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By Folabi Ogunleye | Sunday March 24, 2012 A FEW WEEKS AGO, Nigerians were mostly minding their business, striving to keep ahead of the rat race of a competitive world when the president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, grabbed a microphone (more…)

UNITY and faith, peace and progress – so goes Nigeria’s official motto. It appears, however, that the powers-that-be in Nigeria have taken a literal, if not absolutist, interpretation in their application of this expression which otherwise should simply engender a progressive union under a banner of social equality and justice. (more…)

By Folabi Ogunleye IN a live prime-time speech from Abuja on Saturday night, President Jonathan sought to woo Nigerians to his side in the petroleum subsidy debate. It is doubtful that he succeeded at wooing anyone. Too little, too late. That was what I thought (more…)

By Folabi Ogunleye | January 10, 2012 FOR independence, we barely lifted a finger – at least not in the manner that others had to fight and die for freedom and nationhood. Instead, Nigerians had a seemingly independent Nigeria (more…)

By Folabi Ogunleye Kadaria Ahmed's op-ed piece, published in the National Mirror newspaper last Friday, November the 11th, appears to be one of the few attempts by she and her Nigerian journalism contemporaries to scratch beneath the surface to find what (more…)

By Folabi Ogunleye THE other day, Farida Waziri, the perennially bespectacled Chair of Nigeria’s popular anti-graft agency, announced through the agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, that three governors who served in the previous political (more…)

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