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Thursday, January 17th, 2019
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | January 17, 2019 – 2019: Opposition versus state institutions Jideofor Adibe By the time Nigeria conducts its elections in February and March next year, it will be almost 20 years since its current experiment with liberal democracy – the longest period the country has been under […]
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2018
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | December 21, 2018 – Since the Vice Presidential debate on December 14 2018 between the candidates of selected five political parties, there have been continuous spin not only on who won the debate but also on whether Buhari would show up for the presidential debate slated for […]
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Saturday, December 8th, 2018
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasawara, Nigeria | December 10, 2018 – This week’s reflection is on a trending story that began when Buhari returned from his 104-days of medical treatment in the UK in 2017. Many were surprised that on his return, Buhari, who was a subject of several extremely negative rumours during his medical […]
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Saturday, December 1st, 2018
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | December 1, 2018 – The whistle for 2019 has finally been blown as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) lifted the ban on partisan politics and campaigns on Sunday, November 19 2018. The same day Buhari unveiled his campaign manual, which he called The Next Level. Alhaji Atiku, […]
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | November 7, 2018- The recent re-surfacing of Nnamdi Kanu, the uncouth leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in Israel, raises more questions than answers: How did he escape from the raid by Nigerian security forces on his father’s compound on September 14 2017? How did […]
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Friday, November 2nd, 2018
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | November 2, 2019 – As we nudge towards the 2019 presidential election, and with many people predicting that it will be more bitterly fought than the acrimonious 2015 poll, there is something that is giving me some hope that the doomsday scenario may not materialize after all: it […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, | Sept. 15, 2018 – We have now fully entered the political season – with its embedded bazaars, festivities, speeches, permutations and configurations. Most of the activities in the political space are configured to bring dividends in 2019. The presidential election will define the year 2019 and will be a […]
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Saturday, August 18th, 2018
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | August 18, 2018 – Let’s give it to Buhari and his advisers. Whoever suggested making June 12 the country’s ‘Democracy Day’ (rather than May 29, which it has been until now) gave the Daura General a master stroke. It was a decision that especially excited the sensibility […]
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Saturday, July 21st, 2018
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | July 21, 2018 – The buzz created by the signing on July 9, 2018, of a Memorandum of Understanding between the PDP on the one hand and over 30 political parties on the other hand (some media organizations put the number of parties that signed the MOU […]
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Saturday, June 9th, 2018
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | June 9, 2018 – The US government’s 2017 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Nigeria must be a source of concern to President Buhari and the country in general. The 48-page executive summary of the report, which was released recently by the country’s State Department (the […]
