concepts of democracy and development which undoubtedly are the two mos...
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