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Nigeria at 51 – Celebrating 419 Reasons to Like Nigeria
0by Kunle Durojaiye
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Education as an instrument for change in Africa?
0I recently attended an event at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) on Change and Governance in Africa. One thing is clear: Africa is changing. The landscape of the continent is changing at a rapid pace, in some [...]
Nigeria: Definitely time to give June 12 a decent burial
0Making history history On June 12 2011, I wrote a piece titled Nigeria: Time to give June 12 a decent burial [1] for a number of reasons which already appear in that piece. Basically, June 12 1993 is an important [...]
Nigeria: Time to give June 12 a decent burial
0Yes, the hope died June the Twelfth, 1993 has for years been marked as the day that Nigeria’s hopes for democracy died or as Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa would have so eloquently put it when he made his speech [1] [...]
Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review XIII – Ideas for Electoral Reform
0This is cross-posted from my blog at http://akinblog.nl As we savour the returns As the election season ends in Nigeria it is important to lay out in some form a whole series of ideas for electoral reform to improve on [...]
Now The Elections Are Over
0One of the many imponderables from the results of the voting held in the country throughout April, is why Nigerians returned to office a party with a great history behind it. The PDP was at its most impressive some eight years [...]
Bigger Fish to Fry
0‘All politics Is local’ – Tip O’Neill Before the presidential elections on the 16th of April, Muhammadu Buhari had said that he would not challenge the result in the courts if he lost. He however said that his party, the [...]
The Presidential Elections – A Political Paradox
2The paralysis of analysis. This is what the recently concluded presidential election has generated for some thinkers and analysts. There is no dispute to the fact that the election was seen to be credible and peaceful. It has been [...]
Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review IX – Analysing the Presidential Results
3The spread of the results in the recently concluded presidential elections in Nigeria are a serious talking issue, I present an analysis of the figures that make a lie of the accepted narrative about Nigeria. This is cross-posted from my [...]
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