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Are We Better Off?
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I imagine how US President Barack Obama would have felt if he tried putting in a call to Nigerian authorities on hearing the news of Farouk Abdulmutallab’s attempt to detonate explosives on Delta Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with 278 passengers and crew aboard. That is if he had not expected a call from [...]
January 1, 2010
Tags: Mutallab, Nigeria, obama, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, Yar’Adua Posted in: Bisi Ojediran 
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The Presidents’ Men(and Women)
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Be it IBB’s “stepping aside”, OBJ’s Third-Term attempt, Yar’ Adua’s health, Mamadou Tandja of Niger Republic’s tenure elongation, the decision to stay or leave is never an easy one. The scenarios are the same in the Third World. While some get under pressure to leave, others come under pressure to defy all odds [...]
December 12, 2009
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Challenges, Ironies in 2010 Budget
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Nigerians seem to have borrowed the policy of the monkey in their expectations from annual budgets of the Federal Government. “Seeing is believing” is in fact so strong in the monkey kingdom that it is the origin of the proverb “the talisman of the monkey is its eyes.”
Year after year, Nigerians a regaled [...]
December 8, 2009
Tags: budget, David Beckham, Elin Nordegren, Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, national assembly, Nigeria, Tiger Woods Posted in: Bisi Ojediran Comments
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