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Kolade... An Oasis Of Integrity In A Corrupt Environment

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KoladeABOUT  twelve years ago, in the early days of the Obasanjo government, I got a call from the Presidency asking for Dr Christopher Kolade’s phone number. Sensing my hesitation, the caller, an old friend and colleague, assured me that the...
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‘The Obasanjo You Don’t Know’

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Uba-Obasanjo…closest aide, Andy Uba, talks about his days in Aso Rock Villa

GENERALLY, he is not a man of many words. Soft-spoken, gentle, and quiet, almost to a point of shyness, you literally have to coax words out of him. Yet, as chief-of-staff in the...
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Why Reform Fail... A Trajectory For Nigeria’s Civil Service

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Head-of-ServiceMOST of the rejoinders I received on the two serials preceding this one have demanded that I provide a trajectory of “how to do reform guide” that would be a logical conclusion to my historical analysis of the civil service in Nigeria and...
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