This Sacred Cow Called Bode George. By Adebola Razaq

(GAMJI)

Obasanjo’s pronouncement since 1999 that there will not be any sacred cow has turned out to be an empty singsong. Paradoxically, he created and nurtured some sacred cows himself. Their main pen is Aso Rock with subsidiary pens in the states. Details

 

The Challenges of Nigerian Tourism: The Plateau State Model. By Jonathan Ishaku

(GAMJI)

Tourism in Nigeria, in general, has been quite a problematic in spite of the enormous tourism potentials the country possesses. With a population of over 120million people, land mass of 351,200 sq. ml. and a topography ranging from a coastal mangrove swamp in the Niger Delta, tropical rain forest in most of the South, a plateau of savanna and open woodland in the middle belt and a semi desert in the far North, Nigeria should have been a haven to all sorts of foreign visitors; economic investors, cultural and anthropologic scholars, medical and scientific researchers, and, our run-of-the-mill holidaymakers. Details

 

Abubakar Jika: My Friend, My loss

By Paul Mamza

(GAMJI WRITER)

The Nigeria’s intelligentsia through horrid events of authoritarian rule became mulishly an organizing principle of military and civilian dictators’ conquest of Nigeria thereby reckoning with the enduring symptoms of its imperialist disease. But few of them remained resolute in the fight for national restitution and one is Mallam Abubakar Jika - a brother, friend, colleague, a young dynamic academic and stylistic exemplar of visionary journalism Details

 

Why  Truth Must be Slaughtered: An X-ray of The Assassination Attempt on NAFDAC Director. By Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh

(GAMJI)

An example of this was the report in the feature article of Ocherome Nnanna in the Vanguard Newspapers of Thursday 23rd March 2003, where President Obasanjo was quoted as saying that placing an Igbo man or woman at the head of NAFDAC is equiperable to legalising fake drugs and fake food products in Nigeria. But this woman rose like a Poseidon from the sea of our collective decadence, to stamp her feet the obnoxious mercantilism and commerce of death that had been hitherto granted a free and unrestrained reign in Nigerians. Details

 

Defending a Fictitious Vice-Presidency. By Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo

(GAMJI)

When Nasir El-Rufai was being hunted down by the “tariff collectors” of the senate Ibrahim Mantu and Jonathan Zwingina, someone was said to have paid the N54 million demanded to ensure that El-Rufai scaled the screening. The accusing fingers did not point towards Zaria. Details

 

IBB Vs. Atiku: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. By Umar Bello

(GAMJI)

With over three solid years to the next presidential polls, candidates like IBB and Atiku have already girded up their loins and started campaigns. The PDP presidential slot is shifting to the North. In the contraption called ‘power shift’ every region will have a shot at the presidency. Details

 

The Lone Voice In The Wilderness. By Philip Odoemena

(GAMJI)

Chief Obasanjo is in a better position to adhere to this somber warning if he intends to preserve Nigeria's young democracy. No one is in a better position more than the President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to intervene in the Anambra crises, in order to protect the young democracy and to avoid the revolting things civil disturbances brings to the society that is caught up in it. Details

 

Re- El Rufai, the Other Fear. By Ibrahim Dan-Halilu

Quite contrarily, I do not think El Rufai is relying on any presidential backing in undertaking this national redemption mission.  Rather, he is being fired by his professional upbringing and sentiments to right the wrongs of many years.  Known for his meticulousness and persistence on due process, Malam El Rufai is trying hard to restore the original image of the city as envisaged by the founding fathers of Abuja. Details

 

How Ambassadorial Nominees Fumbled. By Tunde Asaju

(GAMJI)

Jubril Aminu is a man who knows his onions. He has served Nigeria in various capacities, first as education minister and later oil minister. His last posting was as Nigeria's ambassador to the United States before winning election into the Senate. But Aminu could not hide his exasperation last Monday as he briefed journalists at the end of his assignment as chairman, Senate committee on foreign affairs. What shocked Aminu was the calibre of the people presented by President Olusegun Obasanjo to represent the country. Details

