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Between Democracy & Development: What Gives?
- By Michael Oluwagbemi II
- Published 01/25/2010
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In Nigeria, one with the benefit of hindsight may realize the missed opportunities in 1960, 1979, 1993 and 1999 to do the proper thing and bequeath to our country a limited but expandable form of democracy...
The Recruiters and the Recruited: Instancing How Nigerians Have Been Agonizing, Traumatizing and Duping One Another
- By Adebiyi Jelili
- Published 12/29/2009
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The story of Victor is just one variation of how some Nigerians recruit and deceive themselves into the uncertainty of living abroad...From The Pen of a Foreign Mate…
- By Sula Joy
- Published 11/29/2009
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I am baffled by the constant dialogue among Nigerians in America about “foreign women” who reject Nigeria. Many Nigerian-American men and their families have cast American women as snobbish of third-world living and disdainful of Nigeria...
Home Coming
- By Adora Ikwuemesi
- Published 11/12/2009
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When people tell me they want to move back to Nigeria, I respond with the question, why? Sometimes I get a puzzling reply bordering around the fact that Nigeria is after all home, like it or not! Instancing How Nigerians Have Been Agonizing, Traumatizing and Duping One Another
- By Adebiyi Jelili
- Published 11/9/2009
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Oh boy! Na village you still dey.... No hope for you oh because if you think sey e go better like that, you no go ever make ‘em for life. I just say make I ring you oh, because as I don dey for paradise now, he no good make sense make I no say hallo to you my padi...Africa’s elite and the Western media
- By Chielozona Eze
- Published 11/1/2009
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I see no reason why the tide of bad news in Nigeria can not be stopped. Perhaps all it takes is a change of heart that begins with a radical rejection of the thought that the West is only interested in grubbing in the African compost...Nigerians: The Desperate Attempt to Go Into Exile
- By Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
- Published 10/31/2009
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Today’s Nigeria does not even resemble the Nigeria of the 1960s and 70s. Optimism has faded. In so many ways, one feels sorry for the next generation. To think we are not leaving a better life and a better legacy for them is just so painful...Yar’adua The Great
- By Michael Egbejumi-David
- Published 10/24/2009
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I have since discovered that the very rich, the elite, the political establishmentarians in Nigeria live in their own very insular world. They do not relate to you and I...
The Culture of Exploitation and Officialization of Fraud: A Discourse on E-Passport 419neering
- By Adebiyi Jelili
- Published 10/19/2009
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This article is an attempt to expose the culture of exploitation and officialization of fraud that has trailed the advent of the E-passport, with a paid focus on the Diaspora community...Hello World, Nigerians Are Coming, Nigerians Are Here!
- By Paul I. Adujie
- Published 10/4/2009
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The parade attendance was huge, everyone was jolly and celebratory and the ambassador played his role perfectly, and according to my information, he was said to have been very supportive and accommodating to various Nigerian groups in the planning processes of this wonderful event...