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The Return of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
And now, Okonjo-Iweala is back.
Although, she is yet to demonstrate that she is in possession of any new ideas,
she is talking and walking with even greater confidence, gusto, and, in fact,
messianic air, surprised, perhaps, and greatly buoyed by her delicious discovery
that despite the dismal testimonial of her first coming, a Nigerian president
could still have such confidence and unimaginable hope in her abilities. Details
What Would The Ghosts Of Kano
Say? By
Dr. Anthony Kila
Will the ghost of Kano and
others that died of terrorism attacks under this government be content with the
explanation that this is plot against the government of the day? What would
these ghosts of Kano say if asked what they think the government should do to
its heads of security? What do you think the ghosts of Kano will make of the
fact that the President and Commander in Chief of the Nigerian armed forces is
on record saying that various arms of his government are infiltrated by and
harbor Boko Haram accomplices?
Details
Zombie
If I Quench You Quench.
By
Farouk Martins Aresa
Ebele may be one of the best
antidotes for Nigeria’s problems.
Niger Delta will
tear itself into pieces at the rate they are spending oil money, unless Ebele
stops it. If we leave the North to themselves Boko Haram will tear them into
pieces. If we leave the South to themselves, they will tear one another into
pieces along different tongues. Our different ethnicity is our greatest strength
in moderating one another. The best peacekeeping force is within Nigeria, not
from the United Nations. They cannot wait to split us into pieces. But each of
the ethnic or religious leaders must lead to cure its own cancer. Details
The Town Crier – Seven Kings, Seven Seasons.
By Dr Olusegun Fakoya
Do not fault
peerless Bro Jona. He is vigorously confronting corruption and is making every
effort to tame the Boko monster. For example, his security vote remains
limitless and not accountable to anyone. After all, he is the Kabiyesi
himself. Brother Jona really feels our pain and has decided to spend additional
N97.95 million to extend State House car parks. He needs space for the fleet of
wonderful cars. These cars are needed for discreetly monitoring our pain and how
Boko is achieving its disdainful objectives.
Details
Hypocrites As Prayer Warriors: How Can God Heal Nigeria.
By
Akukwe Obinna
In Nigeria
it is prayer everywhere. The Churches, the Mosques, the Shrines, the forests,
mountains, rivers, trees and every available space have been turned to prayer
centers and yet the most insensitive governance is hoisted on the nation...
Nigerians pray all manners of prayers- 70 day
fasting, 70 day deliverance, 40 day sallat, sallah fast, pilgrimage to
Jerusalem, pilgrimage to Mecca and other dedicated sites of worship and yet you
cannot entrust an adherent with your spouse for 24 hours.
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State of the Nation on
Subsidy Removal.
By
Max Gbanite
I commend the Ijaw-people who
showed maximum support for their son, President Goodluck Jonathan, during the
forced subsidy strike. Although, Jonathan is their son, he was voted into office
by a combination of the Southeast, North, Southwest, and other South-south
citizens. Whereas, they may lay claim to him, he is now our president and must
be allowed to carry out his policies of ‘change and transformation’ without
ethnic and religious distractions.
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Nigeria: A Time To Be
Sober.
By
Omoba Oladele
Osinuga Esq.
Our
leadership rather confront challenges raised by protesters sat as usual on their
backs, folded their hands and presented their approach as business as usual. The
cardinal lesson is that you do not attain leadership and entrust the leadership
on a person who does not have the faintest idea of what is expected of him. It
is a given that to whom much is given much is expected but what did we expect in
the first place? Details
Nigerian Governors Forum
and Their Greek Gift of Boko Haram.
By
Obinna Akukwe
The Borno State thuggery experience backfired on
the nation and thousands have died because a State Chief Executive left his
constitutional duty to patronize private army. President Goodluck will be the
biggest fool if he elects to clean this Boko Haram mess alone. If President
Goodluck generated the will to send troops to Lagos State to occupy and harass
protesters of fuel subsidy withdrawal he should equally generate another will to
seize the security votes of members of the Nigerian Governors Forum and use it
to augment the ones mapped out for the war against terror.
Details
Arise, O Compatriots!
By
Babayola M. Toungo
With Jonathan’s ill-advised increase in the pump
price of petrol, he has unwittingly introduced another dimension to the
sufferings of the people and has further compounded everything by projecting a
“to hell with you attitude” to the same people he claimed voted for him 99% just
seven months back. Details
Subsidy Removal: Its Problem and Solution.
