On Saturday 14 July 2012, the 15th Annual Professor Wole Soyinka Lecture series took place at the London South Bank University. Three distinguished speakers, Dr Ibibia Worika (Legal Counsel, Commonwealth Secretariat,...
Current Affairs
Darfur Crisis
— The role of Regional Powers, the United Nations and the ICC By ‘Gbenga Adenuga, London Metropolitan University, Faculty of Law, Governance and International Relations 1. Introduction This paper provides a...
Re-engineering the Local Government System for Effective Grass root Democracy and Sustainable Development
Being text of a presentation by Ben Oguntuase Former Special Adviser (Policy & Strategy), EKSG; Former NAS Capn (1996 – 1999) at the Town Hall Meeting organized by the National Association of Seadogs...
Fuel Subsidy Removal: Fraud, Deception, Corruption or Good-intentioned?
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo | akinadejum@aol.com I will be very frank with you; despite the raging debates over the past six months or so, I had not the slightest intention of writing on this contentious and...
The Great Debate: Removal of Subsidy is good for Nigeria
By: Ben Oguntuase There are three levels of high fraud that the removal of subsidy will tackle. The first is fraudulent payment on phoney import of PMS. The product is fraudulently certified as imported into Nigeria...
NAS Condemns Christmas Bombings
As peoples all over the world of the Christian persuasion, celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ on the 25th of December 2011, Nigeria was once again subjected to a series of bomb explosions targeted at worship centres...
DISCLAIMER
It has come to the attention of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SEADOGS a.k.a. PYRATES CONFRATERNITY (hereinafter called NAS) that certain mimic upstarts or pseudo groups in the Nigerian tertiary institutions and in some...
The State of Insecurity and the Proliferation of Violence:
IMPLICATIONS ON THE POLITY The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) has observed with grave concern the current state of insecurity in the country. We are worried that this dangerous trend is gradually assuming a new...
Nigeria’s N4.6 trillion 2011 budget runs into hitch
By Omodele Adigun, Louis Iba, Adewale Sanyaolu and Chima Nwokoji The SUN Monday, September 19, 2011 The alarm sounded last week by the Minister of Finance, Dr (Mrs) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on the zero-level...
Nigeria: A Nation examined in one day
A day after 9/11’s 10th anniversary celebration in the US it was no surprise to see the Nation newspaper taking the human interest story of the event as the front page, and terrorism Nigeria style as another. The...
Japan: INCJ Beyond Ninja
Something is happening in Tokyo. Since the great Tohoku Earthquake of March 11, 2011, life has been back to normal. Students have since resumed classes and the yearly national baseball game has come and gone where high...
Save Bakassi March
Worldwide march to highlight the plight of the indigenous people of Bakassi.