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Historical Speeches Apr 03, 2004

AL-MUSTAPHA AND THE COUP STORY

By Adeyeye Joseph

A bee on the scrotum. A bee with its proboscis poised. A bee which would keep adversaries away. A bee which held death in its very caress. For the thr...

Social & Political Issues

AFTER PRESIDENT OBASANJO, WHO/WHAT?

By Professor Omo Omoruyi, mni

Research Fellow, African Studies Center, Boston University.I threw this question into a recent essay, which I wrote on the issue of pact between the g...

Social & Political Issues Mar 27, 2005

Africa: The Ontology of Failed States

By Franklyne Ogbunwezeh

Never in the history of human reality, was an ode ever commissioned to celebrate failure. This flows from a conventional metaphysic. In the halls of r...

Social & Political Issues

State, Zonal and Regional Analyses of INEC Data for Voters' Applications, Registration and Disqualifications

By Mobolaji E. Aluko

Fellow Nigerians:INEC’s chairman, Dr. Abel Guobadia, yesterday provided some information on prospective voters who participated in the last registra...

Social & Political Issues Jul 03, 2005

After Supreme Court's Verdict: What Options For Buhari?

By Louis Achi and Oke Epia

culled from THISDAY, July 3, 2005“Time is the greatest friend of truth. Nothing ever built on falsehood and deceit has endured and this one also sha...

Social & Political Issues Feb 03, 2005

Africa and the Permanent Membership of the UN Security Council

INTRODUCTIONIt appears for all intents and purposes that two permanent veto-wielding seats will soon be open to Africa in the UN Security Council, and...

Social & Political Issues May 03, 2006

African Poverty As Failure Of Leadership*

By Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh

This paper is not an exoneration of Western Imperialism, and neo-colonial sabotage of many African economies, which is one of the great factors that h...

Social & Political Issues

AN EXTRAPOLATION OF HOME: LESSONS FROM ATLANTA

By Chukwuemeka Uche Onuora

Home is where the heart is. When I argued that Andrew must go back home in my address at the NIDO convention, that is precisely what I meant. It will ...

Social & Political Issues Apr 07, 2004

ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON NIGERIA'S POLITICAL EVOLUTION

By Muhammadu Buhari

Presentation by Major-General Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, Former Head of State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Presidential Candidate of the All Nigeri...

Social & Political Issues Oct 28, 2005

Against The Ropes - A Nation's Response To Adversity

By Andrew Obinna Onyearu

By quirk of unusual coincidence, the Nigerian Nation was thrown into mourning with the loss, on Saturday, 22 October 2005 of 117 persons who died when...