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Nigeria: Time for Leadership in Constitutionalism and Good Governance in Africa
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Franklin Otorofani, Esq.
"Tony Blair’s two-pronged assessment provides a fitting backdrop to this presentation on the current state of affairs in our nation. It was delivered at a time the nation is searching for leadership from our elected and appointed leaders to deal with political exigencies at home. It therefore couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. These exigencies have, however, called to serious question Nigeria’s leadership at home thus hinting at Blair’s concerns about the nation’s ability to fulfill her potentials. Blair may have meant well for Nigeria. However, from all available evidence, the fulfillment of Nigeria’s potentials was the farthest thing from the minds of Blair’s ancestors, who colonized the nation. "
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Is that Suswam speaking?
-Maurice Tsav.
It is shocking and amazing how the minders of Governor Gabriel Suswam are shopping for trouble. The latest of such is he interview granted by his Special Adviser on Public Policy, Conrad Wergba and published in several National Dailies. .
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YAR’ADUA, NIGERIA AND THE CULTURE OF SILENCE
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Kali Gwegwe.
Human Silence is very deep, pregnant, and multi-faced. Its underlying spirit is influenced mostly by shock, regret, anger, disappointment, shame, pain, law, or desire for peace. The abnormal tight-lip posture demonstrated by President Musa Yar’Adua on the heels of the political tsunami that arose following his hospitalisation
at the King Faisal Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has
helped to shed more light on the culture of silence and the
collateral effects on a democratic society.
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Fractionally Close to Shipwreck
- Professor Dr. Emmanuel Omoh Esiemokhai
I just read through Clive Cussler’s “The Sea Hunters” (True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks), when the vendor delivered the Saturday Guardian of February 20, 2010.
I read the article on page 9 entitled, “TURAI: Of a First Lady, Power and Jostle for Jonathan’s Successor”.
The article helped me to win an insight into the Yar’Adua presidency and how fractionally close to shipwreck we were.
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MACABRE DANCE OF NUTTY BOLA TINUBU AT THE FUNERAL CEREMONY OF DIPO DINA IN IJEBU-ODE
- Hon. Josephine Olatomi Soboyejo .
This writer watched with consternation the macabre dance of the “NUTTY POLITICIAN” displayed at the funeral ceremony of Otunba Dipo Dina at Ijebu-Ode on Friday, February 12, 2010. I listened attentively to the spoken words of a man who pretends to be a democrat, two times Governor of the richest State in the South West of Nigeria; a man of low heritage who by adoption became the son of an influential Iya-oloja (market woman leader) whose name she bears to lay claim to the State he governed. I am talking of no other man but Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu.
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NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION AND THE POISONED CHALICE CALLED “DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY”
- Chris Edache Agbiti, Esq.
Again, for the umpteenth time, Nigeria emerged from its ashes of constitutional conflagration that sort of defied the natural order of combustion: much like the Mosaic experience of the bush consuming the fire rather than the other way round. So it was with the recent constitutional crisis triggered off by the eerie power vacuum in the wake of the long absence of President Yar’Adua from the country on medical trip.Read Full Article
IN DEFENCE OF AKWA IBOM CHILD WITCHES
- Onike Rahaman.
Clearly from Akwa - Ibom state child witches saga, arises the popular condemnation of the barbaric and animalistic behaviours of certain population of the people of the state. The allegation of witchcraft leveled against the kids constitutes a metaphysical problem and it borne down to human right violation. What is at stake is the future of these children. The chronological ages of these children notwithstanding, some people still have guts to lunch unwarranted onslaughts against them. .Read Full Article
Yar’Adua:
Legal Clarifications of the Historic Motion & Matters Arising
-Franklin Otorofani, Esq.
It is perhaps fair to say that the historic motion by the Nigerian parliament divesting former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and transferring same to his deputy, former Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan, was widely and wildly received with jubilation and great relief by Nigerians in general.Read Full Article
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