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Capital Market Public Hearing: Time for a Result-Oriented Approach

15Mar

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Capital Market Public Hearing: Time for a Result-Oriented Approach

By Innocent Badmus It may no longer be news that Nigeria’s capital market capitalization went down from a high of N13.5tr to N4.6tr within ten months in 2008. (more…)

15Mar

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We Must go on with One Nigeria

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi At a time when we are faced with series of problems bedevilling the country, comments coming from the North about breaking-up, division or secession from the country into (more…)

Ondo Gov Election: LP’s Ace and the ACN/PDP Challenge

15Mar

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Ondo Gov Election: LP’s Ace and the ACN/PDP Challenge

By Boye Sanda To all intents and purposes, the governorship election coming up in Ondo State on 20th October promises to be an epic battle. On a surface plain, the battle is between (more…)

Upheaval in West Africa: Could Nigeria Be Next?

15Mar

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Upheaval in West Africa: Could Nigeria Be Next?

Daniel Wagner and Joshua Wallace, for Huffington Post The recent coups in Guinea-Bissau and Mali raise question regarding whether radical political change will sweep other parts of west and sub-Saharan Africa. (more…)

15Mar

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Letter to the Nigerian Opposition

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi IN the last couple of years and most especially since the beginning of our nascent democracy in 1999, what has been pelted against the vast majority of Nigerians has been a degeneration (more…)

15Mar

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This Democracy Shall not Crash

By Banjo Odutola Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain once gave a commemoration speech at her 40th anniversary of ascending the throne in which she admitted that 1992 was (more…)

Nuhu Ribadu’s Cold Dish at Diezani’s Kitchen

15Mar

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Nuhu Ribadu’s Cold Dish at Diezani’s Kitchen

By Banjo Odutola After watching Arnold Wesker’s classic ensemble, “The Kitchen”, at the National Theatre, London, in a production which celebrated drudgery and toil of the work-place, there is a penchant to (more…)

As Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is Sentenced

15Mar

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As Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is Sentenced

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi The sentencing to life imprisonment of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has continued to generate serious comments, opinions and criticisms from around the world, most (more…)

Between Christian Wulff and the Nigerian Politician

15Mar

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Between Christian Wulff and the Nigerian Politician

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi This writer has followed events in Germany in the last couple of days and had come to a conclusion that Nigeria as a nation need to go further in deepening her (more…)

Another Explosion – Where is the Father Christmas Sanusi?

15Mar

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Another Explosion – Where is the Father Christmas Sanusi?

By Banjo Odutola Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the current Governor of Nigeria Central Bank, ranked 11th out of TIME 100 most influential people in the world is on a philanthropic sledge coming down a roof of a house near-by. (more…)

15Mar

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Congrats, President Jonathan!

By Pius Adesanmi Dear President Jonathan: I was writing this short note to congratulate you on the significant threshold you crossed recently in the life of your presidency and in your mode of self-inscription into the memory of our nation when other good news fell into your plate today. I am thus faced with the proverbial situation of trees falling on trees. (more…)

15Mar

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National Strike: Our Inconsistencies

by Banjo Odutola After one week of mass protest, the “irreversible and irreducible” federal government has balked; the voice of the people which was misunderstood but (more…)

Rivers State: Traders and Multiple Ticketing Agents at Oil Mill Market

15Mar

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Rivers State: Traders and Multiple Ticketing Agents at Oil Mill Market

By Nwaorgu Faustinus In the time past, this writer wrote an article with the caption “Nigeria: Rivers State – the Bill on Illegal Development published in some (more…)

Tenure Elongation for 5 Governors and the Fractured Election Timetable

15Mar

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Tenure Elongation for 5 Governors and the Fractured Election Timetable

By Phrank Shaibu The step taken by the Supreme Court of Nigeria to consult and seek views of some legal luminaries on the very sensitive issue of tenure (more…)

15Mar

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Alaere Alaibe: Gone but not forgotten

By Uche Igwe I am not often impressed with people but she ( Alaere Alaibe) has succeeded in impressing me with her drive, her vision and her total commitment. – Wole Soyinka. (more…)

Nigeria Will Make It – Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu At His Best

15Mar

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Nigeria Will Make It – Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu At His Best

By Adebayo Adejare "A man is worthy of praise and insult only with respect to those things that are in his power to do or not to do" - Aristotle: Third Book of Ethics (more…)

Research and Development Critical to Nigeria’s Prosperity

15Mar

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Research and Development Critical to Nigeria’s Prosperity

Address by President Goodluck Jonathan at the Investiture for the Conferment of the 2010 and 2011 National Order of Merit Award on Thursday, 01 December 2011. It is my pleasure to address you this (more…)

A Budget of Fiscal Consolidation, Growth and Job Creation

15Mar

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A Budget of Fiscal Consolidation, Growth and Job Creation

Text of President Goodluck E. Jonathan’s first budget speech since April’s election as President and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria’s Armed Forces, to a joint session of the National (more…)

15Mar

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Who killed the Ekpenyong Brothers?

Written By Clifford Thomas, Uyo Until the dastardly act of June 20, 2009 at the sand quarry site acquired by the late Obong Okon J. Ekpenyong of the Nung Akpan Okuidem family of Ewet Offot in Uyo local government area, the Ekpenyongs, was one large happy family made of three male and five female siblings, and providence was kind to them. After 20th of June, 2009 when hitherto unidentified gun men attacked the business premises of the Ekpeyongs, killing both Mathias Okon Ekpenyong, and his eldest brother, (more…)