NATIONAL DIALOGUE: A CURSE OR BLESSING

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ELECTRICITY PRIVATIZATION: OPTIMISM

Coal, oil, gas and hydro power are abundant in Nigeria to which Nigeria owns the world’s ninth largest gas reserves; much of it is flared off or left underground. Nigerian government is duty bound to provide basin social amenities inclusive of electricity. The importance of electricity to Nigerians cannot be overemphasized as 95% of economic activities are done with electricity and Electric power supply is the most important commodity...

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Politics, Neglect, and the Heaviest Penalty

by Muh'd Dahiru Aminu The Classical Greek philosopher, Plato, in his famous Republic, noted that the heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to you. It doesn’t matter if one is charmed by philosophy or not, but, in today’s Nigeria, Plato’s statement does not only inscribe the basis for Nigeria’s character defect, it equally awakens the subject of inept leadership that has served as a classic peculiarity of our country. Starting from 1999, when Nigeria transitioned to democratic rule, the most troubling...

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ASUU STRIKE: NANS HAS FAILED NIGERIAN STUDENTS

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Battle for Public Offices: Nigerians Yearning to Serve?

By Al-Amin Abba Dabo In just under two years, Nigerians would be called upon to exercise their constitutional rights of voting for leaders of their constituencies, state governments and most importantly, their nation. This wonderful process of democracy allows Nigerians to give their mandate to whomever they so desire, being accountable to no one but themselves. Although the elections are not yet in our faces, the campaign and propaganda are. Depending on where your sentiments lie, you may find the ‘we-have-performed’ claims from...

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ARMS ECONOMY AND THE GROWTH OF CAPITALISM

In the written of Earnest Mandel in his book ‘Late Capitalism’. Ladies and gentlemen, capitalism is a child of necessity in modern political economy because as human beings started from babies to adult likewise capitalism grow, historically from the renaissance period capital is in childhood age, immediately after the second world war capitalism shift to its adulthood stage which could be refers to as monopoly stage, In the 1970s capitalism advance to the period of its zenith, in other word the golden era. The world has experienced political...

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WHAT A COUNTARY..................

From uncle naira! According to sources, Former Bayelsa state Governor Alamieyeseigha, Ex-Nigerian convict who was pardoned by President Goodluck Jonathan, was pardoned in a bid to fulfill his senatorial ambition in Bayelsa central senatorial district in 2015. During his tenure in office, Alamieyeseigha stole several billions of Naira from Bayelsa state and was investigated by the EFCC. Think of many Nigerian former governors that were...

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What Governors? What Forum?

  Anger, danger, hunger that Nigerians suffer from governments’ ineptitude are unimportant. Everything is about 36 men and some outsiders who have created another distraction to keep our eyes off them as they steer the Nigerian ship recklessly. What is the NGF? Why is it suddenly so important? Why if the Presidency is not interested in the crisis, one of the factions feels obliged to report to the Vice President (the President was at...

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PRESIDENCY AND MILITARY AGANDA

In the post-modern society, life is full of risks and danger due to the maturity of technology because act of terrorism has reached its climax and militarization is the order of the day. In view of the speech of President Jonathan on May 15, 2013. On which he declare state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe state of Nigeria, as he lamented over on high level of militancy, criminality, and act of terrorism bedevil the nation, the declaration...

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A Forgiving Nation, a Deceived Nation!

I am a citizen of my nation, a nation always eager to forgive. This is a nation that offers forgiveness even when it is not asked. Mine is a deceived nation, sold the counterfeit religion in which it gloats. The messages coming from the pulpits of many religious congregations are adulterated. Nigeria is made drunk from spiked religious wine. Wrong theology has made us inured to evil and hateful of reason. Many of my people believe that reason is antithetical to true religion. But reasoning is the path to true knowledge of true religion....

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