Now that it is apparent that the people of the State of Osun will not risk good governance for uncertainties as the All Progressive Congress candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial election in the State started his re-election campaign in Ile…
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Ooni backs Aregbesola’s re-election bid
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, has promised 100 per cent support for Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s second term ambition. Sijuwade made the promise when the governor paid a courtesy visit to him in Ile-Ife on Tuesday as…
SNG – SOCIAL CONTRACT BLUEPRINT
A Contract to Save and Transform Nigeria (A Manifesto for Liberty, Security and Prosperity) – by the SNG MAY 5, 2010 A CONTRACT TO SAVE AND TRANSFORM NIGERIA (MANIFESTO FOR LIBERTY, SECURITY, AND PROSPERITY NIGERIANS MUST INSIST ON.) 1. PREAMBLE…
THE AMALGAMATION OF NIGERIA WAS A FRAUD – Chief Richard Akinjide, SAN
I was in the first cabinet that was overthrown by the military in this country. I entered parliament in December 12, 1959. And I remained in parliament until January 15, 1966 when the government was overthrown. I was the Federal…
THEORY OF DRIFT, NATIONAL PARANOID DELUSIONS AND BOKO HARAM DELUGE
As we are still living with the national paranoid delusions in its facets, we must always remind ourselves of possible words and actions of insights and maybe we can jointly look at the whole issue with concerted and concentrated efforts…
FORBACKY DANCE : GLIMPSES AT NIGERIA’S DESTINY by Sola Adeyeye
Forty years ago, I was a participant in a ceremony that marked the beginning of Nigeria’s sovereignty as a nation-state. As a member of the Boys Scouts at St. Stephen’s Anglican School, Ora, Igbomina, in the then Western Region, I…
TRUE FEDERALISM: SOLUTION TO OUR NATIONAL POLITICAL PROBLEMS
In mobilizing our people and ensuring an all pervasive sense of belonging in our body politic,and help to boost new social and political changes in the system, we must not forget that pretence cannot be exchanged for action well planned…
The day Jonathan, Sambo, govs set PDP agenda for the N-west
Last Wednesday, at the Murtala Muhammed Square, Kaduna, an army of urchins, among others, converged. Dressed in and what looked like hurriedly made Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) T-shirts and caps, their dusty feet, thread-bare trousers and the liberty with…
JONATHAN ENDORSES AMOSUN’S ECONOMIC PLAN!
President Goodluck Jonathan has endorsed the economic plan of Ibikunle Amosun-led administration in Ogun State, pledging the readiness of the Federal Government to partner with the state government in its rebuilding mission. Speaking at the commissioning of the Procter and…
PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM IS IN-ADAPTIVE TO AFRICA PECULIAR POLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCE
The people have become cynical and deeply suspicious about democracy. Everywhere in Africa, Presidential elections leave countries deeply polarized and worse yet, plunge countries into deep sociopolitical crisis. The question that I would like all of us to examine is…