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Akin Akintayo / June 21, 2011 5:11 pm
Making 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 [...]
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Akin Akintayo / June 12, 2011 11:03 am
Yes, 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] [...]
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Akin Akintayo / May 6, 2011 10:14 am
This 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 [...]
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Ifeanyi Uddin / April 28, 2011 11:26 am
One 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 [...]
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Joachim MacEbong / April 24, 2011 2:31 am
‘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 [...]
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Kunle Durojaiye / April 20, 2011 4:14 pm
The 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 [...]
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Akin Akintayo / April 19, 2011 4:07 am
The 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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Akin Akintayo / April 18, 2011 10:19 pm
This was cross-posted from my blog at http://akinblog.nl Done and dusted A new Nigeria just hatched out of its egg in the last 48 hours wherein the presidential elections took place and all results announced with the declaration of a [...]
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Akin Akintayo / April 14, 2011 5:31 pm
This was cross-posted from my blog at http://akinblog.nl Being aware of rigging opportunities Giving some flesh to a tweet – @boosoolalab The problems could be efficiency, intimidation, access, bias and violence barring people from exercising their rights. In some Twitter [...]
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Akin Akintayo / April 12, 2011 11:57 pm
This is cross-posted from my blog at http://akinblog.nl INEC failing itself Now over 72 hours since the National Assembly elections were concluded in Nigeria, we find ourselves at crossroads of hope and possibility without the clearest indication of what the [...]
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