Nigerians were once branded the happiest people on earth. That sounded crazy at the time but it was just an affirmation of the song penned many years ago by the indefatigable Fela Kuti. He called it “Suffering and Smiling.”
Elections in Nigeria, domestic politics in South Africa, Uganda, Madagascar, Egypt and Congo will all be in focus in Africa in 2011, together with conflict risks in Sudan and Ivory Coast and broader corruption issues.
A child is like the rain, useful and harmful. It depends largely on how each is prepared for and contained. We need both to live – rain to sustain life itself and children to maintain procreation and human race. Both come through interlocking mysteries in the sense that human power hardly controls their engendering. If [...]
My leaks suggest that the disappearance of the Direct Data Capture machines is only a signpost to what to expect in the coming general elections. The DDC machines must be the size of a Nokia 3310 that was just pocketed by the now arrested suspects”?
Continued from Part 1 To understand the Jonathan Presidency, we must return to its roots in the Yar’Adua era and trace developments therefrom. The Yar’Adua presidency at its inception announced a seven-point agenda, focusing on key issues of power and energy, Niger Delta, land reform, national security, wealth creation and employment, transportation, and food security [...]
A review of the Goodluck Jonathan Presidency in Nigeria should provide significant insight into both his story and the larger Nigerian narrative. We consider this to be a necessary exercise as the country prepares for the next general elections and the Jonathan Presidency faces the certain fate of becoming lame-duck earlier than anticipated. The general [...]
Whenever journalists are confronted with strict laws that threaten or limit their basic freedoms, they should fall back on the canons of their profession which enjoin journalists to be truthful, accurate, fair, and balanced
Twenty of Nigeria’s powerful state governors said on Thursday they would support President Goodluck Jonathan as the ruling party candidate in elections next April, giving him a boost ahead of a tough battle in the primaries. History has always favoured the incumbent in Nigerian elections but Jonathan’s bid is controversial because of a ruling party [...]
The head of Nigeria’s anti-corruption body says the country has charged former vice president Dick Cheney with bribery to send a message: “Nobody is above the laws of the land. Farida Mzamber Waziri, the executive chairman of Nigeria’s Economic Financial Crimes Commission tells ABC News that the country will never end its culture of corruption [...]
