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“At the moment, people like IBB/OBJ control Nigeria” – Nigeria Dialogue initiator, Bankole Eniola speaks on ‘Conversations with Mercy Abang’

by Mercy Abang Bankole Eniola is our feature for the week and he is a Nigerian policy advocate based in London- He is passionate about developing economies and most especially…

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Opinion: Leadership crisis – Obasanjo had his chance but failed to take it

by Dan Onwukwe The question Obasanjo tried to answer, though in a provocative way, is: why is Nigeria’s present generation of politicians, including himself, not measuring up on the scale…

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Opinion: There is darkness looming over northern Nigeria

by Perry Brimah And with the lack of northern role models, the scarcity of northern activists and truthful historians, the famine of northern writers, the bankruptcy of true religious leaders…

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Opinion: Anambra, Andy Uba and the politics of moral outrage

by Hon Nnabuife Dike There is also the issue of competence. A school leaving certificate would suffice for anyone aspiring to be governor. However, we live in a time when…

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Opinion: Jonathan’s visit to Obasanjo – The tête-à-tête

by Gbenga Omotoso I simply suggested a carrot-and-stick approach. Is that not what you’re doing now? Nobody can gag me o; tell them that I, Aremu Okikiola Obasanjo Baba Iyabo,…

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Obasanjo, Babangida, Buhari, others shun Jonathan’s midterm report (+ this photo of them too happy, together)

Former President Obasanjo preferred to be in Jigawa than in Abuja. When top officials of the various arms of the Nigerian Government gathered on Wednesday to listen to President Goodluck…

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Opinion: How “friends” destroy each other in Nigerian politics

by Tunde Fagbenle The title is a common aphorism in Nigeria and the fact of its commonplace itself is a reflection of the general state of distrust in our…

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INTERVIEW: Though I begged Major Nzeogwu not to stage 1966 coup, he ignored me – Gen. Olutoye

Maj-Gen. Olufemi Olutoye (retd.) | credits: Maj-Gen. Olufemi Olutoye (retd.), one of the first graduates to join the Nigerian Army, shares his life experiences with ADEOLA BALOGUN Now that…

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Opinion: Why Jonathan’s state of emergency is futile

by Aliyu Tilde The President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has just bought another dummy called state of emergency from his security chiefs. He thinks it will work. I think it will…

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Opinion: The APC is becoming a reality – and the PDP is running scared

by Segun Gbadegesin Since the announcement of the mega merger to form the All Progressives Congress (APC), there has been a new art of scaremongering and there is something paradoxical…

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“How can the President begin to worry governors simply because of their regular meetings?” – Northen elders

Northern Elders Forum (NEF), yesterday, examined the rift between President Jonathan and governors under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, and passed a verdict on the matter: Jonathan…

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Chukwuma Soludo: I could not believe that el-Rufai would descend so low in his book

by Chukwuma Soludo Although there is no single definition of fraud, the online definitions that come to mind as one reads Nasir el-Rufai’s book (The Accidental Public Servant) is “fraud…

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Obasanjo (co)created all the problems we have now – Prof Ango Abdullahi

A former Vice-Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, who is also a leading member of the Northern Elders Forum, speaks about the controversies of his tenure,…

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Nasir el-Rufai: Why I celebrate Oby Ezekwesili at 50

by Nasir el-Rufai I still recall vividly that bright sunny day in 2000 that I met Oby Ezwkwesili at a committee room of the House of Representatives. She was in…

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“I am dismayed by your lack of vision”: Read the blistering letter OBJ wrote to Margaret Thatcher in 1986

by Hauwa Gambo July 1970Sitting on the Conservative front bench during the state opening of Parliament in her role as Secretary Of State For Education. All we can saw is…

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“Jonathan may be the last president of Nigeria if…”

Dr Chris Ekiyor is the former National President of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) and currently the Caretaker Chairman of Patani Local Government Council of Delta State. In this interview,…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: A most controversial pardon

by Olusegun Adeniyi Following his arrest in 2005, according to the story, Alamieyeseigha was brought to the villa in handcuffs and made to prostrate before Obasanjo. With his legs firmly…

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Baba’s got swag: Former President Obasanjo with President Carter in the White House (SNAPSHOT)

by Idoreyin Sampson This is a photo of Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on a state visit to America in 1978, reportedly. With him is then US President Jimmy Carter. We…

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Nasir El-Rufai: 2015: The Naked dancers and the two year marathon

by Nasir El-Rufai As all parties gear up towards 2015, we need to ask: Is President Jonathan capable of participating in the election without deliberately dividing the country along…

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Opinion: Obafemi Awolowo – Hero of the Yorubas, killer of Biafra, betrayed by the North

by Obinna Akukwe Thus Awolowo’s advice and actions led to the quick end to the Biafran dream. Therefore it is right to say that what the entire armed forces of…

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Opinion: When will Obasanjo apologise to Nigerians?

by Bayo Olopohunda Frankly speaking, it is not in Obasanjo’s place to assess or criticise this government. It is possible that Nigerians have forgotten so soon. If anybody would criticise…

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Opinion: Our attitude towards Nigeria

by Sabella Abidde Why bother to faithfully serve this country when at the sunset of your life, she is likely to abandon you? Why? We are also a nation without…

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Okey Ndibe: Jonathan is Obasanjo’s worthy successor

by Okey Ndibe Call me a sucker for conspiracy theories if you wish, but I suspect that Mr. Obasanjo knew exactly what he was doing when he decided on…

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Opinion: An appraisal of El-Rufai and his epistles on leadership

by Godwin Onyeacholem If El-Rufai would be honest, in very many ways, many of those highly pedigreed and qualitatively educated young men and women like him who found themselves in…

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Obong Victor Attah: Godswill Akpabio was never one of the intellectuals in my cabinet

by Obong Victor Attah The governor says he is angry, but there is a world of difference between anger and blind fury. Even so anger remains one of the seven…

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Sam Omatseye: Shut up, Orubebe!

by Sam Omatseye If it was by grace and by competence, Orubebe should not be minister. That is why he is taking on Amaechi. He has nothing concrete to go…

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Chukwuma Soludo: What Obasanjo and Yar’Adua told me

by Charles Chukwuma Soludo The president cut in, and pointing in my direction remarked: “We shall pray as you have requested but the problem with you people from Anambra is…

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Report: GEJ makes moves to reconcile with Obasanjo

President Goodluck Jonathan has begun moves to reconcile with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, as a means of ending the rift between them. Jonathan and Obasanjo had fallen apart over the…

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You can’t be a good leader and say you won’t step on toes – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjoon Friday declared that any leader not ready to step on toes does is not worth being the leader of any nation, as such will have nothing…

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Nasir el-Rufai: In search of leadership: Roots of historical crisis

by Nasir El-Rufai The murder of political leaders in 1966 without trying them and finding them guilty of any offence, and affording the assassins immunity and protection from court martial…

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