The National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity), views the just concluded Nigerian elections (April 14 and 21, 2007) as a robbery of the collective will of the Nigerian Citizenry. It has set back hopes of a...
Current Affairs
PTDF, Senate Report and the Challenge of Accountability
Recent events in Nigeria surrounding accusations and counter accusations of misapplication, misappropriation or is the outright misuse of public funds accruing to the Petroleum Technology and Development Fund (PTDF) by...
DANCING TOWARDS ANARCHY – The President and his Vice
It is common knowledge that the relationship between the President and his Vice has been fractured for years and has stretched from courteous accommodation to downright hostility. On December 22, 2006, this situation...
VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS AND THE RULE OF LAW: An assured route to anarchy
Constitutions are documents drawn up by civilized democracies to establish the modus operandi for conducting state business and for defining the boundaries of relationship between the state and society. In many...
17 September, 2006 – GLOBAL DAY FOR DARFUR: Let Us Stop This Genocide
On September 17, 2006 the world, through various international humanitarian organisations will stand up on the side of the Darfuri people to put pressure on Governments and the international community to protect the...
ASSASINATION AND UNRESOLVED KILLINGS IN OUR LAND – The Disturbing Trend of Political Terrorism
Killings, assassinations, intimidation, thugry are closely associated with intolerant and unaccommodating dictatorships. History is replete with these dispositions that muzzle free speech, association and civil...
DOING THE SPLITS – Counting the Costs of the Third Term Debacle
On 16 May 2006, the Upper House of the legislature in Nigeria took the unprecedented and generally unexpected step of halting the debate on the controversial constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999...
NGO Statement on Darfur
Press release signed by 17 NGOs including NAS International on the situation in Darfur. NGO STATEMENT ON DARFURThe following organisations:Aegis TrustAmerican Jewish World ServiceArmenian National Committee of...
DARFUR – The Shadow of Our Conscience
Followers of socio-political developments all over the world will be familiar with the unsavoury circumstances that have subsisted in the horn of Africa, the Western Sudanese region of Darfur. On 10 April, 2006,...
LEAVE US ALONE!!!
On 23 January 2006, “This Day” the national newspaper carried a report attributed to the Federal Minister of Information, Mr Frank Nweke Junior in which he alleged that the “Pirate...
“HEAR OUR VOICES” – A PETITION FOR A PUBLIC INQUIRY
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SEADOGS AS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIAIN THE MATTER OF A PETITION INTO THE PRESENT AND FUTURE STATE OF THE AVIATION & TRANSPORT INDUSTRY“HEAR OUR...
BUDGET 2006: Observations on Spending Options
On 5 December 2005, President Olusegun Obasanjo addressed a joint session of the National Assembly in which he presented the 2006 Appropriation Bill. This project contained a number of remarkable if not unique...