Aside
from terrorism, threats to our lives are ceaselessly coming left,
right and centre, and we still seem uncertain as to when the next will hit us.
If it is not HIV/AIDS pandemic, it is the dreaded Lassa fever spread or bird
flu. If it is not Lassa fever or Bird flu, it is the ravaging viral
haemorrhagic fever, otherwise known as Ebola virus disease; and for some time
now electricity generator fumes occasioning deaths.
Electricity, as a form of energy supplied
through cables and wires for lighting, heating, and driving machines, helps to
power our technology and drive national development. Electricity generation
over the years has been from public sources. With perennial inefficiency in
power management over these years, and epileptic power supply that has
bedeviled our public power systems, Nigerians could not stand still but settle
for alternative sources. Electricity power generating sets become that ready
option open to most people for home comfort and business productivity. Abused
usages of these generators have had life-threatening consequences and deserve
attention to avert occurrences.Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Friday, September 21, 2018
I’m Embarrassed For The Ojukwus
By Comfort Obi
Any true Igbo son who held, and still holds Ikemba Nnewi, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, of the blessed memory, in reverence, should be embarrassed by the turn of events in his nuclear family. They must be embarrassed by the gutter behaviour of a couple of the children he sired! And for women, especially Igbo women, they should rise in anger against these Ojukwu children, specifically, Dr. Ike Ojukwu and Emeka Ojukwu Jnr. Both men deserve no respect from any woman who has any self-esteem.
Any true Igbo son who held, and still holds Ikemba Nnewi, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, of the blessed memory, in reverence, should be embarrassed by the turn of events in his nuclear family. They must be embarrassed by the gutter behaviour of a couple of the children he sired! And for women, especially Igbo women, they should rise in anger against these Ojukwu children, specifically, Dr. Ike Ojukwu and Emeka Ojukwu Jnr. Both men deserve no respect from any woman who has any self-esteem.
Ever
since their father passed on, they have been dancing naked in the market square
in a futile bid to humiliate his widow, and, indeed, their step mother, Iyom
Bianca Ojukwu. The irony: They are fighting over an inheritance they
contributed nothing to.
Why Akume And Ortom Should Shut-Up!
By Comfort Obi
Former
Governor of Benue state and now, the Senator representing Benue North-West
Senatorial District, George Akume and, the incumbent Benue
state Governor, Samuel Ortom are disgracefully tearing at each other.
In the
face of the sufferings of Benue people –
economic, physical, emotional – Akume and Ortom are dancing naked in the
market square. They are telling the people why both of them should be
spat on the face. The irony: Both see themselves as leaders of their people.
*Comfort Obi |
My
sincere advice to them: Shut-up and hide your faces in shame! While Benue is
burning, you are playing Rome ’s
Nero.
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Nigeria: Kemi Adeosun’s Mendacity And Buhari’s Integrity
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
After pussyfooting
for 69 days, the former Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, finally did the
needful by resigning her commission on Friday, September 14. She was
accused of parading fake National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) exemption
certificate with which she secured employments contrary to the country’s extant
laws.
*Buhari and Adeosun |
NYSC which was set up by the General Yakubu Gowon administration
on May 22, 1973 as a tool for re-building the nation and reconciliation after
the civil war and backed up by decree No. 24 makes it an offence for any
Nigerian who graduated before the age of 30 not to serve.
President Buhari’s Appointments, Seiyefa And DSS
By Paul Onomuakpokpo
When posterity reflects on this dark political epoch whose
principal actor is President Muhammadu Buhari, it would be racked by the
disappointment that some people were so swayed by self-interest or naivety that
they made him their number one citizen.
Perhaps, it would be dissuaded from unleashing a harsh judgement
on its forbears after the realisation that the emergence of Buhari as the
president has eternally served to demystify him. Stripped bare of his
much-trumpeted integrity as cases of official sleaze cascade around him, he has
irrevocably rendered himself unfit for the pantheon of statesmen.
Sunday, September 16, 2018
How To Clap For Buhari, Kemi Adeosun, Amaechi And Ngige
By Reno Omokri
At last, Kemi Adeosun, Muhammadu Buhari’s cockney
accented Minister of Finance has finally resigned. Kemi claims she did not know
her National Youth Service Corps exemption certificate was forged and I believe
her.
I read her
letter and it made sense. I believe she is an unfortunate victim of
circumstances. Ordinarily, I would have called for her prosecution, but this
was an honest mistake and she should not be punished beyond her resignation.
*President Buhari and Dr. Ngige |
Having said that, it is surprising that President Buhari accepted her resignation on the ground that she has a forged certificate. The question is what should a man whose certificate is suspected not to have ever even existed do in such a circumstance? Muhammadu Buhari claims to be a man of integrity, but when challenged to provide his West African School Certificate results for perusal, the famously boastful Buhari responded by hiring thirteen Senior Advocates of Nigeria to hide behind a wall of legalese.
