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Why The Paris Club Relishes Pounds of African Flesh

By Farouk Martins

One may wonder about the benefit of 12 billion dollars to developed countries from an African Continent that is well endowed but rife with famine, pov...

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WITNESSES TO HISTORY: - LT. COL. M. O. NZEFILI (rtd) – Part 4

By Nowa Omoigui

In this fourth and concluding part, Lt. Col. MO Nzefili (rtd) responds to the last set of questions sent in by readers:TOPIC: ABOUT COL. ABOGO LARGEMA...

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WITNESSES TO HISTORY: - LT. COL. M. O. NZEFILI (rtd) – Part 3

By Nowa Omoigui

IntroductionThe “Witness to History” series is informed by the fact that knowledge of the past carried around deeply embedded in the minds of our ...

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WITNESSES TO HISTORY: - Lt. Col. M. O. Nzefili (rtd) – Part 2

By Nowa Omoigui

IntroductionLt. Col. Mac Nzefili (rtd), a 1957 graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, was among the first 30 Nigerians ever commissioned in...

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WITNESSES TO HISTORY - Lt. Col. M. O. Nzefili - Part 1

By Nowa Omoigui

INTRODUCTIONThrough the medium of a personal biographical account, from time to time, I shall invite officers who are willing and able to give an acco...

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Wither Nigerian Youths! Wither My Jeans

By Jaafar Jaafar

It was my favourite jeans. It was a straight-tailored Levi’s denim I bought just recently. The type only those at MTN, PTDF, NLNG (not in any order)...

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Will Nigeria's democracy survive.

By Col. Abubakar Umar (rtd)

When General Patrick Aziza pronounced General Obasanjo guilty of treason against the late General Sani Abacha and sentenced him to die, little did Oba...

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Why The Nigerian State Should Value Her Youths

By Nigeria Youth Organisations

The laudable decision of the present administration in convening the National Political Reform Conference, affords Nigerians yet another opportunity t...

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Why Obasanjo Wants Third Term

By Felix Ofou

culled from INDEPENDENT, March 22, 2006“You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything from them. But, when you’ve robbed ...

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Why Obasanjo Doesn’t Want To Go

By Pekuliameesi

culled from NEWAGE, April 19, 2006 At times in the course of history, as can be verified by any amateur chronicler, some mere mortals under the i...

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Why Obasanjo and Atiku Should Not Be Impeached

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

INTRODUCTION – AN EMBARRASSING FIASCOQuite frankly, with the unfolding embarrassing international fiasco between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vic...

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Why Not Build More Refineries?

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

INTRODUCTION A reader (and he knows himself!), on reading my latest essay, wrote to me as follows:QUOTEPlease educate me on this. How much does i...

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Why Nigeria Must Not, Cannot Break Up Elite Are Major Culprits In Nigeria's Moral Problem

By Dangiwa Abubakar Umar

Inter Ethnic RelationsIT would appear that our current democratic experiment rather than create the much expected stability has unleashed very strong ...

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Why Nigeria must not explode

By Howard Jeter

culled from GUARDIAN April 8, 2003ABOUT 40 per cent of Africa's population resides in West Africa. The huge massof the region is made up of rich, fert...

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Why IBB May Succeed Obasanjo

By Ibekwe C. Nnamdi

culled from VANGUARD, November 23, 2005"In saner societies men like IBB will actually establish institutions where moral sanctity and uprightness will...

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