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Mixing religion and politics in Abia State

DESCRIBE it as uncontrollable desperation, call it ungodly dispositions or religious jingoism, you are right as some Christian clerics in Abia State have now made themselves available to be used as political marionettes by some politicians in the state who have lost out in the power equation to achieve their selfish desires against the majority of the people ahead of the April polls.

In defense of free and fair elections

A STUDY of the behavioural pattern of the Nigerian politician and political parties reveals that when a party or candidate is declared winner of any election, the candidate so declared and his political party would say that the election was free and fair while the loser candidate and political party that sponsored him would cry blue murder, alleging that the election was fraudulently conducted, marred with irregularities and that electoral officers were bribed to alter results in favour of the winner.

Power sector privatisation: Indians again?

SINCE August 26, 2010 when the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR unveiled his administration’s road map in the Power sector, various business groups and investors have indicated interest in participating in the acquisition of the Power Generating Plants.

Memo to the emerging leaders

LEADERS who will not recruit green horns based on party allegiance or family ties. Leaders who will inspire their professional cabinet and co-workers into higher levels of teamwork motivation to achieve realistic targets.

Jonathan: What Nigeria needs for change

THE Arab world is enmeshed in crises of identity and direction. First it was the Tunisians who gave Ben Ali one of the oldest dictators this side of the Atlantic, the marching order.

Obi’s second tenure

TODAY, Mr. Peter Obi of Anambra State would have spent the first one year in his second term in office. And to properly assess the progress of his administration or lack of it, we will occasionally revert to his first four years in office, since development is a veritable continuum; where an aspect complements the whole..

In defence of Bode George’s celebrations

BODE George finished his prison sentence on Saturday February 26, 2011 and moved straight from Kirikiri prison to Cathedral Church of Christ for a thanksgiving service to God Almighty who preserved him while he served the punishment meted out to him by the State for his infraction against the laws of the land.

Between Jonathan, Tinubu and the “rascals”

ALHAJI Bola Ahmed Tinubu has, in the past 12 months or so, been playing poseur. He has been carrying on like some messiah, a man imbued with the definitive political alternative for a better Nigeria. His fortunes rose in the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), following Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s counter defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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