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Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Female Lecturers Also Demand Sex From Male Students – Ghana Broadcast Journalist
Following the viral BBC documentary video on the alleged #Sex-for-Grades
menace flourishing in Ghanaian and Nigerian universities, Ghanaian broadcast
journalist, Ms. Oheneyere Gifty Anti, has said that the practise is more
widespread than many are willing to believe. According to her, it is rampant
even in primary and secondary schools. She also alleged that even female lecturers
sexually harass male students and score them low if they refuse to yield…
Monday, October 7, 2019
Save Our Women!
By Simon Abah
This hustler brought his fiancée to the United States from
Nigeria. He didn’t have the necessary papers to be in the US, he did menial
jobs but through hard work he was able to save money and sent her to a nursing
school, she got a job as soon as she graduated, and legalized her stay.
The job as a nurse in the US put her on a pedestal higher than him and life was so good, so it seemed. She earned income higher than his shifting income and they settled down to raise six children, of course for the passport as a meal ticket for tomorrow. Then the fizz burst, they had a major disagreement, madam nurse forgot the days in Nigeria before she came to America and that the hustler even brought her there.
(pix: africa.com) |
Friday, October 4, 2019
Xenophobia: What Buhari Told Ramaphosa In South Africa (Full Text)
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Speech At A State Banquet In His Honour By
South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa
Your Excellency, Cyril
Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Africa,
Your Excellency, David Mabuza, Deputy President of the Republic of
South Africa,
Honourable Ministers,
Senior Government officials,
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen.
It is a great pleasure for me to
address you tonight.
2. I would like, first of all, to thank
you, my Brother, President Ramaphosa, for inviting me and my delegation to your
beautiful country. We have been overwhelmed by the warm hospitality of the
South African people since our arrival. Thank you very much also for this very
generous and sumptuous banquet in our honour.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
At 59, What Will Save Nigeria?
By Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie
At 59, may God bless our leaders and all our
fellow-citizens. May God bless the government and people of Nigeria with
wisdom, courage and patience to work together in harmony so that we may build a
Nigeria that does the will of God, a Nigeria we all can be proud of. All those
who believe in God and who wish Nigeria well must pray and work for a better
Nigeria.
We must not just bend our knees in prayer, we must also roll up
our sleeves and work for Nigeria. We must overcome our addiction so that
we can enjoy the numerous blessings with which the Almighty had endowed us as a
country—our addiction to falsehood. Our allergy to truth is our greatest
undoing.
*Cardinal Okogie |
Nigeria: What Does ‘Independence’ Mean?
By Hope Eghagha
The years between 1957
and 1963 were very crucial to African countries within the context of gaining
independence from colonial powers. Great Britain, Portugal, France, the
Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and the United States (in the Philippines) were at
different times, colonial powers.
The scramble and partition of Africa from 1883 to 1900 benefited the imperial powers. Through force of superior power and masterful cunning, whole nations were subjugated under colonial rule in order to compel the ‘conquered’ nations to part with their resources at little or no cost to the colonial power.
The scramble and partition of Africa from 1883 to 1900 benefited the imperial powers. Through force of superior power and masterful cunning, whole nations were subjugated under colonial rule in order to compel the ‘conquered’ nations to part with their resources at little or no cost to the colonial power.
Sunday, September 22, 2019
Ghanaian President, Akufo-Addo, To Deliver The 2019 Achebe Leadership Forum Lecture At Rutgers University
We are delighted to invite you to the ACHEBE LEADERSHIP FORUM to be held at
Rutgers University on Saturday, September 21, 2019, from 1-5 PM.
This is event is proudly hosted by the
Center for African Studies, Rutgers Global, the School of Arts and Sciences,
and the Christie and Chinua Achebe
Foundation.
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Africans Should Isolate South Africa
By Luke Onyekakeyah
President Muhammadu Buhari’s order to evacuate Nigerians from
South Africa is a positive step in the right direction. Nigerians, indeed, Africans should leave South
Africa and not regret it, as a first step towards redressing the unceasing
bullying, intimidation, and arrogance of that country against fellow Africans
that joined forces to liberate her from the crushing white apartheid regime.
African nations should severe diplomatic relations with South Africa as a mark
of protest. This land of apartheid should be isolated and let’s watch how it
copes with being an island.
