Opinion
Where were you when Senator Barack Obama was officially declared President of the United States of America? I will tell you where I was. I was at home in Accra with some friends who I had invited over for an ‘election vigil’. We were prepared for a long night, so we enlisted the support of …
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Now that the dust has settled and the coast seems clear enough, this is perhaps the right time to do an X-ray of what the federal government under President Umar Yar’Adua intends to achieve with the creation of a new ministry to take care of the Niger Delta region. On the surface, it appears the …
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The world is burning but Nigeria’s economic managers insist that the country is sheltered from its ravaging impact. The posturing makes one wonder whether the managers live on this planet or on the moon. Is there truly anywhere in the world that is not feeling the heat of the financial meltdown raging across the continents, …
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What is happening within the African National Congress? In December 2007 Jacob Zuma defeated Thabo Mbeki 60 per cent to 40 per cent for the leadership of the ANC. The controlling committees and boards of the ANC were all taken over by the supporters of Jacob Zuma. There were many cabinet ministers who were no …
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At the 6th Annual Congress of the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, held on 15 December 1983 at Abeokuta, Papa Obafemi Awolowo, in his characteristically profound, incisive, balanced and dialectical examination of the Nigeria Project, made a forceful and prophetic postulation that moved beyond Marx and Hegel’s dialectical processes. According to the sage:
The goal of …
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