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EXCERPTS FROM 'ANALYSIS & COMMENTS ON THE NIGER DELTA DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (NDDC) BUDGET: FY2008' Remembering President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua of blessed memory. He was indeed committed to solving the Niger-Delta problem through peaceful and socially beneficial ways. I was commissioned on an individual and independent technocratic basis to work on above subject matter for then Mr. P some 10 years or so ago. The entire submission including the covering letter to Mr. P from NDDC Management was handed to me to do the analysis and prepare a report in a secluded government 'special facility' under maximum classified circumstances. Nobody else outside Mr. P and the then CEA was to know at the time. It was part of his effort at putting together a coherent and comprehensive strategy for ameliorating the problems of the Niger-Delta region that formed one of his 7-point Agenda. Part of the recommendations of the Report together with the feedback received from an almos...

MY THOUGHTS ON THE TRENDING ANNOUNCEMENT BY APC NATIONAL LEADERSHIP REGARDING THE ADOPTION OF DIRECT PRIMARIES OPTION IN THE ELECTION OF THE PARTY CANDIDATES FOR GENERAL ELECTIONS Quite a brilliant stroke and most welcome development it is! Comrade Oshiomole - APC National Chairman has indeed started proving his mettle and brinkmanship as a standard-bearer of participatory democracy. The decision will surely ginger a desirable bottom-up inclusive and participatory democracy in which the true wishes and decisions of all party members truly matter. The Party has by this highly commendable decision provided the inspiration for a new sense of shared responsibility, increased commitment and wider appeal that will sure steamroll serial electoral victories for it into the foreseeable future. This model popularised the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP) to which I had belonged in the 1990s. I was there at the February 1993 SDP Jos Convention from which late MKO Abiola emerged Preside...

The Rise and Fall of Buhari. This write up coming from the London Economist, a magazine that endorsed Buhari for President in 2015, is perhaps the most significant, objective, unbiased, unsentimental and deeply incisive analysis of the policies and actions of this president so far. The facts are unimpeachable by any objective mind. The Unprecedented Level of Patience Shown to Buhari---the ECONOMIST Nigerians have never shown such level of patience and tolerance towards any of their past leaders for his record and strange policies as that shown to their current leader, Muhammadu Buhari – a former military dictator now self-confessed democrat who said he came to fight corruption. Buhari, 75, is being plagued with failures across every single sector in the economy, the like as has never been seen before. Less than a year into office, the economy plummeted into recession, an economy which had till then grown at an average rate of 7% in previous years (2011-2014). The nation’s c...

I, HOPE MANY PRESIDENT MOHAMMADU BUHARI'S SUPPORTERS CLUB WILL BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO THIS. Late Chief Dr Olusola Saraki (MBBS), the father of the current Nige rian Senate President, Bukola Saraki, was a one time President Senate In the 2nd Republic, 1979-1983 and under his Leadership Senate committee member indicted General Mohammadu Buhari over the missing 2.8billion pounds sterling. In 1983, When the Senate Committee under the leadership of, Late Chief Dr. Olusola Saraki Chaired was investigating the stolen 2.8 Billion pounds sterling, from the coffers of the Nigeria National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) Between 1977-1978, under General Mohammadu Buhari's watch as NNPC Boss. Mohammadu Buhari was Indicted by the Nigerian Senate over the missing funds, as the Money was traced to his Bank accounts with British bank, Midland bank, now HSBC. Mohammdu Buhari and his Military gangs, staged the 1983 coup that ousted the, President Shehu Shagari / Dr. Alex Ifeanyichuk...

Today we felt like sharing something about one of greatest sons of Africa Biography of Thomas Sankara. Thomas Sankara was Burkina Faso’s president from August   1983 until his assassination on October 15, 1987. Perhaps, more than any other African president in living memory, Thomas Sankara, in four years, transformed Burkina Faso from a poor country, dependent on aid, to an economically independent and socially progressive nation. Thomas Sankara began by purging the deeply entrenched bureaucratic and institutional corruption in Burkina Faso. He slashed the salaries of ministers and sold off the fleet of exotic cars in the president’s convoy, opting instead for the cheapest brand of car available in Burkina Faso, Renault 5. His salary was $450 per month and he refused to use the air conditioning units in his office, saying that he felt guilty doing so, since very few of his country people could afford it. Thomas Sankara would not let his portrait be hung in offi...

Waiting for the Big Five Source: Thisday News Nseobong Okon-Ekong and Segun James examine the role of an exclusive group of influential Nigerians whose enormou s powers can determine who takes the Peoples Democratic Party presidential ticket Today, August 27 is the anniversary of the military that installed Gen. Ibrahim Babangida as the first and only military president in Nigeria. While there will be no overt party, a small group of Nigerians known as the ‘IBB Boys’ will gather round the former Nigerian leader to exchange thoughts on the direction of governance in the country, more so that the anniversary comes 10 days after Babangida’s August 17 birthday. The IBB Boys include civilians who were close to Babangida. The majority members of this group were originally in the who were originally in the military but have since retired, while a couple of them are still on the military. At the beginning of the Fourth Republic in 1999, some of the IBB Boys became governors, while a ...