My Style (8). By  Paul Mamza

(GAMJI WRITER)

The philosophy and burden of choice had made some men endangered species with pride and symbolized status as their catchword but ultimately the fact remains that what God disapproves, man cannot approve, in the same manner what God has approved, no man no matter how highly placed can disapprove . Details

 

NEO AND ECONO-COLONIALISM: MY PERSPECTIVE By Adeleke Otunuga

(Clarksville, TN, USA.  

(GAMJI)

For sometime now, I have been a keen observer of the political and economic practice of the west, as against “the way things are done” in Nigeria. My desire to find answers to such questions as “why are things done differently in our own part of the world?”, and “why is, despite our rich endowment with qualitative human and material resources, true development a far cry from our continent?” was a part reason I opted to study Philosophy at the University of Lagos instead of Mass Communication. Details

 

MEMO TO ‘COMRADE’ ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE By Jibo Nura

(Ahmadu Bello University Zaria)

(GAMJI)

With due respect to your exalted office sir, I am writing in response to some NLC reports, which made the front pages of two outstanding newspapers. First, was the caption “NLC begins mobilizing for strike,” Daily Trust, Monday December 8th 2003. Second, was “Deregulation: we don’t want your strike, its belated – Nigerians tell NLC,” New Nigerian Saturday, December 6th 2003. Details

 

The North should be Proud to Have Atiku Abubakar As No. 1 National representative By Abdulmatin Danladi Abubakar

(GAMJI)
L
et me start by thanking Almighty Allah for giving me the opportunity to commend our able vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on his efforts towards the development of the country particularly the North where he is representing. We in the North will not forget Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in areas of development. Details 

 

Some Nigerians' Attitude To  Our Nation, National Anthem, Pledge And  Flag Thanks To Senator Jubril Aminu, And The Nigerian Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. By Paul I. Adujie

(GAMJI)

Some of our nationals, appear interested only,  in what Nigeria represent to them, as a potential benefit, but not the corresponding obligations of duty and responsibility to Nigeria; but they are quite unwilling to play roles, that will contribute to that potential benefits, the current debate about ambassadorial nominees, who could not sing the national anthem, or recite the national pledge crystallizes these apathy! Details

 

Opinion: Hajj (Pilgrimage) Not a Do-Or-Die Affair. By  Dantani Baba Abdullahi

(GAMJI)

Perhaps because of the virtues of ‘hajj’ people make up their minds to go on pilgrimage by any means (lawful or unlawful). It should be noted however, that pilgrimage which stands the chance of being accepted by Allah once Allah’s commandment have been strictly followed is that which the money used for the fare has been gotten through the lawful means. Details

 

‘Serious Prayers for Jigawa’.  By Jibo Nura

(GAMJI)

Jigawa State needs urgent supplication from all Nigerians at every nook and cranny – just to save the state from its political regicide. When one compares the political equations of the state with its counterparts, Jigawa needs not only a special prayer but also a sacrificial sacrament for God to rescue the state from its present predicament. Details

 

National Unity: Whose Unity and Interest? By Ritchie Ejiofor

(GAMJI)

The search for the elusive national unity in Nigeria follows the pattern of deceit and insincerity of purpose. It is amplified by the aimless gyration for coerced unity, which would amount to attempting to level a rocky mountain with a finger nail file. Details

 

Transparency and Accountability. By E. Terfa Ula-Lisa

(GAMJI)

I read that the issue of the I.D. Card scandal came to the President’s attention when he asked for an explanation for the lack of progress on the matter commensurate to the monies expended.  Do the same audit for the roads in the east, the so-called Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) at NNPC.  The Nigeria Airways, Ports Authority, Ministry of Defense, Abuja Stadium Project and wherever huge government sums are dispensed. Details

 

A Response to Banjo’s “Nasir El Rufa’i –The Obituary of a Political Neophyte” By Ibrahim Dan Halilu

(GAMJI)

After having read the article with the above caption on www.gamji.com I came away with two impressions of the writer. The first is that Banjo Odutola must have been commissioned to write the article by those who felt disparaged by El Rufa’i’s testimony and disclosure of corruption.  The second impression was that he is a victim of El Rufa’i’s desirable high-handedness and meticulous implementation of the Abuja Master Plan. Details

 

Traducers and Thick Air:
Responding to Mohammed Haruna, and Olu Odeniyi  By Mr. Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

(GAMJI)