 

Anambra Crisis and the Desecration of Democracy. By Victor E. Dike

(GAMJI)

The Anambra imbroglio has exposed the negative impacts of crude political godfatherism in Nigerian politics. Like other forms of political corruption, it is a big threat to Nigeria’s democracy-experiment, because it prevents the people from participating unfettered in the political process. Details

 

Atiku Abubakar May Well Be Our Best Choice in 2007. By Dr. Wunmi Akintide

(GAMJI)

Let me make it abundantly clear from the "get go" that if it were left to me alone, the next President of Nigeria should have been someone from the South East or the South/South zone. So Atiku would never have come under my political radar in the next Election circle in Nigeria if it were left to me alone. But the reality in Nigeria today is telling me loud and clear the two zones I have identified here, have themselves conceded that the next President must again come from the North. Details

 

Crisis of Leadership in Post-Sardauna Northern Nigeria. By Tanimu Umar

It is indeed a very sad reminiscence that after 38 years of Sardauna's martyrdom those the nurtured to carry on with his Northernization policies have disappointed his ideals and have shattered his dream. During the reign of Sardauna the public and civil service had credibility, there was contentment and the fear of God. Details

 

Between Governor Chris Ngige and Chris Uba: What Anambrarian Must Do. By Ekene El-Godage Awuzie

(GAMJI)

Before the dust of the election could settle Uba and company came knocking on Ngige’s door to harvest the ‘fruits’ of their labor. Uba had collected three million naira each from fifty individuals who were positioning to be commissioners and additional 1.5 million naira each from some 25 Special Advisers’ (SA) wannabes. They came to Ngige to implement their plan. Details

 

A Response to Wada Nas "Federal Ministry for Fuel Price Increase". By James Adeen

(GAMJI)

He is also a regular contributor, to the rabidly "pro-northern" sectarian inanities, marked by their unthinking dogmatism, scurrility, and skewed tribal slant churned out daily on the GAMJI website, a stable fully hijacked by the Buhari intelligentsia. If you don't catch my drift, Wada Nas is simply a canon fodder on the first line of defence of Buhari's second attempt at Islamizing Nigeria. Details

 

Anambra Plc, A Division of AYZ Group of Companies. By Clement Otor

(GAMJI)

Please, if we think that the Anambra show is a problem for the Anambrarians or the Igbos, we are simply being myopic. The world is watching with rapt attention as we expose our ignorance and inability to enforce the law in its totality as is the case in the developed democracies where the rule of law and equality before the law is valued in all ramifications and simply applies to all, no mater how highly placed. Details

 

How Information Technology (I.T.) Can Empower the Police to Enhance Public Safety in Nigeria. By Emmanuel Uzo Obi

(GAMJI)

This is a very vast and technical subject, but I have avoided the technical aspects to discuss in simple language how IT can empower the Police and other Public Safety agencies to enhance Public safety and improve the quality of life of those that reside in Nigeria and their foreign business partners. Details

 

Year 34: Obasanjo, Biafra and Igboland. By Professor Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

(GAMJI)

Obasanjo does not really believe that the Igbo lost the war on 12 January 1970. The “evidence” on the ground does not convince him otherwise. Despite the fact that successive central governments since 1970 have adhered strictly to a policy of no development in Igboland Details

 

Bank of the North: The Journey So Far (1). By Ibraheem A. Waziri

(GAMJI)

Bank of the North, the only remaining legacy of Sir Ahmadu Bello in the ownership of 19 states of the Northern Nigeria is embellished in crisis since three months back. The story stems around the claim that the bank was going bankrupt under the management leadership of its MD, Mallam Muhammad Bulama. Details

 

Why  Truth Must be Slaughtered: An X-ray of The Assassination Attempt on NAFDAC Director. By Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh

(GAMJI)

