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Celebrating foreign education: The hypocrisy of contemporary Nigerian leadership

By CHEKWUBE E. NZOMIWU Late literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe, in his influential book “The Trouble with Nigeria,” identified failure of leadership as the single core problem of Nigeria. In the 68-page book, first published in 1983 by Fourth Dimension Publishers, Achebe argued that there is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land, air, climate or the […]
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Mis-reading the signal of history in Nigerian politics

IF there is anybody out there that still nurses any doubt about the ability of the Nigerian masses to determine for themselves, then the just concluded presidential election is enough for the doubting Thomas to start believing in the ability of what the Nigerian citizens are capable of doing.

Akwa Ibom is leading change in Africa

THERE is something that is seriously wrong in Africa where those who lose elections refuse to accept defeat. There is something wrong in situations where those who do not win refuse to give up even when they have reached the end of the road.

Controversial Ika North elections

OF all the elections so far held in Nigeria this year, the reported fraudulent and criminal activities that characterised polling in Ika North of Delta State are shameful and disgusting. Dr. Godwin Awvioro, a lecturer in Anatomy at Delta State University, was the returning officer there. He refused to announce fabricated election results, even at gunpoint. He later surfaced at the Police Headquarters in Asaba, the Delta State capital to cancel the results of the fraudulent elections.

The London dilemma and Uduaghan’s ambition

I MUST necessarily start by congratulating Goodluck Jonathan for listening to me on the matter of Ibori’s London trial. In “Any Deal between Jonathan, Ibori-Uduaghan” recently published by various media organs home and abroad I opened that topic this way: “We all love Goodluck Jonathan, and yours sincerely has arguably done more pro-GEJ articles (published home and abroad) than anybody since Atiku emptied his political campaigns of sanity.

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