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How many more states are needed? – Mark Amaza
English: Political map of the 36 States of Nigeria (English) Deutsch: politische Karte Nigerias (Englisch) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One of the most crucial aspects of the on-going review of the 1999...
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The Unending State Police Debate – Mark Amaza
Positive Policing (Photo credit: S Martin) For many years, the debate on whether or not Nigeria needs to reform its police system from a unitary one to a federal one, which will allow the states to...
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Should We Let Nigerians Abroad Vote? – Mark Amaza
Nigeria has long held the enviable status of being the most populous country in Africa and most populous black country on earth, with 166 million people. In addition to the Nigerians living in Nigeria,...
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The Revenge of Oscar Wilde – Ebenezer Obadare
Oscar Wilde at Oxford (Photo credit: Wikipedia) On Wednesday February 5, British MPs voted on the question of whether or not to legalize same sex marriage. After a mostly civil five-hour debate, the...
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Tope Folarin Speaks to NigeriansTalk
Tope Folarin is on the shortlist of this year’s Caine Prize shortlist, along with Elnathan John, Chinelo Okparanta, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and Pede Hollist. His short story Miracle, has been reviewed...
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The West and shades of democracy – Salisu Suleiman
It would have been easy to be shocked by the absolute hypocrisy of Western powers in interpreting democracy and human rights, but their barefaced lies, pretexts and outright deceit have been repeated...
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Still On Our Private Universities
Ifeanyi Uddin I have spent the last couple of months acquainting myself with the goings on in our private universities. The (recent) and still unresolved strike by academic staff in our public...
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Let’s Talk About Higher Education
Akintunde Oyebode Last time, I stated how much I disliked writing rejoinders, but ignored the benefit that comes with such work sometimes. Sometimes, you get the author whose work is disputed to raise...
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This National Conference Will Achieve Nothing
Mark Amaza It was rather surprising when on October 1st and in his Independence Day national address, President Goodluck Jonathan announced the setting up of a committee to work out the modalities for...
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Atlantic or Mediterranean: Watery graves for Africans – Salisu Suleiman
In the last one month alone, no less than 500 Africans, fleeing wars and poverty in Somalia, Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan, Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia and other countries drowned in the Mediterranean sea when...
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