Tag: National Conference

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March 17, 2014

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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? ...

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January 12, 2014

Opinion: Obafemi Awolowo, please we need you back

by Olusina Akeredolu It is an irony of time therefore that the same Tinubu was one of the APC leaders ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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