Nigeria: Celebrating Honour Amongst Thieves
A wrong comparison They wore T-shirts proclaiming him the ‘Joseph of our time,’ pretty much sums up the occasion to which I will provide a backstory. [News Story [1]] Joseph was one of the 12 sons of...
View ArticleNigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review V – Concerns after the elections
This is cross-posted from my blog at http://akinblog.nl INEC failing itself Now over 72 hours since the National Assembly elections were concluded in Nigeria, we find ourselves at crossroads of hope...
View ArticleNigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review VI – Report to Prevent Rigging
This was cross-posted from my blog at http://akinblog.nl Being aware of rigging opportunities Giving some flesh to a tweet – @boosoolalab The problems could be efficiency, intimidation, access, bias...
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Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review VIII – A President-Elect
This was cross-posted from my blog at http://akinblog.nl Done and dusted A new Nigeria just hatched out of its egg in the last 48 hours wherein the presidential elections took place and all results...
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Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review IX – Analysing the Presidential Results
The spread of the results in the recently concluded presidential elections in Nigeria are a serious talking issue, I present an analysis of the figures that make a lie of the accepted narrative about...
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Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review XIII – Ideas for Electoral Reform
This is cross-posted from my blog at http://akinblog.nl As we savour the returns As the election season ends in Nigeria it is important to lay out in some form a whole series of ideas for electoral...
View ArticleNigeria: Testing the FOI Act 2011 on Legislator Salaries
This blog is cross-posted originally from http://www.akinblog.nl/ We have a Freedom of Information Act With the signing of the Freedom of Information Act 2011 just as the end of the last legislative...
View ArticleNigeria: Time to give June 12 a decent burial
Yes, the hope died June the Twelfth, 1993 has for years been marked as the day that Nigeria’s hopes for democracy died or as Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa would have so eloquently put it when he made his...
View ArticleNigeria: Definitely time to give June 12 a decent burial
Making history history On June 12 2011, I wrote a piece titled Nigeria: Time to give June 12 a decent burial [1] for a number of reasons which already appear in that piece. Basically, June 12 1993 is...
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Boko Haram: Of the Sensible and the Insensible
Courtesy Daily Times of Nigeria Any time I recall scenes from that video showing security officers of the Nigerian state ferret men, young and old, able and disabled, from behind closed doors in their...
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“It’s The Economy Stupid”
Ifeanyi Uddin Over the last couple of weeks, a succession (profusion?) of, dare I say, “important” events in this country lead to only one conclusion: that everything (at least until 2015) has become...
View ArticleNigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review V – Concerns after the elections
This is cross-posted from my blog at http://akinblog.nl INEC failing itself Now over 72 hours since the National Assembly elections were concluded in Nigeria, we find ourselves at crossroads of hope...
View ArticleNigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review VI – Report to Prevent Rigging
This was cross-posted from my blog at http://akinblog.nl Being aware of rigging opportunities Giving some flesh to a tweet – @boosoolalab The problems could be efficiency, intimidation, access, bias...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review VIII – A President-Elect
This was cross-posted from my blog at http://akinblog.nl Done and dusted A new Nigeria just hatched out of its egg in the last 48 hours wherein the presidential elections took place and all results...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review IX – Analysing the Presidential Results
The spread of the results in the recently concluded presidential elections in Nigeria are a serious talking issue, I present an analysis of the figures that make a lie of the accepted narrative about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides Election Review XIII – Ideas for Electoral Reform
This is cross-posted from my blog at http://akinblog.nl As we savour the returns As the election season ends in Nigeria it is important to lay out in some form a whole series of ideas for electoral...
View ArticleNigeria: Testing the FOI Act 2011 on Legislator Salaries
This blog is cross-posted originally from http://www.akinblog.nl/ We have a Freedom of Information Act With the signing of the Freedom of Information Act 2011 just as the end of the last legislative...
View ArticleNigeria: Time to give June 12 a decent burial
Yes, the hope died June the Twelfth, 1993 has for years been marked as the day that Nigeria’s hopes for democracy died or as Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa would have so eloquently put it when he made his...
View ArticleNigeria: Definitely time to give June 12 a decent burial
Making history history On June 12 2011, I wrote a piece titled Nigeria: Time to give June 12 a decent burial [1] for a number of reasons which already appear in that piece. Basically, June 12 1993 is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Boko Haram: Of the Sensible and the Insensible
Courtesy Daily Times of Nigeria Any time I recall scenes from that video showing security officers of the Nigerian state ferret men, young and old, able and disabled, from behind closed doors in their...
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