I may be stating the obvious; but really, there are no countries quite like Nigeria. We are without equals when it comes to our brilliance and benevolence, our silliness, our iniquitous conduct, and our grandiloquent and bombastic way of life. We have it all. We rein supreme. We sometimes stand alone at the top of the hill; and at other times we sit alone at the bottom of a stagnant trough. Details

 

PEOPLE AND POLITICS BY MOHAMMED HARUNA

The Daily Trust and its traducers

(GAMJI WRITER)

 In the past seventeen days or so since the Daily Trust published a front page comment on what it described as “Nigeria’s crisis of democracy” (November 24), its editor in chief, Kabiru Yusuf, must have been a somewhat puzzled, if not amused, political observer and publisher. Kabiru must be puzzled and amused that the reactions to his newspaper’s editorial in question have been the exact opposite of what he had intended that Thursday over three weeks ago, when he told the weekly meeting of the paper’s editorial board that he was worried that the widespread disenchantment with the political elite may inexorably lead to yet another military intervention in our politics, just like it did under somewhat similar circumstances 20 years ago. Details

 

HIV PATIENTS: SUFFERING WITH STIGMA By Dr. Abubakar Ali Shehi

(GAMJI)

This is a society where patients with debilitating diseases find it hard to be integrated into society as a form of rehabilitation. Now a disease with no cure presently like AIDS will condemn the patient to a life of doom, misery and depression which will lead to early death Details

 

Advocacy for Military Intervention: What Did the Daily Trust Say? By Ibrahim Dan Halilu

(GAMJI)

In the last couples of days the Daily Trust, published in Abuja, has come under severe criticism and open condemnation by some media commentators, politicians and even editors, especially from the southern part of the country.  The grouse of those condemning the paper was that its Editorial Comment of November 24 titled “Nigeria’s Crisis of Democracy,” was a call for military intervention in the country. Details

 

Nigerian Writers Online and the National Question. By Dr. Chidi Uzoma

(GAMJI)

Anyone conversant with the web would no doubt underscore the point of its growing importance to Nigerian writers. It has always been imagined that Nigeria has abundant human resources abroad. But through Internet, one is able to glance through this shadow less faces and their erudition. Details

 

Corruption: Not In The Government Alone; How About The Private Sector? By Paul I. Adujie

(GAMJI)

The Nigerian government has been blamed, properly so, for not setting a conducive environment economic and social development, over the years, particularly so, at this time, when public security and safety has steadily become a major issue for the citizens and corporate investors alike. Details

 

Countering Nigeria’s anti-intellectualism: For Chinua Achebe at 73. By Chidi Chike Achebe, MD.

(GAMJI)

I am not advocating that Nigerians copy Western culture or civilization. However, I do believe that we should scrutinize more closely, the successes and failures of thriving economies and societies as we lay our path in the world. Very importantly, I am not calling for an elitist system or a class structure. Details

 

Jigawa: How Opposition Fabricates Stories. By Sani Ibrahim Taura

(GAMJI)

It goes from the ' Nigeria time factor', the 'political factor', to the 'religious factor'. In Nigeria an opposition has acclimatised to saying the negative side of things always against their contender smoke screening the positive one. To be unconstructive in criticism is to enjoy sympathy from the hapless listeners/readers who will in the affirmative hail the critic as a hero. Details

 

Lessons from Kwara State. By Femi Olawole

(GAMJI)

All through the activities of the day, not once did anyone, either among the Kwarans or the honorary Kwarans such as Dr. Sekoni and Dr. Aluko, cry over some “marginalization”, tribalism or some other popular “jingles” of the perpetually paranoid among some of our fellow citizens. Details

 

Africa's Under Reported Tragedies. By Ibrahim Ado-Kurawa

(GAMJI)

Indolent African leaders have shown no commitment to the plight of the continent and are more interested in vain programs like AGOA, which is going to bring nothing to Africa as analyzed by Sardar and Davies in their best selling book Why Do People Hate America (2002). Details

 

My Style (7). By Paul Mamza

(GAMJI WRITER)

The Obasanjo’s leadership-debase had rendered an ephemeral fight against corruption and injustice assuming an elephantine deft with the lip-service conduct in the anti-corruption commission and the aborted Oputa-panel for human rights abuse’s recommendations (if any) providing a definiendum for the earlier skepticism and apprehension of his obtuse political engineering experimentations. Details

