Why Flood and Erosion Control Can’t Wait – By Haruna Manu Isah

By Haruna Manu Isah, Kaduna, Nigeria – October 27, 2011 – “ The two great challenges of the 21st century, fighting world poverty and tackling climate change, must be tackled as an integrated whole by a united world”…Nicholas Stern(2009) The 8th National Council on Environment (NCE) conference took place on the 26th -28th September 2011 […]

The Politics of de-subsidisation – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – October 25, 2011 – The plan by the federal government to remove fuel subsidies, effective from January 2012, is the latest in the seemingly endless stream of controversial policies that has been flowing from, and unwittingly increasingly defining the Jonathan regime. According to the supporters of de-subsidisation, subsidising […]

Boko Haram, Maitatsine and Sharia Law – By Chidi Eze

By Chidi Eze, Houston, TX, USA – October 21, 2011 – It seems there is a written or an implied constitutional provision  either in the Quran or in the northern states of Nigeria’s assembly or in the  Islamic code that the north was born to rule regardless of the ethnic  diversity of Nigeria.  The happenings […]

In Nigeria, Northerners are their Own Enemies – By Ndiameeh Babrik

By Ndiameeh Babrik, NNP – October 21, 2011 – Any Northern Nigerian commentator accusing the South of driving a wedge between Northern Christians and Northern Muslims is a simply being dishonest and the truth is very far from his mouth. For the purpose of this article I am going to lump the far Northern states […]

Between FCC, Zoning and Nation- By Dr. Lanre Odetola

By Lanre Odetola, PhD, Leidan, Netherlands – October 21, 2011 – Alexis Tocqueville, the French political thinker and historian, developed the phrase ‘tyranny of the majority’ in his treatise on possible threats to representative democracy in America. For him, unfettered democracy has a tendency to degenerate into ‘soft despotism’ and ‘tyranny of the majority’. Since […]

Jonathan and This Government Must Not Fail…- By Prince Charles Dickson

By Prince Charles Dickson, Jos, Nigeria – October 16, 2011 – The person with the cross-bow thinks that the monkey is not clever; the monkey is clever, but it is following its own strategy. (It matters nothing if one is derided, as long as one knows what one is doing and why.) Over the years […]

Femi Fani-Kayode: On Goodluck Jonathan, David & Goliath

By Femi Fani-Kayode, NNP – October 16, 2011 – ”I am not David….I am not a general…..I am not a lion……I will defeat the Goliaths in our land”-President Goodluck Jonathan. These are deep and instructive words yet I do wonder whether Mr. President understands the spiritual and practical implications of what he is saying. If […]

Goodluck Jonathan: A True President of the Niger Delta? – By Haruna Manu Isah

By Haruna Manu Isah, Kaduna, Nigeria – October 16, 2011 – Nigeria has about 160million population. This qualified it to be the 8th most populous nation in the world and surprisingly the 32nd biggest economy in the world, but today is saddened by the burden of inept leadership. When, in 2010, former U.S ambassador to […]

Nigeria at 51: Has This House Really Fallen? – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe

Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK, October 13, 2011 – When Karl Maier published his book This House Has Fallen: Midnight in Nigeria (2000), I was probably among the first people given an advance copy of the book a few months before it was formally published.  I was at that time the Books Review Editor of […]

On Fuel Subsidy Removal: Facts and Falsehood – By Dr. Leonard Shilgba

By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba, Yola, Nigeria – October, 13, 2011 – The recent revelation of the avowed intention of the Nigerian federal government to remove fuel subsidy and devalue the national currency (the naira) in 2012 should not surprise Nigerians who have observed the conduct of government in Nigeria in the past twelve years. […]

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