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Democracy Comes To Nigeria ( published by: Dabo Euclid)

By Osuolale Alalade The struggle of the Goodluck Jonathan administration to entrench itself in power or engineer the takeover of an interim administration has a historical context. Notwithstanding the many paradoxes thrown up by the sad state of affairs, the dilemma that Nigerians face represent an encouraging turn of democratic advancement of the country. In 1993, the Nigeria Army, as the guarantor of northern hegemonic pretension with a very deceptive “maradona” General Ibrahim Babaginda at the helm of affairs, nullified what remain the fairest and most transparent democratic elections in the country. By this treasonable act, the northern dominated military brought the country close to the very edge of the precipice. Accordingly, 12 June, the anniversary of those elections, in the minds of the true progressive nationalists, has since remained the watershed for democratic entry into the Nigerian political firmament. The final outcome of June 12 saga was the emergen

African Socialism (By: Dabo Euclid)

Introduction Ontology As the Science of Being Ontology can basically be said to be the science of being. It is that branch of Metaphysics which focuses on the study of being as being. Etymologically, it is derived from the two Greek words, onta meaning existence and logos meaning discourse. It is the study of the nature and meaning of being. The uniqueness of this field of study stem from the fact that it studies the most basic quality of all things which is not within the sphere of other disciplines. This because all that are in existence share one elusive property: being or existence. This quality or property is what concerns ontology. Aja further contends that, “ontology does not consider beings either from a material or immaterial aspects; rather it considers them under the general features which are common to all things and which are attributes or determinations of being  in general or being as such”. Ontology as an attempt at elucidating the nature of being is also an attempt

SOCIALISM (By: Dabo Euclid)

                                                            INTRODUCTION             Socialist economy is based on central planning of all economic activities as opposed to the capitalist market price mechanism. Karl Marx (1818-1883) was the founder of the modern socialism.             In Africa, countries like Ethiopia, Tanzania, Angola, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mozam Bisque have experimented and some are still experimenting various shades of socialism.                         Karl Marx’s collaborator in developing modern socialism was his friend Friendrtich Engels (1820-1895). Vladimir Lenin led his Bolshevik faction of Russian social-democratic party (now styled the communist party of Russia) to carry out the first socialist revolution In the world in 1917 in the defined union of the soviet socialist Republic (USSR).                                                                 DEFINATION              Socialism may be define as a political cum economic system in w