When I first read this, I thought, does it matter how many First Ladies there are? If polygamy is recognized in Nigeria, shouldn't that also apply to the titles of officials' wives? There's more to it than that,...
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As the ruling party seeks to legitimize the results of the election, opposition leaders are consolidating to express their discontent, with the threat of public demonstrations looming. "The runner-up in Nigeria's presidential elections convened a meeting with other opposition...
Remember in Lord of the Rings, when that big red demon falls into the pit, and Gandalf is clinging to the edge of the chasm? Then the demon's whip whips up and grabs Gandalf's ankle, pulling him down? ... Yeah. The election fiasco in Nigeria is not over yet, regardless...
UPDATE: this just in via email from egoigwe:"Nigeria's
presidential and regional elections fell below international standards
and levels set in previous polls in the country, a U.S.-based
monitoring group said...
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"The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), the Ministry of Solid Minerals and Steel Development and other government agencies are set to give away the multi- billion dollar Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited to an...
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UPDATE:The stakes are high: this election could see Nigeria's first fully democratic transition of power."
Police inspector general Sunday Ehindero told state television that
a preliminary tally showed 21 dead,...
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PRESS RELEASEThe Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Kaduna State branch is deeply disturbed by the inexplicable and unjustified detention of one of its executive officers, Mr Friday John Abba. The above mentioned has been kept incommunicado, without access to legal...
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"SINGAPORE yesterday snubbed Nigeria, the United Nations, Amnesty International, and a host of other anti-death penalty activists when it hanged convicted Nigerian, Tochi Amara Iwuchukwu (21), and one Nelson Malachy Okeke (35), said to be stateless. Both were hanged at dawn...
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Some Leaders are born while others are made, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku is an example of a leader that was born to lead, from a very noble childhood, he rose to the very top of leadership and is still rising.
Nigeria needs a man of bravado who will lift it out of its...
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Blosgspot of Nigerian writer and member of the JOSANA listserve, Talatu-Carmen with small squips on the moribund third term agenda of the Nigerian government.
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In a few days time, we shall wakeup to another celebration of a kind…a 1st October .This time we shall be celebrating years of worrisome existence which could have been better considering the incredible...
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About a week ago I got a call from someone whose name and face is quite familiar to most Nigerians, having had the rare privilege of serving Nigeria as a minister without tainting his image. He had been dismayed that the mighty Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
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A critical appraisal of the role of political sycophants in the Third Term Agenda of the ruling Peoples Democratic party of Nigeria by the Ohanyido a renown African Philosopher Poet.
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Obasanjo and the statist agendaBy Francis Ohanyido This describes the hijack of the Nigerian state by elements of the Nigerian comprador military class and their apologists withinthe Obasanjo administration
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