In this piece,
KUNLE ODEREMI
analyses the controversy triggered by the views of a former Head of State, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, on the state of the nation.
General Muhammadu Buhari sparingly grants press interviews. It is not a culture or principle he lately acquired. The virtue has been part of him since his first coming as a military head of state in 1983. But his interactions with his supporters on two occasions lately in his capacity as the de…
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The Turf Game (Jimanze Ego-Alowes, alowesjimanze@yahoo.com) 08033009539
Thursday, September 22, 2011
It is pretty evident now, that promoters of the Jonathan presidency are in sack clothes and in mourning. However readers of 2TGame will recall that we predicted that Jonathan as a person does not cut much ice. We suggested that Jonathan’s saving grace was his party the PDP, a genus of honest and Naijamaniacally all inclusive thieves.
Moralists, imams, general…
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By Rotimi Fasan
It’s been two week’s since theterror attack on the United Nation’s building in Abuja that left over 20 people dead and many more with serious injuries. During these two weeks the extremist group, Boko Haram, has been front page news.
The year 2011 has witnessed dramatic increase in the activities of the fringe group that has murdered Nigerians of diverse religious, ethnic and professional backgrounds in their hundreds and destroyed properties worth billions of…
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By Duro Onabule (duroonabule@gmail.com)
Friday, July 08, 2011
The buck stops on the table of Goodluck Jonathan or anybody in his position as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. No living soul is a super human being and when he finds himself in authority, his first priority is that he must survive to ensure security for the larger society. To attain these twin objectives, it is inevitable for Goodluck Jonathan to delegate responsibilities to civil servant/political…
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Written by Maureen Chigbo Monday, 04 July 2011
Apostles of deregulation say it will bring in more money into government coffers but others think it will translate into higher costs and hardship to be borne by the masses
A major decision is about to be taken and President Goodluck Jonathan appears to be preparing the minds of Nigerians for it. Last week, he emphasised at the inauguration of the May and Baker Pharm Centre in Ota, Ogun State, that Nigerians should brace up to the…
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From Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa Sunday, July 3, 2011
Former President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC) and incumbent President of the Conference of Ethnic Nationalities of the Niger Delta (CENND), Prof Kimse Okoko has expressed fears over the Jonathan Presidency.
Okoko, a Professor of Political Science in an exclusive interview in Port Harcourt said the Nigerian structure controlled by dominant powers would not allow Jonathan who is of the minority to effect fundamental…
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By DESMOND MGBO, Kano Sunday, July 3, 2011
The National Chairman of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), Dr Ogbonaya Onu stopped over in kano State to commiserate with party members on the violence that engulfed the state soon after conduct of the presidential polls. Several ANPP stalwarts were targets of the anger and their property worth millions of naira were destroyed. He took some questions from newsmen on why he was in the state, the reason they are fighting the PDP in the…
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By Funke Egbemode 08055069066 (SMS only, please) {egbemode@sunnewsonline.com}
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Yes. I’d like to be the president of Nigeria. I like the perks. Who wouldn’t? But right now I don’t envy President Goodluck Jonathan one bit. He can’t be getting much peace right now. I bet there is no hiding place for him. Even his bedroom is too small to hide him. Oh yes, there are those who are hiding in the folds of the First lady’s kaftans to get to Jonathan. So even when he…
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Written by Sebastine Obasi Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Hope that productivity in the oil and gas industry will improve has been dashed with the non-passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, by the outgone National Assembly
The hope of Nigerians to have an improved oil and gas sector, similar to best practice in other oil producing countries, has been dashed, with the non-passage of the petroleum industry bill, PIB, by the outgone National Assembly. Before now, various government…
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From Our reporter Sunday, June 19, 2011
As in every year, June 12 has come and gone, but the memory of what that date symbolizes would forever remain evergreen in the memory of some Nigerians. Mr. Nosa Igiebor, Editor-in-Chief of TELL Magazine, is one of such Nigerians. This astute journalist was one of the victims of the June 12 crisis. Apart from the fact that his magazine was seized several times by the military junta, he also suffered humiliation and harassments. In this…
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By Ralph Egbu 08186958958 (egburalph@yahoo.com) Sunday, June 19, 2011
The art of assessment is one vital activity in the life of humans. Assessment tells us who we are and what our true worth is. Through proper assessment, an entity gets to know if it’s making progress, or whether the situation has been that of so much motion without movement. Assessment as a process, for me is a social science activity. This is because it involves the human element and the activities surrounding his…
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By Our Reporter 25/05/2011 00:00:00
Nigerians love to party. Here we find hosting parties in the confines of our homes too constricting, and so we cordon off major roads and dance the night away. Always inventive and original, we abuse our currency through the partying stunt called ‘spraying.’
