There are lots of foods eaten in Nigeria and most of them goes together with other kind of foods
like in Nigeria we often cook rice and beans together, sometimes a combination of two or more food is much more satisfying and even more nutritious then just a plate of cereals or legumes.

In Nigeria, stew serve as a common denominator to different kind of food.

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On the 19th day of the month of May 2011, I was coming from the bank in Wuse 2 Abuja the capital of Nigeria, I saw a woman sitting down under the sun with two children, one sucking her breast and the other sitting down and watching the mother as the mother was crying calling on anybody who care to listen to her. She was begging for arms from anybody that pass by. When I was about passing she said brother if you do not want to help me please in the name of God give me something for the sake of these children they are your children. On hearing that, I turned and looked at her and I gave her some money despite the fact that I was not having enough money that day.

What came into my mind was what the Nigerian political class thinking is about? The answer is simple; the insanity in their heads cannot allow them think well because an insane person is an insane person and cannot think beyond the capacity of an insane person.

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It feels highly dejected and crestfallen that the Nigerian elites have no affront and stigmatization; one wonders why Nigerian elites have no shame at all. But we understand that the driving force behind the dastard and eccentric attitudes of these political bandits in Nigeria called the elites can be anchored on their excessive pursuit of primitive capitalist accumulation.

May 5th, 2010 when Yar'Adua died there was a heavy political fracas as to who succeeds him. The People's Democratic Party (PDP) stood its ground that the Zoning formula is a moribund issue and zoning is no longer attainable in the modern democracy of today. Solomon Lar said that Nigeria should not be talking of zoning when indeed she is supposed to be pursuing development. Most of the elites at this time were not happy for zoning, and most of them galvanized efforts to make sure that zoning is no longer attainable in Nigeria body of politics.

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IT was a sunny afternoon and I just had a shower, set for a programme organized by a fellow corps member in Sokoto – the Seat of the Caliphate. Everything preparatory to the programme seemed to have ignited questions within me which I assumed would be unquenchable and made preposterous by any answers I would ever get. Nigeria is on her journey of about 50years in nationhood. The programme actually coincided with a day to the month of March and one needs to ask – ‘How well and good and result-oriented has been the march?'

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PARADIGM FOR ANALYSIS OF NIGERIA'S FOREIGN POLICY

Victor I. Lukpata (Ph.D)

Management Development Institute

Calabar - Nigeria.

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The Nigerian breathing of democratic air in 1999 and the subsequent political tsunami that followed and its metamorphosis to political eclipse led to the graphic opaque of Nigerian political situation. In 1999, the believe was that what happened took place because of the embryo nature of Nigerian democracy at that time, and people never looked at it as having much culpability to be shifted to Independent Natoinal Electoral Commission (INEC) and the entire system as a whole and there was a national tolerance of the 1999 elections that brought in Olusegun Obasanjo. But this act made the politicians and the electorates to believe that ballot paper means nothing to democracy and apathy started taking place in Nigerian election exercise after the 1999 election. Though the believe among the people then was that since there was lots of malpractices in the 1999 election, obviously the errors encountered in the 1999 election will be definitely corrected in the 2003 election and everybody was patiently waiting for the 2003 election to come for us as a nation to rewrite the future of our nation democracy through the instrumentality and power of ballot paper.

As the 2003 election came, the process was worse than what took place in the previous elections. The graphic political epilepsy and traumatization that followed the election of 2003 made it apparently clear to the Nigerian people that politics is all about do or die affair, political god-fatherism, thug recruitment and effectively making use of them, the connection in the government either at the state or federal levels, how much you have to share to the poor people, ability to kill people and intimidate your opponents, assassination, kidnapping, arson etc. As the people cried out, nobody seemed to listen to them, and the believe that politics is a dirty game was intensified by the conduct of 2003 election. The umpire of the 2003 election Prof. Maurice Mmadu Akolam Iwu and his collaborator Olusegun Obasanjo never felt any remorse for the offence of political banditry committed against the Nigerian people, rather Iwu and his cohort saw that as the best election in the world which America and Europe must parody if they must conduct free and fair election. This made Nigerian political atmosphere to be full of political bandits who smuggled themselves into power to continue and complete their political burglary all in the name of politics. The hope for Nigerian democracy was seriously diminishing and the people believe that the politicians decide who rules and that the majority of the populace standing under the sun to vote is a futile endeavor as the result of the election has been pre-determined before the actual voting, thus there is no point staying under the harsh weather to vote when indeed the vote does not count. The future of Nigerian democracy became more hopeless as the people do not believe in the process any longer. As the citizens were complaining of the political maljo, the beneficiaries (the politicians) where so happy about the political illness that brought them in power and they were exploiting the opportunity.

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