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ABOKIN DARWIN
By Dr. Aliyu Tilde, Bauchi, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline Writer)This
article was first published in Leadership in February 2006 under the
title "Sultan and the Burden of Numbers". A reader from Radio
Deutche Welle sent me a two worded email in which he summarized his
feelings: "Abokin Darwin", i.e. A friend of Darwin, he called
me. I have earlier listened to his program in which he castigated
Darwinism and its influence on western thought and the present world
order, rightfully I think from the perspective he looked at it. But
I insist that my call for curbing our indulgence in reproduction
does not in any way contradict the broadcaster's views and remains
very important to our development as a nation....
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Former military president General Ibrahim
Badamasi Babangida (rtd) has said that President
Goodluck Jonathan can only contest the
forthcoming presidential elections on the
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Jega to Prosecute
2007 Election
Offenders
Chairman,
Independent National
Electoral Commission
(INEC), Professor
Attahiru Jega, is
perfecting plans to
prosecute
perpetrators of
electoral
malpractices in last
general elections
held across the
country in April
2007.
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Kidnappers Strike in
Ogun, Abduct Oba’s
Sister
-Ogun State, last
week experienced for
the first time, the
dreaded kidnapping
saga as four armed
men who disguised as
security operatives
from the Criminal
Investigation
Department (CID) of
the police stormed
Efireland in the
Ogun Waterside Local
Govern-ment Area and
whisked away Mrs.
Sikirat Lamina (nee
Adeniyi).
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Abia Deputy Governor
Resigns
The political crisis
in Abia State
reached its climax
yesterday as the
Deputy Governor,
Comrade Chris Akomas
resigned after
spending three
years, two months
and two days in
office.
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How Northern Govs
Arrived at Decisions
on Zoning
Fresh facts are
emerging on how the
19 governors who met
in Kaduna under the
aegis of Northern
Governors Forum
(NGF) last Tuesday
actually voted on
the issue of zoning
of the office of the
president for the
2011 election and
why some of them
voted the way they
did.
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Nigeria, US Hold
High-level Talks
This Week
Nigeria and United
States will hold
high-level talks in
Washington DC this
week, sources at the
Nigerian Mission and
the US State
Department have
confirmed.
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Jonathan Urges
Prayers for Nation’s
Peace, Progress
President Goodluck
Jonathan has called
on religious leaders
to continue to pray
for the peace and
progress of the
nation.
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DAILY TRUST
Top Headlines
The day female politicians resolved
to stop dancing for men
Govt
officials have devised new
strategies for stealing funds – ICPC
Chairman, Justice Ayoola
Is FADAMA impacting on rural
dwellers?
1-day-old baby undergoes successful
brain surgery
Police comb villages for kidnapped
journalists
Buhari
commissions CPC Kaduna office
EFCC lays siege on Ogun state over
suspected multi-billion Naira
rip-off
Fresh violence in Jos claims 7 lives
We’re sensitizing the grassroots to
zoning , says Atiku’s aide
It’s time for northern chairman –
ANPP stalwart
The Emir
of
Bauchi
who was
also the
Chairman,
Bauchi
State
Council
of
Emirs,
Alhaji
Suleiman
Adamu
Jumba is
dead. He
die...
What is
your
first
impression
of the
situation
you met
on
ground
on your
assumption
of
office?
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JONATHAN AND THE NORTHERN HAWKS (Discourse
300)
By Dr. Aliyu Tilde, Bauchi, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline Writer)The
Northern Political Forum that took place last week in Kaduna was
a significant attempt by the Jonathan camp to win the PDP ticket
that will enable him continue with his presidency until 2015,
presumably. The meeting was attended by some notable figures
from the three northern zones who, though short of rejecting
zoning totally..Read
On...
SIMPLY "1 PLUS 1" NIGERIA DON'T KNOW!
By Prince
C Dickson,
Minna, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline Writer)A
leadership that lacks the primary knowledge of one plus one is
two, scolds its Minister of State for stating the obvious by
saying the truth about the state of affairs in NNPC.....Read On...
JONATHAN AND THE NORTHWEST (Discourse 298)
By Dr. Aliyu Tilde, Bauchi, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline Writer)I
concluded The Days of Jonathan by giving the new Nigerian
President a choice between continuing beyond 2011 and handing
over to a newly elected President by that date. If he favours
the former, he should “persuade his party to accord him the
ticket and win his tenure through free and fair elections.”..Read
On...