Once upon a time, Nigeria was a dumping ground of many products of varying toxicity levels, as well as services of legendary quackery, that no area escaped this dangerous corrosion. In that epoch, to buy drugs in Nigeria was to gamble blindly with death, while to consume any food product was an appointment with intractable sickness.  Details

 

What Does President Obasanjo Stand To Gain From The Anambra Crises? By  Paul I. Adujie

(GAMJI)

May be I am naive? How could President Obasanjo really benefit from the crises in Anambra state? The godfather Mr. Uba is said to be related to the president through marriage and Dr. Ngige was elected on the PDP party platform, how would crises in a PDP controlled stated benefit the president, a  defacto head of PDP party? Details

 

Jika: One Year Without "His Writeness" By  Aliyu Abubakar

(GAMJI)

Apart from food, shelter and clothing, writing is unarguably Mallam's fourth basic necessity of life. He was such an ebullient columnist with the Punch, Today, Democrat, Champion, Hotline, Triumph and other tabloids in the country. It will not be an understatement to say that his piece will be the last to be declared 'a dust bin copy' by any newspaper or magazine in the country and even beyond. Details

 

Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau Please Release the Report of the Contract Verification Panel. By Abdullahi Isa Kofar Mata

(GAMJI)

It is necessary to release the report because it will clear the air and those who erred will face the law because this is what consistently tarnishes the image of Nigeria and makes it the second most corrupt nation in the world. Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau should not worry because that is the law and he should not allow his kindness to delay the report, Kwankwaso’s cronies who misused their power should face the law, this is not vindictiveness but justice. Details

 

Why America Has to be Seen and Accepted as the New Canaan or the Promised Land. By Dr. Wunmi Akintide

(GAMJI)

America is today leading the world in all spheres of endeavor. If you are talking of Peace and Security around the World, she is number one. If you are talking of Military and Financial Power it is also number one. if you are talking of Educational Power and Scientific Breakthrough, it is also number one. Details

 

Virtue and Atiku’s Aides. By Mustafa Ibrahim Chinade

(GAMJI)

Here is a man who was born of poor but rural folks. Who through honest labour and dint of hardwork rose to the second highest office in the land. Atiku  learnt the difficult art of earning a livelihood at an early age to keep body and soul together. Details

 

Thought-stream - Re: Sharia And the West. By Abdulsalam Ajetunmobi

(GAMJI)

Much as terrorists have acted in the name of Islam, fundamentalist Christians have also been linked to bombings at abortion clinics and murders of abortion doctors too. They have all done these deeds in the name of their respective religions. In the case of Christians' however, no one has yet suggested that nuns be forced to wear conventional western garb or that teachers be prohibited from wearing a crucifix because of the excesses of segment of the Christian faith. Details

 

What Comes First? Chicken Or Egg? By Paul I. Adujie

(GAMJI)

Nigeria is in dire need of law reforms! Nigeria is equally overdue for other reforms in all aspects of life in Nigeria. Nigeria need Campaign Finance Reform to eliminate completely, the unsavory influence of godfathers and such other financiers of elections to public offices at all levels of government in Nigeria Details

 

Experiencing Nigeria in Wishes and Dreams . By Charles Iroegbu

(GAMJI)

I wish Nigeria is a tree in my garden. God, I will trim it.  It has overgrown and become a palace for parasites.  I can no longer get enough air in the compound.  The sun reaches me no more and the house is under serious threat by the tree’s roots.  I wish Nigeria is this tree. I would waste no time in looking for a machete, a big one, a sharp one, indeed a very sharp one. Details

 

Federal Ministry for Fuel Price Increase. By Wada Nas

In their leisure time, little kids are good at mimicking elders, enjoying themselves as they do so. With advances in communication technology don’t ever think them political imbeciles, very ignorant of their political environment. Recently I was to discover to my utter surprise that we have quite a few political children who follow political developments with keen interest. Details

 

Nigerianism and Patriotism. By Chidi Eze

(GAMJI)

