Nigerians are tired of this second phase of slave master, servant relationship. Many are numb, left without will to push for a better Nigeria, they are tired of having same or worse result after trying in 2015.
Browsing: Israel Ebije
A former President of the United States of America, John F. Kennedy, once asserted: “It is not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.” Whatever the grains of his submission, wisdom in that quotation is instructive for Nigerians as it regards our reasoning, approach in choosing and maintaining leaders. The year 2018 must witness a new psychical disposition where Nigerians must stop expecting meaning out of nothing. One can only demand for good leadership if the person voted has the capacity to deliver. From antecedents, Nigerians are known for wailing, languishing under a clueless leader, at the end, they will go out there and vote the person back. The year 2018 is another chance for Nigerians to either sail to shore or smash against rocks.
Libya has an estimated one million migrants locked up in various dungeons across the country. Funded and equipped by European Union, Italy to keep them off crossing the precarious Atlantic ocean where estimated 5,000 refugees have died in recent years. The administrative will power of Libyan government is put to question amidst accusation of complicity in the heinous slave-trading. The quest to get free labor to make extra money from migrants has made the slave market lucrative, with cartels expanding in the bestial trade on daily bases.
Now the Kanu led IPOB will have none Nigerians queuing in support. With exaggerated figures and senseless, unprofessional torture tactics deployed by our military, a gory vision of a hapless people under annihilation is presented to the world. Fueled by sympathy of new recruits within and outside Nigeria, there is no going back for the secessionists. Some have made daring attempts to get the Hausas out of their communities with ricocheting effect on law abiding Igbos in other parts of the North like Plateau. The game is on and its all about provocation towards a pogrom.
If the hailers and wailers who are largely youths know their worth and had channeled all their excellent political narratives to leadership potentials, perhaps President Muhammadu Buhari wouldn’t have had to stress himself to come back on a life saving mission of rescuing Nigeria ship from manmade storms. Interestingly, our “youths” cannot remember where they have missed it and have no idea of how to grab what they have lost.
More than two years down the ladder of incredulous gaffes in less than strategic economic decisions that plunged Nigeria into depression, price of petrol was increased by 67 per cent, between 2015 to 2017 the naira lost its value by 70 per cent, unemployment rose from 6.5 to 26 per cent
It is therefore sad but a looming reality that in 2019, the ruling party will never hand over to an opposition party regardless of any glaring vote margin. Nigerian politicians have learnt that people don’t win or accept defeat in good strides
Institutions must establish strong examination audit unit on campus to deal with randy lecturers on the prowl. A strong and reliable taskforce will go a long way in mitigating on the collapsing center of trust as student and lecturer relationship fades into destruct, and apathy
They have failed to realize that there is no vacuum in governance and no one is immune to health issues. The President duly transmitted power to his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo. Hiding the condition of the president health is therefore not only embarrassing but a foolish height of desperation by some powerful cabals who are only interested in creating administrative gap to relive the usual cabal battle of resource control as witnessed in the late Yar’Adua era
From the perspective of leadership, the North seem fixated on the glowing legacies of late Sadaunan of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, and have been so lost in that past that it is yet to wake into the realities of today world of change in leadership icons
The best we can expect from the sector will only be manifest once there is a marshal plan to drop the escalating cost in operations, engage one or more airline operators to partner with government as temporal national carrier (with immediate effect) to mitigate the suffering of travellers and save the lives of aviation workers
While the era of cabaltocracy in Nigeria can be traced to the first group of coupist’s, political development and administrative management of Nigeria cannot be chronicled without the odoriferous activities of cabals
Manipulations can be reduced for now, but African styled politics allegedly confirmed by out going president of Ghana, John Mahama is still festooned on tokenistic gifts, deployment of security to muzzle the people, recruitment of agents to manipulate results. It is however satisfying that people now take gifts and still vote along true conscience
Once you consider the number of those who are yet to see the four walls of a higher institution, the need to raise songs of praise in celebration of our great legislatures can only be patriotic and most honorable thing to do. At least education is not everything, experience in politics of thuggery and brigandage is a paramount criterion for sharing public funds, sit back and do nothing
With the global oil price crash, glut, escalating Dollar strength against the Naira and yawning reality of plundered economy, PMB and his lieutenants in the business of managing a challenged economy is indeed a matter that should attract pity. Sadly, some decisions taken by these lieutenants are puerile and without direction
The Security and Exchange Commission of Nigeria and the Central Bank of Nigeria have alerted on the implication of losing money to the acclaimed fraudulent online money making scheme. Financial analysts also believe it is a dangerous investment, more so that it has no guarantees, no legal documents signed and no visible business links established except for the cash transfers from and to people who are totally strangers
The former presidential spokesman said my mind, but in a slightly different way. I have always silently ruminated over the level of comedies of error that has culminated the way and manner governors, presidents and public office holders go about affairs of governance
According to Femi Fani-Kayode in his Twitter chat: “My prayer for Nigeria is that oil is found in commercial quantities in the core north. I am glad that @MBuhari is looking for it desperately. If he finds it he and the north will be the first to call for a break up of the country…”
Philando Castile, Alton Sterling and many other identified or nameless blacks draw the tally of black extra judicial killings by White police officers to 135 deaths in 2016 alone – and the year is five months to go. The protest and the subsequent shootouts in Dallas is indeed the beginning of a new relationship between law enforcement agents and ordinary Black citizens in US
Caesar introduced the leap year to simplify the calendar, and make up for that additional revolution of the planet. He did not however realize that his ruling will breed superstitions that has survive many generations after him until today. The scariest party of the leap year myth is its grim reaper scare. It is believed the sprit of death is unleashed