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The Turf Game (Jimanze Ego-Alowes, alowesjimanze@yahoo.com) 08033009539

Thursday, January 26, 2012

The above quotation is taken from Professor Pat Utomi. He was at a STV programme on 16-01-12. Of course, Utomi is one of the few, who when they speak we pause to listen, after all he is easily one of the storied best and brightest. Continuing he stated; focusing on the past is not my thing. I like to move to the future. Next, if we moved over to Femi Kuti, himself a formidable…

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With Dan Onwukwe (08023022170 dan_onwukwe@yahoo.com|) Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Regrettably, Nigeria, the most populous black nation on earth with a population of over one hundred million people, is sadly sitting on a cluster of time bombs waiting to explode with a catastrophic outcome that many will dread. The molange of communal killings, religious riots/killings, kidnappings, extremist agitation, corruption, criminally minded populace, unemployment and poverty, lack of purposeful…

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By G.O Akinluyi

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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It is time to license firearms for personal safety of responsible citizens. The quantity of illegal firearms currently in the possession of unauthorized persons and criminal elements is so much that the balance of security has tilted dangerously in favor of criminals and against law abiding citizens. The time is right now, to allow responsible Nigerian citizens to bear arms…

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By G.O Akinluyi  Tuesday, January 10, 2012

It is time to license firearms for personal safety of responsible citizens. The quantity of illegal firearms currently in the possession of unauthorized persons and criminal elements is so much that the balance of security has tilted dangerously in favor of criminals and against law abiding citizens. The time is right now, to allow responsible Nigerian citizens to bear arms to protect themselves, families and their…

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By Sylvester Awenlimobor Monday, October 03, 2011



These are arguably some of the most trying times in Nigeria and one cannot but notice the bewilderment that pervades the corridors of Aso Rock.



There is an absolute lack of idea on how best the government would tackle the insecurity scourge that is threatening to send the country back into the Hobbesian state. But while one acknowledges the blank state of mind that has enveloped the ruling class it would only be proper to… Continue

By MARTINS NWANNE Monday, August 08, 2011



People advanced reasons why he was shying away from the popular demand – that he was mindful of his father’s numerous landed property in the Northern and Western Nigeria.



But unlike Mr. Ezechukwu’s imagined mob, it was the selfish and self-serving dismissal of the national Ad Hoc Committee by Yakubu Gowon on November 30, 1966, on the grounds that “it could serve no further purpose”; the jettisoning of the Aburi agreement; the… Continue

By Ochereome Nnanna



Everywhere you look there is mounting evidence that the system that currently drives Nigeria as a nation is not working. Nigerians are not benefiting from the normal objectives for which people belong to countries.



Today, everybody is running helter-skelter from Boko Haram terror. And yet, barely two years ago, the regime of President Umaru Yar’ Adua had taken decisive action against the group and stopped their murderous agitations for Islamic rule… Continue

Written by Modupe Ogunbayo Monday, 30 May 2011



Foreign policy experts want Nigeria to make economic diplomacy the focus of its foreign policy in the new dispensation

What should be the main thrust of Nigeria’s foreign policy under the new political dispensation with President Goodluck Jonathan as helmsman? Foreign policy experts who have given a deep thought to this subject have all voted in favour of economic diplomacy. What that means is that President Jonathan should pay… Continue

Written by Anthony Akaeze Monday, 30 May 2011



Over the years, Nigeria’s infrastructure has suffered terrible decay because of lack of a maintenance culture. Can President Goodluck Jonathan halt the rot?

One area Nigeria has truly lagged behind and which President Goodluck Jonathan needs to focus and improve upon is the nation’s infrastructure. In the last 50 years, most of its public facilities have either been dilapidated, outdated or malfunctioning. This is particularly… Continue