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With the emerging trend of young Nigerian youths who are supposed to be educated enough to know how to resolve the Nigerian conundrum getting more confused than the present bunch that constitutes the political class,it is safe and sound to submit that we still have many years to endure the present inanities and mediocre leadership that suffuse the political landscape. Brimming with so much energy and 'intellect',one would have expected(especially those of us w ho don't know much) that this set of people should be able to articulate concrete steps on how to move the country forward. They rail and rant. They condemn the status quo using high-sounding rhetoric and some fashion-beaten political grammars,yet they cannot pinpoint a formidable alternative to the present political configuration. Does that solve the problem? Never.That will never be. I am told there is an ocean of distinction between being an ideologue and being a realist..The former live an...

That is how you will maintain your lane jejely and they will make you begin to yarn opata about God and prayer. There is no way to talk about what they are doing, how they are underdeveloping their country, without appearing to sub God and shade prayer. Even if what you are saying is not directly aimed at God, the mud spatter could be flung in his direction. You are a gainfully employed civil servant. Brilliant young man, leading a normal Nigerian life of oscillation between half salary and no salary. Yesterday, you told me you were off to an all night vigil with some of your colleagues. I asked about work the following day. You said you'd head out to work from the vigil. I told you that your vigil on a Thursday night - a week day - means you will rob Nigeria of Friday - a half day as it is already. I told you that you'd not be mentally alert and in a shape to work properly the following day after a religious all nighter - with all the screaming and shouting....

President Macron of France says Africa has civilization problems. It is like an armed robber blaming his victim for remaining poor. I would have directed him to the Berlin conference of 1885 where his ancestors sat at a table and used pencil and ruler to draw boundaries without any thought for the peculiarities of the inhabitants. But I am not one who lives in the past. I would have directed him to the brutal colonial legacies of France, which though no less evil than the British and Belgian counterparts, was much more barbaric if we considered the great Algerian question in the 60s. Again, that is in the past. However, under Macron TODAY. France still meddles in the domestic affairs of Franco-phone countries in a way (including projecting millitary might) the other former colonialist nations would not even dare. Compelling ALL francophone African nations to deposit 50% of their foreign reserves in the French Central Bank is a form of slavery that is certain to ...

As president Muhammadu Buhari continues to battle his ailment in a London hospital, Jiti Ogunye has raised pertinent questions about what the situation connotes. In December 2009, we published in the media an article titled “President Yar Adua’s Illness, the Law and the Constitution”. In the article which appeared, in part, in Mustapha Ogunshakin’s Gavel International, and in The Guardian newspaper, we discussed the need to allow the dictates of the Constitution and our laws to govern the politics of President Umaru Yar’Adua’s ill health, which had thrown governance in Nigeria into a state of crisis at that point in time. We then called on President Umaru Yar’Adua to resign from office or be impeached for suppressing or misrepresenting the true facts of his ill heath, and thus obtaining power by false pretense. In the prevailing circumstances surrounding the illness of President Muhammadu Buhari, his seeking of medical treatment overseas, the non-disclosure of t...

Dear Aishat Muhammad Buhari, Are you telling us the zoo analogy remains the true picture of Nigeria ? When Shehu Sani wrote that comment, my only response to it was that he has written in deep innuendos. Then Madam responded, confirming my worries. Well, One significant tribe of Nigerians that derailed the government of President Jonathan then was the army of sycophants around and far from him. Any step he took, whether major or minor, positive or negative, he was always being showered with praises that were out of this world. He was simply their messiah. He could do no wrong. Of course President Jonathan got carried away. He thought he was actually building a virile nation. The sycophants failed him. He too failed himself for failing to separate reality from sycophancy. Most leaders get derailed by sycophants and praise singers. In a society where the leadership class is alleged to be populated and hijacked by Hyenas and Jackals........ does such reve...

By far, the best African fiction I've come across in recent times. From the protagonist Nihu's weaponry skills to his friendship with Old Philomenenges, the new friends he makes in his way and his tirade against Argon - this thriller is full of quick paced pure and indigenous action on steroids - delivered in every page. Legendary stuff! Splendid job, Omoruyi Uwuigiaren !!      --Shreyan Laha (Indian) Amazon Author Profile

Actually, I lied in Church this morning - small “white lie.” The preacher, a retired army general, referring to the Lekki and VI floods, mentioned a disturbing dream he had had a couple of years ago in which the entire VGC and Lekki areas were completely submerged. At the time of his dream, I worked for Chevron in a role as Geographic Information Systems Team Lead between 2000 and 2006. The Company itself is situated in the heart of the Lekki Peninsula. I also lived around the Alpha Beach area at the time. The learned general approached me and narrated his concern. He asked what I knew about the geologies and situational geographics of the area. ••• Before his dream, my concern about a possible natural disaster in the area was already established. Before going to work, I had jogged every morning, often to the Alpha beach behind our residence. It amazed me, at the time, just by mere visual awareness, how each year, the Atlantic claimed a significant portion of t...