Beyond Being the Most Populous Black Nation
- Olaniyi Olayinka
The Project - Nigeria needs a close re-examination. It was a creation of colonial masters and for their administrative convenience. More than 5 decades after the British had gone, no serious step had been taken to see the desirability or otherwise of the Nigerian Nation. Many reasons account for this. One is the selfishness of the leaders that benefit from the comatose status of the country. This is made possible in that the Nigerian togetherness affords the maintenance of a loaded joint account of idle cash to which anyone who has ever held a national appointment or holds one will never see anything wrong in the nationhood as presently constituted. Federal appointment remains a life sustenance ticket, at least, for the immediate family of the office holder.
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MRS ‘FUNSO AMOSUN: FILLING THE MISSING LINK
- Tope Adaramola
Without pre-empting the incumbent government in Ogun State, the commemoration of the one year in office of Senator Ibikunle Amosun may definitely come with glee and fanfare, considering the concrete evidence of some projects embarked upon to revolutionise the state, for which the government could beat its chest in pride.
Needless to say that the emergence of the ACN government in Ogun State on May 29 last year signified the resolve of Ogun people for a change from the reins of the PDP under which they had been ruled in the last 8 years. To Senator Amosun, there was little time to bake cookies, given the enormity of challenges bordering on rebuilding and reconstruction awaiting the state on all fronts under his administration.
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Extend Oil Subsidy Investigation to FBI
- John Egbeazien Oshodi, Ph.D
The Nigerian Federal Government is reportedly already getting the United States of America to assist our law enforcement agencies to investigate ways to properly tackle terrorism and the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the agency that is assisting the Nigerian authorities.
If there is any other time to get assistance from the FBI this is the time.
Unlike the Nigerian insurgency problem that is complexly marked with cultural, linguistic, religious, ethnic and political challenges; issues that could affect a non-African law enforcement agency like the FBI, the current oil subsidy case with all of its forensic accounting and economic complexes is a perfect fit for the FBI.
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Mr. President, Removing Arunma Oteh is not the Answer
- John Egbeazien Oshodi, Ph.D
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Nigeria is a government agency authorized to regulate and develop the Nigerian capital market.
As we all recall the period between 2006 and 2008 up to 2009, was a rough time for Nigerians and other investors as the atmosphere was marked with enormous human distrust and gross financial mismanagement in the capital market.
From the point of psychological observation, it was a time when the nation’s capital market was reportedly operating and managed in what appeared to be a sickly financial atmosphere.
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Liberalism on Steroids: Face-Book of Social Engineering in the
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- Franklin Otorofani
BREAKING NEWS! The state of North Carolina in the USA has roundly and overwhelming rejected gay marriage or any form of civil union arrangement however described in the state in an electoral ballot proposition amending the state constitution making it the 30th state that has banned gay marriage in the United States. The people are taking back their culture and traditions to stem the tide of liberalism in the Age of Obama. More states are online to consider similar constitutional amendments designed to purge their states of this obnoxious cultural excrement.
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NIGERIA: A UNIQUE COUNTRY OF UNIQUE ISSUES
- Chris Onyishi
There was this picture painted by a certain comedian. He had depicted that corruption in Nigeria could be viewed from the point of a huge structure with pillars. These pillars were constructed with a mixture of conventional cement and concrete. But unknowing to the builders, a mischievous person sprinkled some corrosive material on the pillars immediately after they were constructed. People later found out that the corrosive material was destroying the pillars and then called in a builder to see if he could remedy the situation. The builder had indicated that the corrosive element had eating deep into the pillars of the structure and that any attempt to extricate it from the pillars would mean pulling the whole structure down and leaving it there would also mean that the structure would collapse over time since the corrosive element kept on eating into its pillars.
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WHO IS GEN AZAZI WORKING FOR?
- Emmanuel Yawe
The office of National Security Adviser is a very sensitive one in the United States of America, a country whose political system we like to mimic. The man who occupies it is usually a close ally of the President. They must share an identical view of what constitutes national security and threats to it.
In the US, most National Security Advisers come from the academic or military establishment; people who have made careers in military and or strategic studies. In Nigeria, it is clear that our President’s prefer men with military or at least police background (remember Gambo Jimeta and IBB) as national Security Advisers. This is quite understandable as the office controls all the service chiefs and other security agencies – both known and unknown to the public.
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Farewell to Edo Press Crew members
- Erasmus Ikhide
Dreams are better recalled than the vanishing visualization of the boisterous Edo State Government Press Crew that ended tragically midday, after it arose militantly the early hours of 6 am on April 28, 2012. Like every day engagement, since Governor Adams Oshiomhole assumed office, the Press Crew arise exorbitantly, and dutifully, too, to cover all the assignment of the state as scheduled and dictated by the minders of the energetic Governor’s Protocols.
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LETTER TO MAMA: IN MEMORY OF ROSE EBENYI AGBITI (2009)
- Chris E. Agbiti, Esq.
Mama, just like yesterday, today, it's incredibly three years ago that you announced to us, after the sore battle with cancer, that you wanted to rest with the Lord. We cried and watched helplessly, with the doctors and nurses at the National Hospital and other hospitals we had taken you to strutting about with arrogant and cavalier gaiety, as the cold hand of death snuffed the life out of you. What struck me was that at the point of your death, your countenance began to radiate in glory, even amidst the asphyxiating pains of cancer.
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Mr. President, Addressing Barrister Debo Adeleke’s Observations on Nigeria Police Selection and Promotional Problems -John Egbeazien Oshodi
Just some months ago, a presidential statement noted that, “President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the appointment of Mr. Mohammed D. Abubakar as Acting Inspector General of Police” resulting in the abrupt removal of the serving Inspector General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim.
The President as empowered by the law made this temporal appointment while the nominee, Mr. Mohammed D. Abubakar awaits confirmation from the Senate hopefully—given his heightened professional spirit and outlook to police service.
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