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From The Editor
Monday, 05 May 2008
Edition 18 May 12 2008 Political as well as bureaucratic in-fighting is an indispensable feature of administrations the worldover. In the power play that ensues once a new government is in place, the jostling by officials is usually with only one objective: get the ears of the President or Prime Minister, as the case may be. Such officials, not necessarily for altruistic reasons, want to be the powers behind the throne. In fact, in most cases, it is for pure personal aggrandisement, but very well-disguised as working for the interest of a group or for the wider public good...
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The Silent Gladiators

Wola Adeyemo
Monday, 05 May 2008
*President Umaru Yar'Adua* *Slowed down by ill health and with little energy to handle the complexities of the office of President, some close friends of Yar'Adua step in to fill the power vacuum* It was an exclusive meeting with President Umaru Yar'Adua, and the subject matter was how to improve Nigeria's energy situation. The presidential guest was a chieftain of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who was also a top government official in the last dispensation. He presented a proposal for the consideration of Yar'Adua on a major aspect of the seven-point agenda of the President. The man assumed that his proposal would enhance the planned emergency action supposedly designed to meet the yearning energy needs of the nation...
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On a Darkling Plane

Adekunle Yusuf and Abdulrafiu Lawal
Monday, 05 May 2008
*With candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party winning the election reruns with landslide victories, the nation may well bid farewell to multiparty democracy* *Nyako, Adamawa State Governor* As Murtala Nyako and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, rolled out the drums to celebrate his victory last week, emerging signs are that the nation's vehicle of democracy is fast sliding into a one-party state....
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'I Respect the Law'

Tahudeen Suleiman
Monday, 05 May 2008
*Nasir el-Rufai, former minister of the Federal Capital Territory, appears before a Senate committee, denying an allegations that he was above the law during his tenure* *El-Rufai, former minister FCT* The Senate committee room was filled to the brim by 2pm, when Nasir el-Rufai, former minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, walked in calmly, accompanied by his lawyer. Flashing a hearty grin, he waved round the large hall in acknowledgement of cheers from the audience. After nearly two weeks of damning revelations at the public hearing of the Senate Committee on the FCT probing his four-year tenure, the audience, perhaps, expected the roasting of El-Rufai by a committee that has openly bared its fangs....
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Toxic of Trouble

Felix Igbekoyi
Monday, 05 May 2008
*Indigenes of Emu-Unor, Ndokwa West Local Government area of Delta State, tackle Nigeria Agip Oil Company over waste substance believed to be toxic* *Toxic waste in Nigeria* Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC, has incurred the wrath of its host community, the people of Emu-Unor, Ndokwa West Local Government area, Delta State. NAOC, an Italian multinational with active operational base in Beneku, an oil-rich community around Emu-Unor, is alleged to have dumped the dangerous toxic substance described as 'drilling mud' at Emu-Unor...
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