Audio – Visual Voting Method

(This submission was originally made in 2001 to INEC at Abuja, but was re-drafted for presentation to the INEC chairman at the Nigerian High Commissio...

Attorney-General's letter to Plateau State Speaker

Following the briefing to you and your colleagues on 8th November, 2004, I write to formally inform you of the allegations of criminal offences levell...

Attitudes Towards Public Service And The Social Contract

Nigerians are very political animals – and we act our political ideologies in many ways than one. However, we are a case in the study of contradicti...

Atiku's Sins: The Untold Story Revealed At Last

culled from DAILY TRUST, April 25, 2006When I watch the way that our first and second citizens air their disagreements through the media, I get very, ...

Atiku And The Anti-Corruption War

Nigeria between 1984 and 1999 was ruled by a succession of corrupt generals who brought the country to its knees internally and made her a pariah stat...

Assessing States and Universities in Nigeria - Beauty in the Eyes of the Beholder

I.  INTRODUCTION As a teacher, I hear this kind of statement all the time from students:   “I got an A in Chemistry but the teacher g...

Assessing Federalism, Partisan Politics and Development

This topic is fit for a doctoral dissertation. It has so many dimensions that I am stuck between being a fox and being a hedgehog. A fox wanders far a...

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times:

And We Call This Democracy ?

culled from THISDAY, May 08, 2005Two things – I’m angry and I’m sad. But that should not surprise me. There is no time I travel out of this coun...

And What Is To Be Done About the 2003 Elections Results?

INTRODUCTIONWhat is to be done about the 2003 elections results?  That is the big question begging for an answer – or many answers.Despite best...