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Nigeria's Officialdom and Public Expenditure Waste

By Mobolaji E. Aluko

The GuardianSunday, December 21, 200340 Per Cent Federal Workers May Lose JobDirectors Write Exams To Determine SuitabilityFROM MARTINS OLOJA (Abuja B...

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Nigeria's Intemperate Politicians

By Ben Lawrence

culled from VANGUARD, Thursday, December 23, 2004Nigerian politicians must cultivate civility.DR. Emmanuel Eweka would say in those hectic days of his...

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Nigeria's Impeachment Saga: Democracy On The Legislature's Butcher Block

By Osa Iyinbo

From all indication, the Nigerian political landscape, like its airline industry currently plagued by rash of deadly crashes, seem headed for disaster...

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Nigeria Data Retention: A Cautionary Exploration

By Femi Oyesanya

The volatile nature of computerized based data, National Security considerations, and an overall Law Enforcement needs for substantive digital evidenc...

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Nigeria : Digital Divide, Technology Growth, and Technology Adoption Appropriateness

By Femi Oyesanya

Digital Divide is often referred to as the performance gaps that exist between countries with universal access to Information Technology resource, and...

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Nigeria: Information Does Not Want To Be Free, Freedom of Information and the Nigerian Dilemma

By Femi Oyesanya

A recent article by Reuters News Service, exemplified how questionable the integrity of processed Nigerian data has become.  According to the art...

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Nigeria and the Beautiful Game of Soccer

By Mobolaji E. Aluko

INTRODUCTIONIn the last few days, I joined millions of other Nigerians to watch our Super Eagles defeat our perennial nemesis Cameroun in the Quarter-...

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Nigeria, Bursting At The Seams

By Mike Thomson

Nigeria, Bursting At The Seamsculled from BBC News, June 3, 2005In the six years since Nigeria passed from military rule to democracy, an estimated 10...

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Nigeria: Bridging the Infrastructure Divide

By Jide Awe

The information age has made technology, particularly information and communications technology, indispensable. What has been the Information Technolo...

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The Sorry Situation of the Governors and their Deputies

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

Contents:Introduction: “Can You Please Come With Us?”Problem 1:  Enforced PartnershipsProblem 2:  Undefined Constitutional RolesProblem ...

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The Sokoto Caliphate and Nation-building in the 19th and 20th Centuries

This International Conference on the Sokoto Caliphate and its Legacies, can only serve a useful purpose, if, right away, we locate it in the national,...

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The Sokoto Caliphate and its Legacies (1804-2004)

By Prof. John N. Paden

This discussion paper will focus on the following: 1) the Sokoto legacy; 2) post-independence caliphate influences; 3) rule of law; 4) federalism; 5) ...

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The Social and Economic Implications of Sharia Law

By Sam A. Aluko

Contribution to the Seminar Organised by the Chapel of Annunciation, Archbishop Vining College of Theology, Akure, Ondo State, on Sunday, 28th Novembe...

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The Slack-Variable Mathematical Inequalities of Electoral Participation in Nigeria

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

INTRODUCTIONIs there a rational approach to deciding to take part in any given election process? I believe that there is, so let me explain.A SIMPLE F...

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The Satanic Appearance And Nigerian Experience

By Paul Mamza

When the idea of Nigeria was conceived by a sweeping and crushing martyrdom of some brilliantly coordinated nationalist efforts. The early marshals ha...

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