Unprecedented is how the BBC described the efforts of Nigeria’s political elites to address the leadership vacuum that culminated in the passing of separate but almost identical resolutions by the Senate and House of Representatives declaring that Jonathan Goodluck is officially the acting President of Nigeria.
The resolutions which were near unanimous declarations of the National [...]
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Private Sector Government (PSG): Outsourcing A Country’s Development. The main problem Nigeria face nowadays is funding shortages on one hand and an increasingly deteriorating reputation on the other. There is already tremendous pressure on funds available for developing Nigeria, especially in face of recent global economic recession. With our development becoming increasingly in the decline [...]
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I write today in solidarity with our great leader (President Umaru Yar’Adua), with every sense of modesty and patriotism, because he is a dynamic and well-focused leader Nigeria has ever produced. Sickness, inevitable, does occur everyday and does not equal incapacity or incapability. I pray that God should restore his health and make Nigerians put [...]
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Africa is the richest (in natural and human resources) continent on earth, but despite abundance of natural resources, the human resources have vandalised the continent’s destiny and time? My interpretations overlook much of the historical research and search for additional evidence that suggests why things like poverty, inferiority, illiteracy, wickedness and blackness are so associated [...]
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By Suage Badey- Chairman, Rivers State Action Congress
Contrary to the rumours that were circulating in the newspapers after Barr Babatunde Fashola won the Lagos State 2007 gubernatorial elections (under the Action Congress (AC) platform) that his predecessor Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu would be a thorn in his flesh, dictating and calling the shots irrespective of the incumbent’s feelings [...]
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The hallmark conception among many Nigerians, who want to be in a POSITION by magic or design, is to initiate subtle propagation of truth cleverly wrapped in lies. In response to the genuine desire of truth seekers, disinformation artists deliberately add fuel to the fires of conviction, sabotaging any leeway that honest seekers would ever [...]
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Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index (Corruption World Cup) was recently published and received with mixed feelings. It is no news some countries are more corrupt compared to other countries, but it is advisable we remind ourselves and view the corruption rankings as an ambitious academic exercise, an ecological fallacy, and as an index of mere [...]
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Peter Voser – Shell Chief Executive
Royal Dutch Shell, PO Box 162,
2501 AN The Hague- The Netherlands.
Dear Sir,
Shell’s operations in the Niger Delta have serious human rights implications. I am particularly concerned about the health and environmental impacts of the practice of gas flaring, which has been prohibited in Nigeria since 1984 without ministerial permission. What [...]
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In Nigeria, road accident problem is urgent and complicated, daily death range resulting from unnecessary road accidents seriously threatens every family, killing and maiming innocent members. The consciousness and concern about this, by now should be a national issue and should have necessitated a number of national strict decision making. While Nigeria is sacred to [...]
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