So, the narratives whether back or front is targeted at the same goal – there must be war on Nigeria! But they have failed at the outset and should relapse into their cocoons of evil and ferry it elsewhere
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The Chief of Army staff should be wary of busy-body consultants or lawyers who may wish to profit from the crisis by instigating him to take irrational steps against the media. No one fights the press publicly, especially credible media, in attempt to enforce censorship, not self-censorship, and get away with it unscathed
We must shed our fears and, if nothing else, we must always remember that “to live is Christ and to die is gain!!!”
So it is our collective responsibility to ensure that Nigeria will not make the cut if President Trump ever has cause to expand the list of countries whose nationals are banned from visiting the United States
The haphazard implementation of the schemes across the federation is also of concern. While the school feeding programme is said to have kicked off in three states, there are discordant tunes as to whether indeed it is so
The chosen seven countries that have been shut out have not in any way been responsible for most of the acts of terror in the US in recent times. Trump leaves out Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and other Muslim-majority countries, but the kind of chaos that has been generated makes every Muslim going to the United States vulnerable
Thousands (yes THOUSANDS!!!) of Christian Biafran youths and members of Indigenous People of Biafra have been slaughtered all over the South East and South South by the Sunni-Muslim led Nigerian security agencies since Buhari came to power just under two years ago yet no arrests have been made
For the Borno Elders, this laudable initiative for now is the best news to come out of Maiduguri in the year 2017. It could as well be the pathway for finding redemption for their previous failings
Those who killed Gentleman, the-best-of-them-all, Mr. Golden Voice Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, because of the alleged ‘10 per-centers’ in his government, left Nigeria worse than they met it. People who thought the death of General Sani Abacha would bring an Eldorado to Nigeria are now witnesses to a much worse Nigeria than in the Abacha era!
This is a new dispensation and times have changed. The days of slaughtering Christians without any backlash are long over.
If Yoruba must regain and retain its pride of place, if Nigeria must triumph over its today’s woes and travel beyond the socioeconomic boundaries that fetters it, such as those given above, we must begin to prevail on citizens to start to discourage fielding grandparents for political offices, a trend anti-clockwise to the emerging new world
A truly fair society is fashioned in a way that benefits all, especially the least advantaged – and that is what economic justice is
He only challenged the status quo for the sake of the people, to create a new direction that has now led us out of Egypt. But his work is not yet done
For Africa, the problem was different. If the UK had actually fired the missile at West Africa, it could have landed in Accra, Abuja or Abidjan
The rise and rise story of this philosopher-king is the stuff of legends and could indeed be a source of inspiration for all Bayelsans to rise above the limiting circumstances of their environment and birth to accomplish their dreams
To add to the wave of ‘Naija-optimism’, Filipino billionaire, Enrique Razon, was quoted as declaring during the closing activities at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2014 that Nigeria was the best place to invest in the world that year
Time for action is now; not the indifference showcased by the leaders presently. It is to these leaders, the Rwandan author, Ms. Immacuée Ilibagiza, challenged their conscience over peace
The jihadists are also believed to have killed nine female polio vaccinators in two shootings at health centers in northwestern Nigeria nearly five years ago
There are opportunities that our governors can explore, cashing in on individual advantage and planning to complement each other
The narrative of hate and blood spilling that has been associated with Islam in the past century is false