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This mid-term Citizens Report has been prepared with the input of Nigerians at home and abroad.  As a performance evaluation, it is unscientific, but it reflects popular assessment of the presidency and of Goodluck Jonathan.  We invite the presidency to pay attention to this evaluation. A copy of the report may be downloaded and used as a poster on cars, buses and okada, as well as in offices, schools, hospitals, restaurants, churches, mosques, bars, community centers and others public places.
                                       
SaharaReporters, New York

President Goodluck Jonathan's 100 Days Report Card

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                                       By Tokunbo Olukunle                   My dear mother, who spent her early childhood in a village in Edo state, is full of old African sayings. Some sound serious, some ridiculous, but almost all have deep and rich meanings. One of her favorites which I always found amusing was the saying “he who the gods want to kill they first make mad”.

He Who The Gods Want To Kill: The IBB Model

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Few days ago, the West African Examination Council (WAEC) officially released the May/June 2010 SSCE results for more than 95% of registered candidates. While details of the overall performance of the candidates are still sketchy, previous dismal results indicate that the Nigerian education is falling rapidly off the quality cliff.

Our Schools Are Bad; We Are All To Blame

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Now that General Ibrahim Babangida, Nigeria's former military dictator has declared his intention to contest for the right to rule and lead one hundred and fifty million of us Nigerians, it is incumbent on us, those ordinary mortals he aspires to lead, to question and access this right to rulership and leadership as well as his moral and ethical eligibility to aspire to this right.
                                       
By Nosa James-Igbinadolor
                 
Now That IBB Wants To Be President

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NEW YORK – From a cubicle in midtown Manhattan, a Nigerian publishes staggering examples of his country's government corruption online—information that would get him killed back home. Philip Shenon reports.
                                       
Written By Philip Shenon

SaharaReporters Is Africa's WikiLeaks

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The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) consider as an embarrassment to Nigerians and the memories of the martyrs of the pro-democracy struggle the ill-advised calls for the release of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to former Head of State late General Sanni Abacha.

ERC Condemns OPC, AYCF, NDVF And Others Calling For Al-Mustapha's Release

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Anybody, any political observer, any political analyst, any critical mind, watchers of events in Nigeria who want to know how 2003 and 2007 elections were rigged should go to the achieves and search for the copies of THISDAY's so-called opinion polls on the likely winners and losers.
                                       

Rigging of 2011 Elections Has Started: Recalling The Latest THISDAY So-Called Opinion Polls

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I have followed with deep interest and some times high degree of amusement the charade which I will refer to as count down to 2011 in Nigeria. What I find most galling is the so called zoning  arrangement in the PDP. First, it is only in Nigeria that such absurdity will play itself out in the 21st century.

Zoning And The PDP: Count Down To 2011

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The arguments that Presidential assent is not required in the amendment of the Nigerian Constitution is erroneous, specious, and without sound basis in law. There is no case law or statutory provision that backs these assertions. We don't need the United States law or other country's law as a precedent when our own laws are clear on the issue.

Written by Felix Ayanruoh Esq.

Presidential Assent Is Required In The Amendment Of The Nigerian Constitution

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American has an abundance of capital; Nigeria has an abundance of human and natural resources. According to a statement by President Felipe of Mexico, "you need labor and capital to generate economic activity"

Why America Needs Nigeria