Browsing: Nigeria

Should any country choose to delay planning, its malaise is generally irreversible because what is gone, is gone. This much, the revered Chairman of the Mutawwif Company of African Non-Arab Countries, Dr Ahmad Abbas Sindi, connoted during his visit to Nigeria. The visit was a paradigm shift, giving NAHCON the upper hand to wield its soft power for better bargains for its pilgrims. Yet, there was one caveat to all the beautifully promised deals, plan early. 

A concerning trend has emerged in Nigeria, where a significant number of young girls are experiencing unexplained psychosis. Videos are circulating online about nude young women roaming around the streets in Nigeria. In one of the videos, the young woman was begging for help from the crowd. It was shocking to see how many people ignored her. I was eager to see someone call the police, but instead, people were busy recording and taking pictures of her.

From the origination of human activities, history is replete with records of innovations, outstanding presentations and achievements by individuals and groups who have attained hitherto impossible feats with their God given talents, creativity and hard work. In modern times, education, passion, vision, groundwork, courage, perseverance, ingenuity added to integrity often produce the magic of a first. The first man to farm, the first man to be educated, the first man to build a house, the first man to make a car. So also do we have the first man to go to the moon, the first King or Queen, first Governor, President, Chairman or Councilor, even the first head of a department, all these firsts are regarded as heroes and celebrated. They are even called legends and immortals. 

On Wednesday, I attended a foreign policy lecture organised by the Society for International Relations Awareness at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja. At the event, Professor John Kayode Fayemi, the former Governor of Ekiti State and a renowned foreign policy expert, dissected the root causes of Africa’s lack of a cohesive and comprehensible foreign policy agenda on the global front.

On the 29th day of November, 2010, by an Act to alter the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, some of the Section of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (The Constitution) were amended. Of importance to this article is the amendment to Section 233 of the Constitution