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Saro Wiwa Page
Last
statement of Saro Wiwa
"My only regret is that I was ever born a minority in Nigeria." "Here lies the
gentle sweet man Nigeria loved to cheat. They denied him even in death, the normal six feet of earth." .....more
The
politics of force deployment and Nigeria's national
security
When
political and military leaders dispatch security forces
to clamp down on a trouble spot, and in the process,
people are unnecessarily killed, the sons and daughters
from that community who are in the armed and police
forces, eventually retaliate. By Priye Torulagha ...more
Plateau State of Emergency as metaphor
These issues are about principles. And the question is
whether we can subordinate principles to political
exigencies. By Mathew Hassan Kukah...more
Why
government should release the Okigbo and Oputa Reports
If the
Obasanjo administration is to enhance its credibility,
it must unfurl both the Okigbo and the Oputa Reports
without further delay for the world to know. By
Mobolaji Aluko, PhD...more
The
Plateau model as a path to national integration
The
crisis in Plateau mirrors the national malaise. The
persistent conflict between settlers and indigenes
highlights a familiar train in virtually every urban
area. By Uche Chukwumerije....more
IDIOTOCRACY
When the early Greek thinkers thought of the necessity
of a philosopher king as a way of avoiding the political
accident of having in office a person of inadequate
intellectual preparation, some critics thought of them
as pedantic. By Prof. Mike Ikhariale...more
Between Local Governments, Elections and the
Constitution
In Nigeria, we have an overly concentrated centre with
frail units by the standard of all countries with
federalist structures. By Carol Ajie, Esq...more
Mr.
President means well
From the foregoing, it is quite clear that Obasanjo kept
the roads in bad shape and increased fuel price not to
punish us but to save us from unnecessary accidents and
so these are in our interests. By Al-Bashir...more
It is
time to sit down for justice
Preeminent on the list of issues that is generally
agreed by the peoples of the Niger Delta region
regardless of age, ideology, government, political
category etc. is the matter of resource ownership,
control, use and management. By Oronto Douglas...more
New
Council: What the law says
Our democratic dispensation has taken enough avoidable
battering in the last 5 years as a result of
non-adherence to the strict provision of our
Constitution and it is about time a stop is put to this
"overheating of the polity", to use a now popular
cliché. By Alex Ekwueme...more
The
imperative of an ideology in the Niger Delta renaissance
We now
face a more grim and dangerous situation more than ever
before, as the ruling party has orchestrated a
contraption on ground to gag all its elected officials
from criticizing its atrocious policies on the Niger
Delta. By Bobson Gbijie...more
Boni Haruna, Ibori, et al
The
judiciary should not, in its grant of ex-parte
injunctions or in its judgments give the dangerous
impression that it is being teleguided or susceptible to
being teleguided from Abuja. By Chris Akiri, Esq. ..more
The
imperatives of Delta's 'road map' to peace
The
parties to these needless internecine wastages are
themselves already tired and are only waiting for
someone to say that very scarce but much expected word
-stop. By Prof. Mike Ikhariale...more
The
suspension of elections in Warri is anti-Itsekiri
As
long as local government elections remain suspended in
the 3 Warri local government areas, only the Itsekiri of
the 5 ethnic groups, which form Delta State will remain
a deprived people. By I. O. Jemide..more
Warri: Much ado about Development Committees Robert
Akpojevwa
The
sham(e) called World Airways
This
American airlines flies the lucrative direct route
between the United States and Nigeria under a shady
business arrangement with an outfit called Ritetime. By
Sonala Olumhense....more
WHITHER THE NON PDP PARTIES
Today, one could say that Nigeria has two political
tendencies, one is linked with the PDP and the other
with non PDP parties that is calling itself the CNPP. By
Prof. Omo Omoruyi.....more
Charles Taylor: A foreign policy challenge to Nigeria
The
critical issue is why did Nigeria grant asylum to
Charles Taylor and set itself on a collision course with
not only its own domestic opinion but also with the
international community itself. By Prof. Bolaji
Akinyemi....more
The
Al-Mustapha Coup bogey
There
is no question that the current democratic experiment in
Nigeria has lost focus; it is in fact failing. By
Prof. Omo Omoruyi...more
Of Rumored Attempted
and Successful Coups
'Oba'
Khato Okpere....Ise!!
In
Benin also, wherever prayer is said with kolanut in all
ancestral shrines in public or private homes, prayers
are always concluded with 'Oba' Khato Okpere...Ise!. By
Ambrose Osawe....more
Abubakar Umar bristles: 'I'm not an opportunist'
So if
government is in possession of this evidence, what else
is it waiting for to start the prosecution of IBB. Since
the government does not believe in sacred cows, why am I
spared considering that there is an existing law that
deals with such a case of receiving stolen property. By
Abubakar Umar...more
We are
at a T-junction
I do
not know why my mind keep wondering around the letter T.
T naturally sounds like tea, and if it comes to it,
there is a lot of image that it conjures. Tea until MKO
was an innocuous word standing for a beverage that we
all enjoy. By Kola Animashaun...more
Nigeria has no business with poverty
Each time we have had to do this in our various plenary
sessions, we have been faced with a lot of apprehension
about the fate of the incoming generations, and what
would become of our children when we are all gone. By
Hamman Tukur....more
The
truth Okonjo-Iweala didn't tell about Naira
But
part of the tragedy of the Nigerian case is that the
erennial gamblers who today pose as philosophers of the
Finance observatory in Abuja don't appear to know habits
to keep and those to discard in their avowed
determination to redeem the nation's wobbly
economy. By Louis Odion...more
Burden
of Proof
I have
learnt with horror and disbelief that the subject of
history has been expunged from the curricular at both
the primary and secondary levels of what is left of our
deservedly maligned educational system. By Prof.
Adebayo Lamikanra...more
The
offshore/onshore dichotomy abolition act: Matters
arising
Although the new law marks a significant victory for the
littoral states and the apostles of resource control,
there are still many unresolved issues that will
complicate and delay its implementation. By Dr.
Emmanuel Omeruajaye....more
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