Articles

Social & Political Issues Aug 31, 2006

Regionalism And Challenge Of National Integration

By Chimaroke Nnamani, Governor of Enugu State

… you shall not go to Mecca, oh Nomad, the road you have followed leads to Turkistan(…admonition of the strayed Nomad in an Afghanistan village wh...

Social & Political Issues Aug 20, 2006

A Birthday Gift For Babangida

By Reuben Abati

culled from GUARDIAN, August 20, 2006If the organizers of the 65th birthday celebrations of General Ibrahim Babangida, Nigeria's former President, 198...

Social & Political Issues Aug 19, 2006

The Ethical Burden of Obasanjo's "Blind Trust" And Transcorp - "Please Speak to the Nation, Ejoo Sir!" -

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

QUOTE from Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Blind_trust   A blind trust is a trust in which the executors or those who have been give...

Social & Political Issues Aug 18, 2006

Deepening Democracy In Ogun State

By Adegbenro Adebanjo

For some leaders, leaving the cosy environment of their offices is something they will rather avoid. Whenever the terrain they are to visit is far rem...

Social & Political Issues Aug 17, 2006

Circus of Unresolved Killings

By Compiled by Ijeoma Chukwugbo of GUARDIAN

The killing of two gubernatorial aspirants in three weeks has raised the anxiety over the rising wave of political killings in the country. While the ...

Social & Political Issues Aug 16, 2006

Bakassi Belongs To Nigeria

By Wilfred I. Okoh

culled from THE SUN, August 14, 2006 The issue in the Bakassi territorial dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon is not over the immense natural re...

Social & Political Issues Aug 16, 2006

How Arrogance Of Power Predicts The End Of The World

By Farouk Martins, Omo Aresa

Those religious fellows who are predicting apocalypse forget that the world is so old; the number of years the world exits compared to our time here i...

General Aug 16, 2006

Obasanjo's Never-ending Spending Spree

By Jide Ayobolu

The recent never-ending spending pattern of the Obasanjo administration calls for concern. This is more so because, this government is supposed to han...

Social & Political Issues Aug 16, 2006

The Bogey of Reforms

By Said Adejumobi

culled from GUARDIAN, August 16, 2006The cliché of economic reforms by the current administration has become the new political slogan on the lips of ...

Social & Political Issues Aug 14, 2006

A Birthday Reflection At 65

By Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida

Text of the remarks by General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida at a public lecture to mark his 65th birthday in Abuja on August 14, 2006When the organisers...