Friday, January 16, 2009
Era of Silentocracy
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Dear Mr. president, When you came into power on May 29, 2007, Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief. Despite the flawed electoral process that b...
Oil sector and the politics of geography
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Former United States President Bill Clinton was only stating the obvious at the ThisDay Festival of Ideas on Wednesday in Abuja when he said...
Tackling HIV/AIDS challenge
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The 2008 UNAIDS report on the Global AIDS Epidemic is a mixed bunch of gradual success and fresh challenges. The report says 2.7 million peo...
As Obama Becomes President (2)
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Israel would seem to be comfortable with the personalities chosen by President-elect Obama to handle American foreign policy as well as othe...
Egwu’s reforms
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DR. Sam Egwu, former Ebonyi State Governor, was a most unlikely candidate for a ministerial seat. He told the Senate, during his screening,...
Stinking Police Stations and Courts
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Court premises and police stations are places one expects to be neat. There is some sense in which justice reflects purity, but in Nigeria t...
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...
Remembering the heroes
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IT is time once again to remember those who rendered service to their fatherland as members of the Armed Forces, in peace and in war. Servic...
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...
Reflections on essence of university education in human development
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BEING the address delivered by Dr. Goke Adegoroye, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education on behalf of the Visitor, The Presiden...
Abati, Yahoo Yahoo boys and diarrhea
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THURSDAY, January 8, 2009, must now assume a special place in the biography of our dear brother, , Dr. Reuben Moses Olubodun Adeleye Abati, ...
Soldiers and the use of sirens and horse whips
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THE Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Marshal Paul Dike, recently issued guidelines to improve the conduct of military personnel in and outs...
Okada helmets and road safety
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WHATEVER may be the challenges and contradictions in the Nigerian society, one basic redeeming factor remains the capacity of the Nigerian t...
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Burden of ‘Take-a-Bow’
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This week, we present a rhapsody of sorts, beginning with a matter of urgent importance. We have received a lot of reactions to our work, Go...
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