''Greedy Stella'', the Press, and African First Ladies panorama
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Nigerians are embarrassed by the arrest of the Publisher of the newspaper that circulates in Edo State, the home State of Stella Obasanjo. This man should be released and Stella should apologize to him, otherwise, Orobosa Omo-Ojo should go to Court for a redress. more >>
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dz.writeln("ONYINYE'S MIRROR ON LIFE
The sweat of a nation
ONYINYE OYEDELE, Ontario, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - Some of them had bicycles, some came to school on foot. I remember feeling bad whenever they had to go back to their sits or staff room without washing their hands after writing for hours with white chalk and having that chalk all over their hair and clothes after dusting the blackboard. I ask myself, where will we all be today without teachers? more >>
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dz.writeln("ODEYEMI'S ENGLAND CONFIDENTIAL
Ogunlewe and the Lagos distractions
CHURCHILL UMOREN, Special Assistant (Media) to the Hon. Minister of Works, Abuja, Nigeria (Nigeriaworld) - I think Alhaji Tinubu should be made to distinguish between warding off Ogunlewe and his PDP, and making life more abundant for Lagosians. The purist approach will not work.. It may have worked in the days of the A.G, UPN, and between 1999 and 2003 when AD called the shots in the entire Yoruba land. more >>
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dz.writeln("Doing theology in context (Part One)
HERBERT EZE, Fullerton, CA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - In the African cultural context today, especially, in relation to the gross error of truncated gospel peddled for selfish gain, there is serious need for a contextualized theology.... Something is seriously wrong in a situation, like in Nigeria, where there is so much religious activities while we are on top list among nations that have the worst records in character year after year. more >>
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dz.writeln("Reinventing NIDO
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - The other issue that is distancing some Nigerians from NIDO is its strong scrounging with the Federal Government of Nigeria. As a 'not-for-profit' organization in the United States, NIDO should NEVER be the fourth arm of any government. It should be independent of the home government. Any government can support NIDO's cause, but not financing or housing the organization. more >>
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dz.writeln("ODEYEMI'S ENGLAND CONFIDENTIAL
Tafa Balogun - Act 1 Scene 2
DIRAN ODEYEMI, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - ...in Nigeria, anything is possible. If the court had requested that Tafa needed President Olusegun Obasanjo and his Vice Alhaji Abubarka Atiku as surety for his bail, I am very optimistic that he would not have spent a day longer than he did looking for Obis, Obas and Emirs, millionaires in Asokoro and National merit award winners. more >>
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dz.writeln("War on Corruption: Is Obasanjo capitulating?
ALFRED UZOKWE, Harrisburg, PA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - After reading the comment made by an American envoy in Nigeria, one became convinced that skeptical Nigerians were not alone in their concerns. The American envoy hailed the anti-corruption war alright, but cautioned that they need to start hearing about court arraignments and convictions rather than just talk. The man is right on the money.... more >>
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dz.writeln("SHILGBA: FROM MY HEART
Random talk on misplaced hype in Nigeria
LEONARD K. SHILGBA, Yokohama, Japan (Nigeriaworld) - This excitement [over OBJ's 'Draft Constitution'] was unnecessary; in fact, any Nigerian, not excepting the President, has the right to make suggestions as to what should be in the next constitution. The fact is that the sensibilities of our politicians have been sharpened towards where the next President comes from that they hype on inanities. more >>
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dz.writeln("Let the President dance naked
MOSHOOD A. FAYEMIWO, Albany, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - As the great Nwalimu of Tanzania, late Julius Nyerere once said, no leader can make $1m from his own sweat or from public office without stealing. President Obasanjo therefore needs to first dance naked to convince those who have given up on Nigeria that it will no longer be business as usual. more >>
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dz.writeln("Why Pope Benedict XVI is wrong about relativism
OKEZIE CHUKWUMERIJE, Houston, TX, USA (Nigeriaworld) - The Pope's position may lead to the kind of fundamentalism that is condemned in the context of Islamic fundamentalism. It was not long ago that the Pope, as Cardinal Ratzinger, wrote that priests in the U.S. may properly deny communion to abortion rights supporters, including the Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry. more >>
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dz.writeln("Obasanjo’s Confab: The battle of our lives
LEBURAH GANAGO, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - What is more, other Niger Delta leaders at the confab, from respected technocrat and industry titan, Gamaliel Onosode, Chief A.K. Horsefall to Professor Kimse Okoko, have since indicated that the resource control battle is one issue on which there will be no compromise. more >>
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dz.writeln("Medical team heading to Kwara State for free medical services
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - A group of Medical Team is heading to Kwara State, Nigeria, on a Medical Mission to give free medical services to the citizens of Kwara State. According to the Team leader, Dr. Bato Amu, the Medical Mission is a way of giving back to the Community. more >>
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dz.writeln("Success: The price for the prize
ONYINYE OYEDELE, Ontario, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - Sometimes people back home have an unrealistic expectation of those in the Diaspora. As soon as you arrive, the 'buy me this' lists and 'send me that' emails start pouring in and you begin to dread phone calls from home after a while. Sometimes you can't even afford to wear or buy those things, which are being demanded, from you. more >>
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Bridging the cultural divide between Africa and the African Diaspora
CHAMBERLAIN S. PETERSIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Despite the fact that no one is born or breed to hate themselves or their kind, experience shows that, some times as Africans in the Diaspora attain higher level of economic success and climb the social ladder, they gradually start to lose consciousness of their cultural heritage and alienate themselves from their ethnicity or the continent, as if they are ashamed of their African origin. more >>
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dz.writeln("OKEZIE, THE OUTSIDER
The representa-thieves and sinner-tors in the National Ashame-bly & the curse of the Senate Presidency
TONYE DAVID-WEST, USA (Nigeriaworld) - It [Nigeria] cannot afford the services of the corruption and indolence lawmakers. If the men and women sent to Abuja to represent the nation are serious at what they do, by now, Nigeria should be respected world-wide and our youths would not have suffered the visa ban imposed by the British government.... more >>
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dz.writeln("ODEYEMI'S ENGLAND CONFIDENTIAL
HIV/AIDS in Africa: Political, policy, program, health and legal responses
CHINUA AKUKWE, Washington, DC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Invited Presentation by Dr. Chinua Akukwe, George Washington University School of Public Health, DC, At the American Bar Association, International Law, Spring Meeting in Washington, DC, April, 2005. more >>
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dz.writeln("Bailing Balogun
OKEZIE CHUKWUMERIJE, Houston, TX, USA (Nigeriaworld) - ...an accused person remains entitled to the presumption of innocence. ...Recently the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasai el-Rufai, said that Balogun deserves more than handcuffs! Why not just put a gun to his head, or if we are to be merciful, send him to jail for the rest of his life without trial. more >>
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dz.writeln("School curriculum and felt needs across cultures
HERBERT EZE, Fullerton, CA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - It is sad that very often the values and needs of a more powerful and dominant culture are imposed on minority groups without regard and care over their cultural orientation and felt needs. A curriculum for their schooling, foreign to their needs and aspirations, is prescribed by some authorities in a dominant culture. more >>
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dz.writeln("IBB laud's anti-graft war?
ALFRED UZOKWE, Harrisburg, PA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - If Babangida wants Nigerians to believe that he supports the [corruption] war, there are many things he needs to do. For starters, he needs to declare his current assets and then tell Nigerians how he amassed them with his military salary. Anything less would be mere lip service.... more >>
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dz.writeln("Eko Club Houston launches its $1.3 million Eko Plaza
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - The Eko Club, U.S.A. Inc, Houston Chapter performed a Ground Breaking ceremony of a $1.3 million Eko Plaza, March 26th, 2005. more >>
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dz.writeln("The Next Pope
Rev Fr. STAN CHU ILO, Adu Achi, Enugu State, Nigeria (Nigeriaworld) - An African Pope will not necessarily change the status of Africa as a forgotten continent. If Arinze becomes Pope like many people in Africa are praying, I expect that he is elected not because he is an African, but because he is qualified and is chosen by God to lead his Church. more >>
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dz.writeln("''Expose'' Obasanjo's ''Shady Deals'': The heat is on
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - The type of worms that would be witnessed by the entire world in the midst of cleaning up the mess in Nigeria, that has impeded progress since its inception, will interest some inquiry minds. We do have quite a large number of unemployed who would possibly clean up the mess after the worms have been destroyed. more >>
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dz.writeln("TONYE'S WORLD
When you dare to care
ONYINYE OYEDELE, Ontario, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - Many of us in the Diaspora have either been hurt by an uncle or aunt, brother or sister, friend or distant relative that you stayed with when you got off the plane. You were received warmly at the airport, taken home and given a place to lay your head. Before you left home, you probably had never spoken to this uncle or aunt, maybe you exchanged letters or it was arranged by your parents on your behalf. more >>
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dz.writeln("The war against corruption and the survivality of Nigeria
PRIYE S. TORULAGHA, (Nigeriaworld) - By depriving those whose lands provide the source of oil from having a direct stake in the way money from the product is managed, the oil revenue becomes a free for all booty, hence, the massive looting. As the money is stolen, land owners are incensed that they are being cheated. more >>
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dz.writeln("What exactly does our Muslim brothers want?
