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The Centre for Democratic Development Research and Training (CEDDERT)

 

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$18 Billion Debt Pardon: Second Slavery In Disguise by Segun Sango

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"Rest In Pieces"- Police Torture And Deaths In Custody In Nigeria - Human Rights Report

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"Running Mate" of Almajiranci, Destiny And Bitter Solution by Jaafar Jaafar

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10 Top Corruption Cases - and "A Cutlass" To Cut The Snake Head, Please! by Mobaji Aluko

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17 Ways of Stopping Financial Corruption in Nigeria by Mobolaji Aluko

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1953 in Nigerian History by Edwin Madunagu

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1960-2002: Development And The Democratic Imperative in Nigeria

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1999 Constitution: Between Sections 188 And 308 by Yusuph Olaniyonu

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2004 - National Honour Award

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2005 - National Honour Award

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2005: Year of Karma by Seyi Oduyela

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2006 Annual Threat Assessment by The CIA

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2006 - National Honour Award

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2007 - National Honour Award

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2007: Between Atiku and IBB? by Adedapo Akinrefon

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2007: For The North To Succeed by Paul Mamza

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2007: Let Obasanjo Run by Uchenna Akwiwu

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2007: So, What Are The Issues by Simon Kolawole

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2007: The Battle Begins - culled from THIS DAY

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2007: The IBB vs. OBJ Chess Game by Michael Oluwagbemi

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2007: The State of Igbo Nation by Arthur Nzeribe

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375 Days To Go: A Case Study Of President Obasanjo by Jaafar Jaafar

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3rd Term Revival - Give Us Step By Step Middle Class Revival Plan by Farouk Martins

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419: The Death of a Nation's Aspirations and The Corruption of Her Reputation by Uche Onuora

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44 Years of 'African Pride' - and Present National Embarrassments by Mobolaji Aluko

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A Ballot On The Right Hand, Cudgel On The Left by Sonala Olumhense

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A Better Approach To Governor Ibori's Developmental Efforst in Warri by Frank Edegware

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A Birthday Gift For Babangida by Reuben Abati

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A Birthday Reflection At 65 by Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida

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A Call For An Overhaul of Government Structure by Liberal Democratic Foundation

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A Case For A State of Emergency In Anambra State by Arthur Nzeribe

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A Country Like No Other by Godwin Agbroko

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A Country Where There Is No Justice by Simon Kolawole

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A Critique Of The Pseudo-Nigerian Bourgeouise by Abiola Olawole

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A Flawed Democracy by Reuben Abati

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A Fight For A Future by Joseph Adeyeye

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A Judicial Ray Of Hope by Kunle Sanyaolu

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A Leopard Does Not Change Its Stripes: A Stand-Up Comedy 2006? By Michael Oluwagbemi 

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A Nation In Crisis by Mahmud Jega

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A New Recipe For Peace by Ntai Bagshaw

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A Night For The Aristotle of Enugu by Ezekiel Malami

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A Peep Into My Mail Box by Paul Mamza

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A Politican And The Legacy Bequeathed To The Society by Ibiyinka Solarin

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A Preliminary Forensic Analysis of INEC's Website So Far by Mobolaji Aluko

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A Prescription For Marxism by Kenneth Rogoff

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A President's Oily Fraud by Tayo Odunlami

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A Quest For Dignity By Wole Soyinka

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A Review Of Niger Delta Human Development Report by Otive Igbuzor

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A Stubborn INEC looking for trouble by Mobolaji Aluko

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A Tale Of Two Choices by Simon Kolawole

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A Tale Of Two Theisms by Uche Onuora

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A Vice-President And His Governor-Friends by Jonathan Manok

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A Vote Of No Confidence On Third Term by Geoffrey Ekenna

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Abduction of Oil Workers: Matters Arising - Guardian Editorial

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About the Northern Agenda - "General said, Chief said, Alhaji said"  by Mobolaji Aluko

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About "Security Breach" and "Coup Scare" by Nowa Omoigui

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Abuja As A Hi-Tech Hub  by Uche Onuora

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Abuja Declaration on HIV

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Account of a Colonial cadet in Nigeria

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Achebe's Refusal of Nigerian National 'Honor' Award: Matter Arising by Mobolaji Aluko

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ActionAid International Communique WARM

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Adenuga, Fasawe, Atiku, OBJ and EFCC: Chronicle Of Events by Mobolaji Aluko

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After Obasanjo, who/what by Prof Omo Omoruyi

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Africa: The Challenge Of State Building by Ojo Maduekwe

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Africa: The Ontology of Failed States by Franklyne Ogbunwezeh

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Africa Lives: Governance And The New Corporatist State by Pat Utomi

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African Policy Outlook for 2005

