Will President Jonathan address the challenge of legitimacy in Africa?
JUST as the most stable form of the state is an empire so the most sustainable system of rulership for a people that have been enslaved or colonised is a republic and their most legitimate form of government is a democracy.
Which of the three is Nigeria’s future?
ELOHO OTOBO, director and deputy head of the UN Peacebuilding Support Office has presented us with three possible futures of Nigeria and of course the future can only be one of the three scenarios or none of the three postulated by Otobo.
The November 30 decision: Hypocrisy better than indifference
ACCORDING to the December 5 NEXT on Sunday, President Goodluck Jonathan approved the sale of the official residences of the presiding officers of the National Assembly.
Party formation and ownership
AFTER going round and round the problem we find ourselves facing the root cause of the problem of democracy in Nigeria, namely: The objective of Nigeria’s constitutional politics.
Three reasons for the review of tithing (3)
ON Calvary God effected the completion of the execution of the sentence of death passed on Noah’s generation.
Three reasons for the review of tithing (2)
CHAPTER 19 of the Acts, Paul encountered disciples in need of the Ministry of Aquila and Priscilla. The following is Paul’s interrogation of their faith in the Lord:
Three reasons for the review of tithing
THIS piece is the result of a discussion on how the following listed three publications are to be marketed to believing Christians in particular, namely: -Pentecostalism in Chains: The Merchandising of the Gospel of Christ Jesus; -Tithing and Christianity; -That thunderous Declaration on Non-Tithers.
Movement for unity among christian denomination
THE Vanguard Newspapers a few weeks ago carried a story about a specific effort to promote unity among Christians on the basis of the Lord’s prayer of John 17- the theme of which prayer is that all His disciples may be one.
Poverty and the structuring economies
JOHN Ighodaro in the Vanguard of Wednesday October 6, 2010 titled his story thusly: “Population of seven W-African states equals the poor in Nigeria”. He was quoting Mr. Adama who made this known at a workshop in Calabar.
Election planning and national security
Nigeria at Independence from this perspective is seen as a fully formed polity that in time has become corrupt resulting in the failure of state and political institutions, resulting in the disorder now witnessed. Failed state analysis result in two contrasting remedies.
Outsourcing security capacity building: The Guinea Bissau example
SUNDAY September 12, 2010 NEXT on Sunday under its Brief’s carried a story on Angola’s intent to send military, police officials to Bissau to study, according to Angola’s army chief, “how to help the West African state to reform its troubled army”.