 

The Medical Consequences of Mobile Phones: Time to Act. By Dr. Adamu Danladi Dawud

(GAMJI)

Do you know that in the next three (3) years many Nigerians will start coming up with vast number of ailments related to exposure to these phones? In a nutshell, the use of cellular GSM phones has been associated with lymphomas, brain cancer especially in children, hearing defects and they affect brain response pattern as well as blood pressure. Recently, such phones are known to ignite flames when used in filling station (petrol) and facial burns have been reported from the use of a Nokia handset. They have also increased the rates of Road Traffic Accident (RTA) in the urban settings. Details

 

Why Wasting Our Efforts on HIV Campaigns? By Dr. Adamu Danladi Dawud

(GAMJI)

Considering Africans source of HIV infection, one is astound that the newsprint named "THE SUNDAY SUN" Vol.1, N0. 26 of August 31st, 2003 proudly published how Whites have an exotic moment of sexual intercourse encounter referred to as " threesomes" (a process of sexual intercourse involving a man and two women or interchangeably) on pages 14 & 15. Is this not a perfidy to the global campaign and enlightment on HIV? Yes, it is and will have a pernicious influence on society. Details

 

Measles, The Neglected Disease.  By Dr. Aminu  Magashi

(GAMJI)

When some one look at the magnanimity of the problem attached to measles alone vis-à-vis the out break of the disease in kebbi state and the daily occurrence of it and seen at public hospitals, one is left with only nostalgia and hope for a better tomorrow, that may be a collective effort and strategy on measles in Nigeria would be fashioned out by the Federal Ministry Of Health with its collaborating donor agencies. Details

 

Mr. President, Beware, the Air is Thick. By Olu Odeniyi, Ph.D.

(GAMJI)

Mr. President, I will pinch you to remember that God loves you so much and He wants you to correct all the mistakes you made during your first rule that ended in 1979. That is why He intervened and brought you back to cleanse your mess and get Nigeria on the right footing. You should remember what happens to the apostles of the Lord who disobeyed his commandments. Do not allow yourself to be used the second time. Details

 

Dilemma. By Kòmbò Mason Braide, Ph.D.

(GAMJI WRITER)

The concept of a “united” and “indivisible” Nigeria, including the clichéd regurgitation of thoroughly bastardised, vague or/and abstract slogans like “unity”, “faith”, “peace” and “progress”, are all essentially smokescreens, tactfully deployed by some hardened scoundrels, to mould the Nigerian mind to serve their predetermined whims. Details

 

Anti-corruption Crusade: Can the Obasanjo Regime Sustain the Momentum? By   Victor Dike

(GAMJI)

As mentioned earlier, the public, with the dismissal of the Labour Minister, has received the news it wanted for a long time. Thus the ICPC and the Presidency seem to have developed the political muscle to battle the “big shots” that have been looting the national treasury with impunity. And quite uncharacteristic of the federal government and the ICPC other individuals who participated in the colossal fraud were mentioned (Daily Champion, Dec 5, 2003). Details

 

Congratulations, Mr. Obasanjo. By Banjo Odutola

(GAMJI)

Where there is a need to grant Kudos to Mr. Obasanjo; where it is appropriate to accept that he has grown in stature greater than any Nigerian living or dead, let us grant it to him. The just concluded Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Nigeria took place in the country because of him. To deny that, is to be insincere and I wish not to be dishonest. It is apt that I congratulate Mr. President; and I do so with ambivalence. Details

 

Wither the Middle-Belt? By Aonduna Tondu

(GAMJI)

The movement which has historically been predicated on pro-Middle Belt advocacy and politics is today largely devoid of its mystique and symbolism as the ideological vehicle for social justice and minority rights in Nigeria. As a movement, the Middle Belt bandwagon is currently bogged down, infested, as it were, with a curious assemblage of opportunists whose raison d’être seems to be an uncanny ability to annoy by the mouthing of inanities and pussyfooting on issues of critical national significance. Details

 

CHOGM: Beyond the Diplomatic Dividends. By Ibrahim Dan Halilu

(GAMJI)

Since assumption, President Obasanjo has visited no less than twenty world capitals trying to persuade foreign investors or pretending to be doing so, to come to Nigeria and invest.  He minced no words in unveiling the potentials of his country, and the benefits that prospective investors would drive from taking their money to Nigeria.  But he has forgotten one basic element of this capital inflow palaver.  He failed to tell those Nigerians that siphoned off public treasury and deposited the fund in foreign banks to return it home and invest so that foreign investors will follow suit. Details

