INDEPENDENT
Fri May, 14 2010
Jonathan’s 2011 Ambition Debacle
By Maxwell Oditta, Asst Politics Editor
President Goodluck Jonathan seems determined to push his luck a little too hard. For a man who rose within five years from being a deputy governor to becoming the country’s number on...
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Other Peoples’ Essays
Jonathan’s 2011 Ambition Debacle
The Nationality Question: Imperative for National Restructuring – by Prof. Ropo Sekoni
The Nationality Question: Imperative for National Restructuring
Sixtieth Birthday Anniversary Lecture in Honour of Hon. Wale Oshun on March 26, 2010
&n...
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MKO Abiola's Martyrdom and the Machinations of the "Nigerian Factor" – Niyi Osundare
MKO ABIOLA’S MARTYRDOM AND THE MACHINATIONS OF ‘THE NIGERIAN FACTOR’-Niyi Osundare
Speech at 10th Memorial Anniversary of MKO Abiola's Death
July 7, 2008
Lagos, Nigeria
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COMMENTARIES….by Is'haq Modibbo Kawu – Yar'adua's dysfunctional Nigeria etc.
DAILY TRUST:
Yar'adua's dysfunctional Nigeria
Written by Is'haq Modibbo Kawu, kawumodibbo@yahoo.com
Thursd...
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Obasanjo’s $8.3b Rail deal unsettles Yar’Adua
THE NATION
Obasanjo’s $8.3b Rail deal unsettles Yar’Adua 20/3/200
By Leke Salaudeen,
Assitant Editor The Presidency is in a fix over the $8.3 billion contract for the modernisation and expansion of rail lines awarded in the dying days of the Obasanjo administration.
A committee set ...
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To Hell with Protocol – Pendulum By Dele Momodu
To Hell with Protocol
Pendulum By Dele Momodu,
Email:delemomodu@thisdayonline, 02.01.2008
I love Nigerians. Our ways are just too unique. We have the greatest praise
singers on earth. Not since the time of the griots of the ancient Mali Empire
have we seen the likes of sycopha...
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This Day Editorial 2007: a Transition Year And Its Controversies
THIS DAY EDITORIAL
2007 - a Transition Year And Its Controversies
This Day (Lagos)
NEWS
30 December 2007
Posted to the web 31 December 2007
Lagos
The year 2007 finally comes to an end today. Politically, the year was very eventful for Nigeria . It witnessed, for instan...
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Exit Ribadu? – Essay by Wole Soyinka
EXIT RIBADU? I can only hope that Benazir Bhutto’s followers will forgive me for saying this, but the news of Nuhu Ribadu’s removal from the anti-corruption Nigerian organisaton known as the EFCC will have, in all likelihood, a far more devastating impact on th...
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Poverty Destroys Dignity AN ESSAY by Bala Muhammad
Culled from Gamji.com
Poverty Destroys Dignity
By
Bala Muhammad
balamuhammad@hotmail.com
May you never be embarrassed! About ten years ago, when I was working at the BBC World Service in London, a story broke that a Nigerian had been ‘arrested for s...
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101 Things You Need to Relocate to Nigeria – An Essay by Godson Offoaro
101 THINGS YOU NEED TO RELOCATE TO NIGERIA
Godson Offoaro
offoaro@yahoo.com
"Don't worry. A sprouting palm frond pointing skywards never makes it to the sky. It soon would relapse to join its mates." - Igbo Proverb
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