MATHEW AMUSAN, St. Paul, MN, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Prof. Oloyede, Conference Muslim Co-Secretary, being a Yoruba man from Ilorin was not acceptable to our Northern brothers. Why? Because he probably must have been a nominal Muslim in the context of our brothers from the North who believe a southern Muslim is not better than a non believer. more >>
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dz.writeln("Corruption knows no ethnic, religious, or social boundaries
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - My concern will be for Nigerians in Diaspora not to be able to see the need to fight this corruption. It will be shameful for any Nigerian in Diaspora to support the manufacturers of corruption at the National Assembly, simply because they come from their ethnic groups, religious sects, or belong to their social circle. more >>
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dz.writeln("Distract-ocracy
SOWORE OMOYELE, New York, USA (Nigeriaworld) - With respect to the current anti-corruption crusade, I just want to be clear to those who are being fooled that, this is nothing but a pre-arranged clampdown upon some members of the ruling class. In making this possible, the president had created the characters from inception. more >>
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dz.writeln("Government appointments and Jihad
JOHN E. IYOBHEBHE, (Nigeriaworld) - Can poor OBJ and his government cope with battling corruption, inflation, oppression of the poor, nepotism, inappropriate cornering of prestige FG mansions in Ikoyi...the Anambra Crisis, OsujiGate, HIV/AIDS, Poverty, Crippling Foreign Debt Repayments, pro and anti resource control warriors...and then now Jihad on top. more >>
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dz.writeln("SHILGBA: FROM MY HEART
updated: Ikoyi houses scandal: Mr. President, more action
LEONARD K. SHILGBA, Yokohama, Japan (Nigeriaworld) - If President Obasanjo directs investigation of the sources of money paid by any serving or former civil or public servant, military or civilian, for any government property on sale when such payment is far in excess of legitimate means, he will be moving one significant step forward in combating corruption in Nigeria. more >>
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dz.writeln("The logic of President Obasanjo's corruption scorecard
UCHENNA ODOGWO, USA (Nigeriaworld) - President Obasanjo should decide whether he is really ready to challenge himself and Nigerians in opening this can of worms. To make this task easy, Obasanjo should use his relationship with the great leaders around the world; call on the United States Government, Britain, Germany, France, and Switzerland to release the list of Nigerian millionaires and the extent of their holdings. more >>
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dz.writeln("Nigerian public officials, beware of Kenneth Starr
ALOY EJIMAKOR, Washington, DC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Well, it seems to me that Ribadu, the honorable 'Independent Counsel' of Nigeria has latched on to the first lesson and he is trying dispassionately to teach it to Nigerian public officials in the language they will understand - the language of presidential public disclosures of high level official corruption. Unlike the real Starr, Ribadu would make a mistake to pursue that other 'official corruption' involving matters of 'prurient interest'.... more >>
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dz.writeln("novel extract: I will always love U - Part I
TUNDE OYEDOYIN, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - ''That's okay, my angel.'' The mention of the word, ''angel,'' seemed to have made Molara's heart to pump her blood faster than the normal rate and with both hands, she held on to him as the taxi decelerated to a stop - some three or four meters away from them. more >>
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dz.writeln("Vice-Admiral Akin Aduwo's apology is an insult (Conclusion)
Dr. ROBERT SANDA, Hail, Saudi Arabia (Nigeriaworld) - Some argue that with the deaths of Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa-Balewa, Akintola, Ekotie Eboh and others the country was ungovernable. But tell me, was Ironsi a superman armed with a secret formula that enabled him to rule this country until another tragedy took his life in another criminal act? more >>
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dz.writeln("Cold Fusion, the unlimited energy source: A myth or reality?
SAM EJIKE OKOYE, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - With controllable cold fusion, many of the world's energy problems would simply melt away: no wonder the US Department of Energy (DoE) is now interested. In December 2004, after a lengthy review of the evidence, it said it was open to receiving proposals for new cold fusion experiments. more >>
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dz.writeln("FEMI AJAYI REPORTING (CONCERT DATES)
King Sunday Aladeniyi and Prince Obiajulu Osadebey tour
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Obiajulu's concert combination with Sunny Ade is a high level of Yoruba and Igbo musicians performing together. The cultural exchange between the Igbos and Yorubas, especially the strong traditions of praise singing and spraying money, were displayed in Atlanta, Friday March 18, 2005 more >>
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dz.writeln("SHILGBA: FROM MY HEART
National conference resolutions: NASS reputation and the question of referendum
LEONARD K. SHILGBA, Yokohama, Japan (Nigeriaworld) - Suppose the NASS refuses to appropriate money for the Referendum, then in the light of the scandal coming from the NASS, it will yet be in bad odour with the Nigerian people. Furthermore, the Federal government should source money from the same source it got the funds for the NPRC for the referendum. more >>
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dz.writeln("With African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA) in place, charity can become one of the factors of production
ALOY EJIMAKOR, Washington, DC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Of all other available options, if any at all, this ''charity'' approach seems to be the next best alternative that will give AGOA the much needed shot in the arm, if you will. more >>
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dz.writeln("Vice-Admiral Akin Aduwo's apology is an insult (Part 2)
Dr. ROBERT SANDA, Hail, Saudi Arabia (Nigeriaworld) - Some argue that with the deaths of Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa-Balewa, Akintola, Ekotie Eboh and others the country was ungovernable. But tell me, was Ironsi a superman armed with a secret formula that enabled him to rule this country until another tragedy took his life in another criminal act? more >>
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dz.writeln("What is african Hip-Hop?
SEYI SOFOLA, Abuja, Nigeria (Nigeriaworld) - When a continental rap artist, who has not taken the time to experience the Hiphop culture first hand, chooses to deliver lyrics in this language, more often than not they sound like an American would sound trying to sing a song in pidgin without ever visiting Nigeria. more >>
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dz.writeln("Nigerians, is Obasanjo ''Vindictive'', ''Corrupt'', and ''a Killer''?
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Orji is allowing his wealth to block his good sense of reasoning, like his good friend, Chief Uba, the 'tsunami' of Anambra State. And for him to be considering running for Nigerian President, (2007) can Nigerians trust Orji Kalu's public conduct with these outrageous statements as a Governor of a State. more >>
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dz.writeln("Instituting probity in Nigeria's public sector and financial industry
CHAMBERLAIN S. PETERSIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Every year, as Transparency International rates Nigeria at the bottom rung of the corruption index, Nigerians react with disdain, often complaining that advanced countries are no less corrupt. Be that as it may, corruption is not so pervasive and destructive as in Nigeria. more >>
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dz.writeln("National Conference, No-Go-Areas and the intractables
CHIKWENDU C. UKAEGBU, Laramie, WY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Why would four hundred delegates, many of them citizens of great accomplishments, be constrained from expressing their views on matters, which many of them understand better than many of those in government? more >>
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dz.writeln("War on corruption: Good developments but the President must do more
ALFRED UZOKWE, Harrisburg, PA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - The issue is not that there is corruption in Nigeria.... What is important is that when corruption takes place, the culprits are caught, prosecuted and put away. That is what happens in western countries and if Obasanjo continues in the same way things may just begin to look up for the nation. more >>
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dz.writeln("The Guru of GuguruLand
ADEBAYO WILLIAMS, San Antonio, TX, USA (Nigeriaworld) - ''Re-create the state, the nation and the political elite. And I'm afraid that can never be done at an Abuja tea party. When the American founding fathers got together, they had the emotional intelligence to put the interest of the new nation above petty personal failings....'' more >>
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dz.writeln("On the Abuja circus show and the rest
SEYI ODUYELA, Hyattsville, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - What has Obasanjo embarked on that yielded success? ... Everything is wrong with the conference, from the composition, conception and what to discuss. The Nigerian masses did not draw the agenda. We did not set it up. There are a lot of people there with questionable characters. more >>
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dz.writeln("Nigeria's external debt: Which is more unsustainable - The debt or the repudiation?