 

The Deceit called Supremacy of the Nigerian People’s Sovereignty. By Omoba Oladele Osinuga

(GAMJI)

The Guardian report demonstrates the hypocrisy of the current US administration approach to the International law in the President George Bush's November 13 order refers to 'enemy combatants' being 'treated humanely, without any adverse distinction based on race, colour, religion, gender, birth, wealth, or any similar criteria'. Yet it is hard to equate the starkly differing treatment of three men allegedly found fighting alongside the Taliban with this creed. Details

 

Of Crime and Leaders. By Adeleke Otunuga

(GAMJI)

The story about president Obasanjo’s alarm at cross-border crimes was one that attracted a lot of my interest. I marveled at how possible it was for the president to quickly conclude that the criminals who attacked his daughter were from Cotonou, and not Nigeria.Details

 

Management Contract – The Wrong Way For NITEL. By Gbenga Adejuyigbe

(GAMJI)

I strongly believe that the Pentascope International’s deal was bad for Nigeria and regardless of the level of performance of Pentascope International, NITEL would be the better for it, if the contract were reviewed. No rational investor would pay significantly more than the liquidation value of an enterprise that is managed by contractor. The expectation of selling 51% of the shares of NITEL (at better than today value) is misguided. Details

 

Hamman Tukur and the National Honours . By Yushau Abdulhameed Shuaib

(GAMJI)

For those conversant with the Nigerian economy in the present democratic dispensation, a constitutional agency has created tremendous awareness and public participation on issue bordering on public finance such as monetisation policy, revenue generation, federal allocation and fiscal efficiency. The agency is the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, under the leadership of humble and courageous Engr. Hamman Tukur   who was recently named for the conferment of national honours of the Order of Federal Republic (OFR). Details

 

COURT HEARING: Buhari vs obasanjo. Compiled and Forwarded by Adamu Kyuka Usman

(GAMJI)

PW 20 Evidence continues: when I received information that one of my agents had been shot at a polling unit called Masaka I rushed to the place. But before getting to the place where he was shot, there was a ward collating centre at Jamfalam where I met six (6) of my polling agents shot by another soldier. We rushed them to a nearby hospital called Ikara Jampala Hospital. At the hospital we met the other agent earlier shot at the hospital. 7 of our agents were shot. Details

 

Are Obasanjo's Reforms Genuine or Rhetoric? By  Sani Tukur

(GAMJI)

The leak by Nasiru El-Rufai of a joint effort by 2 ‘distinguished’ senators to swindle him of N54 million before giving him a clean bill of health for the ministerial appointment is enough a reason to confirm people’s scepticism over the regime’s efforts at reforming the Nigerian economy. Details

 

Another Dead End of Culture as CHOGM Flags Off...By Mcphilips Nwachukwu 

(GAMJI)

It would be very sad and nobody would forgive the present Minister of Culture and Tourism, Amb. Frankline Ogbuewu if he fails to employ his wealth of knowledge in advising the government of the imperatives of exploiting opportunities of this nature or if he fails to make a mark in his portfolio of the sector knowing fully well that he was a diplomat in Greece, a country , where culture and tourism has made significant statement as viable contributor to national wealth. Details

 

Creating 'Democrats' From 'Politicians' in Nigeria. By Professor Omo Omoruyi, mni

(GAMJI)

In my view if the 400,000 ‘new breed’ politicians who passed through the Centre for Democracy Studies were allowed to continue, i.e. if the democratization process were not interrupted in June 1993 then Nigeria would have been different today.   The interruption of the process in 1993 brought non-believers in democracy as the godfathers of the Nigerian democratic experiment that commenced in 1999.  Details

 

God Save Nigeria. By Kevin Etta

(GAMJI)

Charles Taylor clearly represents as much a threat to the peace and security of Nigeria and the West-African sub-region as Barabbas did to the province of Judea and Samaria during the reign of Pontus Pilate. Yet, with four and an-half years time to practice and imbibe democratic values, redeem the society of corruption, avarice, crime, and unconstitutionality and poverty, this administration has instead squandered all the good will it received from around the world and within Nigeria at the advent of this present democratic experiment in 1999. Details

 

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM): Here At Last But Not to Stay. By Menre Ugiabgbe Ayes

