Gov. Shekarau and ANPP dreams Aso Rock.
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- Published on Thursday, 10 March 2011 21:31
- Written by David Nnaji
The sunami like way Mallam (Dr.)Shekarau rode to power as governor in Kano state since his first term have continually befuddled even the so called experts of Nigerian politics. A certain Presidential hopeful from the south-south seems not to be able to find a better analogy for the defending of our votes in Nigeria. "...Not many politicians thought it possible for the youths of Kano to come out en mass and support their own, talk more of even going further to defend their votes cast regardless of parties..." he said.
Centennial Celebration of International Women’s Day
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- Published on Thursday, 10 March 2011 08:55
- Written by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Ladies and Gentlemen: I am absolutely delighted to be here to celebrate International Women’s Day.
One hundred years is a true milestone to celebrate and engage in some serious debate. In addition to a celebration, today is a day to look at the role women play in the work we do and in our own workplace. I would like to hear more of what we do well and what can we do better.
I’d like to take a moment to say special thanks to the men in the audience, and to one man in
Of executive profligacy and legislative docility
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- Published on Wednesday, 09 March 2011 15:38
- Written by Joel Nwokeoma
It is given that the ability of any democratic government to deliver the concrete benefits of good governance to the citizens is determined by the smooth functioning of the executive, judicial and legislative arms of government. This assumption reinforces the theory of separation of the powers of the different
A Century of Notorious Scam Mails and Fraudsters
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- Published on Wednesday, 09 March 2011 11:41
- Written by Adewale T Akande.
“ Did you know Charlie?” was an advert placed in a UK local newspapers in 2004. As it was reported by Matt Roper on pages 14 and 15 of Daily Mirror, Wednesday, December 22nd , 2004. The advert read thus: “Charlie Dufar, 81. died recently, leaving a substantial sum of money to be divided amongst his friends. We
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 March 2011 22:45
- Written by Osita Ebiem
Dearest brother Callistus Akanno, Yesterday has come and gone and we are richer because of that day in history. Yesterday was celebrated outside the Homeland for 2011 low-keyed but for 2014 it will be celebrated within Biafra as a free and liberated nation and with a fanfare. As we congratulate you for the 7th of March, we thank you above all a million times for all the sacrifices and labor you have put in on our collective behalf. You have continued
Ijeoma Nwogwugwu And Her Tinubu’s God Complex Theory
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 March 2011 14:40
- Written by Joe Igbokwe
On Monday February 28 2011 Ijeoma Nwogwugwu, a columnist and the big lady of Thisday Newspapers told the nation that our leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is playing God in Lagos and Nigerian politics. According to Ijeoma, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has made himself the Leviathan, the hippopotamus, the
Pro Jega's 73.58M Registered Voters' List Is A Huge Fraud
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 March 2011 11:28
- Written by Emeka Umeagbalasi
Had Your Commission’s “provisional” figure of 67.7million registered voters been subjected to the Automated Fingerprint Identification System or AFIS process, which is a post Direct Data Capture machine process, dutifully and legally required of Your Commission, the figures (67.7m) would have been brought down drastically, and not the addition of about 6million voters seemingly imported from God knows where.
I Actually Read Your Facebook Comments - Goodluck Jonathan
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- Published on Monday, 07 March 2011 19:51
- Written by President Goodluck Jonathan
I would like to address the question asked by Constant Nosa Olotu who asked if I read the comments on this page and what impact they have on me. When I created this profile on June 28th, 2010, I had the intention of bypassing the protocol that surrounds me and communicating directly with the Nigerian people. And I have dutifully done this consistently and this has been probably one of the most rewarding experiences in my life as a
Nigeria: Self-cure for suffering peoples who “have nothing to complain about”
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- Published on Monday, 07 March 2011 02:00
- Written by Oguchi Nkwocha, MD.
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Picture this…a watering hole in the sweltering Serengeti; many animals gathered for a needed drink, bound by an unwritten “no-aggression here” behavior code. There’s a big elephant getting a drink. A man walks up next to the elephant; adjusts his stuff and starts pissing. The elephant looks at the obviously thirsty man doing business and asks: “Man, how do you drink out of that?”
“Very well, thank you,” replied the parched man, with all seriousness; “quite easily done, of course, as you can see I am doing right now.”
Before the elephant could roll his eyes, there came a thunderous chorus of a response from the other animals who had overhead the conversation: “The man must be from “Wooaaroaa”! (Animal-ese vernacular for “Nigeria”). (Adapted as a proverb from a great friend’s joke)
A Memo to the Emerging Leaders of a New Nigeria
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- Published on Monday, 07 March 2011 01:51
- Written by Adewale T Akande
The past history of Nigeria is a story we tell based on hazy recollections of virtual realities we went through since the last five decades. The future of the country is a daydream produced by our hopes and fears. Fear because of the re-appearing of the same old, fake and greedy politicians without integrity and trust. The long list of accused corrupted political leaders recently published by the Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
The Pentecostals and the 'Daddy' Syndrome
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- Published on Monday, 07 March 2011 01:35
- Written by Olu Ojedokun, PhD
Speaking Truth to Power: The Pentecostals and the 'Daddy' Syndrome - Olu Ojedokun, PhD.-
The narrative of the many UK based ‘African Majority’ Pentecostal Churches today is the clinging to the fantasy that the ‘Men/Women of God’ who serve them are perfect. That they can do no wrong, have no weaknesses and live and embody perfect lives. It is suggested that it is this fantasy
Amaechi: My Own House Rent!
