For the Record: Pres. Jonathan’s remarks at the inauguration of the National Conference

by Isi Esene President Goodluck Jonathan earlier today declared open the National Conference at the National Judicial Institute, Abuja. Below is a transcript of Inauguration Speech by President Goodluck Jonathan at the event. I am delighted to welcome you all to the inauguration of this historic National Conference which promises to be another significant landmark in... Read More

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March 15, 2014

Chidi Onumah: The National Conference may be the beginning of the end of Nigeria

by Chidi Onumah Undoubtedly, ethnic oppression exists in Nigeria. After 100 years of amalgamation, almost 54 years after independence, 44 years after an internecine civil war that cost more than three million lives to “keep Nigeria one”, it is time to break that oppression and forge a new, united and prosperous nation. Nigeria’s president, Goodluck... Read More

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March 12, 2014

Opinion: I am not going to the National Conference because of N12 million

by Jaye Gaskia Now let us get back to the spurious issue of N12 million bribe or payment. Since the June 12 struggles of the 90s through to the January Uprising of 2012 I have been involved at the highest levels in our struggles; I could not be bribed then, I will not be bribed... Read More

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March 9, 2014

Elnathan John: Jonathan the man of God, and other such theories

by Elnathan John However if this full recovery and revival of Alamieyeseigha is what results from Jonathan’s act of forgiveness, then I say today on record that I agree that Jonathan is a man of god. Forgiveness is godly. That is why it is not easy. But only one thing is godlier than forgiveness: publicly... Read More

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February 18, 2014

Opinion: Igbo leaders are responsible for the ill-treatment of the Igbos

by Fredrick Nwabufor The fact is a scrum of Igbo penny leaders feed fat on the emaciated condition of the Igbo in Nigeria. They claim to represent the Igbo, but what they do is to gulp down mouth watering sums of valuable paper in exchange for Igbo’s rights farting stained coins of greed. The Igbo... Read More

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February 13, 2014

Reno Omokri: National conference – Preparing for a marriage and not a wedding

by Reno Omokri You see, this will afford us opportunity to prepare for the marriage where we had hitherto been prepared only for the wedding. Now that the modalities for the National Conference have been released, it is clear that this dialogue is going to be a citizens driven discourse which to every true progressive... Read More

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February 13, 2014

Demola Rewaju: APC and this ideology of hypocrisy

by Demola Rewaju The criticism that trailed Labaran Maku’s Good Governance Tour was championed by ACN spokespeople and some ACN states boycotted the exercise claiming it was a waste of scarce state funds. Each journalist was reportedly paid NGN36,000 and Gov. Fayemi of Ekiti state was unsparing in his condemnation of the exercise yet just... Read More

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February 8, 2014

Opinion: The National conference is a necessary distraction

by Tahir Talba Aside the clamor for more and more resources from the Niger delta, the creation of more states, the adoption of state police, what do we want to jawjaw about? Are those the real problems of we Nigerians? For what it’s worth, a confab is necessary now, at a time steaming with so... Read More

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February 6, 2014

Olusegun Adeniyi: Nigeria’s imperfect constitution and the National Conference

by Olusegun Adeniyi But to us in Nigeria, having failed to forge a nation out of our diversity, and with a penchant for mismanaging our scarce resources, our leaders have for almost two decades now told us the only solution to the challenges we face is having a conference. Yet after more than three of... Read More

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February 6, 2014

Opinion: Can Nigeria be negotiated out of its condition

by Adagbo Onoja But, as things are today both in Nigeria and globally, can Nigeria negotiate itself without imploding unintentionally? Should it? What manner of negotiation would that be? On the eve of President Goodluck Jonathan’s version of the circuitous strategy of an emergency national conference resorted to by virtually every recent past Nigerian president... Read More

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December 12, 2013

Ochereome Nnanna: Discard wrong power sharing formular

by Ochereome Nnanna For instance, it was reported that the President alone will be nominating a whopping 120 members to the Conference. That is larger than the 96 members that the late General Sani Abacha nominated into the 1994/95 Constitutional Conference. Those of us who declared the National Dialogue soon to be convened by President... Read More

