Thursday, January 15, 2009
Legalising All Illegalities
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In many of Shakespeare’s plays, he pondered why “Men have lost their reason”. Mark Anthony expressed disappointment at the action of Brutus ...
African Policy Issues for Obama (2)
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Credit should also be given to the former government of Bill Clinton for his pro-Africa foreign policy initiatives. For example, in the vita...
Repositioning Non-oil Exports
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The desire of President Umaru Yar’Adua to fund the nation’s budget mainly from non-oil exports is quite laudable. This quest to depart from ...
Furore over Helmet Law
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Nigerians are a patently difficult people. We always look for excuses to beat any law made either for the good governance of the country or ...
Case Against Immunity Clause (2)
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Apart from financial corruption, the immunity promotes executive lawlessness as we all witnessed during the last government of former Presid...
Case Against Immunity Clause 1
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Recently, the President, Alhaji Musa Yaradua, suggested the removal of the Constitutional immunity barring the courts from trying the Presid...
As Obama Becomes President (1)
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It must be acknowledged that Senator Barak Obama, now the President-elect of the United States of America, has scored many firsts which even...
The New Mortuary in Town
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Perhaps unknown to these children, we now know their nicknames for most of our friends. As they were receding to their apartment, we heard t...
Futility of Wishes
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If wishes were horses, beggars, they say, would ride. But in the light of the barrage of good wishes exchanged in Nigeria during the last Ch...
Ministry of Works and Returned Funds
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Often, the stock complaint in government circles, is the insufficiency of funds to execute their many competing projects. It was therefore s...
Government’s Austerity Measures
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The Federal Government is living up to its word by cutting its 2009 expenditure through the introduction of austerity measures in the execut...
The Gaza War
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Images of mangled bodies, soldiers and civilians alike, from Gaza, though familiar, are horrifying. Those morbid pictures, it must be admitt...
wrong signal on power supply
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The Federal Government’s promise to stabilise power supply has run into credibility issues with the news that key government agencies saddle...
Okada helmet and the Nigerian spirit
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NIGERIA is a country where laws are made to be broken. Perhaps, reasons for this may vary from lack of enforcement to lack of faith in the s...
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