It is no surprise that in government we sniff out any excuse to throw a party – whether in times of plenty or austerity. Not too long ago, the occasion of Nigeria’s 50th Independence…
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ByAlvan Ewuzie alvanatsun@yahoo.com, 07082020392 Thursday, May 26, 2011
There is a sense in saying that Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency commences on May 29, 2011. There is also a sense in arguing that he has been in office for well over one year, since March last year when he was sworn in as President following the demise of Umaru YarAdua, his erstwhile boss. Both views are right. He had been sworn into that office before.
But until April this year, he never asked the Nigerian…
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By RASHEED OLOKODE Thursday, May 26, 2011
The adage, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, is, undoubtedly, a truism vindicated by global realities. Still, in view of the situation of our incumbent President cum President-elect, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, against the background of the peculiarly Nigerian socio-political and economic adversities, this saying pales into an understatement. Someone who loves me should kindly help tell Mr. President that I do not, in the least, envy…
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By Ifeanyichukwu Ezema Thursday, May 26, 2011
The entire north has since failed to be united by a common ideology because of the rise of down trodden and minority empires ,second, northern ruling elites and the detractors ,third, misgiving against the underdevelopment of certain sections of the zone ,forth, modernization and secularism and fifth religious differences.
All these systematically accounted for the allocation of victory slots by native itself to ACN, CPC…
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From the Other Side BY LINDSAY BARRET Thursday, May 12, 2011
Goodluck Jonathan does not really have a reputation in the political arena that can be used as a parameter for assessing the direction in which his government will go unless it is his reputation for modesty. However in the last year it has become clear that he is not easily shunted off any course that he decides to follow.
His determination to create a credible electoral process was signalled when he sacked the…
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By Chuks Iloegbunam Thursday, May 12, 2011
During October 2010, I published an article entitled Ndigbo are one again. It appeared in the Daily Champion of October 21, 2010 and rapidly spread through countless websites on the Internet. People felt strongly about the piece and posted reactions that were, expectedly, pro and contra. Of those who agreed with my point of view, nothing more needs be said, except perhaps to underscore their perception with the fact that the recent…
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Written by Augustine Adah Sunday, 08 May 2011
Lobbyists besiege President Goodluck Jonathan for ministerial positions
The idea was to give President Goodluck Jonathan who had just emerged from a hectic campaign for election to rest and attend to some urgent issues which had suffered for too long. But the retreat to Obudu Cattle Ranch did not achieve that for President Goodluck Jonathan. Chieftains of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and other political bigwigs swarmed…
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In this interview with select newsmen, the National Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof. Rufai Alkali, speaks on the elections, the aftermath and other salient issues. Our Managing Editor, Northern Operation, YUSUF ALLI, reveals what transpired at the session.
What accounted for the violence over your party’s presidential election victory?
Honesty, April 16 was a special day for Nigeria and the people of Nigeria, it was a day that we had been waiting for; a day the…
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By Orji Kalu [Okalu@orjikalu.com] Saturday, May 07, 2011
Internal security is one area the President Goodluck Jonathan administration should pay serious attention to. This has become necessary as a result of current national and international developments. Among the developments are the crises that trailed the April 2011 elections, the death of Osama Bin Laden, political disagreements among the gladiators in Cote d’Ivoire, upheavals in the Middle East, and infiltration of Nigeria by…
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