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Crisis Of Tyranny - A Monumental Collapse and Eclipse of Democratic Values

By Emma Ihejieto

As one begins an X-Ray of the midwifery, birth, nurturing and inculcation of Democratic values in our body-politic, some dangerous and disturbing tren...

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Constitutional Amendment Not Sovereign National Conference Is Pathway To A Reformed Polity

By Adebayo Adejare

Contrary to popular thought, there is in fact no new 1999 Constitution. What we have is the re-adoption of the 1979 Constitution. Decree 24 i.e. the C...

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Culture and Democratic Governance

By G.G. Darah

(Text of the 1st Segun Olusola Annual Lecture held on June 3 at the Banquet hall, National Theatre, Lagos. The lecture was organised by National Assoc...

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BLOWBACK IS A BITCH: DRAWING PARALLELS BETWEEN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

By Chukwuemeka Uche Onuora

War, the experts say, is organized chaos. The just concluded campaign in Iraq has demonstrated the logical correctness of that assertion and has prove...

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A DOSE OF OPTIMISM IN A SEA OF DYSTOPIA

By Chukwuemeka Uche Onuora

The other day I was watching Amistad for the second time since I first watched it when it hit movie theatres in 1997. After I watched the movie the fi...

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Discounting The Electorate

By Wole Soyinka

I was very recently, and most reluctantly drawn into a running battle of private correspondence with some shakers and movers in this government, stemm...

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Debt Cancellation: The Facts Behind The Deal

By Samuel Famakinwa

culled from THISDAY, July 3, 2005The new President of the World Bank, Mr. Paul Wolfowitz, while praising the historic agreement by Group of Eight fina...

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Democracy and the Military

By Lt. Gen. Alani Akinrinade

What Nigeria needs badly is a purposeful political reorganization to bring into play our unity in diversity. We need to restore power to the people ef...

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Demystifying the Imperial Will

By Wole Soyinka

Being the text of a speech given on March 24, 2000 at a Conferenceentitled "Preventing the Breakdown of Democracy in Nigeria: Strategies fora Living C...

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Dictatorship and Military Coups

By Edwin Madunagu

culled from GUARDIAN, April 22 2004WE start with the front-page report in The Guardian of Thursday April 1, 2004, titled "Military authorities move Al...

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Civil Society and Social Movements: The Role of Activism and Radical Politics in Deepening Democracy in Africa

By Otive Igbuzor, PhD

Civil Society and Social Movements: The Role of Activism and Radical Politics in Deepening Democracy in AfricaByOtive Igbuzor, PhDFounding Executive D...

Chimaroke Nnamani: Progenitor of Ebeano politics at 64

By Paul Mumeh

Chimaroke Nnamani: Progenitor of Ebeano politics at 64By Paul MumehChimaroke-Nnamani2.jpg 88.87 KBHate or love him, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani; fo...

Background To The Recent Nigerian Elections

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...

Sustainable Development And Mining Host Communities

Sustainable Development and Mining Host communities  ByOtive Igbuzor, PhD, FPSN, FSM, MIoL, UKAfrican Centre for Leadership, Strategy & ...

The Case For Civil Society Organization (CSO) Self-Regulation

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