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Africa's Sit-Tight Leaders

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Africa's Two-Fold Misery: AIDS and Wars by Gbenga Olawepo

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Africa'S Re-Development Needs: A Nigerian Perspective by John Adeleke

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Africa And The Challenges Of Democratization by Gbenga Olawepo

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Africa And The Permanent Membership of The UN Security Council by Mobolaji Aluko

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After Supreme Court's Verdict: What Options For Buhari? by Louis Achi and Oke Epia

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African Poverty As Failure Of Leadership by Emmanuel Ogbunwezeh 

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Against Land Use Decrees by Ebi Waboke

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Age Of Nigerian Registered Aircrafts as at November 1, 2006

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Against The Ropes - A Nation's Response To Adversity by The National Association of Seadogs

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Agenda For Better And Stronger Nigeria by Chimaraoke Nnamani

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Agenda For Political Reform by Gbenga Olawepo

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Agents of Annulists in 1993 as Annulists in 2003 by Prof. Omo Omoruyi

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AIDS Kills Another Son Of Kano by Jaafar Jaafar

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AIT's Unprofessionalism And Pursuance Of Narrow Political Interest by Saliu Iyanda

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Ajibola Ige: An Ecumenical Spirit by Wole Soyinka

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Aka Bashorun - A Life of Inspiration by Femi Falana

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Akbar Ahmed's Islam on a Collision Course by Bolaji Aluko

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Akintola Fought For The Yoruba People by Fazil Ope-Agbe

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Alamieyesiegha And The Law by Olu Onagoruwa

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Alamieyeseigha's Escape And Third Term Agenda by Jide Ajani

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Alexanderistic Shekarauism by Jaafar Jaafar

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Alamieyeseigha's Return: Constitutional Implications by Akpo Odje

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Al-Mustapha and The Coup Story by Adeyeye Joseph

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Alternative Perspectives On Nigeria's Political Evolution by Muhammadu Buhari

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Alternative Roads to 2007 by Edwin Madunagu

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Amendments To The Constitution On Third Term - PDP Statement

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Amendments To The Nigerian Constitution As PROPOSED By The Sub-Committee Of The National Assembly Committee On The Review Of The 1999 Constitution

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An Encounter With OBJ, IBB, Atiku And Buhari Supporters by Paul Mamza

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An Extrapolation Of Home: Lessons From Atlanta by Uche Onuora

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An Information and Technology Knowledge Manifesto by Uche Onuora

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An Open Letter To OBJ by Conference of Nigerian Muslim Organizations

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An Open Letter to President Obasanjo - Part 1 by Uchenna Akwiwu

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An Open Letter to President Obasanjo - Part 2 by Uchenna Akwiwu

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An Overview of The Evolution of The Nigerian Army by Nowa Omoigui

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An Update to Essay on Local Council Polls and INEC by Mobolaji Aluko

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An X-ray Of Obasanjo's Economic Management by Tunji Braithwaite

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An X-ray Of Press Freedom in Obasanjo's Nigeria by Suleyman Odapu

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Analyses of INEC Data for Voters' List by Bolaji Aluko

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Analysis of Net Allocations To Federal, States and Local Governments by Mobolaji Aluko

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Anambra: An Example Of Anukili by Obi Nwakanma

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Anarchy And The Rule Of Law In Ekiti And Plateau by Michael Oluwagbemi

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Ancient Wisdom For Modern Times: The NPRC Through The Eyes of Our Founding Fathers by Usman Machika

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And We Call This Democracy by Simon Kolawole

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Anambra's Multiple Legislators - 6 Senators instead of 3 by Bolaji Aluko

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And What is to be done about the 2003 Elections Results? by Mobolaji Aluko

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And Who Shall I vote For Come April 2003 by Bolaji Aluko

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Andrew Must Go Back Home  by Uche Onuora

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Anger Rising in Nigeria's Oil-Rich South At Poverty and Marginalization by Dave Clark

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Anguish of The Ancestors by Pat Utomi

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Anikura As Political Hero by Segun Gbadegesin

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Another Nigeria is Possible by Otive Igbuzor

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Archival links on Nigeria

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Are you Serious About NEEDS, Mr. President by Yusufu Bala Usman

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Aremu, Your Satanic Deeds Will Truncate Nigeria's Democracy by Lanre Banjo

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Artisans....As Leaders....Zoning To Power by Chimaraoke Nnamani

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As IBB Tests The Waters by Olatunji Dare

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Asbestos: A Silent Killer in Nigeria by Dele Igbinedion

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Ask Nothing Of God: The Good Society And Its Discontents by Dele Olojede

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Assessing Federalism, Partisan Politics And Development by Bolaji Akinyemi

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Assessing States and Universities and Universities in Nigeria - Beauty in the eyes of the Beholder by Mobolaji Aluko, Ph.D

