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European Union Declaration on the Nigerian General Elections

By Ambassador Mr Leonidas Tezapsidis

1.  EU acknowledges that President Obasanjo has been announced President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on April 22, 2003 by the compet...

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Failure of Nigerian State: Re-Drawing The Fault Lines

By Ibraheem A. Waziri

My thesis in the article, Nigeria The Unhappy Marriage of a Quadruple,  www.dawodu.com/waziri1.htm, which expounded the possibility of the natura...

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The Dimka's Coup Attempt of February 13, 1976

By Nowa Omoigui

Just before 8:30 a.m. on February 13, 1976, the following curious announcement was heard on Radio Nigeria:"Good morning fellow Nigerians,This is Lt. C...

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Dictatorship, National Dialogue and the Commonwealth

By G. A. Akinola

culled from the GUARDIAN, February 21, 2005A basic responsibility of all governments is the maintenance of peace and order. This duty has been conside...

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Democracy in Nigeria is Failing Again

By Obiechina

culled from VANGUARD, January 26, 2005THE world may not know it, but the ongoing democratic experiment in Nigeria is failing again, just as the earlie...

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Democracy In Nigeria: Completing Obasanjo's Legacy

By Richard L. Sklar, Ebere Onwudiwe And Darren Kew

culled from GUARDIAN, October 1, 2006Time and again, observers of Nigerian politics have predicted - so far incorrectly - the nation's ineluctable dem...

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DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS IN AFRICA: The Case of Nigeria

By Professor Omo Omoruyi

INTRODUCTIONOn February 24, 2003 I delivered a lecture on democratic transition in Africa from the point view of Nigeria under the auspices of the Dr....

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Dictatorship and Military Coups

By Edwin Madunagu

culled from GUARDIAN, April 22 2004WE start with the front-page report in The Guardian of Thursday April 1, 2004, titled "Military authorities move Al...

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Democracy Day: Nothing To Celebrate

By Paul Mamza

The second phase of the current democratic experience had gone half circle with May, 29 being its symbolic expressions.  The date marked the init...

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DEMOCRACY AND THE STATE OF THE NATION

By Igboeli Arinze

culled from VANGUARD, April 1, 2004Our style of leadership almost qualifies Nigeria as a failed state.DEMOCRATIC Nigeria today is in a state where thr...

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Demystifying the Imperial Will

By Wole Soyinka

Being the text of a speech given on March 24, 2000 at a Conferenceentitled "Preventing the Breakdown of Democracy in Nigeria: Strategies fora Living C...

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Democracy and the Military

By Lt. Gen. Alani Akinrinade

What Nigeria needs badly is a purposeful political reorganization to bring into play our unity in diversity. We need to restore power to the people ef...

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Demands for Presidential Power Rotation in Nigeria and Present Dangers

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD

INTRODUCTION In the wake of the tragedy of the death of over 100 passengers (including over 60 innocent children) in the Sosoliso plane crash in ...

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Deeper Graves Than Bola Ige’s

By Bisi Akande

I feel so excited by Dare Babarinsa’s Grammar of Murderers published in the Tell magazine, of November 1, 2004, that it occurred to me to write this...

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Debt Repudiation: Obasanjo's Nemesis

By Sly Edaghese

culled from GUARDIAN, March 19, 2005Not to long ago, right inside Aso Rock, it appeared as if nemesis was on a revenge mission. The target of course w...

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