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The PTDF Saga: The Real Issues At Stake

By Jide Ayobolu

The warped EFCC and kangaroo administrative report that purported claim to indict the vice president has thrown up a lot of very fundamental issues in...

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Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa And The Struggle For Justice In Nigeria

By Ike Okonta

source: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/29803October 13, 2005It’s nearly ten years after Nigerian activist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa an...

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Floundering Top Cop

By Babajide Kolade-Otitoju

Sunday Ehindero stutters on as head of the Nigeria Police, his reign signposted by glaring incompetence and non-fulfilment of promises made when he to...

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Liberalization And Democratization Of Education In Nigeria

By Robert Obioha

culled from THE SUN, November 2, 2006The recent face-off between the Lagos State University (LASU) and the National Universities Commission (NUC) over...

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The Political Economy Of Growth And Development Under Obasanjo’s Headship

By Jide Ayobolu

 The political economy of Nigeria since 1999 has been on a very shaky ground. This is because the nascent democratic experimentation has been und...

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Not Yet Uhuru In The Aviation Sector

By Jide Ayobolu

The removal of Dr. Babalola Borishade and his replacement with Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode is a good riddance to irritating rubbish, it is good that at least...

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Obasanjo, Beachland Estate And Unbridled Corruption

By Jide Ayobolu

President Olusegun Obasanjo since 1999 has said severally that his government will work relentlessly to curb the menace of corruption that has systema...

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Niger Delta: Behind The Mask

By Ike Okonta

source: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/38005October 26, 2006As the crisis in the Niger Delta brewed, Ike Okonta looks behind the fragil...

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Progressive Forces, Needless Schism And Imminent Political Fiasco

By Jide Ayobolu

In the last few weeks, there has been a fundamental division in the camp of the progressives in the country. This schism is not only in the rank and f...

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Fawehinmi And Obasanjo's Ownership Of Shares In Transcorp

By Jide Ayobolu

Chief Gani Fawehinmi has taken his crusade for sanction on the president away from the court of public opinion to the Code of Conduct Bureau; the radi...

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EFCC, Corruption And The Due Process

By Jide Ayobolu

We all know that corruption is a very big problem in the country and that all hands must be on deck to frontally confront the recurring menace, in fac...

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PTDF: Intent To Destroy Material Fact Is Criminal

By Nuhu Shuaib

The independent probe committee instituted by the Senate to investigate the activities of the Petroleum Trust Development Fund [PTDF] is expected to u...

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Political Harakiri, Constitutional Aberrations And The Death Of Democracy

By Jide Ayobolu

 The gale of impeachments sweeping across the country has created political tensions that are threatening to undermine the nation’s seven and a...

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MEND: Anatomy Of A Peoples’ Militia

By Ike Okonta

source: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/38119November 2, 2006This week, four Scottish oil workers returned to Britain after being seized...

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A Judicial Ray Of Hope

By Kunle Sanyaolu

culled from GUARDIAN, November 5, 2006 Forty-six years of the existence of Nigeria has not reduced the belief of some citizens that the entity ca...

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