This contribution is an attempt to provide answers to just a few of the oftentimes asinine and absurd assertions and observations that the latter group have made. Some say they warned me and that I have fallen into a trap whilst others say my voice has been silenced, I am a spy and that this signals the end of my political career.
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This was what carved a special place of regards in my heart for late Egba-born bard, Sakara music exponent and poet, Kelani Yesufu. Before his very unorthodox thinking, packaged into a line of poetry in his album entitled: “Atosi,” at least among the Yoruba-speaking people of the then Western State, gonorrhoea was an ailment that was believed to afflict only society’s greats. It was why the euphemistic acronym for it was arun gbajumo, translated: disease of the notable.
Milestone birthdays also provides opportunity for a profound, pious supplication to God Almighty for his bountiful mercies, protection, guidance, divine favours, and, in most cases, for attainment of remarkable life’s achievements and lofty heights within the period of such milestone.
They call me all sorts of names and employ the worst words in the dictionary to describe me. They say I am clueless. I am brutal and brutish. They say I have no human blood in my veins as if the blood in the beast is different from that in humans.
But lo and behold, the protesters turned a deaf ear to the call for dialogue from the Federal Government and well meaning Nigerians and groups who originally bought into the ideals of the agitations and started shifting the goal post in the middle of the game by coming up with new demands to the authorities, which pointed to the fact that the protest as genuine as it seemed, had now transformed into the Biblical hand of Esau, but the voice of Jacob
In a petition to the Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, Abuja, dated November 12, 2020 and titled: “LEAKED INFORMATION ON DANGEROUS PLANS TO ATTACK/KILL ME,” Mr. Ned Nwoko stated and I quote:
The position of Mr. President was widely published by the traditional and digital media, and it became an object of debate. In the middle of it all, I received a phone call from Prince Nduka Obaigbena, Chairman of Arise Television and Publisher of Thisday Newspapers.
At least, three Swiss newspapers – Luzerner Zeitung, Aarguaer Zeitung and St. Galler Tagblatt – fetched their headlines from the gutter, making slight changes only after they were called out for racism.
The organisation was specifically established and empowered by legislation to coordinate road safety administration and traffic management in Nigeria with an ultimate aim of halting the trend of road traffic crashes and fatalities on all roads (204,000km) in the country, and its Laws and Regulations can be exercised in any part of the country.
I have been a victim of COVID-19 pandemic and have been locked down close to a year. It has been depressing, despairing, limiting, sectioning and discouraging. COVID-19 bounced me off the London social circuit. Places of interests were shut down. Avenues for fun and relaxation became ghost towns. High streets with their colourful, exciting and limitless offerings to the rich and curious closed their shops and threw the keys into River Thames!
With the turn of event in the state in recent time, particularly the imposition of Director of Nursing Services and issues on poor welfare, nurses are set to proceed on an indefinite strike and plotting to impeach their union leader over the matter.
The agency also sealed up 15 shops that serve as selling outlets for the unwholesome cosmetic product within the Margaret Umahi International Market, Abakaliki, Ebonyi.
The nomination of the youthful and very thorough security operative to replace the embattled and suspended former Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, will obviously set a new pace for the commission, what with Bawa’s track record of inimitable achievement as a ground breaker.
In the next phase of the project, we envisage a ripple effect that would elevate the voices of Pentecostals as active citizens against corruption in communities, workplaces at State and National levels
Splintering the entity has often been exalted as the remedy to Nigeria’s problems. But this is a defective reasoning because in this instance, Nigeria is defined by its geography and not its people.
Every society needs love, shows love and can do with a love-rich world. After all, love makes the world to go round.
We must be informed that our credit or debit card information is very confidential, sensitive and always at risk of being stolen by identity thieves. Cyber criminals are always thinking of taking advantage of the advancement of technology to defraud unsuspecting victims, particularly the debit and credit card users.
“Don’t talk nonsense,” I angrily snapped at him as I began to wail and break down in tears. He consoled me, narrating the sequence of health challenges that unsuspectingly deteriorated into death.
Waheed (real name held back because the family will be mourning for a long time) woke up that morning hoping the day would be better than the previous one. His wife was ill, and not getting any better. Another round of injections and the nurse who had been their care-giver called Waheed to go get a new drug at the pharmacy.
Whenever history repeats itself for good, cymbals accompany resounding ovations – like the joy of a soccer cup game win. But, oftentimes when history catches man on the wrong foot, grief trails destruction – like the outstanding incompetence of the retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s regime in securing lives and property.