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November 11, 2013

Opinion: National Dialogue – Reno Omokri’s convoluted logic and other choristers

by Adeolu Ademoyo There are two categories of defenders. They are the regular Aso Rock media crew-Messers Doyin Okupe, Reno Omokri etc. The second category is the non-Aso Rock defenders who in my reckoning have allowed themselves to be caught in a version of false cause and category mistake. This is because the two sets... Read More

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October 30, 2013

Opinion: Between Jonathan’s national dialogue and Gorbachev’s Perestroika

by Olugu O. Orji Gorbachev’s reforms were defined by restructuring and openness: two concepts highly likely to dominate President Jonathan’s proposed National Dialogue. It shouldn’t therefore be far-fetched if it turns out to be our local adaptation of perestroika and glasnost. It is generally agreed that war is undesirable and one is not about to... Read More

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October 20, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: The debate continues on the need for a National Conference

by Tunde Fagbenle “A collection of independent native states, separated from one another by great distances, differences of history and traditions, and by ethnological, racial, tribal, social and religious barriers.’’ This column of 6th October titled, Engaging dialectics on Nigeria, dwelt on the debate on the need, or not, for (Sovereign) National Conference as panacea... Read More

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October 20, 2013

Sad news: Prominent rights activist slumps and dies after making presentation on National Conference

Prominent rights activist and founding member of the Pro National Conference Organisation, Baba Omojola, is dead. Omojola reportedly slumped and died in his hotel room in Akure, Ondo State on Saturday. He was there to present the position of PRONACO to the Advisory Committee of the proposed National Conference. Spokesman of PRONACO, Veteran Wale... Read More

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October 19, 2013

Opinion: Why Sen. Mark, Okunrounmu are typical Nigerian politicians but Stella Oduah is not

by Bisi Lawrence But the Senate President was to drop that toga of a statesman for the dazzling apparel of a politician when he, David, startled everyone by recording a volte-face on the issue, as though preparing the way for the equally sudden act of his friend, Jonathan, the President of the Federation, on the... Read More

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October 17, 2013

Demola Rewaju: This distraction called ‘National Conference’ again

by Demola Rewaju Opposing something you believe in simply because it is coming from someone you don’t like shows an endless abyss of hypocrisy that deepens each time we think we’ve seen the worst from them and here, I am referring to the Bola Tinubu camp and their strange bedfellows in APC. The nomenclature hardly... Read More

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October 16, 2013

Kayode Komolafe: Still on the real purpose of National Dialogue

by Kayode Komolafe Beyond that, there is a deep conceptual confusion about what the agenda of the conference could ever be. Some have even said the collapse of public education, the gross underdevelopment of healthcare system, the decay of infrastructure and several other problems of Nigeria are to be resolved in the national conference. Since... Read More

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October 15, 2013

Opinion: Dancing to Jonathan’s tunes

by Ose Oyamendan I have been waiting for the national conference forever. I didn’t even know that was what I was waiting for when I was waiting for it. I always thought the national conference is like one of those conferences in Las Vegas where you go get wasted and belch your way through some... Read More

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October 14, 2013

Opinion: The ethical questions before Jonathan’s Conference

by Adeolu Ademoyo I wish to note that President Jonathan and his presidency fail to see that the beauty and strength of moral disagreements is that you do not need a conference or talk shop or talk show to see an immorality, an un-ethical act or resolve moral disagreements. Ethics is basic and clear. President... Read More

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October 14, 2013

Bola Tinubu: Why Jonathan’s imposed National Conference will fail

by Bola Ahmed Tinubu The core questions to ask here is how credible, reliable and capable is the current President to be able to midwife a critical conference such as this? Will this President be sincere enough to let all the issues that are on the agenda be exhaustively discussed at the conference? Will this... Read More

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October 13, 2013

Duro Onabule: Why must Nigerians constantly overheat the polity?

by Duro Onabule All the same, critics of the national conference were the same group all along, pretending to be clamouring for Bashorun MKO Abiola to be honoured and when Jonathan decided to rename University of Lagos after the deceased, the hypocrites were up in arms against the honour done Abiola. Otherwise, agitation for national... Read More

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October 11, 2013

Femi Fani-Kayode: Jonathan’s Greek gift and the true believers

by Femi Fani-Kayode Anything short of this is fake. It is nothing more than a palliative. It is a ”made in China” copy of the original. If you take the ”sovereign” out of the ”national conference” it is like taking the ham out of a ham sandwich. All you will have left is a talk... Read More