By
Danlami Alh. Wushishi
The present
Government suffers from distrust anaemia. This is evident from other unpopular
policies reeled out in the last couple of months. For instance, the 6year single
Term amendment proposal and New Number plates were stoutly resisted by
Nigerians. While removal of subsidy received the most overwhelming resistance
vide 6days industrial action.
Details
Nigeria Or President Jonathan’s Cabal?
By
Leonard Karshima Shilgba, PhD
A true
leader would never encourage degeneration into ethic sentiments. Among the
three rapid society destroyers— Ethnic and religious sentiments, and
economic deprivation—the first two are the most damning. And President
Jonathan clearly encourages one of them. We Nigerians must choose between
President Jonathan and Nigeria.
Details
Babangida, the People’s
Carpenter. By Maikudi
Abubakar Zukogi
Dr. Muazu
Babangida Aliyu, the self styled Chief Servant of Niger State is a carpenter of
sorts. Like the carpenter, he is skilled in the use of the hammer, nails, chisel
and the like. For Babangida, like the carpenter, no wall is too strong that does
not cave in to his tough piercing nail.
Details
Of
Oil Subsidy Removal, Jonathan, Sanusi Lamido, Okonjo-Iweala and the Collapse of
Nigerian Economy.
By Jibo Nura
Be that as it
may, but one thing remains clear. Nigerians are tired and increasingly becoming
impatient on President Jonathan’s oil subsidy removal vagueness, verbosity and
waffle. We are
very seriously fed up with
Sanusism and Okonjoism gospel singing on improving our nation’s
economy based on
gobbledygook and apocalyptic certiorari.
Details
Embracing Simple Economic Anthropological Solution to
Occupy
Jonathan and Nigeria for Change on Fuel Subsidy Removal.
By Patrick Iroegbu
The most unfortunate
error I think this administration has opened itself up for a kill is to tamper
with what holds Nigerian daily life and society together – that is, the fuel
subsidy removal, which Nigerian masses consider as the only thing they benefit
from oil and gas produced in Nigeria that belongs to everyone. And because the
wide gap between the politicians and the masses is clear to see, no explanation
will ever do the magic to believe in the politicians that the revenue to come in
from the fuel subsidy removal will be used judiciously to better their lives. Details
Boko Or Islam
Haram
Government
Care Less About
Our Issues.
By
Farouk Martins
Aresa
The gruesome
pictures of dead Nigerians killed for protesting the last straw will hunt us
forever. Nigeria’s problem is not oil subsidy, subsidy is the symptom of
greater evil that ails the Nigerians working hard ready to go anywhere to make a
living. Those losing their lives protesting on the streets have had it: enough
is enough. If they cannot survive at home, they will shed their pride to make it
out of town. The irony of it is most Nigerians never get government handouts,
the rich do. They shun the easiest way to make money.
Details
President Jonathan
and Boko Haram: A Comparative Analysis.
By
Abubakar Alkali Sokoto
By their actions, President Jonathan and Boko Haram seem poised
to BREAK UP NIGERIA. Boko Haram wants to create an Islamic state while President
Jonathan wants to create a POVERTY STATE.
Some analysts even aver that while Boko haram uses Kalashnikovs, AK47’s, Hand
guns etc, the President also has his own arms and ammunitions which are 100% in
prices of Gari, Bread, Wake, Rice, Fufu, cooking oil, transportation etc. Boko
haram also used bombs and IED’s for maximum impact while our amiable president’s
major IED is the bomb-like astronomical increase in the price of PMS from N65 to
anywhere around N200 which is akin to an explosion that has devastated the
entire geographical spread of our dear country Nigeria and caught every Nigerian
napping.
Details
President
Jonathan: The Making Of A Dictator.
By
Leonard Karshima Shilgba, PhD
President
Jonathan recently told a bewildered nation that Nigerians have come to live with
bombings. Just few hours ago he alleges that he has Boko Haram members in
government. He announces a “cabal” to whom his government has paid more than N
1.3 trillion in the name of “fuel subsidy” contrary to the N 240 billion that
the national assembly had appropriated in the 2011 budget. The executive’s
spending more than what is appropriated without recourse to the national
assembly is an impeachable offence. Unless the nation has conceded that it is
helpless in the face of a ravaging dictator, President Jonathan has no business
in Aso rock.