Good enough, an uncommon patriotic Nigerian, Allen Onyema, owner of Air Peace, offered to voluntarily evacuate the troubled Nigerian citizens from South Africa. I must commend all those in the forefront of this operation, namely: President Buhari, Air Peace Management, Nigerian High Commissioner to South Africa, Ambassador Kabiru Bala, Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike-Dabiri-Erewa, among others. The belated arrest, delay and harassment of departing Nigerians on highways and airport in South Africa, is of no consequence. It is akin to the pursuit of departing Israel from Egyptian bondage by Pharaoh and his army, which ended in disaster.
Good enough, an uncommon patriotic Nigerian, Allen Onyema, owner of Air Peace, offered to voluntarily evacuate the troubled Nigerian citizens from South Africa. I must commend all those in the forefront of this operation, namely: President Buhari, Air Peace Management, Nigerian High Commissioner to South Africa, Ambassador Kabiru Bala, Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike-Dabiri-Erewa, among others. The belated arrest, delay and harassment of departing Nigerians on highways and airport in South Africa, is of no consequence. It is akin to the pursuit of departing Israel from Egyptian bondage by Pharaoh and his army, which ended in disaster.
Friday, September 13, 2019
No Vuvuzela For President Buhari On His Victory Day!
By Banji Ojewale
South Africa based- Nigerians now
returning from the home of vuvuzela are coming back with a mixed reaction. They
are meeting a nation whose president has just been ‘vindicated’ by a competent
tribunal over claims by the opposition that he wasn’t eligible for the office.
Their old hosts are used to taking up the local instrument as both a weapon of
intimidation and celebration.
*President Buhari |
South
Africans reach out for their 2 to 3-feet long plastic horn to make raucous
noise at football matches in support of their national teams. It was
popularised during the World Cup in South Africa in 2010. The myth is that its
beastly emission–some 120 decibels– can conjure victory for their club or
national side. Or it can cudgel opposition to concede goals for their players
to win the day. To their grief, these didn’t happen nine years ago.
The Nigeria/South Africa Palaver
By Adekeye Adebajo
I was recently visiting Lagos – the city of my birth – when I
found myself feeling a sense of déjà vu as I watched South African
mobs on television looting and attacking shops owned by Nigerians and other
Africans. We have been here before. Nigerians were among those hurt in the
horrific xenophobic attacks of 2008 when 62 people – mostly Zimbabweans,
Mozambicans, and Malawians – were killed, and 100,000 displaced. More
recently, in March 2017, South African vigilantes burned and looted scores
of homes and businesses belonging to Nigerians in Rosettenville, Mamelodi, and
Atteridgeville in Gauteng province, which they alleged were drug dens and
brothels.
Having lived in South Africa for 16 years, one of my biggest
frustrations is the failure of so many of its citizens to embrace an African
identity and of the government to attract more skilled Africans to its shores
in order to create an “America in Africa”. America’s genius has, of course,
been its ability to attract the best and brightest from the rest of the world –
trained at huge expense by these countries – and to turn them into American
citizens or green-card holders.
A Warning For Foreign Minister And People Of South Africa
By Femi Fani-Kayode
"I would appreciate them in helping us as well
to address the belief our people have and the reality that there are many
persons from Nigeria dealing in drugs in our country" – Dr. Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, South African Minister of
International Relations.
Is this the sort of thing that ought to be said by the
South African government when we are still in mourning and when we have not
even buried our compatriots that were cruelly slain, bludgeoned to death and
cut to pieces in the streets of South Africa?
* Femi Fani-Kayode |
At a time when this irresponsible, insensitive, shameless,
conflicted, self-hating, pitiful and mendacious creature that has been
described as the foreign minister of South Africa should be apologizing to the
Nigerian people for the mindless savagery and barbarity of her blood-crazed
compatriots, she is pointing accusing fingers at their victims and the objects
of their collective hate and seeking to demonise them. What have we done to
deserve this? First, you kill us then you seek to justify it and demonize us!
Thursday, September 12, 2019
P&ID, Christopher Butcher’s Long, Cruel Knife
By Jerry Uwah
Justice Christopher Butcher is a
merciless and ruthless butcher. The British judge, who awarded a landmark sum
of $9.6 billion as damages to an obscure Irish firm known as Process and
Industrial Development (P&ID), is more ruthless than the butchers in Lagos
abattoir.