The other day I read that an ambassadorial nominee could not recite Nigerian  national anthem during his confirmation exercise. However, his inability did not prevent his confirmation even though the senate made it look as if the then nominee is unNigerian. Stories like that have, on several  occasions filtered the airwaves. There was such an incident in  Rivers state during the commissioners’ confirmation process in the state.  What is the reason behind the waves the lawmakers make during such occasion? Are they demonstrating their love for Nigeria or sense of patriotism?   Or what? Details

 

Anambra State – A Reversed Renaissance? By Banjo Odutola

(GAMJI)

So, what type of political intrigue does Anambra State define? Certainly not one that promotes democracy; its state governor is right in the warning that the political upheaval may subsume the current democratic dispensation Details

 

Facilitating Political Justice in Anambra State’s Cultural Misfortune. By Patrick Iroegbu

(GAMJI)

If President Obasanjo and the presidency as alleged by the Governor of Anambra State is not taking his phone calls in the face of his crisis, and His Excellency has NOT placed one on him to find out what is happening, and what he must do to assist, and made known and acted upon without fear or favour, it is enough to conclude he is behind the mess up Details

 

Federal Ministry for Fuel Price Increase. By Wada Nas

In their leisure time, little kids are good at mimicking elders, enjoying themselves as they do so. With advances in communication technology don’t ever think them political imbeciles, very ignorant of their political environment. Recently I was to discover to my utter surprise that we have quite a few political children who follow political developments with keen interest. This was when I came across a group of five of them; one was playing the role of a teacher and the rest pupils. Details

 

PEOPLE & POLITICS BYMOHAMMED HARUNA The Awka Whirlwind II

(GAMJI WRITER)

I am not a lawyer, but you don’t have to be one to see that a court order is not one of the ways of removing a governor, or the president, or any public officer, for that matter. The 1999 Constitution is unambiguous about these ways. Sections 188 and189 list these ways as impeachment and permanent incapacity, respectively. The sections also outline the elaborate steps to be followed before a governor can be removed. In addition, Section 191 talks about death and resignation as circumstances in which a deputy governor can temporarily replace his boss. However, no where in this or other sections does it say the court of a state, never mind that of another state, can order the removal of a governor. Details

 

This Is A Moral Issue!  Anambra State Vs Dr. Ngige Hence, Those Who Come To Equity, Must Come With Clean Hands! By  Paul I. Adujie

(GAMJI)

How much character, integrity, dignity and credibility did Dr. Ngige have before he became governor of Anambra state? How much of these important attributes does he have left now? That is, assuming that he had them in the first place! This writer, in "Anambra state, parochial or national interests" expressed great concern over the unending crises foisted upon my compatriots in Anambra state Details

 

Why Taylor is in Nigeria. By Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo

(GAMJI)

Former Liberian president and erstwhile warlord Charles Taylor has won for himself the freedom and peace that, for almost a decade, he denied his own countrymen. He has found solace in his new abode in Calabar, a serene and scenic Nigerian city. This transition is a victory for Taylor because observers of events since he escaped prison in the US and returned to Liberia had always believed that if Taylor does not kill Liberia, Liberia would kill Taylor. Details

 

“Islam and the West” by Muhammed Haruna: A Replying to James Adeen’s. By Audu Zango

(GAMJI)

On the re introduction of Sharia, James and others who think like him should know that people in the states implementing Sharia have exercised their right to practice the religion of their choice and to be governed by the Law they believed would give them justice. They have no apologies to any one on that issue. Details

 

Remarks by Chairman of the Occasion, Chief Sunday Awoniyi, CON, Aro of Mopa

I am a Yoruba man and proud to be one. I am a Christian and glad to be one. I am from Okunland in the old Kabba Province of Northern Nigeria, now a state called Kogi State. That makes me a Northerner. It was an act of God using Lord Lugard as his instrumentality. There is nothing anybody can do about it. I suffer no inconvenience about it and I take second place to no one in my northernness. Details

 

