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his report by JIDE AJANI will show that whereas members of the Jama’atu Ahliss-Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, may have started out as a rag-tag group of Islamic evangelists who came in handy for political domination, it became a veritable tool of distraction to President Jonathan’s government in the build-up to and in the wake of the 2011 general election, before becoming a terror group with international network, contemporary reality is that with just about nine months to next year’s presidential election, even the incumbent, constitutionally guaranteed to seek re-election, is tongue-tied to verbalise his aspiration. President Goodluck Jonathan during his declaration Saturday, in Abuja. President Goodluck Jonathan. But what this creates is a catch-22 situation whereby Jonathan, if seen to have been hounded out of power on account of this insurgency, would create a fresh life for another form of militancy, south of the Niger. The ...

By OLASUNKANMI AKONI Leadership of the Yoruba Assembly in Lagos has made a passionate demand for regional autonomy, saying it is the minimum condition for Yourubas to remain in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Nigeria. They also reiterated demand on special status for Lagos, which they said would continue to be the economic nerve centre of Nigeria and the West Africa, hence, there should be appropriate budgetary provision that is part of the First Line Charge in the federation account. The groups include Afenifere Renewal Group, O’dua Foundation, O’dua Nationalist Coalition, Afenifere Youth Forum, Atayese, Agbekoya Reformed Society and Coalition for O’dua Self-determination Group, among others. The ethnic group made the demands at a joint news conference addressed at Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota, Lagos on Monday. National Secretary, Chief Ayo Afolabi and Chairman of Atayese Yoruba Group, Chief Tokunbo Ajasin, who read the text of the conference theme: “Region...

Some Words of Wisdom From Peter Drucker to My Daughter Rick Wartzman @DruckerInst May 7, 2014 Dear Emma, Next week you will graduate from college, a milestone that calls for a little fatherly advice—advice, to be precise, from the “father of modern management.” So here, with an assist from your own dad, are half a dozen insights courtesy of Peter Drucker, a man who earned his degree more than 80 years ago and then spent the next six decades mulling what it takes to be successful. I must warn you that Drucker believed “education should confer duties rather than privileges.” In other words, none of what I’m about to tell you is going to be easy. For starters, have the courage to quit your first job. I know, I know. You aren’t even gainfully employed yet and the labor market is brutal, especially for recent grads, and I’m suggesting that you already be prepared to give notice. But “on the whole,” Drucker wrote, “y...

THIRTEEN Igbo organisations Tuesday rose from their meeting in Enugu State, insisting that anything short of true federalism built on six regions affirmed at a referendum to throw up a new constitution would mean a failure of the ongoing national conference. The groups, which reminded Igbo delegates at the national conference that about 50 million Igbo people are monitoring their move, stressed that they must speak out in matters that must reposition the geo-political zone in the affairs of the country at the conference. In a statement issued after the meeting, they noted that the ongoing bloody campaign by Boko Haram has really redefined Nigeria’s image internationally and jolted Nigerians into a new consciousness, explaining that it has the capacity to either make Nigeria stronger or create fears and distrust. They agreed, however, that either way, Nigeria would never be the same, when she must have pulled out of her security challenges and called for joint efforts....

Grant Us Regionalism or Nothing, Says Yoruba National Conference delegates Lists conditions for a united Nigeria Gboyega Akinsanmi Midway into the on-going National Conference, the Yoruba yesterday made a stronger demand for regional autonomy, which it said, was the minimum condition for remaining in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The ethnic group, which basically comprises six states in the South-west geopolitical zone, expressed strong will “to exercise its right of self-determination on and up to the right to secede if its demand for regional autonomy is not granted.” The demands were made at a joint news conference the leadership of the Yoruba Assembly, Afenifere Renewal Group, O’dua Foundation, O’dua Nationalist Coalition, Afenifere Youth Forum, Atayese, Agbekoya Reformed Society and Coalition for O’dua Self- determination Group among others addressed at Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota. The news conference with the theme: “Regional Autonomy... or Nothing”, was ad...

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Discovery of minerals, gas and oil in many African countries has led to what economists call the "paradox of plenty" - a phenomenon in which macroeconomic forces create pressures for over-reliance on an energy or a mining sector, leaving other domestic economy sectors to deteriorate. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which was called a "geological scandal" because of its vast concentration of minerals, and Nigeria have become the poster children of what is wrong with oil and mineral discoveries in Africa. Both countries despite having huge mineral and oil deposits have failed to derive dividends from them. Further, domestically, the discovery and exploitation of the mineral has led to "resource nationalism" - communities calling for a lion share, especially in peripheral regions long marginalised by the centre, which is often the case. Kenya and Uganda recently discovered economically viable oil deposits, following years of being the sleepy...

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