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...
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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...
HEAR OUR VOICES – A Nation’s Reaction to Tragedy
On 22 October 2005, the nation experienced one of its darkest days in contemporary Nigeria. 117 passengers on board a Bellview Airlines 210 on its way to Abuja crashed. The effects of this accident shook the nation....
AGAINST THE ROPES – A Nation’s Response to Adversity
By quirk of unusual coincidence, the Nigerian Nation was thrown into mourning with the loss, on Saturday, 22 October 2005 of 117 persons who died when Belleview Airlines Flight 210 en route Abuja from Lagos, crashed in...
HIGHER AND HIGHER – The Trauma of Fuel Prices & Hikes
Yet again, the Nigerian nation has been roused into protest mode. The reason for this is the recently publicised increase in the pump price of petroleum products. Petrol and diesel previously sold for approximately N51...
Turmoils of Nigeria’s Statehood: Views on Emerging Trends in Africa
The recent United States National Intelligence Council report that predicted, amongst other things, an outright collapse of Nigeria as a nation state within the next 15 years was received with a range of responses...
THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION: WHAT ARE WE AFRAID OF?
The controversy surrounding the emergence of the document headed “Draft Constitution” has been very well documented. The document refers to one ostensibly produced by an All Party Committee on the...
REMOVE THE SPECK… THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND ITS EXCESSES?
The news has recently been awash with stories of disciplinary or control actions emanating from the National Assembly. On Thursday 17 February 2005, Dr Haruna Yerima, an elected member representing ANPP from Borno...
Nigeria: The Unfinished Business
Being text of the lecture delivered by Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (rtd), at the Prof. Wole Soyinka Annual Lectures Series, 2004; Marking the 70th Birthday Celebrations of the Nobel Laureate at the Muson Center, Lagos...