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- Published on Sunday, 06 March 2011 17:25
- Written by Odimegwu Onwumere
It was commendable to note that the ebullient Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State had on 4th March 2011, in Obio/Akpor, directed the state Accountant-General to use his February salary to pay the tenement rate of the campaign office said was owned by the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Dr. Abiye Sekibo. Amaechi’s perceived pity for this gesture was to allow the Sekibo to have a ground and
The Lure of Protest Politics
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- Published on Sunday, 06 March 2011 11:53
- Written by Jideofor Adibe
Why do candidates who know they have absolutely no chance of winning an election insist on contesting? Why do some repeatedly choose to punch above their natural political weight? Chris Okotie, who became a music icon while a law student in the 1980s before he discovered Christ and abandoned secular music to become a pastor, will contest for the presidency in the April 2011 polls under the banner of Fresh Democratic Party. It
Political Profile of Irrational Voters
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- Published on Saturday, 05 March 2011 16:39
- Written by Anthony A. Kila
There are roughly two categories of people involved in any electoral process. In the first category we have the very few that actively seek office and each one works to get as much vote as he or she can get; these are the candidates. By the way, the word candidate comes from candidātus (in Latin dressed in white) because in ancient Rome, those seeking office were dressed in white togas. The second category is made of the very many
Sentenced in God’s Name: The Untold Story of Nigeria’s Witch Children
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- Published on Friday, 04 March 2011 10:08
- Written by Chido Onumah
It is almost twenty-two years since the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). This human rights treaty gives all children (under 18 years) a comprehensive set of economic, social, cultural and civil and political rights. It embraces and legitimizes the needs of children and provides a basis for their well-being. Although this Convention is relatively new, (November 20, 1989) it is the most widely and most rapidly adopted human rights convention in history (ratified by all governments except the richest, the United States of America and one of the
Why the Federal Government Must Insure National Youth Service Corps Members
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- Published on Friday, 04 March 2011 10:04
- Written by Iliya Yame Kwache
Sometimes in April 2010, I want to the Michika Local Government Area secretariat to sort out some paper work about my house. During the course of that my visit I saw a group of Youth Corps Members about 12 of them or there about. Out of curiosity I greeted them in the Kamwe Language by saying “Samewaa” and to my surprise they all chorused back to me “Yewaa”. Again their answer encouraged me to go a step further and I still asked
Igbos In America Hold Protest At Nigerian Embassy Dc
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- Published on Thursday, 03 March 2011 21:20
- Written by Rev. Fr. Ahamefula Nnorom
In commemoration of the assassination of Major General J. T. U Aguiyi Ironsi, Nigeria's first and only Igbo executive Head of State; the massacre of most of all the Igbo/Eastern officer's of Nigeria Armed Forces Personnel and the subsequent pogrom which culminated in the genocidal extermination of more than 50,000 defenseless Igbo civilians in all hamlets, villages, towns and cities in Northern Nigeria by Hausa‑Fulani Islamic feudalists and their
Why decolonization and Independence don't work where Self Determination would
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- Published on Thursday, 03 March 2011 20:06
- Written by Oguchi Nkwocha, MD.
It is fact, if not on record, that neither decolonization nor Independence worked for African countries. The effects of such failure are still evident
today, exemplified by the current stunning revolution sweeping through former colonies long ago "decolonized" and "Independent" in Northern Africa (while the rest are a ticking time bomb); and by the relative backwardness of Africa in general, even though it sits on enviable and stupendous
A Great Plea for Ribadu: the Story of a Nigerian Anti-Graft Czar
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 March 2011 20:00
- Written by Adeleke Adeeko
A Great Plea for Ribadu: Wale Adebanwi’s A Paradise for Maggots: the Story of a Nigerian Anti-Graft Czar
Although this tome is about Nuhu Ribadu, the founding chairman and nurturer of one of the world’s most famous anti-graft agencies, the EFCC, and current presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the biographical subject happens not to be the protagonist of the narrative.
EFCC Vs Emeka Ugwuonye: Is There a case to Answer?
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 March 2011 19:49
- Written by George Emeka Omoko, Esq.
"If Mr. Ugwuonye "wrongly withheld" money from sale of Nigerian properties in the US, what is the business of EFCC in that dispute? Why didn't the Nigerian government file a claim against Mr. Ugwuonye to collect our money in the US? Is it because in Nigeria, "who know man" will best serve as duress to achive what otherwise cannot be legally obtained in civilized countries? How is it that HE, Prof. Adefuye, a Yoruba, is expending personal energy in this matter, is that there are no pressing matters of state affairs to be dealt with?"
Presidential poll: Posers for Ribadu
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- Published on Tuesday, 01 March 2011 23:43
- Written by SIYAN ADEOLA
Politics as usual makes strange bedfellows. The Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN), has at least demonstrated its lack of depth by fielding Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), as its presidential candidate. Few people would have imagined they would ever see the day when Ribadu and Czar of ACN would ever walk the same side of the political divide. But desperate and drowning
