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Debt Relief: How The Deal Was Sealed

By Samuel Famakinwa And Kunle Aderinokun

culled from THISDAY, April 25, 2006With last Friday’s final tranche payment of $4.5 billion to the Paris Club, Nigeria has become the first African ...

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Debt Cancellation: The Facts Behind The Deal

By Samuel Famakinwa

culled from THISDAY, July 3, 2005The new President of the World Bank, Mr. Paul Wolfowitz, while praising the historic agreement by Group of Eight fina...

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Debt Relief, Outdated Ideology and Common Sense

By Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

culled from ThisDay, July 19, 2005It is rarely my style to respond to articles or opinion pieces except where they deliberately misinform and mislead ...

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Death and the Cicero

By Mohammed Haruna

As a political analyst, I have always found Uncle Bola fascinating as asubject. By common consent he possessed a brilliant and incisive mind and wasas...

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Discounting The Electorate

By Wole Soyinka

I was very recently, and most reluctantly drawn into a running battle of private correspondence with some shakers and movers in this government, stemm...

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Deepening Democracy In Ogun State

By Adegbenro Adebanjo

For some leaders, leaving the cosy environment of their offices is something they will rather avoid. Whenever the terrain they are to visit is far rem...

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Democratic Governance and the Citizenship Question: All Nigerians Are Settlers

By Jibo Ibrahim

There has been a steady rise in communal tensions and conflicts since the introduction of the indigeneity clause into Nigerian public law through the ...

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Distinguished Igbo Amongst The New Crops Of Leaders

By Farouk Martins, Omo Aresa

There are many behavioral patterns that continue to amaze me. As life long professional student, I have always wanted to know more. Alas, the more we ...

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Divided We Have Fallen

By George Akume

culled from THISDAY, June 1, 2006The events of the last few years have brought home very forcefully, the consequences of our lack of unity and common ...

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A DOSE OF OPTIMISM IN A SEA OF DYSTOPIA

By Chukwuemeka Uche Onuora

The other day I was watching Amistad for the second time since I first watched it when it hit movie theatres in 1997. After I watched the movie the fi...

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Bakassi: Elias Opinion, September 1970

By Nowa Austin Omoigui, MD

Now that the World Court has ruled, I feel free to share this copy of a letter prepared by then-Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Dr. T. ...

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Dying For Nigeria

By Obi Nwakanma

culled from VANGUARD, March 12, 2006President Olusegun Obasanjo has again reiterated his wish to die for Nigeria.He has often made these statements&nb...

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BLOWBACK IS A BITCH: DRAWING PARALLELS BETWEEN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

By Chukwuemeka Uche Onuora

War, the experts say, is organized chaos. The just concluded campaign in Iraq has demonstrated the logical correctness of that assertion and has prove...

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Dictatorship in Shari’ah Apparel: A Kano Model

By Jaafar S. Jaafar

If my memory serves me well, Ibrahim Ali Amin (Little), a fine gentleman, whose mandate and hard-earned popularity were piously deprived of by the pow...

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Don't Give Corruption A Good Name Emulate The People Of Anambra

By Farouk Martins

This fight against corruption is now taking a new turn that must be guided against before we throw out the baby with the bath water. The people of Ana...

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