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Caught between Boko Haram and 'Governance Haram' |
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THE ferocious and senseless attack on government institutions and innocent citizens by the Boko Haram sect in Borno, Bauchi, Yobe, and Kano states in late July 2009 is yet another reminder of the parlous state of Nigeria as a whole and the far northern states in particular. |
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Abdul Raufu Mustapha |
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Leadership: Is Nigeria Jinxed? |
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Each time I write about this President, Umaru Yar’Adua, it is with a measure of indignation, a cold anger caused by his colossal inability to seize the opportunity that time and circumstance have afforded him with grace to shape his presidency and give a direction and a sense of purpose for Nigeria and its citizens who for decades have been yearning for good leadership. |
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Noble Nwabueze |
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Anambra 2010: Obi holds the ace |
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I have read about all those wishing to contest with the incumbent Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, on the forthcoming gubernatorial election to usher in another four-year term in the state come March 2010 when Obi’s first term would expire. But none is inspiring and compelling enough to match what Obi has done and still doing for his beloved state. |
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Noble Nwabueze |
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Should we Rebrand or MEND Nigeria? |
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“MEND, by coincidence, has an acronym which poses itself as a kind of contextual option to ‘rebranding’. Is Nigeria worth ‘rebranding’ or is it ‘mending’ that is required?”— Professor Wole Soyinka Dear Professor Omafume Onoge, Many people suspect that you died of a broken heart because a President who has proven himself incapable of keeping his word where your beloved Niger Delta is concerned |
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Tony Uranta |
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North Korea and Clinton's Citizen diplomacy |
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THERE is a lot that Nigerians should find instructive in former President Bill Clinton's diplomatic shuttle to North Korea, this week, to secure amnesty for two American journalists who had been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment with hard labour by the North Koreans. |
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Reuben Abati |
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What does Buhari want? |
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IT is very difficult to understand Muhammadu Buhari, the former military head of state and former presidential candidate of the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP). It is even harder to determine whether Buhari's unpredictability should be classified as an element of human virtue or vice. You will understand why, shortly. In one moment, he would be saying the right things and in the next moment he would be saying things that would undermine the way the public views him. |
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Levi Obijiofor |
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Militancy and security responses in Nigeria |
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http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/freekick/2009/aug/05/freekick-05-08-2009-001.htm |
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FEMI ESEKU |
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The Boko Haram crisis |
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WITHIN five days of joint military and police assault against a most pernicious and self-styled Islamist fundamentalist group that unleashed mayhem in some states in the north, over 750 people have reportedly been killed. Police stations, prisons and government buildings have been destroyed along with churches and mosques. |
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Guardian Editorial |
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The days after Boko Haram |
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THE international media searchlight has been beaming on Nigeria in the past week - characteristically for negative reasons manifested in the resurgence of die-hard religious fundamentalists who caused the nation to witness the avoidable deaths of hundreds of thousands of our compatriots. |
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Banji Adisa |
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State creation, a bogey? |
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I READ The Guardian editorial opinion of Tuesday July 28, 2009 with some concern because it is not for nothing that the editorial opinion of your newspaper on burning national questions is considered pivotal and arguably the final word in resolving issues. |
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Michael Agbamuche |
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Boko Haram : Prohibition of knowledge and reason |
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WE live in an extremely cruel and violent world . Nothing demonstrates this fact for most people living in the Northern part of the country better than the grotesque events of the last days in July when a group called Boko Haram, headed by Muhammad Yusuf attacked police stations and government buildings in several Northern states. |
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Disu Kamor |
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Nigeria on the brink |
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FOUR days of violence in Nigeria have left hundreds dead, destroyed towns and villages across the north, brought the cold-blooded police shooting of an Islamist rabble-rouser and left the outside world horrified. |
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By The Times of London |
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David Mark: Off the mark on patriotism |
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SENATE President David Mark is by virtue of the Constitution Nigeria's number three citizen. But, on a scale of patriotism, he takes the cake as Nigeria's number one flag-waver. He loves his country. He likes to talk highly about his country, even when verifiable evidence contradicts his position. |
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Levi Obijiofor |
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The threat by South South Governors |
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ONE felt quite exasperated and harassed to read that the Governors of the South South have issued a threat to stage a walk-out at the on-going Federal Amnesty talks. The Governors of the South South are privileged, more than any other group of individuals in Nigeria to appreciate the sensitivities of the crises in the Niger Delta. |
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Emmanuel Usanga |
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Boko Haram and the evil of ignorance |
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THE current sectarian crisis in parts of Northern Nigeria highlights many of the fault lines in Nigerian politics; it further re-enacts a familiar Nigerian story about religious violence, poverty, ignorance and unemployment. |
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Reuben Abati |
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