What Is Dr. Mbang Up To? By Nwoko Lawrence
(GAMJI)
The continuous retention of Dr. Mbang as the CAN president is now putting the credibility of CAN into question. To the best of my knowledge he has no control over Christians in Nigeria. He is more interested in politics so he should be removed for the sake of Christians. Details
Mbang and His Destruction Tendencies. By Mohammed T. Elomi
(GAMJI)
The recent call by the President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Dr. Mbang for the arrest of presidential candidate of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), General Muhammadu Buhari over his (Buhari) refusal to accept the accept the outcome of the just concluded corroded, stage-managed presidential and gubernatorial elections is unfair, unjust, a jock of the year and a disgrace to Christianity. Details
Curving the Menace of Begging: A Proposal to Kano Governor-Elect. By Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u
(GAMJI)
One wonders what would be the future of our people if the issue of begging is not addressed. By begging I am referring to "Almajirai syndrome", which has become a social virus that characterised our streets and neighbourhood. A stranger who is visiting the north for the first time will certainly identify begging as one of the social marks that portray the picture of our society. Details
(GAMJI)
A level two university student voter wondered why he was at the polling station to vote. “It will make no difference” he said. For the last four month he has been at home doing nothing. He got part time job on the scammed? ID Card project and was paid once and no more. So he wondered why he should vote. Details
Nigeria: The Benefits in Self-Definition And Self-Assertion. By Paul I. Adujie
(GAMJI)
Nigerians should become more assertive and confident, it is said that, begging is not a position of strength, kneeling is not a position of dignity, it is not the case that our accusers do so out of benevolence and altruism or because these are just the facts! We owe it to ourselves and offspring and our Nigeria, to ensure that our country has good reputation Details
Civilian-to-Civilian Transition, We’ve Broken the Jinx — Obasanjo. By Sonny Onyegbula
(GAMJI)
With respect, I completely disagree with the president because his assessment of the elections negates those of independent observers who reported cases of large scale vote rigging, ballot stuffing and other types of irregularities that seriously undermined the credibility of the polls. While the president was a candidate in the election the observers were independent and were not representing any particular interest. Details
Obasanjo, Congratulations. By Professor Omo Omoruyi, mni
(GAMJI)
Your Excellency, the lesson of the political debacle of the ANPP in April is that Nigerians in the north and south are against extremism in the pursuit of religious and ethnic goals in Nigerian politics or in the public realm. One would recall that the ANPP presidential candidate that was faced with the drawback from religious extremism before he became the candidate unwittingly entered into a league with another extremist, an ethnic jingoist in Nigerian politics, Dim Ojukwu who told Nigerians that he was in politics “to take the Ndigbo back to Nigeria”. Details
Omoruyi's Letter of Supllication to Obasanjo. By Peter O'Para
(GAMJI)
What is worse is that Omoruyi continues to insult and abuse clearly eminent Nigerians - Ojukwu and Buhari in this case, in order to win the heart of the man to whom his supplication is directed. To those Edos who would jump to the defense of this cut and nail intellectual, it is best that he, Omoruyi be called to order and his head checked for no man of the calibre Omoruyi had shown long prior to this point could degenerate, mentally, so low as now Omoruyi appears, all for the sake of recognition, relevance or a job. Details
Obasanjo’s Offensive Statement. By Bello Umar-Farouk Jega
(GAMJI)
In addition, if Obasanjo is arguing that since Nigeria has already been rated as second corrupt nation in the world it is enough a pretext for us to employ corruption even in the selection of our leaders it also is a wrong judgment. Two wrongs, they say, do not make a right. If we are rated as highly corrupt nation that should motivate us to strive to eliminate corruption in its entire ramifications in our society rather than legitimising it. Details
(GAMJI)
Coming
second was General Muhamadu Buhari who not only is an ex-military
dictator and has a very rich anti-democratic history, but has been a
proponent of ethnicity and religious bigotry, consistently fanning the
embers of separatism with his volatile comments.
Deconstructing the Enugu National Assembly Polls. By Chy Obiefuna
(GAMJI)
A tale was told of how, at the campaign venue of one of his political opponents, he appeared on the air (not like Jesus Christ on his second coming!). He came in his helicopter. Therefter, there was a torrential rain of "manna" from heaven. You need not ask what happened immediately at the campaign ground. Your guess is as good as mine.
