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Yet once I joined I began to see things as they really were. I have never been and will never be part of a cult and the fact that people like Mohammed and those he represents within the APC are not comfortable with any form of admonition or criticism from senior party members like me speaks volumes

And what was her problem? She felt God has failed her. Though very hardworking, educated, but has not received promotion at work for more than a decade, broken marriage, and recently she also had a ghastly accident that almost took her life

In many ways, the PDP has, in its 15-year rule, come to symbolize democratic rule in Nigeria – and deserves credit for the longest streak of interrupted civilian (non-military) rule in Nigeria’s history. To their credit and that of the nation, PDP has given this country a seamless, civilian-to-civilian succession, another novelty because that had been the breaking point of many African democracies

The range of bloody violence and insurgencies of all dimensions and especially the unprecedented bombing attacks by the armed Islamic insurgents known as Boko Haram over the last three years, Nigeria is facing serious challenges to her survival and understandably the current Federal administration is rated as one of the most antagonized civil administration in the political annals of Nigeria. President Good Luck Jonathan has over the past three years introduced multi dimensional strategies to resolve these unrests and violence of monumental dimension

Since the kidnapping of the over 200 girls in Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, there have been several protests. Some have been well-intended, while others were clearly motivated by a desire to be in the limelight, especially by those enemies of the president that see it as a political opportunity. Anyway, sometimes opportunity is the midst of tragedy is sometime symptomatic of politics of negativity

The above information is not the focus of this piece. The news is what has transpired since the Holy Father, Pope Francis, touched down in West Bank, the Palestinian controlled territory, during which he held high level diplomatic meetings with the political authorities of the Palestinian homeland headed by Mahmood Abbas (Mr. Abu Muazu)

For some it was good. And then some of us started blaming the Christians for it. And then by the time they had set us up, all questioning each other; all having blamed each other; all having eaten each other’s flesh and drank the blood therein; all having demonstrated our weakness, that our lack of humanity, our predisposition to clamor only when we felt it was one of ours, then the monster revealed its true blood-thirsty self and bombed and killed everyone

Arriving as a leader in a state that not many seeking peace and pleasure would want to live, there is a grandiose display of the realization that the power pails into insignificance if it does not translate into a tool for changing history from an unenviable past to a new world of possibilities

The revolution of and on behalf of the Nigerian masses can no longer be ignored as it has recently assumed new dimensions, with the military junior officers joining in, and the international community also in no weak terms, raising the urgency of the compromised plight of the nation’s people in the hands of devastating, failed, corrupt leadership and regime facilitated terrorism.
For the second time in barely two weeks, Nigeria’s 7th division soldiers drafted to combat Boko Haram in the northeast have revolted against their commanders