ALOY EJIMAKOR, Washington, DC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - A private citizen in a country like the United States will testify to the psychological pressure immediately brought to bear on him if he dares ''repudiate'' his credit card debts, car notes, or mortgage. ...The reactions will be swift and predictable, and it can range from initial disbelief to one of a scramble by the nation's lenders to examine their options.... more >>
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dz.writeln("Just ban all arms to Africa – nothing else required for now
HERBERT EKWE-EKWE, (Nigeriaworld) - An immediate British arms ban on Nigeria, Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda, etc., etc., will accelerate the quest for Africans to build states that are alternatives to the extant genocide-states. more >>
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dz.writeln("
On National Debts: Nigeria and Africa's hour
LEONARD K. SHILGBA, Yokohama, Japan (Nigeriaworld) - The matter of sovereign debts being imputed to a country like Nigeria is a moral, political, social, and economic issue. How morally correct is it for a country-a developing one for that matter, to be tied under the yoke of paying debts many times over? more >>
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dz.writeln("Architects of the world order, their weapon of control and the survival of Africa
ERIC I. NWOKEDI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - The unfortunate African nation [Nigeria], even though had no capital project at hand to finance, was lured into their debt or death trap in the 80's when it was forced to accept a debt burden of about $28 billion. Since then it has been paying about $5 billion every year in debt servicing alone. After 23 years and over 100 billion dollars siphoned without mercy, Nigeria still has the same amount in debt hovering above $30 billion. more >>
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dz.writeln("Nation building ...Not for the faint of heart, nor a cake walk
CHAMBERLAIN S. PETERSIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Essentially, most ethnic groups today in Nigeria are better off together than separately. There is widespread believe around political and economic circles internationally, that except for South Africa, if any black country would ever develop, the country with the best chance is Nigeria. more >>
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dz.writeln("Ensuring the continuity of Obasanjo's legacy
Dr. CHINEDU ONUORAH, New Jersey, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Today Obasanjo's National Constitutional Conference is being opposed mainly from a particular section of the country. If not for plans to reverse [the achievements of Obasanjo], why are we hearing: no to parliamentary system of government, no to regions, no to resource control, no to due process and in fact no to anything that will alter the status quo? more >>
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dz.writeln("Obasanjo must have his Conference, warts and all
ALOY EJIMAKOR, Washington, DC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - The alternative, which is to permit PRONACO to proceed with a 'sovereign' conference of 'nationalities' is pretty scary, to say the least. Look at what happened to Soviet Union after a politically weak and overly idealistic Gorbachov allowed his fine political restructuring agenda to slip from his control into the hands of ethnic nationalists like Yeltsin.... more >>
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dz.writeln("THE OMORUYI PAPERS
The case against decentralizing the police force
OKEZIE CHUKWUMERIJE, Houston, TX, USA (Nigeriaworld) - ...at this stage in our development. Decentralization of the force may worsen, not solve, the problems facing our police force. Officers in a state police force are not going to be more efficient, less partisan, or more honorable than their fellow countrymen and women. more >>
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dz.writeln("TONYE'S WORLD
A strange and facinating nation: My early years in Nigeria (IV)
BABS AJAYI, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - Lagos is never in short supply of images, acts, sudden but strange dramas, and action packed events. It may be a street fight, an insult/abuse-throwing competition, street thuggery, a theft that overwhelmed and shocked everyone, a failed burglary where the city woke up to find the robbers with brooms in hand sweeping endlessly! more >>
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dz.writeln("Foundations of Okija justice
NONSO OKEREAFOEZEKE, Norfolk, VA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Another important factor that adds to the sustenance of the Okija’s in Igbo and other parts of Nigeria is the absence of, or limited, knowledge or understanding of other systems and methods of social control and justice. The issue here is the lack of sufficient exposure to other world cultures and systems of social control and justice. more >>
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dz.writeln("Prof. Omoruyi's ''Ramparts'': How defensible?
VICTOR MANFREDI, Boston, MA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - In sum, Prof Omoruyi's defense of General Obasanjo's eight ''ramparts'', as highlighted in the Vanguard article, may be defensible on narrow, technical grounds, but only with two key assumptions which tend to trivialise the whole discussion. more >>
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dz.writeln("''Cash and Carry Legislators'': At least this is not coming from Nasir el-Rufai
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - For members of the National assembly to accept gifts from potential business owners that are interested in the legislation before the House or Senate is morally wrong. Maybe they don't know. An utterance, such as MTN cards is a ''public relations'' package, shows their ignorance about their responsibilities. more >>
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dz.writeln("New Yarn Resolutions
SEGUN FAJEMISIN, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - As the cliché goes, ''the spirit is willing; it is the willpower that is lacking''. Talking about resolutions, it is as if the cravings that you are trying desperately to drop off suddenly appear to have assumed a larger-than-life dimension once you've decided to part with them. more >>
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dz.writeln("UNDERSTANDING ''NO GO'' AREAS
If the oil were in the North
TONYE DAVID-WEST, Jr., Ph.D, USA (Nigeriaworld) - They would declare independence and leave the South to wallow in its misery. There would be no time for SNC talks, no time for confederacy talks, no time for referandum, just enough time to declare independence and have their oil republic without the infidels. more >>
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dz.writeln("The Nigerian policeman is your friend
IKE ANYA, UK (Nigeriaworld) - There is a face in the car window, it is a policeman. ''Good morning sir'', he says, ''we are on ''Stop and search'', May we know you?'' I am calm; having long learned that playing it cool is the only way to deal with the Nigerian police. I tell him my name. Do you have any ID or business card to confirm? I rack my brain.... more >>
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dz.writeln("Nigeria as terrible example of democracy
LEBURAH GANAGO, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Every tyrant who rigs himself to power in Nigeria writes his own constitution. Abacha wrote his. Obasanjo wants to write his own version of the Nigerian constitution. However, one would not be surprised if the in-coming constitution contains a provision which prohibits the probe of past public office holders; something like Buhari's Decree 4 of 1984. more >>
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dz.writeln("ODEYEMI'S ENGLAND CONFIDENTIAL
The threat of emerging infectious diseases: How prepared is Nigeria
CHIKWE IHEKWEAZU, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, UK (Nigeriaworld) - ...while there is still time. European countries have been busy preparing pandemic preparedness plans, partly in response to this threat.... Several African countries including our neighbours Ghana have established Field Epidemiology training programmes, yet the silence in Nigeria has been deafening. more >>
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dz.writeln("A strange and facinating nation: My early years in Nigeria (III)
BABS AJAYI, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - Before it was finally phased out in the mid nineteen seventies, the greatest spectacle in Lagos those days was the nightsoil man (''Agbepo'' in Yoruba). The conveyor of the secret deposits of everyone in Lagos long before the water closet made its debut in Nigeria, the nightsoil man bestrode Lagos streets with heavy trappings and with great burden. more >>
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dz.writeln("Book Review: Eve Ikuenobe-Otaigbe untangled the ''Tangled''
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - ''Tangled'' is a must read for most Africans that have left the continent for sometime, those that are willing to learn more about African culture and tradition, and adventurous readers who want to learn more about a typical African experience. more >>
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dz.writeln("In search of Mr. Right or Wrong in Diaspora: The plight of the young black African woman
ANNIE BRISIBE-PORBENI, Woodbury, MN, USA (Nigeriaworld) - I am not sure this is the right time to talk about how I met my fiance, maybe at the next get-together in Teckler's rosy apartment I will tell. It was hard to talk about my luck, knowing fully well that I was going to speak with a faint smile on my face. more >>
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dz.writeln("OKEZIE, THE OUTSIDER
Trading carefully in our political market-place
UCHENDU E. CHIGBU, Reading, UK (Nigeriaworld) - Ours is no longer just a nation, but more of a public gathering being held particularly for buying and selling 'political merchandise'. The shrewd politicians sell their dirty promises to the poor masses, trading things like bags of salt, bottles of mineral-drink.... more >>
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dz.writeln("Oba Lipede restored the glory of Egbaland
KUNLE I. SOWUNMI, Dallas, TX, USA (Nigeriaworld) - As the Egbas mourn the death of Oba Lipede we are thankful to God for the 33 years Lipede reigned over Egbaland. He restored the glory of Egbaland, he gave us love, and he gave us hope to believe in ourselves and in our land, he made us to give than to take. more >>
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dz.writeln("Nigeria: When a Tripod is turned to a Dipod
DECLAN EZENNA, Roma, Italy (Nigeriaworld) - And if after leading Nigeria for the 36 of her 44 years of independence, the North still wants to take over political power in 2007, in the face of mounting opposition from the other zones, what moral obligations are there to deter the Southwest from asking for the presidency come 2015? more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("A perspective on The UNILAG crisis
MALCOLM FABIYI, Chicago, IL, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Proscriptions, arrests, and detentions have never worked. They only create 'martyrs' that inspire entirely new generations of activists! UNILAG has always been a socio-political laboratory for understanding what is going on within the Nigerian society. more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("Arguing on the inconsequential as Africa burns
HERBERT EKWE-EKWE, (Nigeriaworld) - Africa, presently, remains one of humanity’s most endowed continents. It is not poor. Despite all the noisy propaganda of “Western aid” to the continent, African émigrés in the Americas and Europe now dispatch more money to Africa annually than all the “Western aid” combined. more >>
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dz.writeln("ODEYEMI'S ENGLAND CONFIDENTIAL
Alake of Egbaland dies, Who's next?
YEMI OKE, Toronto, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - Were it possible to live forever, all Egbas would unanimously have voted for eternal ruler-ship or rein-ship of the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Mofolunsho, Oyebabe Lipede, who few days ago ascended unto his ancestors. more >>
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dz.writeln("Conversations with a Political Scientist - Part V
GODSON OFFOARO, Washington, DC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - ''Any way, let's talk another aspect of my journey today. I've always said it, if the answer lies in grammar, we will be in Abuja tomorrow. Nigeria poelitics is not about grammar. That age is gone forever.'' more >>
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dz.writeln("Commercialization of education in Nigeria: To be or not to be?