Obasanjo's 4/19 (419) Elections. By Babayola Muhammadu Toungo
(GAMJI)
We erroneously thought Obasanjo had some modicum of decency left in his soul to be able to play the statesman by conducting a free and fair poll that will be universally showcased as a model for other African leaders. Alas, we now know Obasanjo to belong to the camp of the Fixers and the Goebelles of Nigeria who, while looking you straight in the eye will lie to you while invoking God’s name. Details
Foreign Affairs Overseas General Posting is President Obasanjo a Child Hater? By Udu kpensh
(GAMJI)
A lot has been said and written against the implementation of the controversial 2002 Overseas General Postings released by the Foreign Affairs Ministry at Abuja, but it looks like the powers that be at the Ministry, are wont to carry out the posting at all cost at this inauspicious time irrespective of the many plausible reasons adduced to keep it in abeyance at least for now. I will list some of the reasons already advanced against implementing the posting at this time Details
Nigerian and 2003 National Elections. By Chidi Peter Eze
(GAMJI)
As for Mr. Abel Guobadia calling Buhari a frustrated man, Mr. Guobadia should know that no man before and after him has ever fraudulently manipulated Nigerians' choices and conscience and gotten away with it. I think he is the frustrated one since his fraudulent activities at INEC, his political corruption and maneuver have tainted his image. Details
The Roots Of Political Violence In Nigeria Rejoinder To Stephen Lampe. By Paul I. Adujie
(GAMJI)
Who indeed, is Stephen Lampe? How did he qualify to Psycho analyze one hundred and twenty million Nigerians at home and abroad and in one full swoop? How did Lampe arrive at his garrulous conclusions that Nigerians are essentially and fundamentally ungovernable? What are his criteria or parameters for measuring and concluding that Nigerians are all these unprintable labels that he attached to them in his article? Who gave Lampe the license to portray Nigerians as sub-humans? Details
Nigeria’s Election: A Repeat of History. By Richmond Ejiofor
(GAMJI)
Like I stated earlier, instead of playing to the devil, let us be unanimous in our condemnation of all the political class without exception. They all have failed us our match towards one great nation. Leadership is not the exclusive preserve of any person or groups of persons. To those who help perpetuate on the field the rigging being complained upon, they are helping to further dig the burial grave of no redemption for Nigeria. Details
(GAMJI)
If General Buhari and Dim Ojukwu were credible politicians and candidates that grew out of a credible process, they would have first been examining their inadequacies instead of talking of the process. Details
STAR CORRECTION: INEC Corrects The Lagos Mistake! By MOBOLAJI E. ALUKO, Ph.D.
You
will recall that we calmly called attention to an unfolding situation
in:
Kebbi: A State Under Siege! By Abdullahi Usman
(GAMJI)
A lot has already been said about the recently concluded set of elections regarding the glaring cases of rigging and other sharp practices witnessed in those polls. These range from the PDP Chairman, Audu Ogbe’s so-called “historic” 96 per cent voter turnout in Rivers State (where the incumbent governor scored 97.3% of the 2.11 million valid votes, leaving the 13 other candidates to share the remaining 57,103 votes!) to the unprecedented 100 per cent turnout recorded in an area of Brass local government in Bayelsa State, all of whom happened to have ‘coincidentally’ voted for the same candidate. One sincerely hopes that Ogbe will assist the country by heeding the advice of the UNPP Chairman, Saleh Jambo, in ensuring that this enviable ‘historic feat’ is recorded in the next edition of the Guinness Book of World Records! Details
The Nonsense Of Elections Monitors From America And Europe! By Paul I. Adujie
[NEW YORK]
(GAMJI)
Why are Nigerians and Africans always willing to play catch-up in compliance with American and European inconsistent and ever shifting policies that have had avalanche adverse consequences on Africans? Why do Nigerians and Africans care what the BBC, VOA or EU, UK and USA thinks of our elections? Why do we need this insulting supervision? Why do we accept this condescending, patronizing and disrespectful oversight? If this is not colonialism, what is? And let me ask, how many times did Africans or Nigerians for that matter ever observed or supervised the elections in Europe or United States? Details
Who Can We Blame? By Halilu Sadiq
(GAMJI)
…You
will agree with me that “you cannot follow the wrong Path
and appears in the right Place”
and “a sentence without a central idea is a PHRASE.
Then what of a MAN
without an idea?” After coming across and reading so many articles, I
found that there is something we “Nigerians”
fail to understand something in terms of who
can we blame, Politicians, and Politics.
