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Corruption Index: SERAP backs Transparency International, urges Buhari to take ranking as ‘wake-up call’ February 25, 2018 Press Release     Poor anti-corruption rating:  Presidency accuses Transparency International of publishing fiction The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has urged “the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to see the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI), published last week, as a wake-up call to renew its oft-expressed commitment and raise its game to fight both grand and petty corruption, as well as end the legacy of impunity rather than simply dismissing the survey as ‘fiction’.” According to Transparency International’s report, the perception of corruption has worsened under President Muhammadu Buhari. The report showed that the perception of corruption in Nigeria worsened between 2016 and 2017.  But the presidency has criticised the global watchdog, saying...

 Viewpoint »  Southern Africa: Mbekism, Zumaism and crossroad  FEB. 24, 2018  By Chidi .G. Osuagwu THE ongoing socio-economic crisis of Southern Africa is the crisis of truth approached sideways, like the crab would. Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma are no better alternatives to each other in the objective solution of the problems of South Africa and Southern Africa. Neither of these men, from their known roles as liberation fighters, is a coward, but they are confused; overwhelmed by problems too complex for their comprehension. Between two of them stands truth and solution to the centuries-old problem of apartheid, which is the real issue in Southern Africa. I was in South Africa in March 2006. The University of South Africa, UNISA, had invited me to deliver a series of lectures (Tshwane Renascent Africa Lectures) around the theme of “African Cosmology: Cybercosmos”, which I had reconstructed, as a modern scientific system by the informed interpreta...

The Fulanisation Of Nigeria, The Perfidy Of British (Part 1) Posted: 19 Feb 2018 07:47 AM PST By Femi Fani-kayode Mr. Gwnfor Evans MP, the great Welsh politician, lawyer and author and the leader of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, for no less than 36 years before he passed on in 2005, made the following historic and profound observation many years ago. *President Buhari and Gov El-Rufai of Kaduna  He said, “‘Britishness’ is a political synonym for ‘Englishness’ which extends the English culture over the Scots, the Welsh and the Irish”. As a student of English and European history and one that was not only trained and educated by the British from the age of 7 but that is also highly conversant with their system and their ways, I can confirm that Evans is absolutely right. His words are relevant to our situation in  Nigeria  as well and, in many ways, has some application here. I say this because what the English managed to do ...