*President Buhari |
The racist judgment Butcher handed down on
Nigeria on August 16, 2019 in favour of his kinsmen would lead many of the 154
million Nigerians already living below poverty line to the slaughter slab. It
would push millions more below poverty line and start them on the road to the
slaughter slab.
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
President Buhari, Bring Back Education Glory
By Matthew Ozah
The fact that everyone confesses that education brings a brighter
future and by extension shines a light on a nation does not make the most
government give education the attention it deserves. Therefore, it is hard to
over-emphasise the wretchedness and difficult position which the ruling
government has made education become in recent time.
Notwithstanding the government’s continued
flying a kite with a slogan that education is the light of a nation. Even
inscriptions in some schools’ motto such as ‘Knowledge is power’, or ‘Knowledge
is light’ among other signs depicting that education is indeed the key to
unlock the future as well as eradicate poverty in the society do not sway
politicians to do the needful on education.
Sunday, September 8, 2019
Certificate Saga: Buhari Should Vacate Office Now – PDP
...Urges Judiciary To Uphold Justice
Press Statement
The
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reviewed the video of the media interview by
the Minister for Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, and surmised
that President Muhammadu Buhari should save the judiciary and the nation
further troubles by immediately throwing in the towel and vacating the
presidential seat following the official admission that he (Buhari) does not
possess a WAEC certificate, contrary to his claims and disposition before the
law.
Our party mocks the Buhari Presidency for pushing out the video
wherein the Minister pleaded with Nigerians to pardon President Buhari over his
false WAEC certificate claims.
PDP notes the deliberate ploy of Alhaji Lai Mohammed to appeal
to sentiments, seeing that Mr. President had failed to defend himself before
the Presidential petition tribunal.
Friday, September 6, 2019
If Sudan And Hong Kong Should Visit Nigeria Today
By Banji Ojewale
If Sudan and Hong Kong should visit Nigeria today, the world might
not be in much shock at the outcome of the trip. I’m sure of two consequences.
First, we would be unprepared for them,
despite the handwriting on the wall alerting us that we’ve been found wanting
in the balances. In much of our post-independence history, we were never seen
to be ready for events that came calling like a ‘‘thief in the night.’’ How do
we handle nocturnal robbers? We don’t cuddle them. We cull them.
Secondly, flowing from the first, our leaders
would misread the signs of the times and accord the strangers a most satanic,
sanguinary and smoky reception. Ditto for the local ‘malcontents’ hosting them.
Our leaders would chase them to the outermost and innermost parts of the land
and mete out penalty outstripping their impudence that brought in Hong Kong and
Sudan.
*Korean soldiers |
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Why We Are Failing As A Nation
By Jerome-Mario Utomi
Asked how he was able to grow 15 times, independent Singapore with
a GDP of $3 billion in 1965 to $46 billion in 1997 and became the 8th highest
per capita GNP in the world in 1997 according to the World Bank ranking? Lee
Kuan Yew, the Prime Minister of Singapore (as he then was) explained thus; a
united and a determined group of leaders, backed by practical and hard-working
people who trust them made it possible.
*President Buhari |
The story of Singapore’s progress is a
reflection of the advances of the industrial countries – their inventions,
technology, enterprise, and drive. It is part of the story of man’s search for
new fields to increase his wealth and well being, he concluded.
Monday, August 26, 2019
Is Nigeria Working?
By Ugochukwu
Ejinkeonye
If
Nigeria is working, we will know! Those were the exact words of late Prof Chinua
Achebe, Africa’s foremost novelist and distinguished intellectual. In other
words, the citizens do not need any bogus claims by government’s megaphones to
realise that there is an improvement in their country’s economy because it will
automatically translate to an enhancement in their lives.
*President receiving a get-well card |
And as
they enter the markets to procure their basic needs or engage service providers
for some of those services they just cannot do without, they would certainly
have direct encounters with the “improvements” their country is alleged to have
witnessed.
But
sadly, what they are still seeing everywhere are benumbing evidences of
further deterioration and the attendant pains – a direct result of
very poor management of their country.
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Corruption: Ghana’s Tsunami
By Emmanuel
Graham Nyameke
Ghana becomes second in the just ended
AFCORRUP NATIONS COMPETITION.
