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When Goodluck is Sober… – Salisu Suleiman
The president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, at the Nuclear Security Summit, in 2010. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In the run-up to last year’s presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan made a...
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Not A Way To Fly – Mark Amaza
Kaduna Airport 1959 DC3 (Photo credit: Ruth Flickr) One of the most commonly seen descriptions of Nigeria is ‘a country with very poor or almost inexistent infrastructure’. These words are neither an...
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The Market and Fuel Scarcity
(Photo credit: adam) Over the last two weeks I have bought fuel (in different parts of Lagos) for N105/litre. Two features distinguish the outlets which sold to me from the others: the relative absence...
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Bridging the Indigene-Settler Divide – Mark Amaza
Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga, Minister for Trade and Investment for the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Long before the start of the present constitution amendment process, Nigerians...
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Notes On Rape
Since I heard about the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi, India has been on my mind. The woman was on her way home from the cinema with a male friend when they were attacked in the bus they...
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Nigeria’s Dual Economy
Back in secondary school, I distinctly remember being taught in Social Studies class that Nigeria operates a mixed economy – an admixture of socialism and capitalism. It made little sense to me then,...
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Should we abolish state independent electoral commissions? – Mark Amaza
INEC Despite the fact that the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria does not allow for true devolution of powers from the centre, as the constitution of a true federal republic should,...
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The Bogobiri Chronicles
Bogobiri Dec 20. Morning pages. Bogobiri open mic last night with Victoria. When we leave to head back to the mainland from Ikoyi at 10:15pm, she mentions that the security guard down the road said...
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The ‘Nigerian factor’ on our roads – Salisu Suleiman
If one of the justifications for moving Nigeria’s capital from Lagos to Abuja was the intractable traffic jams in the former, then recent events in both cities have clearly proved that point wrong....
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The Fisherman’s Heirs
Ifeanyi Uddin Over the past week, I have been at the receiving end of a most cruel and unusual punishment: sleep deprivation! Now, familiar though this torture style might sound, I do not live in or...
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