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Big Puzzle as Lula Surrenders, Goes to Jail

Posted By: adminon: April 08, 2018In: World From AfricaTags: Global Left, IMF, Operation Car Wash, World BankNo CommentsViews:
Big Puzzle as Lula Surrenders, Goes to Jail

The paradox of a former president such as Lula who took Brazil into global power status, including the symbolic gesture of offering the IMF a bailout, going to jail would probably take time... Read more

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Is ‘Weaponising’ Corruption Allegation Too Hot to Handle in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: April 03, 2018In: World From AfricaTags: APC, PDPNo CommentsViews:
Is 'Weaponising' Corruption Allegation Too Hot to Handle in Nigeria?

Might a strategy of turning corruption allegations into a weapon of electoral warfare have run its course in Nigeria? This appears an inviting puzzle in the aftermath of the stalemate that h... Read more

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Going Shopping @ Shoprite in Abuja?

Posted By: adminon: March 10, 2018In: World From AfricaTags: Grand Towers, KC Chellarams, Leventis, UACNo CommentsViews:
Going Shopping @ Shoprite in Abuja?

It is still the place to go shopping, notwithstanding the grumbling that the Nigerian business establishment must be so nuts as to be unable to organise and control even retail trading witho... Read more

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Dramatic Approaches to Fighting Corruption in Other Lands

Posted By: adminon: March 08, 2018In: World From AfricaTags: RT, State captureNo CommentsViews:
Dramatic Approaches to Fighting Corruption in Other Lands

The war cry in Nigeria is, lets kill corruption before corruption kills the country. That is great but how best might killing corruption be accomplished? Well, South Africa and The Philippin... Read more

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Flashback to HIV Mystery: The But Factor in HIV Cure

Posted By: adminon: March 08, 2018In: World From AfricaTags: 'Kick and kill', Infection reservoir, Quora, Temple UniversityNo CommentsViews:
Flashback to HIV Mystery: The But Factor in HIV Cure

HIV/AIDS is such that, once a while, there must be a return to its mystery. This is one of such. Originally posed in Quora as “Why is there no cure for HIV yet? Why is killing the virus so d... Read more

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Why Nigeria is Collapsing into Anomie – Dr Peter Ozo-Eson, NLC Gen. Secretary

Posted By: adminon: January 29, 2018In: World From AfricaTags: Botswana, Deregulation, IMF, Malaysia, World BankNo CommentsViews:
Why Nigeria is Collapsing into Anomie – Dr Peter Ozo-Eson, NLC Gen. Secretary

By Adagbo Onoja This is a 2006 interview conducted and reported in The Nation where this reporter was the Managing Editor. It is reproduced here over a decade after because it is time someon... Read more

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Abuja is Feuding Dangerously Over Subsidy But No One Can Say It Openly

Posted By: adminon: December 30, 2017In: World From AfricaTags: DAPPMA, NNPC, OPEC, Prof Daniel Yergin, Putin, RBC Capital Markets, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Shale oil, USA, VenezuelaNo CommentsViews:
Abuja is Feuding Dangerously Over Subsidy But No One Can Say It Openly

A dangerous feuding evocative of the framing of the oil commodity as the prize by Prof Daniel Yergin, the American Energy intellectual in his all time best seller – The Prize: The Epic Quest... Read more

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NNPC-Independent Marketers Re-open Nigeria’s Harvest of Intra-Elite Oil Bickering

Posted By: adminon: December 27, 2017In: World From AfricaTags: CPC, Daily Trust, NNPCNo CommentsViews:
NNPC-Independent Marketers Re-open Nigeria's Harvest of Intra-Elite Oil Bickering

With the NNPC replying the Independent marketers who threw a bombshell two days ago deconstructing the narrative that they are to blame for the current fuel crisis, it seems Nigeria is back... Read more

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Nigeria’s Fuel Scarcity: Power Struggle Blows Open Between Independent Marketers and NNPC

Posted By: adminon: December 27, 2017In: World From AfricaTags: DAPPMA, MOMAN, NNPC, PPMCNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria's Fuel Scarcity: Power Struggle Blows Open Between Independent Marketers and NNPC

Another rift is unfolding in the Nigerian oil sector, two months after President Muhammadu Buhari ‘reconciled’ Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, the Minister of State for Petroleum with Dr Maikanti Baru, th... Read more

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Sultan Advocates Marriage Between Christians and Muslims

Posted By: adminon: August 01, 2016In: World From AfricaTags: CAN, Christians and Muslims, Marriage, Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar 1111 CommentViews:
Sultan Advocates Marriage Between Christians and Muslims

An old but disused approach to peace might regain large scale currency in Nigeria if a proposal by a leading traditional and religious leader is picked up and operationalised across the reli... Read more

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