ADELEKE OTUNUGA, Laurel, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Poverty is an economic incidence, not a crime, and while it would amount to systemic crime to disrobe the majority of the opportunity to be whatever they desired to be because their parents are poor, it would be a loss to the country to waste the opportunity to breed inventors and geniuses. more >>
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dz.writeln("Constructing a new national paradigm (I)
TOKUNBO OGUNBIYI, London, England (Nigeriaworld) - Those who have laboured most in Nigeria have reaped the least rewards but this is not by an accident of events - oh no, this was a deliberate policy designed to ensure that even after the cessation of the slave trade the back-breaking labour of our rural and urban artisan classes would continue un-rewarded even after independence. more >>
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dz.writeln("SOWORE OMOYELE INTERVIEWS KALU
Obasanjo is a killer, he's very corrupt and vindictive, says Governor Kalu
SOWORE OMOYELE, New York, USA (Nigeriaworld) - See, there is no governor in Nigeria that has the courage to speak like I do, I am not afraid to speak the truth, but at the same time I have two parents who are still living and every time they accuse me of wanting to ''kill'' them, then I slow down a bit.... more >>
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dz.writeln("Chris Uba, the Anambra 'Tsunami' epicenter of election fraud
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - The citizens of Anambra should stop the finger pointing games; they should look inwards because their enemy is within. Anambrans' lives and properties were being destroyed, not any State's. They should not blame anyone, but themselves for their self-inflicted problems. more >>
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dz.writeln("RE: Arabic Inscriptions on the Naira
ROBERT SANDA, Hail, Saudi Arabia (Nigeriaworld) - ...the words with the Arabic alphabets on the naira are, in fact, in hausa language and not Arabic at all. The use of Arabic letters in other languages is not new. Farsi, Pashtun, Urdu are among languages that use Arabic letters but are themselves quite unintelligible to an Arab.... more >>
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dz.writeln("Chicago police officer comments on Tafa Balogun and the Nigerian Police Force
ERIC EJIKEME O'SUOJI, Chicago, IL, USA (Nigeriaworld) - My experience with Nigerian police in 1995 is such that left an indelible scar in my heart. In a simple language, Nigeria unleashed a bunch of rogues that go about preying on innocent citizens. At gunpoint, some of these rogues hijacked our vehicle off the road in Benin and robbed me of #20,000.00. more >>
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dz.writeln("updated: Owners of Nigeria (Final Part): Talking about the collaborators
SEYI ODUYELA, Hyattsville, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - I have been busy writing about those who have helped in ruining the country. Most of what I wrote are not new, but I did it to bring it back to our consciousness, to remind us because I know many Nigerians have been infected with the short memory virus, which deadlier than the killer disease HIV/AIDS. more >>
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dz.writeln("Before you drop the gavel
ADELEKE OTUNUGA, Laurel, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - The event at Unilag was nothing out of the ordinary. There is always a social dimension to every political situation, and tertiary institution students are the necessary mirrors of the society. More than any other segment of society, it is the students that are affected the most by the political misadventures of our misleaders. more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("The suffering of Nigerians in China
EKECHUKWU OGBAH, China (Nigeriaworld) - Are we to suffer the sins of some unscripulous shameless elements who soils the name of our beloved country? Baba Iyabo, if there's anything at all, act fast Sir, let them not treat us unjustly in the name of visa policies and gross accusations. more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("ODEYEMI'S ENGLAND CONFIDENTIAL
Lessons from the United States (2004), and Nigeria (2003) elections, not so funny OBJ
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - There is nothing to laugh about in the elections in Nigeria (2003) and United States (2004). Presidents Bush and Obasanjo, are some of the lucky guys around, but should note that neither elections are nothing to laugh about, that is not funny. more >>
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dz.writeln("RE: How foreign religions ruined our societies
TOYIN KINOSHI, (Nigeriaworld) - My ancestors believed they could not approach Olodumare, God the Father directly with their petitions because He is too powerful. So, they asked (make supplications to) these super human beings, Ogun, Sango, Oya, Obatala and so on, to intercede on their behalf. But I was given another option in Christianity. more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("Governor Tinubu's LASTMA Vagabonds
GODSON OFFOARO, Washington, DC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Then another man in a slightly cleaner unimpressive uniform (yellow atop of green pants) walked up to me to say he was their boss. ''Oga,'' he said, ''we know you are a responsible gentle maanio (man oh). Open the car. My boy will follow you to our office, where they will tell you not to do this again and let you go....'' more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("SEYI'S EXPOSÉ
Owners of Nigeria X: Who is fooling who?
SEYI ODUYELA, Hyattsville, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - A murder suspect contested an election from prison, without campaigning, he won by a landslide. ...Did Omisore actually aspire for the Senate seat? What was the involvement of Atiku in this? Who did Audu Ogbeh refer to as forces within PDP that imposed Iyiola Omisore? more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("A judiciary in need of a new image
OSA IYINBO, Albany, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - ...reforms...judiciary...overlooked.... In a “prosperous” country like Nigeria, it is regrettable to say that Judges (including Justices of the Appellate Courts) are constrained to write in long hands, while their secretaries rely on archaic manual and electric typewriters. more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("Obasanjo and the 'Fraudulent' public officials
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - What is actually happening with the Local Government allocations is not clear to Nigerians, either the Councils are deftly corrupt as alleged, or the States ingeniously connive with the Local Council to fleece under the masquerade of running joint account. more >>
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dz.writeln("Obasanjo must succeed OBJ: Part IV
GODSON OFFOARO, Washington, DC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - To the old brigade who OBJ has rehabilitated: if I were you, I will say thank you Mr. Prez for giving me another opportunity and then run for my life. See what has happened to Audu Ogbe? With the OBJ that I know, Audu Ogbe may end up the way of Chuba Okadigbo. more >>
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dz.writeln("...Analysis of the risk reward metrics in a growing capital market
CHAMBERLAIN S. PETERSIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - ...returns have been bountiful, capitalization has been on the upswing, just as liquidity and transaction settlement time have improved tremendously. ...strong stimuli for more investor participation in the future, especially from Africans, nay Nigerians in the Diaspora. more >>
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dz.writeln("On National Conference and recent events in the polity
LEONARD K. SHILGBA, Yokohama, Japan (Nigeriaworld) - As we go to the National Conference, we should do it with a sense of mission and determination to keep Nigeria as one indivisible entity. Our large and growing population is an asset. China, the most populous country in the world, is now an attractive market that cannot be ignored. more >>
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dz.writeln("Conversations with a Political Scientist - Part II
GODSON OFFOARO, Washington, DC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - ''Lest I forget, (he began, in a hushed voice, walking back to me signaling he wanted to whisper something, almost simultaneously, I walk closer to him). Security is very important. (He said in whispers). If we can get police from out of state the better. Or better still private arrangements.'' more >>
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dz.writeln("''Aspiring presidents must have military background'': Hon. Justice Chukwudifu A. Oputa responds
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Some Nigerians are of the opinion that Marwa was a good Governor, who did not steal money. No one is accusing anyone of stealing money, but the question remains, Nigerians would like to know sources of his wealth after leaving Lagos State governorship. more >>
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dz.writeln("Major General NN Madza: The man who jailed Obasanjo
SEYI ODUYELA, Hyattsville, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - The recent announcement of officers promoted by the Nigerian Army was not a surprise to me; it shows the kind of system they run in that country. It is a country where innocent, professional and fine officers lose their jobs and the boot-lickers, back-bitters get to the top. more >>
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dz.writeln("Welcoming the Year 2005 with Tsunami New Year Resolution!
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - When I visited Lekki in the early 1990s, I told my cousin who wanted me to have a property at Lekki that, the area is below sea level. Any natural disaster, such as tsunami, Victoria Island, Apapa, and Lekki up to Epe, with its high brow residential and commercial buildings would be wiped off the map. more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("Obasanjo, Audu Ogbeh saga: A defining moment in Nigeria's democracy
CHINUA AKUKWE, Washington, DC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - PDP will likely face a scenario where one or two of the dominant three groups in the party will pull out and join the opposition, bringing with them formidable financial muscle and intimate knowledge of the 'science' of winning elections in Nigeria, even against incumbent governments. more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("SEYI'S EXPOSÉ
So, Obasanjo knew
ADEKUNLE AJISEBUTU, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - Obasanjo's reply to Audu Ogbeh's letter portrays a man that is devoid of decorum, questionable moral values, and lack leadership skills. Absolutely, this president needs to be placed on a very short leash. more >>
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dz.writeln("People and development
AYODEJI FALETI, The Hague (Nigeriaworld) - I have nothing against 50 cent. In fact, I am a big fan of the rap star. However, Eedris has every right to demand equal, even better, treatment from the Nigerian organizers of the event, as they were ready to extend to 50 Cent. more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("TONYE'S WORLD
Mr. President: The party is over
SAMUEL BAYO AROWOLAJU, USA (Nigeriaworld) - What type of President are you? Do you remember you are the number one law enforcement officer in Nigeria as a Commander in Thief, oh, I mean Chief? Do you remember that you sworn on the Holy Bible with one hand raised to God to defend and protect the constitution? more >>
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dz.writeln("ODEYEMI'S ENGLAND CONFIDENTIAL
Nigeria: Issues miscellanies
BABS AJAYI, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - When Obasanjo asks people who have information about the stolen wealth of IBB to come forward and provide it, he was threatening the masses and the media in particular, and to warn them that they will suffer the same fate that befell Dele Giwa. more >>
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dz.writeln("Mbano People Rock Washington, DC
GODSON OFFOARO, Washington, DC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - On Saturday night, in the removed neighborhood of Hyattsville, Maryland, here, the people of Mbano in the DC metropolitan area congregated with family, friends and special invitees to celebrate Xmas 2004 and also say goodbye to a year that has been most rewarding in every sense of it. more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("SEYI'S EXPOSÉ
Owners of Nigeria IX: Alhaji Abubakar Atiku: The face of an opportunist
SEYI ODUYELA, Hyattsville, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Yar'Adua surrogate... There are reports that Atiku is a greedy business man, who wants everything to himself. A mean and ruthless money monger. ...into almost everything, from shipping to banking, publishing, oil business and just name it. more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("BAYO'S PERISCOPE
Ogbeh and Obasanjo: Two sides of same coin (Matters Arising)
SEYI ODUYELA, Hyattsville, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - It is now clear that the trio of Olu Mafo, Prof C. Ohiagu and Lumumba Adeh were playing the script of the Presidency on the Na'Abba-must-be-probed crusade. These are adults, family men who turned themselves to instruments because of what to eat! more >>
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dz.writeln("…Nigerian banking reform, a new vista for the capital market
CHAMBERLAIN S. PETERSIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Look closer and you would notice that the current spate of consolidation and re-capitalization drive occasioned by this singular policy pronouncement, rightly or not is injecting a new dose of vibrancy into the Nigerian capital market. more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("ODEYEMI'S ENGLAND CONFIDENTIAL
Why can no one talk to President Obasanjo?