(GAMJI)

Some people know a little about the so-called Commonwealth of Nations (which actually is Un-commonwealth of Nations). Many people do not know anything about it because they do not see any reason to know something about it, as there is nothing to write home about in that unequivocal organisation that is as worthless as a toilet paper. Details

 

President Obasanjo and His Houston Visit: A Display of an Obsession to Power. By Chidi P. Eze

(GAMJI)

Mr. president began to entertain his audience on how he has succeeded to monetize corruption. He told the audience that when he was the military head of state, Nigeria had about 19 ships in her fleet, 32 aircrafts in the Nigerian Airways inventory. But when he became president in 1999, (thanks to Mr. Babangida and Mr. Abdul Salami Abubakar) he met only one ship and was sold by a Nigerian official for $500,000. Details

 

In Pursuit of A Responsible Use of Power. By Reno Omokri

(GAMJI)

By no stretch of the imagination can Charles Taylor be described as a desirable element. Here is a man who was given power by his country men because they were tired of 10 years of civil war. They felt that the only way that the war could be brought to a close was by giving Charles Taylor what he was fighting for i.e. power. But when they gave him power, what did he do? He squandered the opportunity to bring peace and prosperity to that country. Details

 

The (Wrong) Verdict According to ThisDay’s Olusegun Adeniyi. By Abdullahi Usman

(GAMJI)

To the extent that we could all do with some little unwinding once in a while, I do certainly agree with your advice to the Chief to loosen up and stop taking issues too seriously. But then, I also feel that requesting (or literally demanding) for your Christmas present from the President as you did after the show, just before the microphones were switched off, amounted to taking things rather too unserious and smacks of gross professional misconduct on your part.

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"UNFORGETTABLE": The Life and Music of I. K.  Dairo, Rex Jim Lawson and their Protege, Wale Glorious and Orlando Owoh. By Dr. Wunmi Akintide

(GAMJI)

Those who label Nigerians among the happiest species in the world only need to see how the great majority of Nigerians, especially in the South, respond to music, and what is ably defined by King Sunny Ade in our own hip-hop culture as "ariya ko lopin" (celebration galore or euphoria without end). Details

 

Why All These Efforts To Ostracize, Humiliate, Intimidate And Emasculate President Robert Mugabe Of Zimbabwe? By Paul I. Adujie

(GAMJI)

So, who owns the land? Why was the Lancaster House never implemented? Why is everyone now blaming Mugabe for using the issue of the landlessness and land redistribution? How about the unfulfilled promises, made in Lancaster House or the non-implementation, which Mugabe may now have used for his own purposes and advantages or for his political survival? Details

 

Obasanjo, Elitism and the Nigerian Masses. By Umar Bello

(GAMJI)

Obasanjo presidency has conveniently debunked the notion that has been wrongfully ingrained in the minds of Nigerians by the Southern media that a section of the country is particularly bad in leadership because of where they come from. The implication of the fact here is that certain people are by virtue of their tribe or section innately bad or the sorts or that certain people are innately good by virtue of the fact as ditto. Details

 

Of Novices and Others. By E. Terfa Ula-Lisa

(GAMJI)

El Ruffai may be termed a ‘novice’ by the old-guard.  Look what he is doing with FCT, even if I do not agree with everything I have read about him, he set his goals and not minding whose ox is gored, he is plunging on.  He is driven by his vision to make Abuja an Ideal city and I laud him. Details

 

A respose to Banjo Odutola: "Nasir El-Rufai – The Obituary of a Political Neophyte By Dave Olowo

(GAMJI)

 Your attack on the Minister's person further propagate the fact that Nigerian's are comfortable with the "business as usual syndrome" and the "chop I chop" disease. El Rufai may not have conducted himself properly and efficiently in reporting the matter, but the fact that he made it public alone deserves praises from all well meaning Nigerians. How many in that long list of Ministerial nominees or in the country of Nigerian will have the courage to do that? A first impression then of you (Banjo Odutola) is that given half the chance to fight corruption you will falter and let you conscience and country down. Details

 

How Patriotic is Maduka?: A Reply to Paul I. Adujie,: By Abdulrahman Muhammad Dan-Asaber, Ph.D.

