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Boko Haram: Of the Sensible and the Insensible
3by Mao Kaci
On Obasanjo’s visit to the family of the murdered Boko Haram leader, and Soyinka’s comments on the visit.
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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: Testing the FOI Act 2011 on Legislator Salaries
1This blog is cross-posted originally from http://www.akinblog.nl/ We have a Freedom of Information Act With the signing of the Freedom of Information Act 2011 just as the end of the last legislative session by President Goodluck Jonathan, a milestone has [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review VIII – A President-Elect
0This 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 [...]
Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review VI – Report to Prevent Rigging
0This 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 [...]
Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review V – Concerns after the elections
0This 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 [...]
Nigeria: Celebrating Honour Amongst Thieves
0A public servant jailed for mismanaging public funds gets honoured on release from jail when he should have been shunned and ostracised.
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