EMAKOJI AYIKOYE, Bronx, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - ''OBJ'' needs to understand that Nigerians are not foolish because every act of this administration, whether it be good or bad, is clearly seen and judged by every Nigerian, making this administration's irrational attacks on its critics senseless. more >>
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dz.writeln("Obasanjo must succeed OBJ: Part II
GODSON OFFOARO, Washington, DC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - If you (OBJ) impose IBB on the nation, through your method of massive rigging, what happened in Ukraine will happen in Nigeria with alarming consequences. The Yoruba, who you have temporarily tamed, will instigate other parts of Nigeria to revolt. It will work this time. more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("NDIBE'S DISCUSS
Is Nigeria a Failed State?
LEKAN AKINOSHO, Toronto, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - If the root cause of the origin of the National Question cannot be exactly located, one can at least say that it started rearing its ugly head under General Ibrahim Babaginda (THE EVIL GENIUS) regime. A paper delivered at the lecture-lunch of The National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates confraternity) Eskimo- Canada on Sunday, December 12, 2004. more >>
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dz.writeln("Physicists recreate conditions at the beginning of the universe
SAM EJIKE OKOYE, (Nigeriaworld) - Every time we learn something about the form of the universe, we find new reasons to glorify a creator (God/Allah?), and to thank Him for His creation. In the design of the universe, in the construction of our solar system, and in the very systems of our own earth, there is immense evidence of planning. more >>
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dz.writeln("I met Governor Chris Ngige's Commissioner
GODSON OFFOARO, Washington, DC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - After our dinner, I asked Joe, why he chose to stay in a low-keyed place like this, and he told me that the character of a servant is determined by the examples from the Master. My Governor is very frugal in management and dispensation of our State's scare resources. more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("Ngige, Dariye and the Presidency: The morality of the absurd -Part II
CHIDI OGUAMANAM, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - Ngige and Dariye, for different reasons, must be thankful that this is not full-blown military dictatorship. There is no doubt, again, for different reasons, that if the presidency has its way, they would have since left the Government House. more >>
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dz.writeln("Lessons from the Plateau State crisis
CHINUA AKUKWE, Washington, DC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Ultimately, it is crucial for all stakeholders in Plateau State to recognize that the ultimate goal of democracy is to improve the lives of ordinary men and women irrespective of ethnic origins, settler status, political persuasion, economic circumstances and religious beliefs. more >>
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dz.writeln("Ondo State Association of Atlanta is making a head way in community services
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - With cultural displays by the student in the two schools, where the books were delivered, and from the speeches by the Principals and Community leaders, it was a job well done. more >>
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dz.writeln("ODEYEMI'S ENGLAND CONFIDENTIAL
The line of no return
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE, UK (The New York Times) - ...I listen to the people around me exchange stories, forming friendships that will dissolve with the visa line. The touts swarm around. ''I have serious connections inside the embassy, Auntie,'' one of them tells me. ''Just N1,000 and you will enter today for sure.'' more >>
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dz.writeln("Ngige, Dariye and the Presidency: The morality of the absurd -Part I
CHIDI OGUAMANAM, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - Since the President has appealed to morality in evaluation the Anambra crisis, let me suggest that the key moral issue in Anambra State is the im/morality of the stolen mandate of the people by the PDP, the party of the President, Ngige and Uba. more >>
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dz.writeln("The naughty professors of Nigerian universities
TONYE DAVID-WEST, USA (Nigeriaworld) - In those days, a student could never approach a professor in this manner.... But this is a new dawn in Nigeria and the student was very direct, utterly unabashed in her approach. Even after she learned that I wasn't the professor, she continued her flirtatious gestures, serving ample notice of her willingness to indulge romantically. more >>
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dz.writeln("Orchestrated electoral fraud in Nigeria - Part III
GODSON OFFOARO, Washington, DC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - I entertained them. Asked some questions and set the political-speak ball rolling again. ''Look, honorable,'' he began; the three of us have your political fate in our palms. When the chips are down, it is only the three of us that will decide if you would run or not. more >>
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dz.writeln("Nigerians, beware of false profits, I mean, prophets
TONYE DAVID-WEST, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Today, some of Nigerians pastors are not only in the world; they are also of the world. They have all the luxuries of life - the exotic cars, the big houses, the new cloths, the oversea trips, etc. Interesting enough, while these pastors are swimming in wealth, their congregation is swimming in the ocean of poverty. more >>
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dz.writeln("Owners of Nigeria (VIII): Late General Sani Abacha (III)
SEYI ODUYELA, Hyattsville, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - When Abacha came in, his marabouts had warned that one of his girlfriends would be a vehicle for his death and an Ibo girl, incidentally, Abacha's favorite was mentioned. Abacha did not want to lose her, so he sent her abroad. She lived all that while abroad. But at a point when this Ibadan man lost favor with Abacha and was broke, he sold out the information to the group that eventually master-minded Abacha's death. more >>
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dz.writeln("OBJ: The abject poverty of truth and integrity
BABS AJAYI, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - There are Southern Nigeria counterparts and abject poverty-stricken relations of the Almanjeris. The only difference is that these southern cousins do not operate in large groups like the Almanjeris. They go out in twos and threes. They go out in the morning to roam the streets of Warri, Lagos.... more >>
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dz.writeln("ODEYEMI'S ENGLAND CONFIDENTIAL
OSM - The most Common National Award
UCHENNA ODOGWO, USA (Nigeriaworld) - It used to be ''Shuffering and Shmiling''; all the antecedents remain but they have since lost the cheers. With the most common national honors, ''Order of Suffering Masses - OSM'' awarded everyday, who else cares about October, obviously not Achebe, and not what he stands for. more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("NDIBE'S DISCUSS
A democracy of slaps
TONYE DAVID-WEST, USA (Nigeriaworld) - ...but sometimes, the woman will kill you with their mouth. Sometimes, the urge is irresistible.; It does not matter, that is why God gave you a mouth as well. You can dish it back in words, but never resort to violence. This is something Nigerian men must learn. Some of them think that their wives are there for the punching pleasure. more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("SEYI'S EXPOSÉ
Obasanjo Vs. Nigeria Constitution
MIKE OZULUMBA, Esq, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - ...as the vices that we intended to cure from our massive rejection and repulsion with Military dictatorship have almost become tame in comparison with the graft, despotism and rapid impoverishment of Nigerians to the sagas tic joy of few privileged. more >>
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dz.writeln("TONYE'S WORLD
My Visit to Nigeria: The giant with hydra-headed problems (Part 4)
ALFRED UZOKWE, Harrisburg, PA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Erosion, which was seriously threatening the school grounds, had claimed a sizeable portion of the school field. It had shrunk so badly that for one to complete a 100-meter race, one would almost have to run around it one and half times! I looked back and noticed that my son was giggling. ''Is this where you performed all those track and field wonders?'' more >>
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dz.writeln("Believing in prophecy, an eye witness account!
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - According to her she was tortured, beaten, for the first two days, to discourage her from proceeding for the 'spiritual transit' journey. The punishment was for what she has done wrong in the past. more >>
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dz.writeln("Nigerian-Americans, it's time to make your voices heard - 2004 Election
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - What is at stake today is not either you are a Democrat, a Republican or Independent. It is about the future of the coming generations, inheriting violence, and division in the American community. more >>
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dz.writeln("");
dz.writeln("TONYE'S WORLD
Bravo! The British are back
FEMI OJO-ADE, St. Mary's City, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - He is stunned by her immediate response: ''This is Virgin Atlantic, my friend! You people cannot run your own airlines, you can't run anything! Better understand that we are helping you. So, shut up, and eat up before I take away the tray!'' more >>
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dz.writeln("When Kwarans in Diaspora got Dr. Bukola Saraki's undivided attention....
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - The occasion was at the invitation extended to Kwara State Governor, Dr. Bukola Saraki, the Executive Governor of Kwara State, to join Kwarans in Diaspora for their second annual convention in Atlanta, Georgia. more >>
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dz.writeln("A Senator prepared a 'Black Eye Peas' meal for the Nigerian Senate
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Female members of the General Assembly, Dabiri, and Jumoke Okoya should team up against such an abuse. If this is not done on time, it might have ripple effect on the rest of them. more >>
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dz.writeln("Nigerian physicians are short of medication to treat Obasanjo's migraine headache
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Obasanjo should realize now that he is going to be on his own, fighting the invisible enemy that he created for himself. He won't listen to his Ministers, his Aides, and Special Advisers, who else would bail him out. Does he listen to God? more >>
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dz.writeln("Presidential debates in Nigeria and the U.S.
