So, hardly is anyone mentioning those who were murdered during the elections. Where the hell is our humanity? I haven’t heard of any announcement of a facesaving probe to the cause of the NEEDLESS deaths. Even though we know such probes are always fruitless. We’re basking in the gains and losses we made in the…
Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in the UK in the year 1812. Before he died in 1870, he had written many books and short stories including Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and A Tale Of Two Cities. The last one is a historical novel set in London and Paris in a period enveloping the French…
Photo credit: Aljazeera Nigeria’s presidential election raised quite some dust! First, some prefer to support anyone from their ethnic group. I don’t ascribe to that. If an unsuitable person comes from my area and looks up to me for support, he must have got another think coming. Second, ideally, I would have voted for a…
Photo credit: BBC Way back in the seventies, Africa was the cornerstone of Nigeria’s foreign policy. The military government of Murtala/Obasanjo had taken over control of government on July 29, 1975, having overthrown General Gowon in a palace coup. The gangling Brigadier Joe Garba was the external affairs minister and Professor Akinyemi was the Director…
Why must we lesser animals always suffer just because, sons of men want us to. By the way I think by the time we finish dealing with men, they will know better than calling us lesser animals. We are lesser animals, ordinary minute rats drove a president from his executive office. One of us, an…
While citizens and the governments of other countries are going about the business of making their systems even greater, it’s been discovered that the important problem of Nigeria and Nigerians is the spirit of ‘peck and go’! Starting from the government, people will struggle to enthrone a regime. But what do they get, the government…
If it’s true that in Nigeria, the North is planning to stop the transportation of agricultural materials to the South, including livestock, the South is certainly going to benefit a lot. In the first instance, the South will be free from the marauding herders of the North. They come and rape, kill, maim and rob….
