Both Bola Ige and Marshall Harry murders signpost the wanton killings which characterize the present government in Nigeria, were high profile opposition politicians determined to stop the rampaging PDP from overrunning their political strongholds were cut... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2003/sep/013.html
The last general elections in Nigeria also exposed how far ethnicity can go to distort a people's vision of leadership. The leadership of the AD, the dominant party in the Yoruba area, literally abandoned their own party as they resolved to support... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2003/nov/050.html
Placing people at gun point to extract votes from them is nothing short of armed robbery. Democracy by armed robbery is the Nigerian style. This is unheard of anywhere in the world; not even the old bad days of Apartheid South Africa, not even in... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2003/may/063.html
What is happening in Nigeria today is an Idi Amin cum Saddam Hussein like onslaught on the opposition by a desperate and dangerous cabal bent on hanging on to power at all cost. URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2003/mar/230.html
PDP put up a ''good show'' in Abuja on January 5, to paint the picture of ''the triumph of democracy''. This is despite a behind the scene abortion of democracy. One might say it managed to hoodwink Nigerians, who know their own people better. I shudder to... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2003/jan/144.html
It is instructive to note that rather than plead with the kangaroo court that handed out that shameful verdict to spare his life, the late Ken Saro Wiwa went on to plead for those he was leaving behind, the Ogoni people and the rest of the oppressed... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2003/dec/191.html
In a so-called representative democracy, the oil producing ethnic minorities are being denied credible representation as the ruling cabal apply naked violence and electoral fraud of unimaginable proportions to impose their stooges on the people. URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2003/aug/011.html
As the present government is set to rule in Nigeria for the next four years, making it eight in a row, Nigerians would have to brace-up for a Saddam like Iraq where it would be a capital offence to publicly criticize the president. URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2003/apr/090.html