Remarks by the Lagos State Governor, His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Yes, many of us quarreled with his (Gen. Buhari) style as a Military Head of State, many may disagree with his perceived ‘rigidity’ on issues. There are those who fault his alleged bluntness and disdain for ‘political diplomacy’. His critics even swear that he is unbending and unforgiving. But say what you may, you cannot deny his (Gen. Buhari) sincerity. You cannot fault his singleness of purpose. You cannot doubt his solid moral vision. Details

 

The Place of Biographies in Our Society. By Prof. Auwalu Hamisu Yadudu

Hafsatu, the senior wife of the Sardauna of Sokoto and Premier of the Northern Region, proved to be an exemplary spouse. As a mark of her loyalty and fidelity to her husband whose sacred privacy had been invaded, she stood between him and the intruders to bite the bullets first before her martyred husband. Details

 

A Review of Adamu Kyaku Usman's Muhammadu Buhari: The Spirit of a Man. By Professor Munzali Jibril

Chapter Eight, Fire, Fire and There was Gold, is dedicated to a discussion of the critics and criticisms of the Buhari government. The main critics were Tai Solari, Wole Soyinka and Beko Ransome-Kuti but the parochial nature of their motives was exposed. The professional groups, such as the Nigeria Bar Association, the National Association of Resident Doctors and the Nigeria Airways Pilots and Flight Engineers Association also attempted to confront the government by issuing ultimata or embarking on strikes to no avail. The confrontation between the Buhari government and the British government over the Umaru Dikko affair is also mentioned. Details

 

The Kano Political Economy: Reflections on a Crisis and Its Resolution. By Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

(GAMJI WRITER)

Many of the indigenes of Kano working in factories are blue-collar workers. Many of the “boys” working with the big-traders are uneducated. Once these industries were hit, and the businessmen ran out of business, we faced the stark reality that the lack of education of our people was always bound to spell doom for the future of Kano. With the collapse of their patrons all of the hangers-on, workers and employees are on the street begging or doing the same from house to house and office to office. Others have become social miscreants. Kano is paying the price for a lack of focus on the development of its productive forces. Details

 

PEOPLE AND POLITICS BY MOHAMMED HARUNA

Sharia and the West

(GAMJI WRITER)

Outside Iraqistan, this Anglo-American war for the control of the world’s resources and the imposition of w Western ideology on the rest of the world, goes on in a much  more subtle, though by no means less insistent, manner. The roundtable conference on Sharia Criminal Law in Nigeria can be regarded as one manifestation of the quieter approach by the West to its goal of global conquest. Details

 

Corruption  Nigeria Unlimited: An excursion through Chris Uba, Nwabueze Chris Ngige and the Anambra Political Caricature. By Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh

(GAMJI)

The present reign of roguery as well as the brazen democratic caricature unfolding in its grim proportions in Anambra state, is a saddening  symptom of an underlying putrescent malady presently bedevilling the entire Nigerian society on one hand and the post-civil war  Igbo society of today, in particular on the other. Details

 

What is Amen? By Otunba Terere Morakinyo Akinfolarin

(GAMJI)

Before throwing light on Amen it is pertinent to validate; place beyond dispute how the word ‘Amen’ came to usage in the language of the English. Since my concern is not about writing the history of the Hebrew or that of the ancient Egyptian (Cush), not withstanding references to them shall be employ to substantiate certain mentioning. Details

 

A Rejoinder to Sammy Adebayo on Wada Nas’ Letter to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. By Lawal Murabis

(GAMJI)

The wave of passion against Abacha by parvenu democrats of the South-west is as stinking as their moral decadence. The only and unique “sin” committed by Abacha is death and not corruption or theft since there is no saint among our leaders especially in the eyes of the Yorubas, except their own. Had Abacha being alive today as IBB or Obasanjo is, no one would paint him anything but a hero. Who knows, perhaps one day history would prove Abacha a million times better than Obasanjo. Details

 

Nigerian Currency and Some Specific Contributory Aspects to Development in the Global Environment. By Dr. Jones O. Edobor