Saturday, September 15, 2018
APC Has Scaled Up Its Proclivities For Violence Against The Opposition – PDP
Press Statement
2019: Hold APC
Responsible Should Harm Befall Atiku, Others, PDP Insists
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the All
Progressives Congress (APC) should be held responsible should any harm befall
former Vice President Abubakar Atiku or any of the PDP Presidential aspirants
ahead of the 2019 general elections.
PDP's position is predicated on
its comprehensive consideration of all issues relating to the threats to the
life of the former Vice President, as well as similar threats and harassments
of other presidential aspirants in our fold, just as our party places all these
threats at the doorstep of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC.
Friday, September 14, 2018
Forgery: Kemi Adeosun Resigns As Nigeria’s Finance Minister
President Buhari Has Failed Nigerians – US
The United
States Institute of Peace (USIP) said outcome of research it conducted across
states in Nigeria
revealed that most Nigerians believe that the President Muhammadu Buhari’s
administration has failed to meet their expectations since coming to power on
May 29, 2015.
The report also
predicted an upsurge in electoral violence and voter apathy during the 2019
general elections.
*Presidents Buhari and Trump |
The report
entitled, ‘Nigeria ’s
2019 Elections: Change, Continuity and the Risk to Peace’, is a presentation of
USIP’s electoral violence risk assessment research which was arrived at after
interviews conducted in some selected states across the country.
President Buhari And The Moral Burden Of Leadership
By Dan Agbese
It is
difficult to live in our country without being confused. Things are getting
messier when they should be getting clearer. President Muhammadu Buhari
captured our imagination in 2015 as a man totally intolerant of corruption or
at least practices that give the country a bad name at home and abroad. So, we
flocked to him and we gave him the vote and he became our president.
*President Buhari |
On his assumption of office his
aides served notice to those of our country and women who have problems with
resisting soiling their fingers with palm oil that a new sheriff was in town. A
sheriff is a strong-minded law man, a thief-catcher, no less. Buhari has kept
his promise to wage the anti-corruption war with the passion and the courage
befitting a sheriff until this pathetic nation rises from the ashes of its
failures and begins to live the hope of our founding fathers.
Thursday, September 6, 2018
When What We Eat Turns Poisonous!
By Kayode Ojewale
“Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine
be your food.”
– Hippocrates (460 – 370BC), Greek Doctor.
Audu Ogbeh, agriculture minister, sometime ago
in a piece published by a national daily titled, ‘Nigeria , Global Standard In Food Production And Trade,’ wrote “What you eat, if you eat well, will determine
your state of health and your longevity as a human being.
Unfortunately, most of the time nowadays, we
are actually eating poison because of the way we handle our food production. From the seed we cultivate, to the fertilizer we use, to the chemical we spray,
to the way we process the food, or even preserve the food, or package the food,
we are determining whether we are eating well or eating badly.”Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Dear President Buhari, Please Look In The Mirror
By SKC
Ogbonnia
Dear Mr. President,
I am beginning with an Igbo proverb which says that a heedless lizard falling from a tall palm tree typically wrestles to clutch at any available straw on its path before its imminent crash. My father also never fails to tell me that a habit of excuse is the best friend of failure. Nowhere are these sayings more manifest than the case of your presidency.
Today, the general view is that you are at it again, trying so desperately to cling on to another excuse to avoid responsibility for the crises that have befallen our great party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) and, by consequence, the entireNigeria .
Dear Mr. President,
I am beginning with an Igbo proverb which says that a heedless lizard falling from a tall palm tree typically wrestles to clutch at any available straw on its path before its imminent crash. My father also never fails to tell me that a habit of excuse is the best friend of failure. Nowhere are these sayings more manifest than the case of your presidency.
*Buhari |
Today, the general view is that you are at it again, trying so desperately to cling on to another excuse to avoid responsibility for the crises that have befallen our great party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) and, by consequence, the entire
Is Africa Ready To Educate Every Child?
By Joel Savage
Africa , I find myself in
an environment witnessing how many parents struggle to educate their children.
Every weekend, I go hawking as a trader with banana, eggs, and bread, just to
make some extra money to help my parents to keep me in the classroom.
Third World
Countries are plagued by crisis. Among the most critical is poverty, which has
taken hundreds of children out of the classroom. Children are the world’s
greatest resource, future leaders, and assets to national development, thus; it
is, therefore the right of every child to be educated; unfortunately, worldwide
many children aren’t aware of what education is, instead, serving in fields
under child labour or as child soldiers in wars.
As
a child growing up in Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Nigeria: The Rule Of Man
By Sufuyan Ojeifo
The
declaration was last Sunday at the International Conference Centre, ICC, in Abuja , venue of this
year’s Nigerian Bar Association conference. Members of the Bar and the Bench
were there in their numbers. The assemblage of officers in the temple of justice
was representative of the nation’s judiciary, an independent arm of the trinity
of government.
President Muhammadu Buhari chose the most auspicious place to
officially declare his disdain for the rule of law and his avowed preference
for the rule of man, his own rule, in the Nigerian nation-state, where he has
been deploying his might in its vast capriciousness and whimsicality since he
stepped in the saddle on May 29, 2015.