WEMDI NWAHAM, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Chief Olu Falae himself felt quite awkward sitting there all by himself. The impression that filled the Nigerian atmosphere then was that Obasanjo felt too big to be brought together for a debate with Olu Falae, a man that was a career civil servant when he was head of state, decades ago. more >>
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dz.writeln("I come in peace: An address to the Senate (Fiction)
DELE EDOBOR, New Cross, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - It might be necessary to mention at this juncture that since my exploits in public services, I have always looked up to Baba in Aso Rock as my role model. To any observing individual, it is easy to deduce that my style is not much different from his. more >>
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dz.writeln("Financing your dream ...Wealth building through entrepreneurship
CHAMBERLAIN S. PETERSIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Look well and you will discover that the current changes portend great opportunities for the future. Individual approach may differ, the obstacles are no less daunting, but the long-term repercussion of inaction could even be worse. more >>
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dz.writeln("updated: IBB: Isn't he a wonder?
WOLE AMEYAN, Jr., Ogbomosho, Nigeria (Nigeriaworld) - His zeal for positive results, I want to believe, made him work with great minds like Prof. Wole Soyinka, Dr. Tai Solarin, Prof. Omoruyi, Chief Olu Falae amongst others. It remains a wonder to me why his critics have never commended him on this if only for once. more >>
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dz.writeln("Where has all the money gone?
KASIRIM NWUKE, (Nigeriaworld) - We also know that rather than improve service delivery to the people, the chief executive officers of our subnational units have - for the most part - co-opted or privatized pieces of the state and public funds for their own purpose. In their thinking, their preferences best summarize our preferences. more >>
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dz.writeln("ODEYEMI'S ENGLAND CONFIDENTIAL
Imprudent Senate strike places Nigerians in Diaspora in Senate court
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Nigerians in Diaspora, whom you sent on crippled journeys for underemployment outside Nigeria are saying leave El-Rufai alone. Since Obasanjo has sent the Senate an apology letter, quite unexpected of him, they should go back to their business. more >>
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dz.writeln("TONYE'S WORLD
Advantage, civil society
C. UCHE ONUORA, Baltimore, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - There is a dearth of records, data, and other resources that provide a clear picture of where Nigeria has been, where she is, and where she wants to go. Not because we lack the human resources.... But rather because our eye is not on the ball.... more >>
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dz.writeln("Nigerian relay team and today's regime: Between patriots and turncoats
BABS AJAYI, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - These patriotic Nigerians gave their all and we salute them for their efforts. If only President Obasanjo, the governors and National Assembly can be as focused on the job at hand as the two Nigerian relay teams, things would be different and better. more >>
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dz.writeln("What should Nigeria do with its crude oil windfall?
CHAMBERLAIN S. PETERSIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - There are enough domestic quandary to keep the government in Nigeria busy, and sufficient problems and hungry mouths that could easily gulp any amount of excess revenue earned, yet this is not the time to share the excess revenue.... more >>
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dz.writeln("The World Igbo Congress (WIC): The Newark 2004 Agenda
UCHENNA ODOGWO, USA (Nigeriaworld) - And so what will make this year's WIC convention different than last year's? Could it be the new chieftaincy regalia, an outfit for show and tell; could it be the menu has changed from regular Ishi Ewu (goat head), Egusi/Ogbono Soup, Okporoko (stockfish), Ugba and Beer or Chief Osadebe's latest sound? more >>
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dz.writeln("Nigeria's polygamous faith
JOHN M.O. IGBOKWE, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - We raised this monster choking our life. We raised his temple of evil. We also can tear the walls down. Yes, we can still tear down the walls, for thank goodness, this monster is not yet our Frankenstein. Okija is telling us this is not yet our Frankenstein! more >>
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dz.writeln("Nigeria: Phoney federalism blues
BENEDICT OKEREKE, Italy (Nigeriaworld) - Today, the Nigerian federation as is presently structured is apparently ungovernable, President Obasanjo must not downplay this dangerous phenomenon of popular discontent as mere 'human foibles', and neither must the kettle, lid and steam explanation suffice. more >>
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dz.writeln("'Naija' Shut Up! Aso Rock is my 'Spider Web Hole'
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Whatever is left for Babangida to pick up from Aso Rock might kismet him this time around? He might be the Saddam Hussein of Africa in his Spider Web Hole, where IBB could be singing, ''I am Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, the Nigeria President, and I am ready to negotiate.'' more >>
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dz.writeln("To Erediuawa - No apology: A rejoinder to Hillary Odion Evbayiro
REMI OYEYEMI, USA (Nigeriaworld) - As far as I am concerned, if there is any ''individual horribly lacking in restraint and discipline,'' that individual is the monarch at Benin who, frightened by his own diminishing smallness and misguided by his own selfish ends, proceed to trivialize, distort, confuse, and blackmail history.... more >>
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dz.writeln("SEYI'S EXPOSÉ
Owners of Nigeria
SEYI ODUYELA, Hyattsville, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - They kill and get away with it, maim nothing happens. They call the shots in all facets of our lives. They tell us who is going to be our next President and where he will come from, they write constitution for us, a constitution that has the hand of Esau and the voice of Jacob. A constitution unitary in all its features but called federal. more >>
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dz.writeln("SHILGBA: FROM MY HEART
Nigeria: The child and the curriculum - Contextual and crosscultural issues
HERBERT EZE, Fullerton, CA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Speech Delivered at the True Light Academy, Nnewi, Anambra State, Nigeria, During a School Event on July 18, 2004, by the Proprietor, Dr. Herbert Eze more >>
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dz.writeln("Only God can stop Babangida from 2007?
ALFRED UZOKWE, Harrisburg, PA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - One may feel that the statement was the height of arrogance considering that he was addressing the people he oppressed economically for 8 years. However, in reality, he knows that it takes very little to sway the stance of the average Nigerian more >>
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dz.writeln("Between a well fed secure slave in Diaspora and an insecure hungry free man in Nigeria
KUNLE OJELEYE, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - ...the most important factor that discourages Nigerians abroad from visiting home, to talk less of thinking of investing and living there, is insecurity. Daily living in Nigeria, and definitely a visit home by Nigerians in Diaspora, is playing lottery with one's life. more >>
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dz.writeln("''Blind Faith'' in cross-cultural lenses (Part III)
HERBERT EZE, Fullerton, CA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - She [Anne Wooding] would not be deterred by insurmountable obstacles that stood on her way until she distinguished herself as the first known teacher of the blind in Africa in the Braille language and with an urgent message. more >>
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dz.writeln("ODEYEMI'S ENGLAND CONFIDENTIAL
The Nigeria Image Project - The way to go!
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - The image project should definitely focus on the trio challengers of ''419'', ''Crime'', and ''Ethnic Clashes'', before Nigeria can start claiming ''Heart of Africa'', ''Giant of Africa'', or ''Black Mecca of Black Race''. more >>
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dz.writeln("SHILGBA: FROM MY HEART
Chief Debo Akande: An admixture of dignity and integrity
BABS AJAYI, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - A man with a strong conviction for fairness and fair play, Chief Akande demonstrated great fortitude even in the face of likely persecution, detention, arrest and harassment by the goons of Sani Abacha. He stood his ground without apology.... more >>
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Winning gold at the Olympics, ''I am a gay American'' & the Okija shrine killings
TONYE DAVID-WEST, USA (Nigeriaworld) - With the erratic power supply in Africa and especially, in Nigeria, the torch will never leave Africa once it makes it down because it will be the only source of light. If that is not the case, once it lands in Lagos, it would disappear and never to be seen again. more >>
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dz.writeln("Capital flight in Africa: ...Addressing the cog in the wheel of progress
CHAMBERLAIN S. PETERSIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - In the face of dismal foreign direct or portfolio investment and inadequate domestic savings mobilization, unless the capital flight hole is plugged fast to stem socio-economic decline, Nigeria might be tethering on the edge of abyss.... more >>
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dz.writeln("Rambling on about Death and Taxes
C. UCHE ONUORA, Baltimore, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - ...it should be clear to us all that the limits of our understanding, are the barriers preventing us from seizing the reigns that have been misappropriated and misapplied exhaustively, in our faces. We should keep our eyes square on the ball, even when we are knocked to the ground with one of those left hooks, and uppercuts that life is so fond of throwing out of the blue. more >>
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dz.writeln("Surviving in America: Stories of Nigerians
TONYE DAVID-WEST, USA (Nigeriaworld) - America is such a country that anyone who is serious, focused and purposeful in life would be successful. Most successful Nigerians (in America) have their own stories of survival. When we see them drive Lexus, Mercedes Benz, Escalades, Infiniti, BMWs and the like, we should remember that they worked hard for it. more >>
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dz.writeln("The Igbo Presidency and the ANPP Senators
UCHE OBIKWELU, Texas, USA (Nigeriaworld) - But believe it or leave it, prophetically speaking, with such men as Senators Saidu Dansadau (ANPP), Zamfara) and Kaita Bello (ANPP, Katsina) in the National Assembly, one would never expect any sound bills from the house and never would one also expect a better future for the project called Nigeria. more >>
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dz.writeln("SHILGBA: FROM MY HEART
Nigeria and her strange children
LEONARD K. SHILGBA, Yokohama, Japan (Nigeriaworld) - What is the fact is that, no shrine priests should administer death and receive corpses to keep and remove limbs as they are doing in the Igbo shrines. This is murder, period! This is criminal, period! It is a global shame to Nigeria and the Igbo race for Achuzie, who represents the Pan-Igbo organization whose activities are known beyond these shores, to defend this. more >>
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dz.writeln("Nigerian agriculture, Zimbabwean farmers, and genetic modification
CHIDI OGUAMANAM, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - Apart from the political backdrop of Zimbabwean farmer's interest in Nigeria, we need to be concerned about how their hi-tech agriculture would impact our traditional and local agricultural practices. ...rhetoric of the need to increase Nigeria's food production. But do we really need external hands to boost our agricultural output? more >>
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dz.writeln("ODEYEMI'S ENGLAND CONFIDENTIAL
Oil: Prize or curse?