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October 10, 2013

Olisa Agbakoba: Can National Conference provide legal basis for new Nigerian Constitution?

by Olisa Agbakoba, SAN The Late Aka-Bashorun, my most illustrious predecessor, as President of Nigerian Bar Association, the first to clearly articulate the need for a Sovereign National Conference, as long ago as the 1980’s, must be rejoicing in his grave. Civil society has always stated that a National Conference is a vital requirement for a People’s Constitution for Nigeria.... Read More

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October 10, 2013

Reno Omokri: President Jonathan has been the epitome of democracy

by Reno Omokri This would ordinary be something praise worthy, but of course to some, nothing the president does is ever good enough. Take for instance, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos. On the 18th of February 2012 Asiwaju had said “We want Sovereign National Conference. Nigerians who voted for the President have... Read More

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October 10, 2013

Segun Adeniyi: Let the conversations begin

by Segun Adeniyi I took many things away from the interaction but the greatest lesson for me was from a girl who said what she dislikes about Nigeria is the pessimism of the people. “Nigerians just have this negative attitude that things are not going to change; and that nothing is going to work.”... Read More

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October 8, 2013

Why Nigeria needs a National Conference – Goodluck Jonathan

by Dr. Goodluck Jonathan Ladies and Gentlemen, We have wasted too much time and resources, bickering over sectional versions of what define reality. This is an open-ended luxury we can no longer afford. Let us move forward, with honest conviction and patriotic courage, to strengthen this Republic, and get it to work better and brighter,... Read More

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October 6, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: Engaging dialectics in Nigeria

by Tunde Fagbenle Will another dialogue put an end to the security challenge that is fast turning the north-eastern part of the country into a war zone? Will talks resolve the crisis of our education in which our universities are perpetually on strike? Will it address the problems of poor governance and impunity at virtually... Read More

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October 1, 2013

Pres. Jonathan sets up committee to plan National Conference

by Akan Ido In an early morning Independence Day broadcast today (Tuesday), President Goodluck Jonathan announced the setting up of an Advisory Committee to establish modalities for a national conference aimed at resolving issues that currently cause friction in the polity. President Jonathan said that the committee which will have Dr. Femi Okurounmu as its... Read More

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For the Record: Pres. Jonathan’s remarks at the inauguration of the National Conference

Chidi Onumah: The National Conference may be the beginning of the end of Nigeria

Opinion: I am not going to the National Conference because of N12 million

Elnathan John: Jonathan the man of God, and other such theories

Opinion: Igbo leaders are responsible for the ill-treatment of the Igbos

Reno Omokri: National conference – Preparing for a marriage and not a wedding

Demola Rewaju: APC and this ideology of hypocrisy

Opinion: The National conference is a necessary distraction

Olusegun Adeniyi: Nigeria’s imperfect constitution and the National Conference

Opinion: Can Nigeria be negotiated out of its condition

Opinion: Obafemi Awolowo, please we need you back

Ochereome Nnanna: Discard wrong power sharing formular

Opinion: National Dialogue – Reno Omokri’s convoluted logic and other choristers

Opinion: Between Jonathan’s national dialogue and Gorbachev’s Perestroika

Tunde Fagbenle: The debate continues on the need for a National Conference

Sad news: Prominent rights activist slumps and dies after making presentation on National Conference

Opinion: Why Sen. Mark, Okunrounmu are typical Nigerian politicians but Stella Oduah is not

Demola Rewaju: This distraction called ‘National Conference’ again

Kayode Komolafe: Still on the real purpose of National Dialogue

Opinion: Dancing to Jonathan’s tunes

Opinion: The ethical questions before Jonathan’s Conference

Bola Tinubu: Why Jonathan’s imposed National Conference will fail

Duro Onabule: Why must Nigerians constantly overheat the polity?

Femi Fani-Kayode: Jonathan’s Greek gift and the true believers

Olisa Agbakoba: Can National Conference provide legal basis for new Nigerian Constitution?

Reno Omokri: President Jonathan has been the epitome of democracy

Segun Adeniyi: Let the conversations begin

Why Nigeria needs a National Conference – Goodluck Jonathan

Tunde Fagbenle: Engaging dialectics in Nigeria

Pres. Jonathan sets up committee to plan National Conference

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