I still remember Lai Mohammed shelling PDP. The party was a band of thieves, a criminal enterprise with an incompetent captain at the helm, determined to drag the country down. Impunity and violence were the PDP’s official languages, while the smell of money and the desire to share it were the only things that kept the PDP’s heart beating.
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Fortunately, I was privileged to have served as Nigerian Ambassador in all the places listed, few years back and attest that mankind has no better places to live than these. Undoubtedly, they boasts of some of the highest human development indices in the world.
Right now, the US is up to stem the number of illegal entries from Mexico. In 2017, the US border patrol reportedly arrested 341,084 migrants and refugees along the south-western border of both countries. This was a 44 per cent drop from the 611,689 migrants arrested in 2016. Yet, over 412 migrant deaths were recorded on either side of the border.
It is unfortunate that despite successive government cry of wanting to stop corruption, no one has thought that this tradition of giving gifts to electorate during elections have put in our DNA the tendency to be corrupt.
I guess many in Imo State now realize that the state has since 1999 been on the wrong leadership pedestal. I also hope that the people now do realize that the comfort they had shown with leadership, at all levels, with persons of questionable character, has done the state more harm than good. It is hoped that the realization of this will spur action towards correcting mistakes of the past with the 2019 general election
Your Excellencies, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, it was the great British war-time Prime Minister, Winston Churchill who said “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. Indeed, this is corroborated by our rich Yoruba maxim “B’omode ba subu a wo’waju, b’agba ba subu a w’eyin wo”
This was at the invitation of the Chairperson of the Federation Council, Valentina Matviyenko.
Here are 10 things that he spoke about.
As a respected Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, a distinguished professor in law, you are admired for your humility, simplicity, charisma and accomplishments in life.
They have expressed similar solidarity over whose jollof is sweeter in the competition between Ghanaian jollof, Senegalese jollof and Nigerian jollof – the way Nigerians defend our national cuisine, you would think we are a nation of gourmets, but nothing compares to the magic of football and its connection with nationalism.
Africans are containing terror and terrorists, in addition to the rise of repetitive civil conflict in such disparate African countries as Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Sudan, dangerous depredations of Islamist terror continue to shake Somalia, Kenya, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.
I became fearful, not only because of the fiscal deficit of N1,954,464,993,775 and a deficit to GDP of -1.73 per cent, and the feeble plan for revenue generation, but because of Nigeria’s usual way of “shifting the deckchairs on the Titanic”.
In the early days of photography after the epochal trailblazing of Johann Zahn and Nicephore Niepce’s pioneering breakthroughs, it was believed that pictures did not lie. At that time, it was incontrovertible in the absence of sophisticated technology as we now have.
We need history in Africa more than anywhere else. We live in a wicked continent full of oppressors, political impunity, corruption, killings and the reign of mad, bad and evil leaders. By documenting our stories we will someday be able to know who among our leaders deserve national exaltation and honour and who among them deserved to be dishonoured, shamed and send to jail for their past deeds
A quick recall of the historical past of the Ekitis vividly reminds of the gallantry of their ancestors during the eponymous inter-tribal wars tagged the Ekiti Parapo wars. The wars, which ended all the wars in Yorubaland, was unarguably the last and most protracted military campaign that plagued the Yoruba nation.
But there is an immovable mountain that has been challenging his faith in his adult life. He does not live on the fast lane but he is about to be consumed by the desires that line the fast lane.
Simply put, our brethren has a problem with LUST
Secondly, it reminds us that the truth would always prevail, no matter what happens and for how long truth is suppressed. Nothing can ever kill the truth.
Collectively, our hopes for a better life have given way to horror as hunger, poverty, joblessness, rising crime, economic doldrums, insecurity and indeed, hopelessness increasingly ravage millions of Nigerians like cancer.
The President’s action has been described as a bribe for the South West vote and a mocking portrait of him with strong Yoruba tribal marks has gone viral. There’s a lot that I disagree with about Buhari’s government, the main points being its double-standards, insularity, cult worship and its disdain for dissent.
Abiola was a well known, highly respected and celebrated philanthropist, detribalized Nigerian who was non-discriminatory in his association with the major religions in Nigeria. It was then little wonder that when he contested the election in 1993, Nigerians from all walks of life irrespective of tribe and religion voted massively for him.
Mr. Buhari has backed his commitment by putting in place some important measures such as the Treasury Single Account, the Whistle-Blowing Policy and the establishment of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, to combat the systemic theft of public resources and by extension, its pernicious effects on human rights and development.