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Nsibidi: Pre-Colonial Education in Nigeria
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Illiterates Did Not Win Buhari Elections
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Yankius: Arsenal F.C. & Fainting Thief
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Morak Oguntade and the Art of Expression
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Jazz Music & the Influence of Yoruba Culture
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Cycling Education and Strong Institutions
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The Leadership of Rotten Parts
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Sapele’s Female Druggies and their Babies
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Yankius on Julian Assange
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Fulani Herdsmen & The British Legacy of Guilt
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Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership 2
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Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership
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Pirate-Captain Entities and Democracy
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Ayittey Benchmark: Performance of Presidents
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“Blame or Claim” Governance: Buhari’s Only Hope
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Gowon & Babangida: Nigeria’s Drug Culture 2
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Sapele’s Youth Drug Addiction Epidemic
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Buhari Should Sell Nigerian Youths As Slaves
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Did Wole Soyinka Blame the Nigerian Youth?
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Nigeria Lies: Recovering Loot
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Understanding Akpunwaism
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Nigeria Needs Strong Social Movements
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Nigeria Decivilising
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Nigeria Needs a Fearsome Electorate
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Oppression: Some Questions
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Nigeria Needs Serious Politicians
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Obasanjo is neither Fulani nor Igbo
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Yankius on Iyabo Obasanjo’s Ambition to Be President
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Who Will the EFCC Cadet Graduates Serve?
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Uber License: A Nigerian Interest
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Is the Expected Revolution in Nigeria Possible?
Is the Expected Revolution in Nigeria Possible? Many talking points in Nigeria and diaspora focus ever more on the undeniable necessity for a ‘proper revolution’...
The Crisis of Leadership: Part 2
The Crisis of Leadership: Part 2...
Corruption Is Now Spiritual: Nigeria
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Nigerian Colonies: Niger Delta and Bornu
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Why Evans the Kidnapper is King in Nigeria
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Banning History In Nigerian Schools
..Banning History In Nigerian Schools One may wonder who within the Nigerian Ministry of Education orchestrated the removal of the History [of West Africa] as...
Muslim Hegemony Through Education
Muslim Hegemony Through Education We wrote the articles Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria? (http://wp.me/p1bOKH-BE) and The Complaints: Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria? (http://wp.me/p1bOKH-BT). Many took it as mischief with...
The Crisis of Leadership
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“Coconut Head” Corruption
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How Leadership Fails Nigeria
How Leadership Fails Nigeria Hope for good governance and good leadership in Nigeria seems to be an increasingly distant confidence. What happens if the leadership...
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria 11 – Slavery?
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria 11 – Slavery? To be in a UCGF (University Campus Grown Fraternity) member in 2017 under the terms and conditions...
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: 10 – Poor Imitators
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Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: 9 – Silencing
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Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria 5 B – Hoppers
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Southern Kaduna Genocide: Surprise?
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Hunger Is No Blessing
Hunger Is No Blessing While most Nigerians are adept at hiding and ignoring their nation’s hunger and poverty, the past year has not permitted the...
Fantastic Nigeria: Amaju Pinnick and the Olympic Football Saga
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Give Nigeria Back Its Stolen Funds in UK
A keynote lecture presented at Green Economics Institute 11th Annual Conference at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, England on the 29th of July 2016. The...
Nigerian Pretexts: Nuclear Power
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Anticorruption Is Better Social Organisation
Anticorruption Is Better Social Organisation This article starts and concludes with the following sentence. “Governance and corruption are about social organisation on a scale that...
Is Britain More Corrupt Than Nigeria?
Is Britain More Corrupt Than Nigeria? Corruption occurs in every nation and at all levels in systemic and non-systemic forms. To compare corruption in Nigeria...
Fulani Herdsmen are Spies
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Are Fraternities in Nigeria Cults?
Are Fraternities in Nigeria Cults? Try a Validated Checklist. It is almost a rule that, as a member of the public, you will encounter UCGFs...
Are Buhari’s Fears a Signal of the End of Nigeria?
In December 1984 my late father made a remark that I could not understand at the time, he said, “the leaders of Nigeria will know...
Political Ambitions in Diaspora
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Nigeria’s “Medical Mail Brides”: Part 2
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#FreeEse: A Tragedy or Hot Air?
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Corrupt Manhood: Bleeding Nigeria
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Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 7 – The Legality
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Nigeria in Pieces: the Crushing of the Defenceless
Fela once called them vagabonds in power, VIPs. It now seems they are cowards in government, CIGs – Guynes One really has to consider the...
Nigeria in Pieces: Biafra & Kanu
It was a grievous mistake on the part of the Government of Nigeria (GON) to arrest the Biafran secessionist activist, Nnamdi Kanu (See; The Government...
Nigeria in Pieces
When Sir James Goldsmith in his book, The Trap, predicted in the mid-1990s that the nation called Nigeria will disintegrate in a similar manner to...
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 5 – Selfish Genes
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Unionised Cultists: Okada Riders Rule with Impunity
Trade unions are purely or originally organisations that were created and existed to protect the rights of workers especially from the exploitation and insensitivity of...
Native Politics: Thieves and Treasures
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Suicide Rising: The Blind Side of Anti-Corruption
Anti-corruption is raging in Nigeria and governance as predicted is blind siding countless worthy and real issues for governance. Anti-corruption is not an excuse whatsoever...
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 4 – The Deviation
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 4 – The Deviation University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGFs) started as idealistic brotherhoods with the reverie of changing some...
Solo Mansion Communities in Nigeria
Solo Mansion Communities in Nigeria Development in Nigeria is a narrow focus on brick, mortar and tarmac constructions with imported technology gadgets thrown in. The...
Gubernatocracy in Nigeria is Taking Big Blows
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Nigeria’s Brown Envelope Journalists
Nigeria’s Brown Envelope Journalists: A documentary on corruption in Nigerian journalism. Narrated and produced by Nic Muirhead; featuring journalists, Nicholas Ibekwe and Kadaria Ahmed; political...
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 3 – The Manipulation
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 3 – The Manipulation Many members of the public want to understand the thinking that perpetuates University Campus Grown...
Nigeria was Designed to Ever Fail
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Is APC the House of Refuge for the Corrupt?
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Obasanjo 3 Soyinka 0
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Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria – The Claims
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Monkey Tail, a Date-Rape Drug in Nigeria
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Constant Electricity in Nigeria?
Constant Electricity in Nigeria is Very Risky Business There is a lot of chit-chat that one of the ”ministerless” wonders of the Buhari administration’s electricity...
Pyrates: Original Anticorruption in Nigeria
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Nuclear Power in Nigeria? Another Crazy ‘Pole Vault’
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Response: Culture is Not Costume
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