Baba Aye's

1. I very much appreciate your commendation, General sir. As I have implied several times, you are one of the few Generals in our country whom I hold in high esteem (I would've been bothered if such praises had come from some other g enerals as Liebnecht was when praised by the bourgeois press!). I do intend to finish the 1st of a series of critique on alternative theory (to the extent we can talk of such!) and politics in Nigeria before I get back...I'll have more time for that in my 2nd semester at Brazil from March Lest I forget, with ref. to the '06 discourse on 'the failure of civil society', my views then were developed in "the socio-economic dynamics of NEPAD and Nigeria", presented at the 1st Nigeria Civil Society Conference on NEPAD and (an abridged version) published as Chapter 8 of NEPAD; The Journey So Far, by CLO last year. A full version is on my s&s blog.... 2. my dear CA, I must once again; a huge thank you for stoking the embers of dis

Dear Carol, Do permit me to provoke you in a direction away from that of "gender injustice" in the NBA (not that, that is of no significance - in the NBA or anywhere; where established....but with the few times I could flick through the digest; was getting boring). This relates to your earlier suppositions that (1) a "rule of law mantra" or "policy direction to respect court orders" exists and indeed is palpable & (2) that what is required to set Nigeria aright is the right policy direction(s) somehow related closely to having the/a "right economic team/advisers" for Mr. Yar'Adua. First, could we say that court orders are being respected because the assumed rule of mantra is working or is the supposed rule of mantra working because court orders are deemed to be obeyed? I do think that while there is an interconnecting relationship between both, these are two different conceptualizations of the is matter at hand, with possibly different co