CHIDI C. ACHEBE, MD, Boston, MA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - It is hard these days to think about oil. Images of explosions, war, mangled bodies, blood stained streets, hostages, oil spills, polluted beaches and dead birds and fish are not pleasant. more >>
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dz.writeln("Meeting Chief Anthony Enahoro
MOLARA WOOD, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - If Chief Anthony Enahoro is burdened by history, or the constant gaze of an endless stream of people like me, it didn't show. Enahoro is now an octogenarian like Mandela. There are no sweeping comparisons to be made between the two, but it could be argued perhaps that certain parallels exist. more >>
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dz.writeln("TONYE'S WORLD
To hell with IBB's apology
TONYE DAVID-WEST, USA (Nigeriaworld) - In some cases, an apology would be sufficient... In the case of the self-proclaimed evil genius, where do we begin? How do we catalogue his human rights abuses? In which book shall we begin to tell his story of carnage, deceit, reckless murder of innocent Nigerians, corruption, robust drug deals that yielded millions, etc? more >>
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dz.writeln("Maladies and melodies: Bipodal insignia of a tottering democracy in Nigeria - Prospects
DELE MOMODU, Publisher, OVATION MAGAZINE (Nigeriaworld) - Politicians in Nigeria, whether in civilian garbs or military uniforms, behave like Carlyle's ''foolish baby''. They strive, they fight and they fret. They demand everything when, in reality, they deserve nothing. They become army generals when they have fought no wars. They become presidents, ministers, governors, and all through crooked means and drop dead like rotten potatoes. more >>
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dz.writeln("Nigerians in Diaspora, it's time to die for Naija
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - ...while Obasanjo and his lieutenants continue to rob the innocent Nigerians and live very comfortably, at the expense of innocent dying Nigerians. It is not fair for Obasanjo to turn around that no one wants to die for Nigeria, more so cowards are those on adventure to feed their families at home. more >>
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dz.writeln("Obama: An audacity of hope?
RUDOLF OKONKWO, Lynn, MA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - But who is Obama? Who is that skinny kid with a funny name? Was America waiting for him or did he impose himself on America? As Africans, how will his arrival impact our understanding of America and our place in it, not just today but in years to come? more >>
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dz.writeln("On the lighter side...
ALFRED UZOKWE, Harrisburg, PA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - These days, sometimes you would see someone pacing a parking lot or an open space, seemingly talking to herself or himself and smiling broadly. When I was still growing up in Nnewi, when you saw such things, you instantly assumed that the person was mentally deranged (onye ala). These days, it is called talking on the cell phone. more >>
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dz.writeln("NDIBE'S DISCUSS
Be the President of Nigeria first and float a private University after
OLADIMEJI ABORISADE, Charlotte, NC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Since there is no one way in solving the university problem, the president is encouraged to use his good office and rapport, which his party has in the country today, to streamline our educational system in the right way through legislation. If you believe in free education, you should not open a private university. more >>
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dz.writeln("SHILGBA: FROM MY HEART
Burnishing Nigeria's image
OKEY NDIBE, (Nigeriaworld) - The biggest enemies of Nigeria's image are Nigerians themselves, and especially top government officials, especially, at this time, the incumbent president. What is the logic in beaming Soyinka's achievements to a world that is already aware of his surpassing accomplishments as a writer and intellectual? more >>
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dz.writeln("Omo Omoruyi: The anatomy and profile of an inglorious cheerleader
FRANKLYNE OGBUNWEZEH, (Nigeriaworld) - Omo Omoruyi has all the skills that constitute the trademark of spineless sycophants. His peddling and hawking of perverse cant and frivolous irrelevancies, in support of thievery and political tomfoolery is legendary. Yet the impious nonsense that ooze out uncontrollably from his mouth and pen, as a matter of course has really not attracted the kind of repugnance that it deserves. more >>
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dz.writeln("NDIBE'S DISCUSS NIGERIAWORLD DEBUT
Re: Remaking Nigeria's foreign image
LEBURAH GANAGO, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Obasanjo and his gang of reigning bandits in Nigeria lack the moral courage to launch an image reform project. First, in reforming Nigeria's foreign image what are we out to combat? Fraud, cheating , dishonesty, short-cuts to getting rich and violent crimes. more >>
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dz.writeln("Nigerian industrial revolution!
DAVID ASONYE IHENACHO, New York, USA (Nigeriaworld) - ...occurring in the most unsuspecting, and in fact, most unwelcoming of places. The soon-to-boom Nigerian economy may be about to bubble from the impressionist domain that is powered by the cosmetic, aesthetic and plastic surgery makeover industries. more >>
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dz.writeln("NIDO Americas Board on the Abattoir Table
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - I never thought of making any comment regarding NIDO Americas' affairs. What I decided to do was to maintain my silence, watching the direction of the falling tree. Unfortunately, it is falling on the direction of absolute destruction of a beautiful house that some real Nigerians in Diaspora are building. more >>
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dz.writeln("It shall be well with you
RUDOLF OKONKWO, Lynn, MA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - I am sorry to disappoint Nigeria's dwindling list of nationalists about their fantasy, Nigeria. Nigeria, the black hole, has mangled the characteristics of different nationalities that were lumped into it and those that jumped into it. Some have become unrecognizable. more >>
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dz.writeln("MOLARA'S MUSE
Babangida, corruption and 2007: Tackling a culture of impunity
KOLAWOLE OLANIYAN, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - IBB's long stay in government could have been enough to build effective institutions and mechanisms that would have reversed the pervasive corruption in the country since independence in 1960. Instead, under IBB, corruption assumed a new dimension, becoming a fundamental policy of government. more >>
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dz.writeln("My belief about debt relief (1)
DIRAN ODEYEMI, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - I am sure, like many other Nigerians would agree; some of these loans are in the personal accounts of those who borrowed them in the first instance while some have been squandered. Some leaders have been using this money to influence the ''cash and carry'' elections, buying votes, thereby reinvesting in the most lucrative government business. more >>
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dz.writeln("The rumour in miracles
AKEEM SOBOYEDE, USA (Nigeriaworld) - One can only hope, for the sake of those who force the false pills of miracles down our throats, that the above report is only a rumour. But something tells me that given the creeping culture of intolerance that these same folks have wrought, both within and outside Nigeria, that would be a miracle! more >>
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dz.writeln("Nigerian banking reform ...A bitter pill long overdue
CHAMBERLAIN S. PETERSIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - ...if his remarks are anything to go by, it is safe to say that; he [Soludo] could be a guy who would take care of business in the banking sector, just as Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is taking good care of business in the Finance Ministry, Nasir El-Rufai holding forth in the Federal Capital Territory, Nuhu Ribadu ruffling feathers.... more >>
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dz.writeln("TONYE'S WORLD
When thugs and political godfathers call the shots
BABS AJAYI, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu, I plead, should retire from amala politics, in fact, from politics all together. He has no more to offer and need not call Rashidi Ladoja at Agodi any longer. more >>
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dz.writeln("SHILGBA: FROM MY HEART
Country or Countries?
