Young people are leading a people’s revolution in Algeria and Sudan. Both developments remind us forcefully of the wages of mis-governance, the power of the people to seize control of their own destiny, and the role that the youth can play in a country’s development process. It is encouraging to see that in both countries, we are witnessing the triumph of the people’s will. In Algeria and Sudan, it is Arab Spring (or Winter?) all over, with the people saying No to Repression, No to Dictatorship, No to the abuse of power.
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What happened in the United States, at the Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday was phenomenal, historic and inspirational – a truly human story in its grandeur and implications. With a single, final stroke, and a hard stare, Tiger Woods won the Masters, his fifth since he won the first in 1997, 22 years ago. History was made. This was his 81stPGA tour win. His first major title since the 2008 US Open. His fourth Masters green jacket was in 2005. As he wore the jacket again on Sunday, 14 years later, he said: “It fits”. Indeed Tiger, “it fits.”
For indiscretion and sensationalism, on the graves of some notable Nigerian online news platforms will this epigraph be written: “In spite of the professional accomplishments of its founding fathers, this news platform reigned for indecorous reportage of events and status as a tool in the hands of coercers. Although it thrived on the back of the internet revolution, gaining commercial patronage and remunerating relationship for editorial staff, this news platform later died of the shock caused by distrust and outright rejection by the reading public following the discovery of its self-serving agenda.”
There has been disquiet, discomfort and a sort of dark cloud over the political landscape of Nigeria from the moment Atiku was declared a loser. A loser he is indeed!!! He has been making loud groans through the jaundiced mainstream and social media platforms that supported his presidential ambition
Ekiti State undoubtedly has the most literate population in Nigeria. Put at about 99 per cent of young adults, and often reckoned as the state with most professors per family unit in Nigeria, Ekiti should boast of the most informed electorate. But many still argue that the “Aketes” aren’t that smart in their choice of leaders.
What would it take President Muhammadu Buhari to get the politics of the National Assembly right? Four years ago, he had a problem which, like a stubborn fly, has refused to go away.
Undoubtedly, government is a continuum and goes with the rules of actions, which serve as element for progress and change. In Ogun State and many other States of the federation, having successfully, concluded the gubernatorial elections of March 9, 2019, it is important that governance moves to the next agenda and responsibility.
This tributary satirical article is reproduced to demonstrate the near universality of the impact of Pius Adesanmi’s intellect among the social, intellectual, political and cultural classes in Nigeria. This article was published on November 6, 2011 on the Nigeriavillagesquare.com platform. May his soul rest in peace
The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, is certainly surrounded by persons who may not be able to look at him and tell him certain home truths. And, it is another: “A o m’Erin j’Oba!”
With less than 100 votes in all, my villagers were all around me during the election day, snacking and drinking from my supply. I took it for granted I would secure enough votes in the village to win. I actually thought that every single vote would be recorded for me
Upon being re-elected, President Muhammadu Buhari endeared himself once again to the citizenry when he promised to show significant improvement in his second term. Buhari had also attributed a great deal of his first term setbacks to a dysfunction in the Legislature where the opposition seem to dictate the content and pace of his change agenda.
In keeping with the promise by President Muhammadu Buhari that governance would not take the back seat in spite of his busy campaign schedules to all the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory leading to the presidential election on February 23, 2019, below are hard facts of promise kept.
It really is a pleasure to be here this evening to celebrate the phenomenal successes of the PEBEC and especially the reforms, but more importantly to recognize specially some of those who made it all possible.
At first, I thought it was fake news. But I read it to the end and later noticed that it had also been shared on a number of other serious platforms by serious people. And it was signed by the Vice Chancellor of Ajayi Crowther University, Rt. Rev. Prof. Dapo Asaju.
Misery Index: Nigeria not a miserable country, by Reuben Abati
On his 66th birthday on April 2, 2006, I wrote a tribute on the incorruptible nature of Alhaji Abu Muawiya Gidado, Nigeria’s former Minister of State for Finance and Chairman of the monthly meeting of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee during the Abacha administration.
This article was published on November 6, 2011 on the nigeriavillagesquare.com platform. May Adesanmi’s soul rest in peace
When six-year-old Emmanuel Jumbo-Ochigbo got into the blue-coloured Golf hatchback to school in the morning of Wednesday, March 20, it was like any other day – bright and sunny.
Death — the mysterious intruder with cold hands — has struck again. Without any courtesy, it has taken away our literary father — our poet, our novelist and our writer extraordinaire, a man of inspiration and fertile mind, a storehouse of inexhaustible vocabulary, Pa Gabriel Imomotimi Okara, OON. He died four weeks to his 98th birthday.
Somehow, Nigerians seem to have forgotten some of the valiant men and women who sought to take over the governance of Nigeria at the highest level and who campaigned vigorously for change and progress.