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Update on Recommended Dates for 2007 Elections

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

A consensus is building within Nigeria that in order to provide enough or greatest amount of time to resolve the problems that might arise from the 20...

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Towards Successful 2007 Election

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

Dear Compatriots:INTRODUCTION Having studied VERY CLOSELY what went seriously wrong in the last three elections in Nigeria, I believe that a clos...

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The “Big Big” Salaries of the “Diaspora” Ministers

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

 INTRODUCTIONNigeria is a funny place – and a dangerous one to boot.  The ongoing controversy over the “big big” differential pay bein...

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The Arithmetic of PMB, PSB and Interconnectivity Telecommunications Charges in Nigeria

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

INTRODUCTIONOne of the dividends of privatization, deregulation and consumer democracy in Nigeria has been the recent “forcing” of the GSM operato...

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Our Nigeria: A Perpetually Scandal-Ridden Society?

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

The latest scandal of the moment, following last week’s  break of the Bribery-For-Budget Education Ministry/National Assembly scandal, is the o...

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On The Resignation of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala From The Obasanjo Administration

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

The August 3, 2006 resignation of the Nigeria's erstwhile Minister for Finance - and more lately Foreign Minister - Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is intrig...

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On Governor "Queen" Alamieyeseigha's Escape from London

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD

INTRODUCTIONThe period between September 15, 2005, when Bayelsa State Governor and former Nigerian Air Force Squadron Leader  Diepreye Solomon Pe...

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Election 2003: NDI Preliminary Report

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

Compatriots:NDI is one of many foreign monitors of our ongoing elections.  Below you will find its official preliminary statement.It is significa...

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Why INEC Should Declare Victory And Go Manual Now

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

How I Got My INEC Voter Registration Card in Nigeria On Friday, November 17, I drove from Abuja to my home-town Ode-Ekiti, arriving there at abou...

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Open The Ballot Box

By Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd.)

We feel highly honoured to have been invited to participate in this historic occasion of the 12th anniversary, commemorating June 12, 1993 presidentia...

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ONDO STATE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES: A CELEBRATION OF MEDIOCRTITY

By Abiola Olawole

Despite the fact that the elections of 2005 were massively rigged in favor of the PDP led administration including that of Ondo State. Some of the gov...

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Our Children Are Begging For Heroes

By Farouk Martins, Omo Aresa

All our children are watching as the corrupt, the privileged and their associates engage in a fight never witnessed in the history of our Country. Suc...

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OWNERS OF NIGERIA - FINAL PART

By Seyi Oduyela

When I started the "Owners of Nigeria" about four months ago, I have received emails from people all over the world. Some castigating me, some commend...

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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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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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