Not
too long ago did the nation formed a new institution to fight corruption. The
institution is to prosecute those who champion corrupt acts in the country; but
to our greatest surprise, Ghana becomes second in the corruption competition in
Africa (AFOCORRUP NATIONS). Oh Ghanaians, is this what we envisage for our
children? Hmmm! Even Nigeria now tries to erase that awkward name from her book
but Ghana wants it.
Hardly
do we experience earthquakes and tsunamis in our country. While some countries
in the Asia continent are facing such difficulties and thousands of lives are
being lost yearly. Corruption has become Ghana’s greatest natural disaster. In
fact, corruption if it were to be a natural disaster like earthquake, it would
have taken thousands of life, it not being so but a man made disaster has taken
the glory Ghana should have. Corrupt people walk on the high streets free,
eating and drinking what they desire while the poor man who as a result of
hunger in the nation also caused by the corrupt people, have to spend some good
time of his life in jail. One may wonder how judges pronounce judgement on
those poor for stealing a goat but can’t do same to those selfish people who
drain the economic-blood of Ghana. Shame on us all.
Capital
punishment: there should be a law that will allow the wicked to be executed. We
came second in the just ended African Corruption competition just because we
have refused to execute those who are antagonist of the society. For a society
to run well, all those who are evil must be cut off, even when it is your own
child. It is by this that the society will be a place so conducive for living.
There can only be a peaceful society when those who are evil are set ablaze.
Those corrupt people among us are evil and the society cannot hold them.
How
do we take our heads off this shameful title as a nation? Education, education,
education! As a nation, if we want to eradicate corruption, then we must begin
to educate our children. Let us inculcate in our children the culture of
selflessness and love for our country which has been detailed in our national
anthem. I must say that many Ghanaians are not citizens but see themselves as
immigrants who have to make money to make better their home countries. If all
Ghanaians see Ghana as their country, they would not treat her as we are
witnessing.
Let
us not politicize our state as the second corrupt country in Africa but come
together with all our strength to uproot the roots of all corruption trees
planted in our various institutions.
The Surge of Extreme Hunger In Africa
By Agbaje
Ayomide
Over the past years, immense efforts have been made by the
governments, stakeholders, non-governmental organizations and reputable
international bodies to end hunger crisis and curtail food insecurity most
African countries are confronted with. According to the Food and Agricultural
Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, about 153 million people suffered
from severe food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa.
Millions of people especially in the rural areas have died as a
result of chronic starvation, and putting others at great risk of suffering
from the famine in drought-prone areas while many have been displaced and
become refugees in faraway regions in desperate search for food and to secure
their livelihoods.
Liberia Dwindles In The Cesspool Of Misery Under George Weah
By Eshiaka
J. Kromah
Liberia, Africa's second-oldest republic is
going down into the dark epoch of history marked with the increase in household
poverty, economic hardship and injustice under the ex-soccer star - George M.
Weah. It is happening so rapidly as many struggle to comprehend this unexpected paralysis. In
these times when the mass of the people stand to embrace quality change, there
is no sign of effective policies being crafted to curtail the prevailing
national enigma and miasma.
Because
of these pervasive national crises, which are direct results of gross incompetence and
greed in the country’s leadership, both its political and economic institutions
are fast diminishing on their objectives of serving the collective pursuit of
progress of the ordinary people.
*George Weah |
Friday, August 23, 2019
Open Letter To Ndigbo By John Nnia Nwodo
My Dear Ndigbo
My
attention has been drawn to a recorded speech made by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader
of IPOB, now streaming in the social media. The speech was ostensibly made in
Germany ahead of a visit, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu and I were scheduled to make to
Germany for a meeting of Ndigbo. In that video, Nnamdi peddled unprintable lies
about me and rebuked Igbos in Germany for inviting me and threatened that I
will not leave Germany alive. I would have ignored this speech as I have
ignored many of his previous abuses and deliberate falsehood previously
broadcast against me.
*Nwodo |
I had
ignored them in the past not only because the distortions and falsehood were
indirectly countered by the robust publicity of my activities and utterances
which negated his representations but also because I thought it was indecent
for a father and his son to be engaged in public disputations, especially when
such disputations in our present circumstances will weaken our solidarity and
portray us as a divided and unserious lot.
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