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Averting Conflict, Insurgency And Militancy
- By Carl Collins Ogunshola Oshodi
- Published 08/2/2010
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The nation's security strategy and defense doctrine now recognize a broader range of threats not only to the national security in general, but to the homeland in particular. Today's corporate security strategies must be all-encompassing...
Africa and the Pestilence of Imported Gods
- By Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh
- Published 03/24/2010
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How can a society hand over its head on a platter to a conqueror because he asked for it? How can a people yield their gods to be decapitated or burnt at the conqueror’s fires simply because the conqueror just showed up, knocked on the door and politely asked for that? “Ara Eko, Ara Oke”: Lagos, Culture, and the Rest of Us
- By Pius Adesanmi
- Published 03/24/2010
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Never mind Wole Soyinka’s dissing of his own generation as a wasted one. In the nature of things, your generation always just happens to be the last best generation before whatever value systems or institutions you are discussing collapsed irredeemably, hence the tendency to dismiss the generation after you...Links of the Sleeping Giant to the World
- By Sanya Osha
- Published 01/30/2010
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Nigeria’s regional relations in the post-Obasanjo era are increasingly being shaped by the local and global dynamics of petrolic politics and capitalism...Foundations of Misrule in Nigeria
- By Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh
- Published 01/6/2010
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Every tyrant is a megalomaniac. Tyranny is nothing but a political manifestation of psychosis. That is a fact that remains indisputable. I have never known a tyrant, stripped of the paraphernalia of power clothing his madness, who has not acquitted himself as a grovelling coward...
Nigeria's Strategic Plan: How to become an economic powerhouse by the year 2020
- By Emeka Chiakwelu
- Published 11/25/2009
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The vision of transforming Nigeria's economy by 2020 must be strategically framed, rooted in sound macroeconomic fundamentals and elucidated legal framework to accomplish the targeted goal...The Promise of a Generation
- By Olu Ojedokun
- Published 10/4/2009
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We cannot be content at home and abroad, limiting ourselves to church planting and having mega conferences without a corresponding transformation of the United Kingdom and the Nigerian society. These activities must demonstrate their relevance by affecting the people around us...Lagos: A History In Pictures, 1861 to 1961
- By Akintokunbo A Adejumo
- Published 09/8/2009
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It is important to reproduce here that the great historian, Prof J F Ade Ajayi, debunked the theory and the belief that the British bombarded Lagos because it was a notorious “slave depot” in 1851 or annexed it in 1861 because “the permanent occupation of this important point in the Bight of Benin is indispensable to the complete suppression of the slave trade..."Man's Family And His Environment - An Essay On The Issues Of The Society
- By Carl Collins Ogunshola Oshodi
- Published 09/7/2009
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Family is the primary social invention that shapes us into human beings. Families are molded by society into functional forms and they contribute greatly to the success of the society to which they belong to...Measuring the African Continent’s Poverty Index
- By Carl Collins Ogunshola Oshodi
- Published 08/30/2009
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It is only when we understand the principles, rhetoric and politics behind Poverty, that we can really say that the African Continent is poor. Until that is proven beyond all reasonable doubt, I vehemently refute any analogy of the poverty concept as far as Africa is concerned...