LOOSING AFGHANISTAN (Discourse 297)
By Dr. Aliyu Tilde, Bauchi, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline Writer)The
United States can claim anything but victory in Afghanistan.
Last week, the war claimed the career of one of its most
distinguished soldiers, General Stanley McChrystal. Underneath
the excuse of “lapse in judgement”
..Read
On...
The Future Of The Almajiri (3)
By Dr. Aliyu Tilde, Bauchi, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline Writer)
This will be a simple one, having left behind
the difficult aspects about the almajiri and his system of learning
which were difficult to bring out to surface to the notice of the
elite in whose hands his fate lies but who respect him the least and
are the cause of his continuous state of victimhood..
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MID-WEEK ESSAY: In Defence of the Vice-President, in the Failure of the President Doing the Right Thing
By Mobolaji Aluko
PhD, Burtonsville, MD,
USA
(AmanaOnline Writer)In the present
no-see-no-hear-invalid-President-UMYA
crisis in Nigeria, some blame
for alleged timidity has been
put on Vice-President Goodluck
Jonathan....Read
On...
UPDATE ON YARADU'S HEALTH
By Dr. Aliyu Tilde, Bauchi, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline Writer)The
last three days brought some significant developments regarding
the illness of the Nigerian President, Umaru Musa Yar'adua.
First, a window into the seriousness of his illness opened to
the Nigerian public by a revealing publication of Daily Trust
yesterday....Read
On...
CHIEF EMEKA ANYAOKU'S EXCUSE
By
Ibrahim
Chonoko, London, UK
(AmanaOnline)
...Read On...
FEEDBACK
By Dr. Aliyu Tilde, Bauchi, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline Writer)Writing
your mind weekly on the pages of newspapers could be very risky
even with the most sincere of purposes. On the one hand, by
being critical of society, you are certain to be in the bad
books of government, if you do not become a victim of its
injustice....Read
On...
BEGGING IN NORTHERN NIGERIA
AND ITS SOLUTION
By Dr. Aliyu Tilde, Bauchi, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline
Writer)
There
has been growing concern about the preponderance of
beggars in Northern Nigeria.
For the visitor, it's an eye opener
on how deep poverty has
eaten into the fabric of the Northern society. To
the Northerner generally, it is a source of shame
which his southern brothers are quick to remind him
of. To the Muslim Northerner, the feeling of shame
runs deeper, for even in the North he has the
uninviting position of monopolising this demeaning
practice..
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WHY IS NIGERIA CONDEMNED BY OUR ACTIONS?
By Habu Dauda Fika, Potiskum, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline Writer)
Actually it
is very hard to pick one single most egregious crime we commit
daily, but for me I encounter true Nigerians when I am in the
car driving. When NIGERIANS drive, they demonstrate their idiocy...Read
On...
NIGERIA AT 49: WAYS OUT OF THE ABYSS
By Abba Gana Shettima, Maiduguri, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline Writer)
As the country celebrates the 49th
year of political independence, there is a palpable sense of
hopelessness pervading the nation. In the nearly half a century
of independence, the country has lived through several ups and
downs...Read
On...
MALLAM AMINU KANO'S PANACEA FOR
CORRUPTION...
By
Ibrahim
Chonoko, ??, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline)
...Read On...
SAUDI KING WRITES YAR'ADUA'S NIGERIA AT 49.!
By Prince
C Dickson,
Minna, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline Writer)The
next few lines I pen to you would be painful—the reason being
that it is the truth and I dare say, you and I know that the
truth hurts. I have been told and warned by my kinsmen that I am
not saying anything new but I will still say it.....Read On...
OPEN LETTER TO GOV SHEKARAU
By
Bashir Abba
Sharif, Kano, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline)
...Read On...
JOIN FILTHY MONEYBAGS TO CELEBRATE 49...
By
Farouk
Martins Aresa, Atlanta, USA
(AmanaOnline)
...Read On...
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YARA’DUA MAY VINDICATE BOLA IGE ON SUPER CIVIL SERVANTS
DEPORTATION OF NIGERIANS...!
By Paul Adujie,
New York, USA
(AmanaOnline Writer)This
is because of the precarious plights and predicaments which our
citizens face today. This is especially so, among the poorest
citizens and those with disabilities. Nigerians at home and
abroad, are literarily catching hell from “deportations” Our
fellow citizens, are mostly, free of sins and infractions....Read On...