[XI’AN, P. R. CHINA]

(GAMJI)

Basically, my grouse with this titular support by Mr. Maduka’s Business Support Group (BSG) is on the sincerity of the group and it’s general sense of judgment.  Is Maduka (and his group) sincere about helping Nigeria and, by extension, Nigerians or themselves? And supposing they are sincere – which is doubtful being a business group - does their effort not amount to a misplaced priority, which calls into question their sense of judgment? Details

 

Obasanjo, Elitism And The Nigerian Masses BY Umar Bello

[SAUDI ARABIA]

(GAMJI)

Realities of the Nigerian situation are so grave today that all media of communication i.e. print, net, broadcasting are brimming with commentaries on the sorry state of the Nigerian situation. Things have come to a head that yesterday’s conspiracy theorists who initially were scapegoating the military for Obasanjo’s undoing and were also brandishing threats to the ‘restless caliphate who might play tricks’ have today surrendered to the obvious fact that the president is lacking in leadership qualities and that he is the architect of his problems as a leader. Details

 

Nasir El-Rufai – The Obituary of a Political Neophyte. By Banjo Odutola

(GAMJI)

Mr. El-Rufai may soon appreciate what Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 -1527), the Florentine Statesman and political philosopher in History of Florence (1521-4) described as: “Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please”. The minister may soon realise he needs the senate and senators, of whom he brought a weak allegation against. He cannot expect the senate to sheath its sword at its victory. Details

 

Commonwealth meeting in Nigeria. By Max Gbanite

(GAMJI)

As His Excellency President Olusegun Obasanjo prepares to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference (CHOGM), billed to hold in the Federal Capital City of Abuja from December 5 to 8, majority of Nigerians are highly disturbed, morally perplexed, and mentally discombobulated as to why their leaders are bent on spending the people's money in what they -- the people -- consider  irresponsible spending, Details

 

Restoring Sanity in the Polity. By  Victor E. Dike

(GAMJI)

The concept of radically changing the Nigerian system is huge – so much so that it seems difficult for many people to envision the possibility. In other words, so much is wrong with the system that changing it seems too big a battle to fight. Details

 

Sex Education: Matters Arising. By Abdulwaheed Bello

(GAMJI)

The curriculum identifies three reasons why sexuality education is necessary for schools in Nigeria: Firstly, is that the resolution and programmes of actions of the 1994 international conference of population and development (ICPD) made it imperative that emphasis should now be on reproductive health including family planning and sexual heath among other issues of human population. Details

 

Nigeria is Going to the "Dogs"? By Abubakar Adamu, MSc, MILT.

(GAMJI)

The birth of Democracy in Nigeria means the opportunity for anyone who wishes to effect a change in the system to participate. Let us shut up a little bit and do something a little bit positive for a change in Nigeria than continual blaming others. Well done Mallam El-Rufai, Kedu Odunma Mallam El-Rufai, Kpele oh! Mallam El-Rufai, Sannu Mallam El-Rufai, Ngbage Mallam Rufai, for setting an example than blaming others. Details

 

President Obasanjo’s Policies and Initiatives Lack the Blessing of God. By Kabeer M. Adamu

(GAMJI)

Many who voted for Obasanjo in the 419 elections of 2003 did so either out of religious sentiment or blindly without taking stock of his performance during the last 4 years.  Obasanjo is like a false prophet.  He preaches falseness and yet people are blind to his deceit. Details

 

Mr. Maduka Is Helping Nigeria To Look Good! “Says” To Us, Patriotism Is Not A Dirty Word! By Paul I. Adujie

(GAMJI)

I am simply elated! Just reading the story in This Day, newspaper, about the role being played by a Nigerian citizen named Maduka, in the CHOGM events being hosted by Nigeria this December 2003, he donated hundreds of cars, to facilitate Nigeria’s hosting of CHOGM; Details

 

Okadigbo Louder in Death. By   Iheanyi Njoku

(GAMJI)

The scam by the Obasanjo-led government to increase the mortality rate of Ndiigbo has reached its climax. The government did not only turn a deaf ear to the plight of Ndiigbo and the deplorable level of infrastructural decay of the few federal establishments in the South-East (especially roads), this has brought about fatal road accidents, leading illustrious and well-meaning Igbo sons/daughters to their untimely death. Details

 

Corruption, What Corruption? By E. Terfa Ula-Lisa

(GAMJI)

The public deserves to know the truth, the bigger the fish the better the impact on the war against curruption (remember Enron and Worldcom?).  I would have the police investigate like they would any crime and prosecute. Details