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Assessing the future of Nigeria's Economy: Ignored threats from the global climate change debacle

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Assessing States and Universities in Nigeria by Mobolaji Aluko

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Atiku And The Anti-Corruption War by Tola Ogundoyin

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Atiku Declaratory Speech On Presidential Ambition

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Atiku's Declaration And His Seat As Vice President In The Eyes Of 1999 Constitution by Goddy Uwazurike

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Atiku's Political Antecedent by Michael Uchebuaku

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Atiku's Sins: The Untold Story Revealed At Last by Mohammed Bello Paiko

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Atiku: Between Morality And Politics by Musa Aliyu

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Attitudes Towards Public Service And The Social Contract by Michael Oluwagbemi

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Attorney-General's Case Against Dariye

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Audio-Visual Voting Method by John Iteshi

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Awo's Statute in Ibadan Fell by Mobolaji Aluko

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Awolowo, Afenifere And The Yoruba People by Olufemi Aduwo

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Awolowo And The Longest Goodbye by Adebayo Williams

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Awolowo And The Politics Of The Next Stage by Odia Ofeimun

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Awolowo/Akintola: The Tango Between Vision and Compromise

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Baba Iyabo And The Forty Thieves by Farouk Martins

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Babalola Borishade Should Resign Now by Jide Ayobolu

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Babangida And The Burden Of History by Sunny Awhefeada

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Babangida, Corruption and 2007: Tackling A Culture of Impunity by Kolawole Olaniyan

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Backward Nigeria of The Whiteman's Dream by John Iteshi

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Back To The Trenches by Godwin Agbroko

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Bakassi Accord

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Bakassi Belongs To Nigeria by Wilfred Okoh

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Bar and Bench - Public Expectation In An Emerging Democracy by Chimaraoke Nnamani

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Barracks: The history behind those names Parts 1 & 2- by Nowa Omoigui

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Barracks: The history behind those names Part 3 by Nowa Omoigui

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Barracks: The history behind those names Part 4 by Nowa Omoigui

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Barracks: The history behind those names Part 5 by Nowa Omoigui

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Barracks: The history behind those names Part 6/Conclusion by Nowa Omoigui

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Barracks: The history behind those names Part 7-Epilogue - Section 1- Between Orok Edem and Theophilus Danjuma by Nowa Omoigui

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Barracks - The history behind those names Part 7-Epilogue Section 2 - Between Orok Edem and Theophilus Danjuma by Nowa Omoigui

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Barracks: The history behind those names Part 7 - Epilogue Section 3 - Between Orok Edem and Theophilus Danjuma by Nowa Omoigui

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Basking In The Light Of Democracy By Pat Utomi

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Bastardizing Honorary Degrees by Sola Akinyede 

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BBC HardTalk Interview with Dr. Okonjo-Iweala

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Before Obasanjo signs the Offshore/Onshore Abrogation Bill by Mobolaji Aluko

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Before PRONACO's Enahoro Accepts The Chairmanship of Obasanjo's NPRC by Mobolaji Aluko

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Before The Next Genocide In Kano by Mojeed Adeoye

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Before The Onset Of Obasanjo's Lame-duck Presidency

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Behold, Goje State by Kyallu Ashafa

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Behold, Terrible Times Ahead! by Dele Sobowale

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Beko Is Gone - But His Spirit Lives On By Mobolaji Aluko

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Bellview Flight 210 - Initial Reflections by Nowa Omoigui

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Benin and the Midwest Referendum by Nowa Omoigui

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Benson In Defence Of History by Edwin Madunagu

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Between IBB and 2007 by Emeka Kalu

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Between Obasanjo And The Two "Armed Robbers" by Waheed Odusile

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Between The Citizen And The Indigene by Kayode Komolafe

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Beware Of Politics Of Anti-Corruption by Kayode Komolafe

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Beyond Derivation And Resource Control by Pat Utomi

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Beyond Ethnic Presidency by Edwin Madunagu

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Beyond Tafa Balogun's Conviction by Olu Onagoruwa

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Beyond The Third Term Hysteria by M. O. Jolayemi 

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Blaming The North While Excusing One Another by Farouk Martins

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Blood For Oil Project: Unraveling Obasanjo's Covert Actions In Niger Delta by Senior Fyneface

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Bobby Traps of The Confab by Kunle Sanyaolu

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Book Review: Education For All In Africa: Paving The Way For Action by Otive Igbuzor

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Bovinelola Borisacrede: A Man With A Menace Touch by Ja'afar Ja'afar

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Breaking Ethnic Barriers by Emeka Enejere

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Brigadier-General Okonkwo: Commander of ECOMIL by Nowa Omoigui

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Broadcast by Lt.Col Gowon - August 1, 1966

