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The 2011 Elections, Jega, and Conspiracy

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD Sunday, April 3rd, 2011

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba, Yola, Nigeria – April 3, 2011 – In October, 2010 the Independent National Election Commission (INEC), headed by Professor Attahiru Jega, announced cancellation of its earlier released 2011 election timetable just about two weeks after its release. I responded in an article titled “INEC should stop this distraction.” On April […]

Why I will Vote for Ikedi Ohakim

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, State News Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

By Kenneth Uwadi, Imo, Nigeria – Marc. 30, 2011 – The Nigerian governorship election is to be held in April . Imo State is abuzz these days with political activities and discussions over who wins the Imo governorship election. The state is divided into several political camps, each rallying supporters for their preferred candidate. The […]

A Short Note on Nigeria’s 2011 Elections

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Elections 2011, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba, Yola, Nigeria – March 30, 2011 – Are you the Nigerian better off today than you were 12 years ago? As Nigerians go to the polls in April 2011 to choose their representatives in government, this should be the question on their mind. Nigeria has made in the past 12 […]

INEC may jeopardize elections in Ebonyi

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

By Muhammed Ajah, NNP – March 29, 2011 – There may be trouble in Ebonyi state if the Professor Attahiru Jega-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) fails to pay people who worked for it during the last registration exercise The INEC had contracted, among others, serving or recent youth corps members for the exercise that […]

President Jonathan Cannot Transform Nigeria

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Tochukwu Ezukanma Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

By Tochukwu Ezukanma, Lagos, Nigeria – March 29, 2011 – The central problem of the Nigeria society is lawlessness. Most of our other national problems stem from lawlessness. They are either aspects of it or its direct consequences. Entrenched corruption, electoral fraud, theft of public, sectarian violence, etc are simply different dimensions of lawlessness. Power […]

A Quiet Revolution in The Federal Civil Service

Posted by admin Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists Thursday, March 24th, 2011

By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, London, UK – Mar. 24, 2011 – Not too long ago, a survey of some of the developing economies revealed Nigerian bureaucracy to be not just one of the least efficient and one of the most corrupt, further it was also found that working with the Nigeria’s civil servants was a […]

Youth Power for a Peaceful Revolution

Posted by admin Articles, Cliff I. Edogun, PhD, Columnists Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Cliff I. Edogun, PhD, North America Director, NIGERIA RALLY MOVEMENT <www.nigeriarally.org> cliffedo@nigeriarally.org NIGERIAN YOUTH, ARISE, UNITE AND TAKE BACK YOUR COUNTRY! Somehow, with the notable exception of sore losers like the unproductive and intellectually lazy Speaker of the Nigerian National Assembly, many skeptic Nigerians are now suddenly falling in line to accept that a democratic […]

That Nigerians May Stand Up

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD Thursday, March 24th, 2011

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba, Yola, Nigeria – Mar. 24, 2011 – Now is not the time to train our eyes on the April 2011 national elections in Nigeria. Now is certainly not the time for politicians to indulge in costly assumptions about Nigerians, that they are eternally gullible. But now is the time to […]

Gov. Martin Elechi: father-figure or soft despot?

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Mar 22, 2011 – Governor Martin Nwancho Elechi, 70, can rightly claim to be one of the fathers of Ebonyi State, having led the Ebonyi State Movement in a decade-long campaign for the creation of the state. A 1966 first class honours graduate in economics, Chief Elechi had […]

Revolution and Nigeria’s ‘economy of affection’

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists Sunday, March 20th, 2011

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Mar 20, 2011 – In a very influential work, Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania: Underdevelopment and the Uncaptured Peasantry (1980), Swedish-American political scientist Goran Hyden argued that African small cultivators prioritise their informal support networks such as familial and ethnic obligations over the pursuit of profit. For Hyden, African […]