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Old Faces From The North Will Help South-South-East Win

By Farouk Martins

Old faces are no longer popular in the North or South, but as money bags and their guns. There is a dictum laid down by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe that Nigeri...

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OWNERS OF NIGERIA -PART 1

By Seyi Oduyela

After the 419 Gubernatorial and Presidential elections last year ( by 4/19 I mean April 19, coincidentally it means Advanced Fee Fraud and that was ex...

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OWNERS OF NIGERIA -PART 2

By Seyi Oduyela

Under Alhaji Shehu Shagari, the Chadian gendarmes invaded Borno State, and the government ordered the deployment of troops from the 3rd Armoured Divis...

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OWNERS OF NIGERIA -PART 3

By Seyi Oduyela

In October 1986, on a Sunday two things happened to Africa and one particularly affected Nigeria. Samora Machel of Mozambique died in a plane crash, D...

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OWNERS OF NIGERIA -PART 5

By Seyi Oduyela

Late Chief MKO Abiola meant different things to different people. To some he was a man they hate to love and love to hate, to others he was a generous...

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OWNERS OF NIGERIA -PART 9

By Seyi Oduyela

After a controversial victory of late Shehu Musa Yar’Adua of the 1992 Presidential primaries of the Social Democratic Party and the attendant compla...

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OWNERS OF NIGERIA -PART 10

By Seyi Oduyela

It is interesting seeing groups springing up again with the same people coming together to fight for “our freedom.”It seems, to me, that we are si...

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President Obasanjo Independence Day Address - October 2000.

Fellow Nigerians, it is a privilege and a great honour to address you, onthe 40th Anniversary of our national Independence from Britain.We owe gratitu...

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The Administration of Nigeria 1900 to 1960 - excerpt

By Excerpts from I. F. Nicolson

The Governor General of Nigeria, Sir James Robertson, told me in 1960 why the British had decided to destroy democracy at its birth in this giant empi...

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OPERATION 'AURE' The Northern Military Counter-Rebellion of 1966

By Nowa Austin Omoigui, MD

BACKGROUNDIn the early hours of January 15, 1966, citing a laundry list of complaints against the political class, there was a military rebellion in N...

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By Elizabeth Liagin, published and culled from https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/03/nig-m17.html

Background To The Recent Nigerian ElectionsGeneral Obasanjo more than just a "friend" of the AmericansElizabeth Liagin is an independent journalist wh...

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