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Latest tagged entries for 'DEMOCRACY'

Ghana: No antibodies for this virus - Obama's speech

Sunday, 12 July 2009 3:14 A GMT+01

What we should not lose sight of from President Obama's speech to the Ghanaian parliament is that it is the first time a Western leader has been able to speak the truth to African leaders and not have blow-back. Against Obama they have no antibodies.

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Nigeria: No new states precursor to abolishing them

Tuesday, 17 March 2009 6:39 A GMT+01

An ex-vice President suggests that states abolished in Nigera, there is a case for for this in the wider case of federal character and resource allocation.

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Nigeria: Electoral reform starts with Iwu pensioned off

Monday, 16 March 2009 11:36 P GMT+01

The first step to electoral reform in Nigeria is sacking the current chairman of INEC - Professor Maurice Iwu.

Nigeria: Courts give Diaspora the vote

Tuesday, 10 February 2009 10:48 A GMT+01

The force of Diaspora is getting the vote and the right to participate in the political process from abroad. In the last 2 weeks Nigerians & South Africans may and the South Koreans assuredly can.

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Nigeria: The false debates on same sex marriage

Monday, 26 January 2009 9:49 P GMT+01

The debate on same sex marriage is really about criminalising defenceless people using false information that does not address the real issues that affect the life expectancy and health of Nigerians. We are being short-changed with hypocrisy.

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Nigeria: Women's democratic rights curtailed by Sharia

Wednesday, 21 January 2009 3:15 P GMT+01

The failure of Islam to address the rights of divorced Muslim women lead to the call for a protest by the women. Protest has been banned by the Sharia police that feels it is an embarrassment to islam - is Nigeria not a democracy?

Guinea: African leaders are indeed mortal

Tuesday, 23 December 2008 4:28 P GMT+01

The death of President Lansana Conté of Guinea brings us back to an analysis of the problems of leadership in Africa.

The Nero of Siam

Tuesday, 2 December 2008 12:14 A GMT+01

The events in Siam give great cause for concern not so much for democracy but for the monarchy that migh well begin to make itself irrelevant to its subjects.

Nigeria: Ribadu and kids get bundled out of NIPSS graduation

Sunday, 23 November 2008 10:33 A GMT+01

The erstwhile EFCC chairman gets bundled out of the NIPSS graduation cermony after the government fails by all other means to stop his graduation. His wife, 6 children and his guests all get pulled out of the event too.

Nigeria: June the Twelfth

Thursday, 12 June 2008 1:19 P GMT+01

15 years since the promise of representative democracy was destroyed by the machinations of a malevolent military junta. We are yet to achieve that standard of democratic resolve which makes this day still so relevant and significant to Nigeria's fu

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Cyclone Nargis: The death knell of the military junta

Saturday, 10 May 2008 12:18 P GMT+01

The attitude of the military junta in Burma to the major disaster caused by cyclone Nargis might well be the death knell of that regime regardless of the referendum on democracy they are holding today.

Zimbabwe: Mugabe is a coward

Sunday, 13 April 2008 4:23 P GMT+01

Robert Mugabe is coward, he cannot bear to see he has lost and he cannot accept the fact that he has lost - he is afraid of the truth of democracy in Zimbabwe and he must not be allowed to change the truth.

Zimbabwe: Mugabe's epitaph by a little girl

Wednesday, 2 April 2008 4:33 P GMT+01

With bated breath and great anticipation we wait for a new dawn in Zimbabwe. After every vote is counted, the man must know that his time is up and time has now passed him by.

Zimbabwe: Thanks Mugabe, Now Give Way

Saturday, 29 March 2008 12:16 P GMT+01

Keeping faith with Zimbabwe that today they shall be freed from the clutches of the Grand Despot of Africa.

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Inside China: Hatchlings of Democracy get nasty

Sunday, 23 March 2008 1:10 P GMT+01

The election for class monitor of 8-year olds in China reveals a lot more about the machinations and manipulation of democracy and the dangers that might be ahead.

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They damned the consequences

Wednesday, 2 January 2008 3:20 P GMT+01

Murders and vote-rigging by people who damned the consequences of their actions in Pakistan and Kenya. We need to have ways of getting justice for these unjust actions.

Benazir Bhutto, 1953 - 2007

Thursday, 27 December 2007 7:44 P GMT+01

Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in the garrison city of Rawalpindi today.

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Putin and Chavez - Great Leader or Dear Leader?

Monday, 3 December 2007 6:39 P GMT+01

Elections in oil-rich states belie the use of democratic process to entrench a benign authoritarianism or a virulent socialism.

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Musharraf cannot fool us again

Sunday, 4 November 2007 3:18 P GMT+01

Emergency rule in Pakistan is bad enough but to be lectured by General Musharraf on his failed democratic credentials is an insult we should not take lying low.

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The seriously unfunny Kiwi parliament

Sunday, 5 August 2007 11:24 P GMT+01

The New Zealand parliament have banned using footage of parliament for satirical purposes. Me thinks we need a radical lobotomy to force in a humour gene.

Obasanjo does Pírìgìdì in Christian Theology

Friday, 8 June 2007 10:12 A GMT+01

The ex-President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo has returned to school for a post graduate diploma in Christian Theology - how contrite.

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Democracy Day in the eyes of the fair-minded

Tuesday, 29 May 2007 4:52 P GMT+01

Democracy Day in Nigeria and the swearing-in of the new President after 8 years of very little achievement for the ordinary Nigerian people.

The Nigerian Proclamation

Tuesday, 29 May 2007 7:30 A GMT+01

On Nigeria's "Democracy" Day and the handover of reins of government to the President Select, I join other Nigerian bloggers in this proclamation. Slight correction for English rather than American spelling.

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Spare and pardon the Saddam video guard

Thursday, 4 January 2007 7:29 A GMT+01

As the net closes in on the person who recorded the execution of Saddam, the fact of the matter is that the government lied to us when something different was happening. They should face up to their mistakes and learn to speak the truth.

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Setting democracy ablaze with gas

Tuesday, 3 January 2006 8:24 P GMT+01

This little Ukraine problem of gas supplies has more far-reaching consequences that could affect the whole basis of our democracy

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