*Buhari |
Monday, September 3, 2018
Why Nigeria Under Buhari Is World Headquarters For Extreme Poverty
By Reno Omokri
On Wednesday the 29th of August, 2018, British Prime
Minister, Theresa May, visited Nigeria with a plane
full of business people to help Britain make money in Nigeria .
So meticulously choreographed was her visit, that she came with businessmen and
women that sold or manufactured every item you could imagine from air
fresheners to Scotch whiskey.
*Buhari |
Mrs May, who I met twice last year, demonstrated the main
thrust of her visit by travelling with David Schwimmer, the Chief Executive of
the London Stock Exchange. Her entourage to Nigeria was
chockfull of business and industry folk and very lean on civil servants and
politicians. In fact, only two members of her cabinet joined her on her African
trip. If there was any spare space on the Royal Airforce Jet that flew her to
Africa, that space was reserved for people who could bring jobs and capital to Britain.
Presidents’ Health: Missed Opportunities For Nigeria’s Health
By Sam Ohuabunwa
I believe that I am not alone in feeling distressed about the
situation of healthcare in Nigeria .
Everywhere you look, the problems stare you on the face.
In the public health care space, you face poor
infrastructure, old or inoperative equipment and generally, poor attitude.
*Buhari |
Even skill and competency levels are often
suspect. If you have taken a seriously ill patient to our public health
facilities – primary, secondary or tertiary institutions, you will know that
many more people are healed by faith in Nigeria than by medical care. If you go to the private healthcare institutions, may be infrastructure and
equipment may be better, attitude and skills are subject to national averages.
What Happened To APC Report On Federalism?
By Martins Oloja
As politicians are
jostling to secure their positions within #PROJECT2019, defecting to different
parties in pursuit of relevance for only themselves, subordinating the sanctity
of the rule of law to personal interests, perfecting how to truncate press freedom,
we need to ask political leaders in the governing party what they want to do
with the most important document they produced and made public in January this
year: ‘Report of The APC Committee on True Federalism’.
I am fully persuaded that it is public
interest to ask about this all-important document and failure to be genuine
about how to implement the contents before next year’s election may undermine
national security too. And here is the thing, those who always afraid of the
hard questions in the governing APC, should not regard this question on what
they want to do with their report as a political question: It is a question on
nation building and the future of the world’s most populous black nation, Nigeria .
*Buhari and el-Rufai |
The North And The Buhari Myth
By Kennedy Emetulu
1.Introduction:
1.Introduction:
One of the ‘mysteries’ of
today’s politics is what some Nigerians see as the continued popularity of
President Muhammadu Buhari in the North, despite his evident ineptness and the
many, many failures of his government. When these Nigerians see him in outings
where massive crowds of young people work themselves into a frenzy as they rent
the air with “Sai Baba!” chants, they wonder what diabolical concoctions he
must have let loose on them to make them feel this way.
*Kennedy Emetulu |
People are being buried in
grinding poverty, the economy is on a stretcher, Nigeria is regressing into the
Stone Age in every respect and Buhari hops into a plane to London and back or
walks 800 meters
and the whole place is filled with jubilation in the North, or so it seems. What
information do these people have that the rest of us don’t have? What planet
are they living on when the nation clearly is on a deathbed?
2. The False Successor:
In the nation’s history,
only two Northern politicians have had what can be considered the type of
popular support or loyalty that Buhari has today in the North. These men were
Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto and Mallam Aminu Kano. But the irony
is that as opposed to Buhari, these men actually had political ideas of
governance and real track records that gave them credibility with the people.
The Bigger Picture In Ekiti Governorship Contest
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
A day after the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) announced Dr. Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the
winner of the July 14, 2018, governorship election in Ekiti State ,
a video of Fulani herdsmen brazenly parading their cows on the streets of
Ado-Ekiti went viral on the social media. Reports say the video was shared on
Facebook by one Isaac, the younger brother of Mr. Peter Ayodele Fayose, the
outgoing governor of the state.
In a comment accompanying the video (reproduced unedited),
the younger Fayose wrote: “Fayemi was
rigged in on Saturday against the wish of Ekiti people. Today, Fulani herdsmen
have the boldness to rear cow on the street of Ado Ekiti. This is
pathetic! This is scary. I pity Ekiti and her people!”
*Fayemi and Fayose |
Friday, August 31, 2018
Political Defections In Nigeria, Causes And Consequences
By Simon Abah
There is an alarming rise in organised political defections in Nigeria .
Although she is being
hyped as the giant of Africa, the democracy in Nigeria
is not practised like in countries such as Ghana ,
Sierra Leone , Botswana , Tanzania ,
Liberia , Senegal and Zambia with stable democracies. Nigeria ’s version is a guided
democracy and a democracy for the few.
*Saraki |
What are the reasons
for the surge in defections? Turncoats complain about the absence of internal
democracy in their parties and of political witch-hunt by political gladiators.
Do you agree with the
beliefs of these defectors?
Particularly since no
mention is made about the developmental interests of Nigeria as reasons for changing
sides.
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