Peter Obi – Obasanjo’s Hope? Or Nigeria’s hope? One should ask what does the support of former generals, ethnocultural groups, and other political heavyweights in the land mean for Peter Obi’s campaign? Peter Obi has earned phenomenal popularity through fostering Nigeria’s first popular democratic movement since the 1950s. That was…
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“Blame or Claim” Governance: Buhari’s Only Hope
“Blame or Claim” Governance: Buhari’s Only Hope There is an insightful article for those interested in governance by Taiwo Makinde titled Problems of Policy Implementation in Developing Nations: The Nigerian Experience. In the paper, the Makinde explains quite persuasively why policy implementation in Nigeria routinely fails with successive governments. He implicates, among…
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Buhari Should Sell Nigerian Youths As Slaves
Buhari Should Sell Nigerian Youths As Slaves President Buhari, like many past Nigerian heads of state, is living proof of why slavery flourished along the coast of West Africa a few centuries ago. The Europeans, Americans and others nurture, support and encourage their youth. That is they could build the…
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Obasanjo is neither Fulani nor Igbo
Obasanjo is neither Fulani nor Igbo In 2012 an Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) operative intimated to me very intensely that the then President Olusegun Obasanjo was a traitor to the Yoruba race citing many things he did as military and civilian head of state as proof. One accusation was the…
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Obasanjo 3 Soyinka 0
Obasanjo 3 Soyinka 0 The bickering between Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and ex-President Gen Olusegun Obasanjo (Rtd) continues. Sometimes simmering, sometimes crackling, it will never cease. There is no love lost between the two men. Obasanjo is the hedgehog and Soyinka is the fox if one uses Isaiah Berlin’s understanding…