The Nigerian Oracle Instigating a "Mental Revolution"

Corruption in Nigeria is not restricted to the executive branch alone; its destructive tentacles reach all institutions of government. For instance, the legislature is a very important arm of democratic governance saddled with the responsibilities of making good laws for national development and oversight on the executive. Our shamelessly parasitic National Assembly is a Mecca
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The Nigerian Oracle Instigating a "Mental Revolution"

“How time flies!” is a cliché that expresses surprise – pleasant or otherwise – about how quickly the seasons of our lives turn. Today, I am struck by the same sense of wonder that an entire 20 years have passed since the 1993 presidential elections in Nigeria. For those of us who were already adults
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The Nigerian Oracle Instigating a "Mental Revolution"

Nigeria’s Professor of Political Economy and Management, Professor Pat Utomi, has slammed the country’s politicians for undermining the country’s democracy, saying they prefer women than they genuinely desire the development of the nation. According to Prof. Utomi, the present crop of politicians in the country are more interested in sleeping with women than they are
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The Nigerian Oracle Instigating a "Mental Revolution"

President Goodluck Jonathan is probably the most vilified Head of State in the history of Nigeria. And, frankly, he deserves a lot of the criticisms that have been flung at him because he has not tried hard enough to fulfill his potential… and does not sufficiently control his cronies and subordinates. But I for one
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The Nigerian Oracle Instigating a "Mental Revolution"

Like a political compass, the book Democracy in Nigeria is furnished with materials that can guide the electorates in Nigeria on making good political judgements. Tracing the nation’s political history, the book is a good reminder of the travails of democracy in the stream of time and as well as an expose of the obstacles
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The Nigerian Oracle Instigating a "Mental Revolution"

There is a sharp and dangerous social divide developing in Nigeria today. On the surface it seems to be ethnic, sectional or religious as it seems some elements of the elite desire. In reality, however, it is a division between a substantially thieving rich and a battered degraded, traumatized, oppressed and a subsequently corrupted poor.
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The Nigerian Oracle Instigating a "Mental Revolution"

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The Nigerian Oracle Instigating a "Mental Revolution"

Constitution of a country all over the world, is subject to amendment when the need arises and it was against the backdrop of strengthening the 1999 Constitution to meet the challenges of our everyday life that the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2006, during the tenure of Senator Ken Nnamani as President,
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The Nigerian Oracle Instigating a "Mental Revolution"

“The fact that you present something at the Governor’s Forum does not mean that all of us are bound by decisions if we express our disagreements,” Babatunde Fashola, Governor of Lagos State-Vanguard, March 6, 2013 Sometime ago in an intervention on the opposition parties’ heavy weather over President Goodluck Jonathan’s disapproval of public declaration of
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The Nigerian Oracle Instigating a "Mental Revolution"

Another ‘Democracy Day’ (29th May) has passed innocuously with the usual songs of dividends of democracy from the mouths of many Nigerians (especially supporters of the ruling party, PDP). The opposition, as usual, has continued to remind Nigerians of the woes of missed opportunities under the present Federal Government. It may be wrong to refuse
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