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The Limits of Executive Extortionism

By Paul mamza

It was Professor Wole Soyinka, the noble laureate, who coined these right words to describe President Olusegun Obasanjo’s excessiveness in Abeokuta,...

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The Last Days of Obasanjo

By Muhammad Al-Ghazali

culled from THISDAY, March 7, 2006If you happened to be an ordinary Nigerian battling with disease, crime, crippling effects of unemployment, or the v...

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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 Crash of NAF 911 on September 26, 1992

By Nowa Omoigu

IntroductionThe Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a versatile, high wing, turbo-prop military and civilian transport plane used by well over 60 countries. It...

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The Country Of Anything Goes

By Olusegun Obasanjo

For over four and a half years - from November 17, 1993 to June 8, 1998 - Nigeria, which had been under military rule since the end of 1983, was reduc...

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THE DECEPTIVE SILENCE OF STOLEN VOICES

By Wole Soyinka,

The usual indecision over an appropriate topic for an occasion such as this, which is one of celebration, was fast becoming incurable when my eyes hap...

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The Devil Is It, Mr. President

By Dangiwa Abubakar Umar, rtd Col.

An Open Letter to President ObasanjoJanuary 21, 2004Mr. President,Although this wish or prayer may be totally unnecessary, since leaders who believe t...

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The Fall of Politics In Nigeria

By Paul Mamza

Politics in Nigeria had suffered great under writings and blows through manipulations, opportunistic medleys and deafening undoing.  As the natio...

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The Ige Family Withdraws from Omisore Trial

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

Dear Compatriots:  “In a craven show of immorality and perfidy, the ruling party showed its true colours as the candidate was adopted………I...

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The Igbos, The Yoruba and History

By By Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

Every moment in life is a moment of history. Every present actionimmediately becomes past and roles played today will be remembered tomorrowwith pride...

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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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