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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Leave Major Umar Alone
Since assuming office as Sole Administrator, Federal Housing Authority, and presently as Governor of the controversial Kaduna State, Major Abubakar Dangiwa Umar has taken the attention of the press. Never a day passes without a declaration from Major Umar, or … Continue reading
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IMF Verdict Revisited: Realities of 1986 Budget
Babangidas advisers, the NACCIMA, the NECA, the IMF, and the Paris club must be chuckling now for having decidedly won and implemented IMF conditionalities without starting street riots. It was Buhari who said he was not going to accept all … Continue reading
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History and the Dilemma of Akanbi
History, they say, has a way of working itself out. Though men may sit to theorise and chant slogans of how they, in their wisdom and eloquence, moved society, the truth is that history is made independent of what individuals … Continue reading
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El-Kanemi: Dont let the Dream Die
No legacy of erstwhile Governor of Borno State, Lieutenant Colonel Abdul Mumini Aminu, has attracted as many foes and fans as the el-Kanemi Football Club. Created almost from nothing, the club much to the chagrin of its opponents, created a … Continue reading
Christians and the South African Situation
The King of Denmark was reported to have questioned some Danish missionaries who were coming to Africa with astonishment and probable anger, who would be the firewood for hell fire, if Africans who were said to be hells firewood are … Continue reading
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Governor Mohammed and History
Governance is, without doubt, enviable. It imposes on both those who are asked by their people to lead or those who acquire it through favouritism or even those who shoot their way to power an historic responsibility. They are put … Continue reading
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Dont Let Them Die
By Rima Shawulu Death, to many people, is the end of the path of life. To several others, it is only a transition to a life hereafter. We have no evidence of the latter, because nobody has gone there and … Continue reading
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Big Business and Peasants Lands: The Case of Gongola
By Rima Shawulu There is no doubting the fact that land is an asset – both in the classical economic sense and a reality in the present set-up in Nigeria. This being so, the struggle for land assumes a special … Continue reading
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