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Nigeria:
2011 Elections - Impending Catastrophe or Transformative Moment?
CFR, 15 November 2010
Letter in response to Electoral Violence in Nigeria, a CPA Contingency Planning Memorandum published in September 2010: Read more »
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Nigeria:
Uncertainty Hangs Over 2011 Election
Vanguard, 15 November 2010
Five months to the April 2011 general polls, a thick cloud of uncertainty is still covering the exercise. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Electoral Violence in Nigeria
CFR, 30 September 2010
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Nigeria:
Political Violence And 2011 General Elections
Leadership, 13 November 2010
It's about 136 months since the inception of the current democratic experiment in Nigeria, after the official handing over of government by the military leadership headed by Gen.… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Constitution Amendment Controversy!
Vanguard, 13 November 2010
When a Federal High Court presided over by Justice Okechukwu Okeke, ruled early in the week that the purported amendment to the 1999 Constitution remains null and void without the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Only Democracy Can Solve Our Problems, Says Civil Society Leader
allAfrica, 11 October 2010
Only democracy, even with all its imperfections, can resolve Nigeria's problems, Father Matthew Hassan Kukah, one of Nigeria's most respected leaders of civil society, tells… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Jonathan Needs to Allay Fears of Ordinary Citizens - Civil Society Leader
allAfrica, 8 October 2010
Father Matthew Hassan Kukah is one of Nigeria's most respected leaders of civil society, having worked consistently to bring together the country's religious, regional and ethnic… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Our Bet Should Be with the People
allAfrica, 11 October 2010
Fifty years after independence, Africa's most populous nation is at a crossroad – heading towards an election that can either empower a reform-minded public or entrench a… Read more »
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Nigeria:
No North-South Armageddon Over Elections
allAfrica, 30 September 2010
A vigorous, sharply-worded debate has been set off in Nigeria and among the ranks of U.S. foreign policy analysts by an article in which a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Bomb Blast - Before Campbell's Prophecy Comes to Pass
Leadership, 8 October 2010
In his book "Nigeria: Dancing On the Brink" former US ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell said: "The 2011 elections in Nigeria, scheduled for January 22, pose a threat to the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Season of Uncertainty
Current History, 29 April 2010
"Nothing," wrote Reuben Abati, the editor of Nigeria's The Guardian, "can be more tragic than the present season of uncertainty in which Nigeria has found itself." Indeed, in… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Critical Time for Nigeria's Future
allAfrica, 14 March 2010
The new round of violence in Jos, tragically similar to unrest there in the past and once again misinterpreted as primarily a Muslim-Christian dispute, was exacerbated by the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
'We Want Nation to Succeed' - U.S. Ambassador
allAfrica, 8 April 2010
The failed attempt on December 25, 2009 by the young Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to detonate hidden explosives on a flight to Detroit created an additional layer of… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Clinton Attacks Corruption and Bad Governance
allAfrica, 27 January 2010
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made scathing remarks on Nigeria's corruption and bad governance at a town hall meeting at the State Department in Washington, DC on… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Will Power Brokers Listen and Act?
allAfrica, 8 January 2010
A few weeks ago, while chatting with my neighbor, I told him I had been doing some work in Nigeria. Read more »