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The emergency rule option

The emergency rule option

May 22, 2013, 1 Comment

President Goodluck Jonathan, last week, took a decisive step on the terrorism and insecurity troubling ...

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Life is all about  giving –Onari Duke

Life is all about giving –Onari Duke

May 20, 2013, 4 Comments

Like former United States president, Jimmy Carter, who has dedicated his life since leaving the ...

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Our friends, the police

Our friends, the police

I know I should be talking about the state of emergency currently in place in three states of the federation. I know I should be talking about two or three other states which have also earned the emergency rule regime but which were spared  the presi[...]

Northern elders doing their best to demonise Jonathan

Northern elders doing their best to demonise Jonathan

There is something eminently wrong with the pressure group known as the Northern Elders Forum. Days after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, this vague organisation of elders described the eme[...]

Why nations fail (2)

Why nations fail (2)

Last week, we made the point that nations where the ruling class is not accountable to the people, where the ruling “narrow elite have organized the society for their own benefit at the expense of the vast mass of people,” where such elite cannot eas[...]

Which gods must be appeased?

Which gods must be appeased?

Modern Nigeria’s crisis, I suggest, is primarily a crisis of values. In Umuofia, Okonkwo may give vent to unruly deportment but his community is also equipped with the coercive instrument for regulating his conduct or punishing his excesses. Okonk[...]

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