On Sunday, July 13th, 2008, new officers were elected to pilot the affairs of the Igbo professional think tank, Aka Ikenga. That event marked the end of the eventful two-terms …
Nigeria Matters
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In as much as secession seems a rather frightening prospect, it will still be totally erroneous to condemn the MASSOB activists fighting for the actualisation and resurrection of Biafra, as …
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The word “Patriotism” projects a vision of billions of Chinese waving flags, or millions of Americans waving flags and singing their national anthems with nationalistic emotions. Well, don’t we do …
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The achievements of Soyinka as a crusader and concerned citizen indict my generation for relegating to the background our civic responsibility of engaging those in leadership positions constructively…
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The Yar’Adua administration faces serious challenges on several fronts: strengthening the economy, abating restiveness, creating jobs and reducing unemployment; competitiveness in the global market…
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It is becoming an acceptable norm that the Nigerian Police must routinely kill citizens. The Nigeria Police Force is a harbinger of sorrow, agony and untimely death…
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Nigeria don spoil! Nigeria is a failed state! Nigeria na yeye! There is no hope for Nigeria! Nigeria has to break up! Nigeria and Nigerians cannot change! Nigeria cannot be …
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The people of Bayelsa State need and deserve a competent stay-home Governor, not a snoozing Governor who is “here today and there tomorrow.”
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Changing the basic rules of politics is a risky venture that is hardly resorted to unless they become imperative. As a rule the changes are the outcome of circumstances or …
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The season we are in is very much still appropriate to redeem the glory-past; except of course if we are content and would desire an extreme madhouse…
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Many things have been said in criticism about the president; but no one to my knowledge, has accused him of having sticky fingers. In fact, in his manner and appearance, …
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Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder, especially with the Niger Delta and all the issues surrounding it. Things are degenerating very fast in this region and only sincere, …
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We have absolute facts and proof that some international courts and lawyers do not apply the law equally to the poor and minorities like the Bakassi people, thus denying them …
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When good governance translate into the measurement of outcomes and effects of public policy execution, as it should be, the government of this nation, led by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, …
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In Today’s Nigeria, the biggest fools are the street urchins and the armed robbers. Why they waste valuable time, talent and energy robbing people of one hundred dollars or less …
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The world has been conned into believing and, as a matter of fact, virtually accepting that freedom and equal rights are synonymous with democracy…