Evidently Nigerian violence has specific characteristic features in respect of the place of occurrence and her perpetrators that makes its reoccurrence even cheaper and more possible. Mostly Nigerian violence are executed by poor unemployed Nigerian or foreign youths who after the crimes are either hidden in houses or bushes, rest in the waters or sneak out of the country. However the question is what triggers people to start violence? What factors in the Nigerian society makes violence insurmountable?

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The election of Goodluck Jonathan as president of this country signpost so much hopes for the country. It may be too early for analysts to go full length talking about the huge lot that hope offers us by this historic election. In this work we shall be looking at how this election gives hope to any qualified Nigerian to not only aspire to the presidency of Nigeria but to be able to sunder, as Jonathan did, all hitherto primordial imports into our national life and the skewed and deceptive appeal to some majority ethnic groups that some belong, and which have been used to serve self ends at the end of the day.

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TEN (10) REASONS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PROPOSED NIGERIAN SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND

Written By: Shafii Ndanusa,  Abuja. Nigeria.

Background

When crude oil was discovered in Oloibiri, Nigeria in 1956, not many envisaged that one day this resource will become the major source of foreign exchange earnings for the Nigerian economy. To date, no singular resource has had more fundamental impact on Nigeria for so many years and still counting.

Abundance of scarce and often-needed natural resources (such as crude oil, gas reserves and precious metals) is expected to lead to economic prosperity for the nation with such abundance. Paradoxically, experience and reality in a number of such countries with resource abundance have shown that sometimes these natural resources end up becoming the reason for imprudent management of financial resources as well as conflicts and hence economic mismanagement. Poverty, destitution, high levels of illiteracy, lack of adequate infrastructure then become some of the features of such economies.  This scenario ultimately led to the `Resource Curse` argument.

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Nigeria has been claiming the giant of Africa, and her leaders make no pretend about this. Nigeria has said that Africa is the center piece of her foreign policy. One wonders whether Nigeria a dependent African state, has the money to police the largest black continent in the world (Africa). What marvels every one is on how Nigeria came to this conclusion and started claiming this. Whether the nation has the resources, institutions, and power to actualize these tasks she gave to herself is one she has to look into before she begins her claim. One wonders whether the imposition of giant of Africa on Nigeria by her leaders was not just misconception of words to the reality of Nigerian existence. One wonders how Nigeria will manage the negative consequences of poverty, unemployment, infant and maternal mortality, ethnic and religious violence, citizenship and indigent conflicts, political crises, lack of military might, absence of sound economic system, lack of basic infrastructures, inadequate security net work, just to mention but few, and still pride herself with this status.

We should all know that when error in the choice of word distorts the reality of existence, that may lead to destruction.

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Many Nigerians abroad have been defrauded back home trying to build a house. The stories of bitter experiences are everywhere, but often time, the main cause of the problem is you. yourself in the diaspora, that always wants to eat your cake and still have it and at the long run you end up losing so much.

Nigerians, no matter how civilised have consistently finds it difficult taking right channels in their endeavour and this is causing a lot of problems .

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On Tuesday 26, 2008 in Nigeria the Presidential Election Tribunal upheld the victory of Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and his Deputy, chief Goodluck Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) The Tribunal ruled that the election which held in April 21, 2007 in which the president and deputy emerged as the leaders of Nigeria was valid.

Gen Mohammadu Buhari (A former Head of State of the country and presidential candidate of All Nigeria’s People Party) and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar (former Vice-president and presidential candidate of Action congress) had prayed the Tribunal which sat at the Court of Appeal, Abuja to nullify the election because it was marred by mass scale of fraud, non compliance to the provisions of the electoral Act 2006, electoral irregularities, rigging, stuffing of ballot boxes and other vices inconsistent with electoral practices.

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