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Buhari and Idiagbon: A Missed Opportunity For Nigeria by Max Siollun

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Buhari is ruining the ANPP by Omo Omoruyi

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Building Nigeria of Our Dreams by Bunmi Oni

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Call for Sovereign national Conference by Gani Fawehinmi

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Cameroon - Nigeria Nixed Commission - Background

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Can Anyone Islamize or Christianize Nigeria by Chuba Okadigbo

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Can We Trust The MDD by Reuben Abati

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Case For Ideological Orientation by Obafemi Awolowo

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Celebrating Two Decades of Nigeria's Better Life For Women's Programme: 1985-2005 by Maryam Babangida

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Census: The Untold Story by Tom Mbeke-Ekanem

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Census 2005: Who Is Afraid of Numbers by P. I. Uche

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Census 2006 Counts Some Out Of Lagos Again by Farouk Martins

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Challenging Patriarchy and Promoting Women's Rights by Otive Igbuzor

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Chief Awolowo's Speech to the Western Region Leaders of Thought in Ibadan - May 1, 1967

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Chieftaincy and Security in Nigeria by Chimaraoke Nnamani

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Chris Ngige: The Hero Of The Fourth Republic by Paul Mamza

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Christians and The National Political Reform Conference by Emmanuel Gbonigi

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Chronology of Major Events in Nigeria 1960-2000

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CIA in Nigeria

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Circus of Unresolved Killings by Ifeoma Chukwugbo

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Citizenship And The Indigene/Settler Syndrome by George Ehusani

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Civil Society And Social Change In Nigeria by John Moru

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Combating AIDS/HIV Scourge in Nigeria - February 2003

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Commission For Africa Report - March 2005

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Communiqué - Repositioning Maternal And Neonatal Mortality Reduction As A National Priority

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Communiqué by The Civil Society on NPRC

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Communiqué By West-African High Level Meeting On UN Reforms

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Communiqué of A Civil Society Meeting On Advocacy Strategies

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Communiqué of The 13th Meeting of The Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission - July 2005

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Communiqué of The Conference On Bridging The Digital And Scientific DivideS - July 2005

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Communiqué of The Conference of Political Leaders of Southern States of Nigeria- December 2005

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Communiqué On The Issues Of Resource Control And Management In Nigeria

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Communiqué: On The State Of The Nation by The Governors' Forum

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Complexities Of Constitution Without Immunity Clause by Chukwuneke Anagbogu

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Confusion As Political Masterpiece by Mobolaji Aluko

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Congratulations for Mr. President by Prof. Omoruyi

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Consensus On National Conference by Chukwuemeka Ezeife

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Constitution and Continuity by Wole Soyinka

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Conference of Nationalities ( The Century-Okonta Resolutions )

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Confronting The Local Government Question by Chimaraoke Nnamani

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Conquering The Monster That Have Bedeviled Governance by Michael Oluwagbemi

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Constitution making and the struggle for resource control in Nigeria

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Constitutional Amendments And Public (Hard) Hearings by Pini Jason

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Constitutional Amendment Not Sovereign National Conference Is Pathway To A Reformed Polity by Adebayo Adejare 

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Constitutional Reform In Nigeria's 4th Republic by Otive Igbuzor

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Constitutive Act of the African Union

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Contending With Voodoo Mathematics by Michael Oluwagbemi

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Corruption Galore And Equity by Olu Onagoruwa

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Corruption And The Nigerian Police by Moses Ihonde

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Corruption versus Resources Management in Nigeria by Peter Ayodele Fayose

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Count Down To A National Strike - Towards Averting It by Bolaji Aluko

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Counting The Costs Of The Third-Term Debacle by NAS

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Coups d'etat in Nigeria: History, Survivors and Victims

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Court of Appeal Judgement Text: Unregistered Parties vs INEC.

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Court Verdict On NLC and Strike: Where Justice Ukeje Erred by Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa

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Cultural Wars And National Identity-The Saga of the Yoruba and Bini-Edo by Bolaji Aluko

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Culture and Democratic Governance by G.G. Darah

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Cutting Corners On Civil Liberties by Michael Oluwagbemi

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Chief Audu Ogbeh's Letter To President Obasanjo

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Chief Gani Fawehinmi's Press Conference text on the Judgement: Unregistered Parties vs INEC.

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Crisis Of Tyranny by Emma Ihejieto

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Critique of Judgement of British Court in Alamieyeseigha's Claim of Immunity by Ben Nwabueze

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Death and The Cicero by Mohammed Haruna

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Death of Rage by Michael Oluwagbemi

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Debt Relief And Nigeria - To Emit or Not To Emit $12 billion by Mobolaji Aluko

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Debt Relief And The New Colonialism by Segun Ayobolu

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