419–The Victim as a Collaborator: Issues of Criminal Culpability in the Eradication of Advanced Fee Fraud. By Andrew Obinna Onyearu
(GAMJI)
419 as a form of advanced free fraud is based on the extraction from another of monies on account of fees, bribes, revenue or tax obligations or brokerage on the false premise that such monies are required as part of an official payment, usually to facilitate the release from Nigeria of staggering sums of money on the understanding that at its conclusion, the person who provides, upfront, the monies or assistance facilitating the release of these monies will receive an agreed substantial percentage of the principal identified sum. Details
The Election Results are a Farce. By Shehu Dikko
(GAMJI)
When I heard the chairman of the electoral commission, Dr. Abel Guobadia say, in answer to a reporter's question, that his state commissioners had powers to declare the results of the gubernatorial, but not the presidential polls in their states, I suspected that something strange was about to happen. The two elections were run at the same time as were the counting and collation of votes cast; why would Dr. Guobadia wish to have a separate and delayed announcement of the results of the presidential election in each state? Details
Nigeria Protest Hound Dogs: Voice of Jacob, Smell of Esau. By Michael O. Folorunso
(GAMJI)
The main focus of my essay is Mahammadu Buhari. The man who has threatened to make Nigeria ungovernable for Olusegun Obasanjo. Buhari is a man that can not be dismissed with a wave of the hand, the man is a paradox of human nature. A pile of contradictions. Details
After Round Two. By Ibrahim Dan Halilu
(GAMJI)
In fact, the voter turn out analysis as reproduced by NaijaData, and exhaustively discussed by some e-net contributors like Abdulhamid Ajetunmobi, and Dr. Bolaji Aluko said it all. Many of us begin to wonder how Rivers State recorded 100 percent turn out of over 2 million voters for presidential election despite the non-conduct of election in some wards as a result of breakdown of law and order. Details
A Culture of Protest. By Mike Ikhariale
(GAMJI)
There cannot be two winners in a win or lose game and politics is by its definition one of such games. The case of Nigeria is however quite different as everyone thinks of himself as a natural winner, irrespective of his fundamental disabilities and glaring personal incompetence not to talk of the element of luck. Details
2003 Polls: The Expected and the Unexpected. By Bala Yahaya
(GAMJI)
The mother of all surprises in the elections however, is the way and manner in which the PDP was said to have swept the polls across the country in spite of the glaring popular disenchantment of the masses with this government. The only possible reasons for this state of affairs could be either manipulation of the electoral process by the ruling party or Nigerian's willing endorsement of continuation of the vices of unemployment, rising prices (even of their staple foods), rising crime levels, gross inefficiency in public service, economic enslavement through embracing of foreign-induced economic policies, educational decline, etc. Details
Liberty, Democracy and Rule of Law: Whither Nigeria? By Ejiofor, Ritchie Esq.
(GAMJI)
We should not wait for the likes of late M.K.O to experience the bitter pills of the “mad dog” syndrome before we stand and fight to eliminate. It takes certainly the citizens to rise up and change an unjust system. It begins with the first step and every one owes Nigeria that duty to help change the country for the better. Details
Nigeria's Banana Democracy and Buhari's Options. By Ibrahim Ado-Kurawa
(GAMJI)
The
Yoruba mob mentality denied Nigeria the wisdom of many illustrious Yoruba
people for example the late sage Chief Awolowo admitted in his autobiography My
March Through Prison pages 314-315 that he was mobbed into being a tribal
leader against his wish by this mob. Chief Obasanjo was also mobbed into this
tribal thing by the mob. He had always aspired to be the great leader of
Bad News From Nigeria: Arthur Nzeribe Is Back. By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
(GAMJI)
No doubt, the most offensive news to emerge from this part of the world two weeks ago, when Nigeria held "elections" into its National Assembly, was the reports in the media that Mr. Arthur Nzeribe, that foul fellow from Oguta whose former colleagues in the Senate had to describe as being irremediably “allergic to good reputation” and noble intentions, has once more “won” the Orlu Senatorial Seat. Details
ASUU/ FGN Face-off, Point Blank. By Jibo Nura
(GAMJI)
If for instance, Shagari could surrender up to 23% out of Nigerian budget and if America, who is our 'night mare' could afford to give over 800 billion dollars yearly to her educational sector, it is crazy and irresponsible for the present government of Obasonjo /Atiku to start telling us about their plans on Nigerian education if they cannot afford to allocate even 2% to education. Details
Nigeria Tainted Again: Obasanjo Wins Big in Fraud-Filled Elections. By Dr. Chika Onyeani
(GAMJI)
Having said that though, it is very sad that it is President Obasanjo, so-called champion of democracy and good governance in Africa who, when it comes to his own election, has abandoned the principles he has promoted and preached to others. Committing election fraud to stay in power was least expected of a person with such "high ideals" as President Obasanjo Details