January 10, 2005
Speaker: Emeka Duruigbo
Topic: The Place and Energy in the Future of Nigeria
The speaker is also open to entertaining questions about Nigerian life, politics, culture, business, and law
January 17, 2005
Speaker: Professor Larry Diamond
Topic: Corruption in Nigeria
January 24, 2005
Speaker: William Leben
Topic: The Languages of Nigeria: How they are Interrelated, Tracing the History of the Development of the Hundreds of Different Languages of Nigeria
January 31, 2005
Spaeker: Amos Nur
Topic: Oil and War
February 7, 2005
Speaker: David Abernethy
Topic: The Early Years of Nigerian Independence, 1960-1970