BURNING POT BY PRINCE CHARLES DICKSON

Oso Abiola' And Some Tales In Nigeria

[GAMJI WRITER]

If there was a particular group so against MKO emerging president after the military class. It was the Yoruba elite that fought against him. And while everyone who claimed NADECO went on to better their lot via asylums that came like VISA lotteries, the man died alone.

 
Many elite would say, after all he stabbed Awo and worked for Obasanjo to stop the Yorubas and was rewarded with money for Concord to fight Tribune...His bakery served ECOMOG and was responsible for that ‘wheat policy’…so?

 
How strange that our democratic symbols are rife with all manner of controversies, MKO was labeled International Thief-Thief by none other than Fela, a democracy without democrats and caricature activists. Details

June 12: How Can We Forget? By Chido Onumah

Those of us who write about our common national tragedy, who dream of providing good leadership, should search our motives, heart, values, abilities and calling, and come out of hiding and cowardice. I am also speaking to myself. We have yielded the ground for too long to pretenders and thugs. Yes, a few true politicians have slipped through the narrow cracks into public governance; yet, they are too few to make the kind of difference our people need. Details

When We Were Nigerians. By Farouk Martins Aresa

Jonah Jang of Plateau state, the head of the defeated charlatans, is not unknown to controversy. A man who set his state on fire out of jealousy and rabid ethnicity should not surprise anyone leading a shameless renegade group. I don’t know how his becoming the chairman of NGF solves the insecurity in his state. At seventy year of age what one expect of him is to retire to becoming a statesman and be a bridge builder. But, rather, he prefers courting troubles and beating the drum of war. Details

Battle for Public Offices: Nigerians Yearning to Serve? By Al-Amin Abba Dabo

To put this in context, a lawmaker in India earns N3.7 million ($23,988) per annum and so will need to work for at least 49 years to earn the annual allowance of a Nigerian senator and at least 39 years to earn the N144m annual allowance of a member of the House of Representatives. The Nigerian lawmakers are unsurprisingly, the highest paid in the world. Section 70 of the 1999 constitution states that the salaries and allowances of the federal legislators shall be determined and fixed by the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC). Therefore, these outrageous sums are apparently in perfect alliance with the laws of the land. Details

I am Not a “Politician”. By Leonard Karshima Shilgba

In Nigeria, the word “politics” has been misused and abused in a manner that this noble art and science now connotes everything that is evil with human relationships in the country. Accordingly, puritans are hateful of being referred to as “politicians”. They would say, “I am not a politician.” Therefore, a “politician”, in Nigerian lexicon, is perceived as someone who is dishonest, corrupt, and of very low moral rating. Details

The Tell Tales of The Tell Magazine; Mediocrity in a Hurry. By Mahfuz Mundadu