(GAMJI)

In the case of the Naira, because of the volatility and unpredictability of the value of the currency most people with fixed money incomes, retired people, white-collar workers, and public employees are suffering a dramatic decline in their living standard, consuming less, as they get poorer by the day with their Naira at hand. Details

A Letter To Hon. Emma Okocha. By Ubanese Nwanganga

(GAMJI)

No condition, they say, is ever permanent. The only permanent thing is change itself. The defeat of Biafra and, by extension, Ndiigbo, by the combined might of the north, the southwest and southern minorities made Igbo an unattractive identity to some people. Details

 

Greater Danger to Nigerian Motorists: Infinity Tyres Limited or Potholes? By Yusuf Tuggar

(GAMJI)

I walked into the familiar Victoria Island dwellings of Messer’s Infinity Tyres Limited- distributors of Pirelli tyres- with much apprehension, on that fateful day of October 9 2003. My previous experience in dealing with them some eight years ago or so was still vivid in my memory; back then I bought four Pirelli 205/55/15- the same type displayed on alloy wheels in their window- only to have them develop protuberances around the walls in less than three months. Details

 

Sharia And the West. By James Adeen

(GAMJI)

The Nigerian constitution stipulates that we are Nigerians first and then Muslims (or Christians) second. However, some fanatic northern Nigerian elected officials are insisting that Muslims are Muslims first and Nigerians second and, therefore, are entitled to live by the Sharia Islamic law. The contradiction is these elected officials were elected through a secular constitution that is the supreme legal document of the land. Each official swore to uphold the constitution. Details

 

Peter Opara, Ndiigbo Are Not North Koreans. By Ubanese Nwanganga

(GAMJI)

Ojukwu is Ndiigbo and Ndiigbo are Ojukwu. It is not by coincidence that Ojukwu took the chieftaincy title of Eze Igbo Gburugburu. Ojukwu, ‘the greatest gift of God to the Igbo’, had to do so to reflect his reach, wisdom and importance. At the ruse constitutional conference organized by the lootocrat, Sani Abacha, Ojukwu’s car had number plate with the inscription: Ndiigbo I. Very few people noticed the arrogance. It was the precursor to Eze Igbo Gburugburu. It never mattered to Ojukwu, Ndiigbo I that the mandate on which he attended the conference was won by a woman, Uju Ozoka, who had trounced him at the polls Details

 

Male Daughters and Female Husbands: Anambra State in the Boil...By Mcphilips Nwachukwu

(GAMJI)

Politics is about good leadership. Doing the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Being responsive to your peoples' need and also being responsible to them. But the situation in Anambra State today is the opposite of all these. Details

 

Ensuring the Future of Sports in Taraba State. By Murtala Bala Habu, III

(GAMJI)

The world now is moving faster than our shadows; if present administration is able to leave a footprint as elephant state in sports using majority of the state indigenes as athletes, present administration has a legacy that will stand tall for every administration as a challenge in Taraba State and the rest of Nigeria. Details

 

RE: Open letter to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. By Sammy Adebayo

(GAMJI)

I believe that if these Emirs and northern overlords feels so strongly about the Bamaiyi situation, they should take their case to the courts and ask a judge to throw out the case against Bamaiyi and others. Mr. Nas here and other Northern individuals are always so quick to accuse Obasanjo of anti-democracy. Details

A New Year letter to Governor Achike Udenwa of Imo State. By Dr. Chidi Uzoma

(GAMJI)

Certainly more could still be expected from this administration, which unfortunately has witnessed the burning of the Governor’s Lodge at Owerri, and the notorious death of a former commissioner in the weeks preceding the 2003 National Assembly elections. Details

 

Obasanjo and the Burden of Leadership. By Mahdi Shehu

(GAMJI)

But come to think of it, which democratic country on earth will ever help support or even understand Nigeria, a country in which government officials dip their hands, legs and mouths directly into the public treasury, take more than what belongs to them, from what is meant for the welfare and development of all citizens. Details