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Obama My Brother The President, Again!
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Surprise At Consulate
Of Nigeria New York Passport Office!
OBAMA DARED BY ISRAEL'S TOXIC ARROGANCE!
By Paul Adujie,
New York, USA
(AmanaOnline Writer)Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Remain Adamant On Jewish Settlements
Expansions. He is recalcitrant and unrepentant even in the face
of findings by the United Nations and polite entreaties from the
United States.....Read On...
THANK YOU, PHCN
By Abba Gana Shettima, Maiduguri, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline Writer)....Read
On...
RIBADU THE RASCAL SOCCER PLAYER...
By
Farouk
Martins Aresa, Atlanta, USA
(AmanaOnline)
...Read On...
OBAMA IS NOT AN AMERICAN!
By Paul Adujie,
New York, USA
(AmanaOnline Writer)In
2007, events in the United States moved me to wonder publicly,
whether race relations were actually getting worse as opposed
to, progressing? I asked then and I ask again now.....Read On...
ZAKAAT AL-FITR
By
A. Lawan M Dunoma,
???, Belize
(AmanaOnline)
...Read On...
REBRANDING NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING
By
Makanju O
Samson, ???, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline)
...Read On...
BETWEEN NYAKO, AMINU AND THEIR STOOGES
By
Maliki Salaudeen,
Yola, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline)
...Read On...
WHO WANTS TO BE A TEACHER IN NIGERIA?
By Abba Gana Shettima, Maiduguri, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline Writer)Some
twelve years ago, Allah made it possible for me to perform the
annual Hajj in
Saudi Arabia. On arrival at
Jeddah airport enroute Madina, I met someone whom I had always
regarded as a friend and a brother. As soon as he sighted me,
like a bolt from the blue....Read
On...
FEEDBACK
By Dr. Aliyu Tilde, Bauchi, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline Writer)Writing
your mind weekly on the pages of newspapers could be very risky
even with the most sincere of purposes. On the one hand, by
being critical of society, you are certain to be in the bad
books of government, if you do not become a victim of its
injustice....Read
On...
THE SANUSI SANITIZATION OF BANKING IN
NIGERIA: A GREAT CLEAN UP?
By Paul Adujie,
New York, USA
(AmanaOnline Writer)All
Nigerians should answer a few questions in connection with the
spate of actions by the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria,
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi; are Nigerian Bankers on trial Innocent
...Read On...
BEFORE THE ELECTION IN MUBI.......?
By
Jackson S Liba,
Mubi, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline)
...Read On...
MUSLIMS AND THE RULE OF LAW IN NIGERIA
By Dr. Aliyu Tilde, Bauchi, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline Writer)The
end, according to them, justified the means. Nobody is doubting
the right of the state to apply the law on any sect, its leaders
and members alike, which is found to contravene the law by
possessing...Read
On...
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A EULOGY FOR DARUL ISLAM
2.
WE ARE BOKO HARAM
3.
OBAMA, YES WE CAN
4.
YES, E-VOTING
AFRICOM: WESTERN SELF-SERVING INTERESTS OR AFRICAN
SECURITY?
By
Paul Adujie,
New York, USA
(AmanaOnline Writer)
...Read On...
SA: TEN YEARS LATER
By
Babayola M Toungo,
Kaduna, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline Writer)
...Read On...
BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS
By
Garba Deen Muhammad,
Putra, Malaysia
(AmanaOnline)
...Read On...
CLINTON'S COMMENTS ON NIGERIA
By
Rahman Onike,
Lagos, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline)
...Read On...
NIGERIANS IN DIASPORA ARE DISHONORABLE PESTS... WE HATE
YOU! -Response to the Minister of
Information
By
Deji Saanu,
New York, USA
(AmanaOnline)
...Read On...
CHINA AS FRIEND AND PARTNER TO AFRICA
By
Paul Adujie,
New York, USA
(AmanaOnline Writer)
...Read On...
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One Equals
Fourteen Hundred in New World Order Mathematics (1=1400)!
More.. Turks & Caicos Seized by
Britain in Re-colonization Aggression
SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
By
Babandi Gumel,
London, UK
(AmanaOnline)
...Read On...
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