 

Devaluing A President’s Office. By Banjo Odutola

(GAMJI)

During the governance of Ibrahim Babaginda, it was reported that the country was elevated from “observer nation” to full membership of the Organisation of Islamic Nations (OIC). At that time Christians were unhappy and the reaction was no more than a few rumblings that were soon replaced by other issues. The next time another president attempts to affiliate the nation to a religious Organisation, the consequences would not be sedate. Details

 

Tackling Corruption: Towards A Citizens' Covenant  (2). By Kennedy Emetulu

(GAMJI)

Every Nigerian must be consciously TAUGHT, by every available means necessary, the laws that govern official corruption in his/her country. We must domesticate these laws, that is make them part of the things every citizen must know. Details

 

Of Haucottish Music and Artistic Moralisation . By   Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u

(GAMJI)

The event I am trying to describe is nothing but the activity organised by the British council in collaboration with the Kano State History and Culture Bureau on the 26th of November 2003 when the Eid al fitr celebration was still warm in town.

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POEM: Tribute to Chuba Okadigbo. By Dr. Uchenna Dike

(GAMJI)

Okadigbo became their enemy

Moving away with full energy

Just like Harry Marshal did

Just as Ogbonnaya Uche did

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The Anxious Republic: Public Anxiety, Naira Value & Nigerian Economic Reform. By Jude Uzonwanne

(GAMJI)

Shortly after General Sani Abacha seized power in 1993, on the counsel of his economic advisers, he fixed the Naira/Dollar exchange rate at N22:$1. What followed was consistent with what economic theory and common sense would suggest.  Rationing always creates shortages and opportunity for "connected" people to profit! Details

 

The Obasanjo Ways. By Wada Nas 

Those who insist that General Olusegun Obasanjo has not developed some character traits peculiar to him have not been very keen observers of his special ways. I will discuss only two of them here. Details

 

God's Inevitable Punishments Seriously Awaits Those Who Had Been Causing Severe "Pains" On All Biafrans !!! By Ogbuagu C Eze

(GAMJI)

“In the circumstance, Your Majesty, I no longer wish to wear the garb of the British Knighthood. British fair play, British justice, and the Englishman's word of honor which Biafra loved so much and cherished have become meaningless to Biafrans in general and to me in particular. Christian Britain has shamelessly let down Christian Biafra.” - Dr. Ibiam Details

 

Embedded Journalism,  Objectivity And National Interests: Nigerian Journalists Compared With Their America/European Counterparts. By Paul I. Adujie

(GAMJI)

Nigerian journalists and public commentators are the ones who overthrew the Buhari/Idigbon regime, Babangida was just someone who cashed in on the sour public mood that was prevalent in Nigeria, at the time, Details

 

Almajiranci: The Menace of Child-Begging; Control and Solution. By  Global Network for Islamic Justice

(GAMJI)

 Unfortunately, the “Almajiranci” phenomenon continuous to degenerate, goes unchecked and is abused and the children have since been thrown into destitution and unnecessary hazards and have therefore become a social menace to the society becoming a collective irresponsibility and shame to the Northern Nigerian Muslim Ummah.

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Almajiri Syndrome in Arewa: A Reply to Abdulrahman Muhammad Dan Asabe, Ph.D . By   Bello Mohammad Salihu

(GAMJI)

But things are done differently now. A half-baked semi-literate Mallam who, after harvesting his crops at the end of the rainy season in the village gathers a bunch of kids from his village and other surrounding hamlets and heads for the city. He has no abode, job or any means of livelihood when he gets to the city. Details

 

A Response to Wunmi Akintide: Finding Decent Nigerians to Serve Our Country is Slowly…By Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

(GAMJI)

If Nigerians thought “Yorubas were great managers of resources” I wonder why they never voted for and elected the Chief as the President of Nigeria. Or, could it be that the then General Obasanjo, acting at the behest of the Northern military and her posse, truncated Awolowo’s presidential ambition – especially in 1979? Details

 

Enough of this Campaign of Desperation. By Dr. Aminu  Magashi

(GAMJI)

For those who are following this page and the activities of polio in Nigeria will agree with me that polio is currently the most important and popularizes public health issue in the country and its entire success in Nigeria and the world at large lies on the ability of the stakeholders to convince people, gate keepers and governments of some states like Kano, Kaduna, Zamfara to mention but few to agree on the project. Details