QUOTA SYSTEM IN EDUCATION PLACEMENT AND EMPLOYMENT: IS THIS STILL RELEVANT IN A CAPITALIST AND DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY LIKE NIGERIA?

Full text of paper delivered at the 2nd Annual Unity Conference of Edo global organization, Verona, Italy, on the 12-14th November, 2004.*Dr. Samuel O...

RALLY ROUND OBASANJO to BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF NIGERIA IN 2003

Being an address delivered at the Fund Raising Dinner organized by the Integrated Supporters for Obasanjo (ISO)at Holiday Inn, South Ozone, New York o...

Reacting To The Day of The Long Knives in The Education Ministry

Events of the last two days in connection with the Ministry of Education and the National Assembly of Nigeria have been rather giddy. At one leve...

Redefining National Sovereignty

culled from GUARDIAN, May 7, 2006It is instructive that Nigeria has somehow cropped up in the discussion of some foreign super powers over the third t...

Regionalism: Tales From The Good Old Days

culled from GUARDIAN, March 14, 2005Beginning tomorrow, the National Conference on Political Reforms should go beyond the preliminaries, to confront t...

The Supreme Court Ruling on Electoral Act 2001 and Dual Citizens/Nigerian Citizens Resident Abroad

INTRODUCTION I have waited this long to gloat so as not to jinx the process, but with so many more Nigerians in the Diaspora announcing daily the...

The Tafa in Us All

Nigeria is a funny country.  Its government is impulsive.  It’s citizenry dramatic.  Nothing illustrates this than Tafa Balogun’s c...

THE VIAL OF JANUARY 15

THERE is a point on which no argument exists regarding the revolt of January 15, 1966. It fundamentally altered Nigeria’s political landscape. It ma...

These “BoldFace” Committees’ Explanations…!

The Unfizzled Sharia Vector in the Nigerian State

I.   The Declaration of IllegalityAfter many years of hemming and hawing,  and after thousands of deaths as an aftermath, the Federal Govern...