 

This is More Criminal Than the June 12th Annulment. By Ovie Ughwanogho, MD

(GAMJI)

Ten years after the annulment of the June 12th, 1993 election, a reenactment is being played out in Anambra State, Nigeria. Over the weekend, for the second time in six months, the governor of the state Dr. Chris Ngige has been forced out of the government house in Awka. Details

 

 

Atiku Abubakar is the Right Choice for the Wise Nigerians for 2007 Presidential Seat. By Abdulmatin D. Abubakar

(GAMJI)

Today, Atiku Abubakar, is the first vice president in Nigeria to have capture the confidence of president of this country because of his sense of morals to be given the power to presides over all major national institutions responsible for economic policy formulation, implementation and coordination in Nigeria. Details

 

Restoring the Glory of Public Schools. By Bello Abdullahi Gaya

(GAMJI)

Virtually everything ranging from working materials to food and laundry services were heavily subsidized.  Alas! Except for the legacy, all these have now become history. Things have now changed for the worse because of some changing circumstances variously described by some as human factor, corruption, Poverty and bad leadership. While others call it mismanagement of resources. I prefer calling it hypocrisy. Details

 

Is HIV/AIDS Another Dividend of Democracy? (Part one). By Dr.  Aminu Magashi

(GAMJI)

The 1999 and 2001 HIV prevalence indicated 5.4 % and 5.8 % respectively and although up to the time I am compiling this write up, I don't have the actual figure of the 2003 prevalence, some one told me it is around 7 %. The figures over the last five years has indicated that HIV spread in Nigeria is not been curtail despite the huge resources at our disposal and the involvement of all stakeholders. Details

 

Obasanjo's New Face: Arresting Corrupt Ministers May Signal Crackdown on Corruption. By  Chika Onyeani

(GAMJI)

The arrests of these officials may mean nothing in the end, but at least it signals to this writer that President Olusegun Obasanjo is starting to turn a new leaf in his third administration.  It signals to the world at large that this man who so much was expected of is, maybe, beginning to listen.  It signals the appearance of a crackdown on the way in fighting corruption in Nigeria; but more so, it signals that there are no longer any sacred cows in Nigeria. Details

 

MID-WEEK ESSAY:  Untangling the Nigerian Top Domain Level Registration Palaver. By  Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D. and Sunday A. Folayan

(GAMJI WRITERS)

For a number of years now, an imbroglio has been quietly brewing in the Nigerian Internet community over who or what institution (private, government or both) controls or should control Nigeria’s Country Code Top Level Domain (ng.ccTLD or ngTLD for short).  This is with respect to the assignment of Internet names ending with .ng Details

 

Moral Terrorism in a Brave New World. By  Kňmbň Mason Braide, Ph.D.

That Nigeria has been ranked the second most corrupt country in the world, after Bangladesh, by Transparency International, is a boring stale story, even if the criteria applied in arriving at such a damning conclusion may not be obvious yet to some inordinately, and chronically “patriotic” Nigerians who, predictably, are still in a state of severe post-shock denial. Nevertheless, a wide-circulation French Sunday newspaper, Journal du Dimanche, reported in its 21 December 2003 edition that, between 1995 and 2000, when US Vice President Dick Cheney was the Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton, (incidentally, also during the same period when Generals Sani Abacha, Abdulsalami Abubakar, and Olusegun Obasanjo were in power in Nigeria), some bribes were allegedly doled out by that oil service company in Nigeria, and that, probably, some of the bribes may have found their way back to the United States of America. (Holy Moses!) Details

 

My Style (11). By Paul Mamza

(GAMJI WRITER)

However, Northern Nigeria must play a leading role towards the re-inventing of the Nigerian state. The stability of Nigeria depends solely on the stability of the North. I must confess that the tripartite attributes that solidified the northern strength; the respect for the truth, the love for each other and selfless leadership had been relegated at the background by negative influence and selfish quest for personal aggrandizement: Details