The Niger Delta has known more deaths than any other part of Africa by the hands of exploitative leaders and the furious force of nature or environment despoliation occasioned again …
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No other issue seems central to the state we find ourselves in this country than corruption. Corruption is not the exclusive preserve of our leaders but also the followers. The …
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For the third time in recent times, I have read the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega warn us not to expect perfect elections in 2011. From all possible indices, that …
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Nigerians may not easily comprehend the theatre of absurdity that has been Delta State these past eleven years…
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What has so far surprised me is not that Nigerians did not know most of what has happened and is happening as released by Wikkileaks. Shocking is the level of …
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It is alleged that two of the presidential candidates within the fold of the PDP have collected money from one of the leaders of the Maghreb Arab nations. The leader …
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Democracy has been bastardised in Nigeria to the extent that ‘Mr and Mrs Corruption’ now win most of the elections from the highest to the lowest levels of governance. What …
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I had a silly dream last night; yeah, that kind of dream. I had a dream which in the naturally befuddling Nigerian environment is nothing short of a dream…
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Okay, let me make it clearer. Every human being is like a drug addict; no matter how hard he tries…
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Ibori was an avowed disciple of Abacha. He was one of the Abacha boys in that dark age of our national life. That has been said already. But we make …
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Ibori was an avowed disciple of Abacha. He was one of the Abacha boys in that dark age of our national life. That has been said already. But we make …
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Governance in Nigeria may not represent an enthralling story, but not journalism. Acts of the Executive, Legislature, and Judiciary at all levels may be nauseating, not so with the fourth …
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The candidates who have so far declared their intention to contest the presidency in next year’s presidential election include two retired Generals, who ruled the country for nearly a decade …
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With the reversals by the courts of some gubernatorial electoral ‘victories’ of the PDP in the South West the focus in the media and the internet chatter fora has now …
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A recent report shows that the Nigerian economy is amongst the top ten growing economies for the year 2010; but what matters to the common Nigerian is basically the affordability …
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When a few years ago the former Governor of Kwara State, Mohammed Lawal, died in a foreign hospital after a ‘protracted illness’, tongues started wagging as whether his death was …