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July 18 Letter of Soyinka to Obasanjo

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

General Olusegun Obasanjo,The President Federal Republic of Nigeria,AbujaDear OO! That is how our late mutual friend, Ojetunji Aboyade and I gene...

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Just Before The Census

By Adebayo Fadeyi

culled from GUARDIAN, May 05, 2005A lot of activities has since commenced in terms of preparation and planning for the census exercise scheduled for N...

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Hurricane Katrina Exposed Endemic Economic Inequality For Africans

By Farouk Martins

One guy stood out in my mind, he said Africa looks good to me now. Others white and black who have seen Tsunami in Asia, famine in Africa and war in E...

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HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS INVESTIGATION COMMISSION REPORT (aka OPUTA PANEL REPORT )

By NIGERIAN DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT (NDM)

A/ Release of Unofficial Oputa Panel ReportIn solidarity with the Civil Society Forum (CSF) in Nigeria, the Nigerian Democratic Movement (NDM), a...

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Human Rights Report on Nigeria for the year 2004

By http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41620.htm

NigeriaCountry Reports on Human Rights Practices  - 2004Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and LaborFebruary 28, 2005 Nigeri...

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Human Rights Report on Nigeria - 2003

2003 saw Nigeria's first "civilian to civilian" transition, after decades of military rule that ended in 1999. However, impunity for human rights viol...

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Nigeria: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000

By http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/af/700.htm

Nigeria is a federal republic composed of 36 states and a capital territory, with an elected president and a bicameral legislature.  On May 29, 1...

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Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission Reports (Summary)

By Commission Headed by Chief Justice Chukwudili Oputa

DOCUMENTDecember 6, 2004Posted to the web November 30, 2004The Commission has attempted in this Report, to capture the faltering, if slippery threads ...

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Letter to President Obasanjo on Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting

By source: http://hrw.org/press/2003/11/nigeria-ltr112703.htm

Dear President Obasanjo,Human Rights Watch is writing to you as host of the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to outline a number o...

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House of Representatives' 17-point-charge against President Obasanjo

By House of Representatives' 17-point-charge against President Obasanjo

Being text of allegations of gross misconduct against Chief OlusegunMatthew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo, President and Commander-in-chief ofthe Armed Forc...

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How To Resolve Nigeria's Succession Crisis

By Omo Omoruyi

I know what this date represents in the Nigerian history; I was part of that date. I still recollect very vividly what happened on June 12, 1993. Befo...

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How To Improve Nigeria’s Electoral System

By Abel Guobadia

1. ELECTORAL PROCESSINTRODUCTION:The 1999 Constitution of the Republic contains the commitment to hold free and fair democratic elections every four y...

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How To Become An Ethnic Africana

By Farouk Martins, Omo Aresa

Ethnicity is the word we used today to delineate ourselves into local groups, regions, tribes, sometimes into countries and races with little meaning,...

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How Third Term Agenda Will Change Nigeria

By Michael Oluwagbemi

“Moses and Jesus Christ came for different missions and the Almighty God did not say ‘stay on earth until all humanity becomes holy.” Audu Ogbeh...

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How Nigerians Underdeveloped Nigeria

By Fazil O. Ope-Agbe

 have the privilege, the honour and the luck to have served as personal staff of Sir James Robertson, the last Briton to rule Nigeria in the name...

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