SPDC’s spokesperson, Joseph Obari, told News Agency of Nigeria that oil thieves were responsible for 80 per cent of the oil spills in Bayelsa State
Author: Taju Tijani
In a nation of grosser and grosser inequalities dictated by a complex amalgam of tiny elite domination, resource cleansing, colonial authoritarianism, unending corruption, impunity, tribal jealousies and distrust, a time must come when there would be a pre-emptive mobilisations of millions of forgotten Nigerians who had been made to understand that their paradise is perpetually postponed
He said there is no where in the world where the leader does not retool from time to time
There are multi-legged assaults on black culture and pride in the Western world. First is the denigration of anything authentically African by Western media as backward, crude, dirty, phoney, mysterious and distasteful
President Jonathan’s mid-term report is another testament to the ongoing tragedy of Nigerians being ruled by a rabid ruining class with no integrity and sense of posterity
Ironically, the society that fought wars to give both Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale liberty and freedom is the one that is taking its freedom back by incarcerating and caging these black brutish butchers
Hers is not the typical high heels in high places through bottom power but God’s divine providence and education have all combined to arm her in her battle to conquer the world
The President, who is on a two-day state visit to the country, is scheduled to hold bilateral talks with his host, President Jacob Zuma, after which he will proceed to the Parliament
Money, influence, privilege and power are still eluding black British in astonishing degree. There is yet no fresh-faced black new comers to give me hope of a better days ahead. Rather I am faced with a hard disbelief
This genocide has provided the defining moment to the lacklustre and bloody legacy of Jonathan’s tenure. Judging by the long lists of bloody obituaries and sea of tears that are being shed in Baga village and all over Nigeria, we are now saddled with a leader whose bemused emergence is consistently marked by plane crashes, auto accidents, communal clashes and ongoing bloody Boko Haram culling of innocent blood
The alleged terrorist, Kabiru Umar claimed not to understand English Language hence, the charge was interpreted to him in Hausa Language
Abati seems to be hiding under the veneer of a storm trooper ethic that seeks to crush true discussion and healthy dissent. If you challenge official wisdom, this junior mad dog is immediately let loose to craft a barking sermon laced with expletives
The first salvo among the shibboleths released to the public realm was that he was a shoeless boy from Otueke. That is, he was born a plebeian. We were also given the image of a humble low lifer whose claim to enjoying life did not go beyond eating gari and more gari
Social metricians will say that the roaring 90’s was the affluence decade when “Pathfinder”, “Explorer”, “Escalade”, “Hummer”, “Infiniti” and “Pajero” crept into our social discourse. That was the outrageous decade when ritualism and ritualists became synonymous with Jeep
There is something ennobling in this self-encouraging mandate to contribute holistic solutions to the unending problems that are tearing away at the fabric of the Nigerian state
How do we make heaven when we don’t read and know the word of God? If we are confronted on the way to heaven by a testing angel who ask questions on the word of God, what do we say, when we are mere containers of emptiness?
The bottom-line for a permanent blessing is to tame and control the flesh from its stubborn insistence to go back to the old self
Modern pastors, modern wonder. God says that we are fearfully and wonderfully made but pentecostal pastors are awesomely and majestically made. Sartorially speaking, I found most pentecostal pastors too elegant, too dapper and too vain
Lammy is calling Jesus Christ a liar! Lammy is a lefty revisionist wanker! Lammy is a queer lover! Lammy is re-nailing Christ to the cross! Lammy is desecrating the authentic culture of the black race that recognises Adam and Eve and not Adam and Steve
John Yakubu Yusufu is hugely heartless. He has been living a large, loud and comfortable existence by existing on poor pensioners money. And for this apostate infidel of a thief to walk away after killing thousands of pensioners is the ultimate postmodern assault on our legal system