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NBA Championship: Finally Kevin Garnett got his own ring!

June 18th, 2008  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Blogosphere, Event, Sports

The Boston Celtics crushed the LA Lakers to win the 2008 NBA championship. By the time the buzzer sounded for the last time, the score was a stunning 131-92!

It was remarkable watching the Lakers being buried, but seeing Kevin Garnett (KG, above) shed profuse tears of joy was priceless.
Why?
I watched KG struggle […]

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Nigeria: June 12, MKO Abiola, Option A4

June 12th, 2008  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Blogosphere, Democracy, Human Rights, Nigeria, elections

Last year, Nigerians executed a flawed electoral system that was fraught with logistic problems and abusive practices. The election was condemned internationally. However, 14 years earlier, Nigerians worked an electoral system that was nothing like last year’s disaster: It was the freest and fairest election ever.
It was the day the Nigerian nation spoke and […]

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Untapped brain power

May 28th, 2008  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Blogosphere, Governance, Nigeria

Nigeria needs at least 20,000MW in order to provide electricity to majority of its 140 million people. Information from Nigeria indicates power supply is now at an all-time low of about 1800MW! It used to be around 2000MW last year. The drop has been attributed to inadequate supply of natural gas.
Consider Nigeria’s evergreen power problem […]

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Nigeria: The Politics of Democracy

May 28th, 2008  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Africa, Blogosphere, Democracy, Governance, Nigeria

In other countries, politics is a vehicle for effecting change, in Nigeria, it is a means of economic survival. We have politics and politicians, but we do not yet have democracy, and so, every May 29, we can only gape as the politicians describe the bore holes that they have sunk, the street lights that […]

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I’ve Oil in my Backyard

May 19th, 2008  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Blogosphere

With increasing price of crude oil, imagine having an oil well in your backyard - that belongs to you. An Indiana man in America has just that.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/05/19/dnt.in.barras.oil.wish
Why can’t this work in Nigeria?
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