Boko
Haram:
Failed leadership and a conflict waiting to happen
No matter how we look at the question on the rise of Boko Haram or its seeming ability to galvanize followers in the north of the country, we would always reach the conclusive answer that Boko Haram owes its existence to the failure of leadership. Not an entirely new conclusion in itself. For those familiar with Nigeria’s post independence history of some 50 hurting years, lack of true leadership or progressive or if you like, developmental leadership at every strata of political and social existence has left open a wide vacuum, that has been readily occupied by bigots and dangerous fundamentalists who ordinarily should have no podium to sell their skewed and retrogressive ideas if progressive leadership had existed...
Boko Haram and the dynamics of exclusion
Nigeria is not
easily reversible
By Col ABUBAKAR UMAR (rtd)
‘We must allow innovation to come into government’
Critical Essay
‘How oil
underdeveloped Nigeria’ By Richard Dowden
Many
Nigerians like to criticize their country with brutal honesty. That
is a good thing. But I think many people, Nigerians and
non-Nigerians overlook some of the very substantial successes. The
most important one is Nigeria’s very survival as a territory. As a
nation state it is 51 in four days time and will have been a united
territory for 100 years in two years time. That in itself is an
extraordinary achievement.
Analysis
What does Gaddafi's fall mean for Africa?
Written by Professor MAHMOOD MAMDANI
Both
in the longevity of his rule and in his style of governance, Gaddafi
may have been extreme. But he was not exceptional. The longer they
stay in power, the more African presidents seek to personalise
power. Their success erodes the institutional basis of the state.
The Carribean thinker C L R James once remarked on the contrast
between Nyerere and Nkrumah, analysing why the former survived until
he resigned but the latter did not: "Dr Julius Nyerere in theory and
practice laid the basis of an African state, which Nkrumah failed to
do."
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Creative
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Male
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Kenya's
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ZTE’s
stake in Congo Chine Telecom up for grabs |
Burkina
Faso’s Onatel Raises US$60 million in IPO |
Defeating
drug counterfeiters with SMS in Ghana |
West
African Cable System signs financing agreement |
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Yahsat to launch satellites in Africa for cheaper broadband
- The United Arab
Emirates is increasing its stake in Africa's telecommunications
market with Al Yah Satellite Communications' move, to launch two
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Many
in the media have severally commented on the recent Jos mayhem, but
in the spirit of political correctness virtually none has broached
the touchy issue of real and perceived fears of Muslim Hausa
domination by the Jos indigenes...


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