What we practice is to convert the power of federalism and deploy it to pursue impunity and vendetta on perceived political enemies as we see in the case of Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi and the so-called G7 governors
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One thing though, it is in the interest of patriarchal and oligarchic social order to stage theatrical interventions instead of genuine national soul searching. It is in the habit of cabalist hierarchical efficiency to undertake campaign of public diplomacy which does no more than imitate the voices of popular aspiration but in the end it will not foster that epochal disturbance that will redirect the course of our history. In this mad, bad and bastardised time, it is rather essential to study official rhetoric either emanating from Jonathan or Dr. Doyin Okupe, Dr. Reuben Abati and Reno Omokri, all spokespersons of the President
In a nation of grosser and grosser inequalities dictated by a complex amalgam of tiny elite domination, resource cleansing, colonial authoritarianism, unending corruption, impunity, tribal jealousies and distrust, a time must come when there would be a pre-emptive mobilisations of millions of forgotten Nigerians who had been made to understand that their paradise is perpetually postponed
However, some educated, yet illiterate public commentators and their Igbo lay supporters are coming out of their closet to offer clannish solidarity to Stella Oduah who is a liar, money carnivore, thief, greedy, selfish, shameless, corrupt, a disgrace, an aberrant, a rake, plunderer, parasite and a cheat
The Guardian newspaper was to be the launching pad for the limitless breadth of his awesome intellect. There his genius flowered. He used journalism as a crusading tools to discover the truth about power, politics and politicians. He shattered the canons of imperious arrogance among the Nigerian elites
Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, the personable boss of Lagos State, ruffled the tribal feathers of a competing tribe of supposedly delicate humanity across the Niger
Egypt’s political imbroglio has remained thorny. It has defied solution. After the shameful exit of Mubarak’s dictatorship, an amicable coagulation of different political operators in that country has remained a crushing dilemma
If given the bet, Umunna will prove the sceptics wrong. If Umunna is given the chance, Britain would have removed generational veil of racial injustice and prejudice
There are multi-legged assaults on black culture and pride in the Western world. First is the denigration of anything authentically African by Western media as backward, crude, dirty, phoney, mysterious and distasteful
President Jonathan’s mid-term report is another testament to the ongoing tragedy of Nigerians being ruled by a rabid ruining class with no integrity and sense of posterity
Ironically, the society that fought wars to give both Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale liberty and freedom is the one that is taking its freedom back by incarcerating and caging these black brutish butchers
Hers is not the typical high heels in high places through bottom power but God’s divine providence and education have all combined to arm her in her battle to conquer the world
Money, influence, privilege and power are still eluding black British in astonishing degree. There is yet no fresh-faced black new comers to give me hope of a better days ahead. Rather I am faced with a hard disbelief
This genocide has provided the defining moment to the lacklustre and bloody legacy of Jonathan’s tenure. Judging by the long lists of bloody obituaries and sea of tears that are being shed in Baga village and all over Nigeria, we are now saddled with a leader whose bemused emergence is consistently marked by plane crashes, auto accidents, communal clashes and ongoing bloody Boko Haram culling of innocent blood
This social and moral tension have driven many of our children into the arm of local gangs and thugs who then offer violent alternative lifestyle of nihilism. The rude boy, the bling and the hood capture the souls of our teenagers while parents are made powerless, stupid, overbearing and helpless
Abati seems to be hiding under the veneer of a storm trooper ethic that seeks to crush true discussion and healthy dissent. If you challenge official wisdom, this junior mad dog is immediately let loose to craft a barking sermon laced with expletives
The first salvo among the shibboleths released to the public realm was that he was a shoeless boy from Otueke. That is, he was born a plebeian. We were also given the image of a humble low lifer whose claim to enjoying life did not go beyond eating gari and more gari
Social metricians will say that the roaring 90’s was the affluence decade when “Pathfinder”, “Explorer”, “Escalade”, “Hummer”, “Infiniti” and “Pajero” crept into our social discourse. That was the outrageous decade when ritualism and ritualists became synonymous with Jeep
There is something ennobling in this self-encouraging mandate to contribute holistic solutions to the unending problems that are tearing away at the fabric of the Nigerian state
How do we make heaven when we don’t read and know the word of God? If we are confronted on the way to heaven by a testing angel who ask questions on the word of God, what do we say, when we are mere containers of emptiness?