ADENIBA ADEPOYIGI, N.T., Australia (Nigeriaworld) - I strongly believe that advocates of strong central government, particularly those from the North, have a full understanding of this evolutionary process but they are not being truthful about their motive. They know that for a true country to evolve, they, as well as others, must be willing to give up citizenships of their present 'countries' and surrender allegiance to the evolving new country. more >>
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dz.writeln("The lawlessness and madness of a nation's Armed Forces
BABS AJAYI, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - The barracks are the hideouts of all kinds of miscreants, armed robbers, gun-lenders and other bad eggs wearing the uniform of the state. There is the madness associated with the sign ''Military Zone - Keep off''. The menace of such zones to decorum and civility is too worrisome to accept. more >>
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dz.writeln("Obasanjo and his fatalism
Dr. NEKAN ADESANYA, Philadelphia, PA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - This sudden call to patriotism by ruler of failed policies and government, should that now be attested to as a true call? Or a self serving call to emphasize a point of view? Oh yes, what about the political murders that's happened so far with no solution, and that's a country worth dying for? more >>
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dz.writeln("The instruments of emasculation
FRANKLYNE OGBUNWEZEH, (Nigeriaworld) - Up till today, Onitsha is yet to have an airport or a seaport, all thanks to ethnic pejorative bias, political stupidity, economic incompetence and arrant shortsightedness of the hegemonic cabal that Nigeria has had the misfortune of being saddled with since independence. more >>
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dz.writeln("Darfur: Why you should care
RUDOLF OKONKWO, Lynn, MA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - As I watch the heinous atrocities unfolding in Darfur, I could not help but think about the tense situation in Nigeria, especially northern Nigerian. The persistent religious, ethnic and cultural tension exacerbated by economic downturn portends greater danger than we have seen in decades. more >>
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dz.writeln("For Nigeria to progress
NATHANIEL EHIKIOYA, Calgary, AB, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - ...issues like overseas training and medical checkup by government officials, where the services and capabilities are available at home, must be stopped. If you inject more funds into our educational system, then you have no need to travel out with the flimsy excuse of one form of training or medical checkup. more >>
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dz.writeln("SHILGBA: FROM MY HEART
The Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida legacy
UDOH OBUMSELU and ADEKUNLE KEVIN, (Nigeriaworld) - As Nigerians were leaving in droves to other lands, driven by Babangida's abysmal economic policies, the man embarked upon a hurried and expensive transfer of the Nation's political capital from Lagos to Abuja. Abuja, of course, is a few kilometers from his home town.... more >>
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dz.writeln("A dangerous proposition by Gov. Igbenedion
Dr. NNAEMEKA LUKE ANEKE, Westbury, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Is what is politically expedient to Gov. Igbenedion in Edo state, also politically expedient to me, if I am from Wukari or Jukun in the Middle Belt? In other words, through the lens of whose eyes are you seeing political expediency.... more >>
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dz.writeln("The anatomy of a Presidential Outburst: Obasanjo, CAN and Rev. Pam
Dr. NNAEMEKA LUKE ANEKE, Westbury, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - In a real sense, those who are forcing the legitimacy of homosexuality down the throats of people, without adequate foundation, are suffering from some measure of myopia. more >>
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dz.writeln("RE: Ebenezer Obadare's ''The Freedom to (Un)Dress''
KUNLE OJELEYE, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - A nation where students sleep their way into getting high JAMB marks to get into university, and deliberately dress seductively to classes to entice lecturers to bed, so that they can effortlessly pass their exams, can only continue to produce professional prostitutes as is currently witnessed in the banking industry. more >>
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dz.writeln("SHILGBA: FROM MY HEART
The real curse on Nigeria
DAVID ASONYE IHENACHO, New York, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Whichever way the pendulum swings, there is no conceivable way the PDP will rule the Nigerian nation for the next 30 years. Obasanjo is just having a bad dream, which, in my view, amounts to a curse on the Nigerian nation. more >>
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dz.writeln("Saving our marriages
RUDOLF OKONKWO, Lynn, MA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - When fights fail to give spouses what they want, they build defenses and begin the process of emotional separation. Spouses opt for withdrawal into themselves as the only quiet alternative to conflicts. In this situation, spouses begin to do their own thing some of which may be harmful to themselves and to others. more >>
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dz.writeln("Evidence of a potential failed State
PATRICK ERAIKHUEMEN, Houston, TX, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Looking back now, if there was anything good, by way of legacy, from the erstwhile British colonial overlords, it was that, at independence in 1960, they had on the ground a more federal structure in the form of autonomous Regional governments and a Central government. more >>
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dz.writeln("Jerome Eze Aku Nma Odunukwe (1929? - 2004)
RUDOLF OKONKWO, Lynn, MA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Even at death, his legend grows. For sure, his place is firmly secured in the annals of oral literature of Nnobi and beyond. And next time I break kola nut, I would call on him too to come and chew. more >>
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dz.writeln("The long overdue US African Command
DAVID ASONYE IHENACHO, New York, USA (Nigeriaworld) - It is quite clear that the other sister continents to Africa could not have fared much better than her if they had not been helped by the superpowers of the world. But for reasons that have no other basis besides racism, the help, which saved the other continents of the world, was not extended to Africa. more >>
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dz.writeln("The breast boost banter
OGO AKUBUE OGBATA, Northampton, UK (Nigeriaworld) - I once told a female friend that her hairdo looked quite delectable. Rather than proffer a pleasant ''oh, thank you'' she looked at me suspiciously for a moment and then said ''Oh, really? Sure?'' I glanced first at the wary expression on her face, then back at the hair and wished I'd kept my mouth shut. more >>
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dz.writeln("The other Nollywood
TOLU OGUNLESI, (Nigeriaworld) - Haven't you heard of low budget movies... Anyway, I have started working on my own o. It's titled THE GODFATHERS ARE NOT TO BLAME. I'm trying to see if I can get Ubah, Dedibu, Chief S.A.R Aki, Nwo Bodo, Eme Offor and others to star in it. All proceeds will of course go to charity. more >>
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dz.writeln("Appeal to Nigerians in the Diaspora
JOE KESHI, Abuja, Nigeria (Nigeriaworld) - You have all no doubt, heard about the creation of the Nigeria National Volunteer Service, and my leadership of the Service. The NNVS will among others, serve as a focal point for all NIDO matters. In other words it would serve as a liaison between the governments of Nigeria...and the private sector with Nigerians in the Diaspora. more >>
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dz.writeln("NEEDS: The danger of failed expectations
NNANNA ANYIM-UDE, Abuja, Nigeria (Nigeriaworld) - If NEEDS fails it will signify a return to an economy that is still amuck, a currency that still lacks value, an agricultural sector that is still ineffectual, unemployment that is still ravaging our population, infrastructures that are still crippled.... more >>
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dz.writeln("TONYE'S WORLD
Have you eaten salad, lately?
TONYE DAVID-WEST, USA (Nigeriaworld) - I'm glad that some Nigerians, at least, those in my community are realizing the importance of regular exercise. Even my good friend, Ndubisi, (sorry man, I had to say it) who is often as pregnant as his wife, has seen the importance of regular exercise and this is a good thing for he was one unrepentant eat-without-limit gentleman. more >>
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dz.writeln("ODEYEMI'S ENGLAND CONFIDENTIAL
Lamentations of Odinani: The violated sanctity of the Earth deity
C. UCHE ONUORA, Baltimore, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Go back to the drawing board you say? Well, those who know, say that it is a replay of the myth of Sisyphus - the man who kept trying to push a stone uphill as the stone kept rolling backwards. They say that what is tearing us apart is, unless we confront it honestly, stronger than what is holding us together. more >>
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dz.writeln("NAIJA ROONEY COMMENTARY
Hon. Minister Esther Hajia Nenadi Usman should name the fraudulent governors
Dr. FEMI AJAYI, Atlanta, GA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Does Minister of State of Finance have the gut, like El-Rufai, to mention names? Nigerians are waiting for her to name names of the fraudulent Governors. At that point we would know who are the real idiots, the Minister of State, the Fraudulent Governors or Nigerians themselves.... more >>
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dz.writeln("What a country: They came, they ruined, they squandered
SEYI ODUYELA, Hyattsville, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - The option we have is to replace the spent lawmakers, hungry and inept, who do not have anything to offer than to use the office to amass wealth. But first there should be a change in the thinking of Nigerians about who they want and what they want. more >>
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dz.writeln("SHILGBA: FROM MY HEART
The concience of an Ekitiman
CHARLES OLAIYA, Richland, WA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - The conscience of a contemporary Ekitiman used to be focused on hard work, integrity, commitment, forthrightness and the hope that the future would bring good things or take care of itself. more >>
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dz.writeln("...A performance benchmark for Nigeria's National Conference
CHAMBERLAIN S. PETERSIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - This confab should not be about creating sovereign ''Banana Republics'' in place of Nigeria. The outcry about independence by various ethnic groups in the country is gaining ground by the day due to this long-standing discontent. There is palpable fear that the upcoming conference could be construed as another ''Aburi Conference'' (in Ghana), if you recall, where a negotiation between Gowon and Ojukwu was conducted before the civ
Doing theology in context (Part One)
The desperate house wives of the Nigerian and Kenyan presidents
Constructing a new national paradigm (II): The issue before the NPRC
War on Corruption: Is Obasanjo capitulating?
Why African Immigrants are divorcing in Western Countries
Fighting off Corruption
novel extract: I will always love U - Part IV
Art 'mutating' life: A depiction of Bode Lawal's Sakoba and the prolific dance form
The legacy of Pope John Paul II
Nigeria: Masquerades as leaders
Obasanjo must succeed OBJ: Part V (The Bakassi Dimension)
Commercialization of education in Nigeria: To be or not to be?
Soyinka warns: There is danger if SNC is not accepted
A question of identity
My civilian coup speech
A year after riggings
Mbano People Rock Washington, DC
How long must I call for help
Traditional Chinese medicine aims at the Nigerian market
Reflection on Dr. Herbert Eze's series on American park culture from Nigerian perspective
Hi-Life, Nigeria's community newspaper in the UK, holds 1st Annual Dinner-Lecture
The line of no return
Fundamentalism and Global Armageddon
The naughty professors of Nigerian universities
Nigerians, beware of false profits, I mean, prophets
Bravo! The British are back
When Kwarans in Diaspora got Dr. Bukola Saraki's undivided attention....
The birth of a neo-conservative movement in Ekiti State
Isaac Newton, Physics, and I: The Nigeria that I am willing to die for
London's Gospel sensation, Wale Olajide, speaks on the driving force behind his mission...
Obama: An audacity of hope?
A marriage proposal
G-Strings, Dying for Nigeria and Mr. Basil Omiyi, Shell's first Naija manager
Obafemi Martins
Appeal to Nigerians in the Diaspora
Kongi at 70: Death and The King's Horseman in Toronto