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Rebuffing A Coup In Progress

By Okey Ndibe

culled from GUARDIAN, March 15, 2006    Make no mistake: the ongoing effort to hastily alter key provisions of the Nigerian consti...

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Reacting To The Day of The Long Knives in The Education Ministry

By Mobolaji Aluko

Events of the last two days in connection with the Ministry of Education and the National Assembly of Nigeria have been rather giddy. At one leve...

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RALLY ROUND OBASANJO to BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF NIGERIA IN 2003

By Professor OMO OMORUYI, mni

Being an address delivered at the Fund Raising Dinner organized by the Integrated Supporters for Obasanjo (ISO)at Holiday Inn, South Ozone, New York o...

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QUOTA SYSTEM IN EDUCATION PLACEMENT AND EMPLOYMENT: IS THIS STILL RELEVANT IN A CAPITALIST AND DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY LIKE NIGERIA?

By DR. S. O. OGBEMUDIA CON.

Full text of paper delivered at the 2nd Annual Unity Conference of Edo global organization, Verona, Italy, on the 12-14th November, 2004.*Dr. Samuel O...

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Quit Today, Even Now

By Wole Soyinka

Gentlemen of the Press,This is one of the gravest encounters I have ever requested with you. I would like to make yet again that demand which, to some...

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Qathafi Address on Arab -African Cultural Relations Libya-Regional, Politics,

Libya's Leader of the revolution, Muammar al-Qathafi, received the participants in the activities of the "Arab -African Cultural Relations, Future Vis...

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Religion - The Opium of The Poor in Nigeria

By Olaewe Ewegbemi

This article is an excerpt from my journal of a visit to Nigeria bewtween July and September 2003. Names and identities of people have been excised to...

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REINVENTING THE NATION

By DARREN KEW

culled from GUARDIAN, October 1, 2006As Nigeria enters the seventh year of its latest effort to build democratic rule; the country remains stuck at th...

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Religious (In)Tolerance and the National Question

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

IntroductionOn the evening of Friday, November 22, I returned to my room in Lokoja’s lovely Fountain Beach Hotel following a tour, along with hundre...

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Remembering Uncle Bola Ige – and The Killers in Our Midst-

There is a cardinal aspect of modern jurisprudence and justice which holds that people are innocent until proven guilty.  As hard as it sometimes...

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REMUNERATION PACKAGES FOR POLITICAL OFFICE HOLDERS IN NIGERIA BY RMAFC

REMUNERATION PACKAGES FOR POLITICAL OFFICE HOLDERS IN NIGERIA BY RMAFCThe Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission, by virtue of relevant...

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Reply: The Federal Republic of Nigeria: Towards a More Perfect Union

By Ibraheem A. Waziri,

Many a times, historians, analysts and system thinkers tend to forget the need to locate the history of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the history...

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Report of the Special Committee on the Review and Verification of Contracts awarded by the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) from 2001-2003

Introduction: It is generally believed that the failure of many government establishments - ministries, parastatals and agencies - to deliver service ...

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Re-reading The man died

By Edwin Madunagu

culled from GUARDIAN, November 18, 2004One of the many and essays written in commemoration of Wole Soyinka's 70th birthday a couple of months ago was ...

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Resource Control And Federalism: A Reply To Mobolaji Aluko

By Omajuwa Igho Natufe

IntroductionTwenty-four hours before the first part of Dr. Bolaji Aluko's article (entitled "Mid-Week Essay: Derivation, Resource Control and the NPRC...

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