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Irrespective of the political debate on maintaining zoning arrangement in PDP, there is one feeling spreading around the South East and some part of South South political zones. That feeling is the anti-Igbo conduct of President Goodluck Jonathan.

It is often said that "name says it all", but in this case, I am not too sure if that is right. I am referring to the middle names of the president, Azikiwe Ngozi. These names are Igbo, but I do not want to bother myself on how he came about these names.

Is Goodluck Jonathan Anti Igbo? By Jideofor

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I do not mind the ijakadi festival orchestrated inside a bus recently by two corrupt members of the PDP, Governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun state and Ogbeni Dimeji Bankole of the Federal House of Representathieves; I do not mind the fact that the opportunistic Gbenga Daniel apparently sought to milk political capital by going to commission a bridge that Ogbeni Bankole had rescued from abandonment; I do not mind what increasingly appears to be a set-up carefully orchestrated by those who knew that the latent Molue conductor in Dimeji Bankole would be unleashed once they sufficiently provoked him;  I mind what happens to the grass beneath their feet whenever the accursed members of Nigeria's political rulership treat us to their routine and primordial spectacle of mediocrity. The grass beneath their feet? That would be you and I: we, the people! And you know what happens in that Yoruba proverb to the grass beneath the feet of two feuding elephants.

The Grass Beneath Their Feet By Pius Adesanmi

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These are indeed sad and conflicting times for Nigeria as she approaches her fiftieth year of dependency...oops I meant independence. Though, I do not know what we are independent of? We depend on either German or Chinese built roads, the rail, space satellites, and refineries are given to the Chinese to build. For many of our utilities we go to America and Europe for the expensive and trust China, Taiwan, and Dubai for the cheap.

Nigeria's Blind Flight To An Uncertain Destination By Prince Charles Dickson

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The National Assembly in Abuja is where statesmen gather to make laws for the good governance of Nigeria. True or false? Well, it depends on what you are looking.

By Sam Amadi

The Problem With The National Assembly

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Charles Sogbesan: All Baby Kisser's (Politicians) will do anything to remain consonant or get elected; they're all the same in that regard. That by itself is universal. A narrative that includes benchmarking ourselves against developing countries will no doubt make our predicament in Ogun State (or Nigeria) more glaring.

Gbenga Daniel And Dimeji Bankole, The Brawl Over A "Bridge To Nowhere", Our Ogun State Ancestors Must Be Turning In Their Graves- Part 1

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                                        By Jude Egbas                   A friend of mine posted something on my facebook wall that read somewhat like this: “ Your ex-governor is not ashamed to tell Nigerians that he had been rigging elections through this machinery for the past two tenures (sic) he was the Governor General of Cross River State.

Donald Duke's Can Of Worms And Separating The Message From The Messenger

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                                                                                                 SaharaReporters, New York                   Emeka Ugwuonye, the Nigerian born, Maryland based lawyer at the centre of a roiling controversy involving the questionable sale of properties owned by the Nigerian Embassy in the Washington DC area, has forfeited the companies used in the transaction to the state of Maryland for failure to pay property taxes. 

Embassy Property Scandal: State Of Maryland Forfeits Ugwuonye's Companies

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                                       Emmanuel Onwubiko                   Convinced that the recent amendments made to the extant constitution of the federal Republic of Nigeria by the National and state legislatures were not far-reaching and altruistic, a pro-democracy, development -focused and pro-transparency group Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) has dismissed the exercise as “self-serving,” “unpatriotic” and ‘retrogressive’. 

HURIWA Faults Constitutional Amendments

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                                       Ifeanyi Izeze                   When the Minister of Finance, Remi Babalola recently disclosed that "The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was insolvent (bankrupt) as current liabilities exceeded current assets by 754 billion naira (5 billion dollars) as at December 31, 2008," he was very correct.

NNPC's Insolvency: A Memorandum of Misunderstanding By Ifeanyi Izeze

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                                       Written By Olaitan Ladipo                   You have to admire the Fulani.  Their effective dominance of Nigeria’s political power and control of resources, since independence, is almost comparable (even if it is on a smaller scale) to Britain’s governance of the world in the 18th to early 20th century.

The Trouble With The Hausa – Feudalism Gone Crazy