On the Benin River one afternoon in late...
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Policy & Politics
Niger Delta: Labour and the capacity for productivity
IT’S the 14th Democracy Day and I’m looking at the Niger Delta basin, site of all of Nigeria’s crude oil production since 1958. I am looking at the basin from the point of view of possibilities.
On the Benin River one afternoon in late...
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Our democratic experience fairly okay, say Akinjide, Babatope
REFLECTING on Nigeria’s democratic experience since 1999, former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Chief Richard Akinjide and former Minister of Transport, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, say all is not a write-off, as the country can do better...
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‘The time for lamentation is over’
You have trusted me with your mandate, and I will never, never let you downBeing President Goodluck Jonathan’s inauguration address on the occasion of his swearing-in as President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria on May 29...
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The dividend Yar’Adua promised
(Inauguration speech by President Umar Musa Yar’Adua on May 30, 2007)HIS Excellency, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan; President of the Senate, the Speaker, House of Representatives, my Lord Chief Justice of Nigeria, President Olusegun...
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Chopping and fighting: Nigeria’s crisis of nation building
AT a meeting in the early 1960s, the leaders of a poor nation just exiting colonial rule gaily informed colleagues visiting from another developing country how well they were doing under self-rule. They had acquired huge palm oil plantations... Add new comment Hits: 297
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