Details
The Typical Nigerian Blame Game Continues.
By
Babandi
Gumel
All
these Haram the Boko Haram the Niger Delta Haram,the Massob Haram and Fuel Haram
and other Harams who are giving Fatawas on how to move forward the Country are
nothing but bunch of disgruntled elements unfortunately being used sometimes by
the politicians to exploit the situation facing Nigerians who live hand to mouth
to perpetuate the ruling elites at the expense of the poor masses who are mainly
innocent.
Details
FAO Messrs
Belgore and Kolade.
By
Anthony A.
Kila
Whilst most households in the
country were dealing with the shock, anger and fear caused by the New Year day
news that the price of petrol will go up, the families and friends of Justice
Alfa Belgore, former Chief Justice of the federation and that of Dr. Christopher
Kolade, Nigeria’s erstwhile High Commissioner to the United Kingdom must have
been in a different mood. It is safe to assume that they were either rejoicing
or at least congratulating these two gentlemen for their new appointments as
heads of important two committees related to the most current affairs of the
country today.
Details
Lies About Fuel Subsidy Removal.
By
Leonard Karshima Shilgba,
PhD
The lies of Jonathan’s
government should not move either labor or the organized civil society to begin
to contemplate removal of fuel subsidy. Fuel subsidy should be an untouchable
item even when we attain local capacity to refine all our petroleum products
needs; then, government expenditure on fuel subsidy would reduce. I hear of
timing and manner of the removal of fuel subsidy. When is the right time and
what is the right manner? I dare say there is never a right time to remove fuel
subsidy. What government must remove are corruption and waste in governance.
Details
Reflections On Jonathan Presidency.
By
Suraj
Oyewale
There are a lot of questions that beg for
answer in the subsidy debate, but I personally hold that subsidy cannot be
sustained forever, at one point it has to go, but the framework for an
acceptable removal is far from being in place. A two-year,
phased deregulation plan that will
involve encouraging local refining, putting in place infrastructure, eliminating
the inefficiencies in the subsidy payment system, and a widespread enlightenment
for the masses, all culminating in the subsidy removal at the end of year two, I
reckon, is a better way to manage this conundrum.
Details
Fuel Subsidy Removal Debate: The
Way Forward.
By
Dr.
Bello Mukhtar
Thus, in my opinion
(which I believe also represents the views of many Nigerians), the federal
government should suspend the deregulation of the petroleum downstream sector
for now and do its homework first; let the government looks inward. Government
at all levels has to work hard to restore public confidence. From
the
contributions by many Nigerians on this issue, it is very clear that Nigerians
want all government officials to join hands and resolve to drastically reduce
corruption and waste in the public service if they must earn their trust.
Details
Fuel Hike’s In Nigeria.
By
Liman Al-Bashir (Danmalan)
It was on the 1st day of January 2012 that
Nigerians woke up to the shock of an increase in fuel price. How much money does
the Government spend on senator’s allowances? How much do they spend on
representatives? Ministers? Directors? Serving Personnel? etc. Record shows that
about 70% of the budget goes to the Government
Details
Attack Your Own Ethnic Looters
Not Ebele.
By
Farouk Martins
Aresa
There is one lesson we must
learn from Nigerian Civil War: one ethnic group must not attack another ethnic
group, let each ethnic group deal severely with their killers of our Country.
Leave Ebele to his own ethnic group. If Hausa had killed Sardauna, Yoruba had
killed Akintola and Igbo had killed Okpara, our history would be different
today. Even when we have had enough, we must be reasonable.
Details
Totally Unsure of SURE.
By Maikudi Abubakar Zukogi
The
circumstances and the history of the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan is
a very interesting one. We all thought that the good luck in his name was
prophetic, hence his easy and smooth rise to political stardom in a country
where not the least chance is given to the minorities to mount the saddle of
power at the time he did. At best, if any group was going to become the
President of Nigeria after the late Umaru Yar’adua that chance is tilted more to
the Igbo. In spite of the high wire intrigues, including the zoning debacle, it
was refreshing that Jonathan emerged the substantive president after the hotly
contested election. Whether or not he won convincingly is now history as the
courts have confirmed his election. It is therefore gullible of President
Jonathan and his legion of advisers to think that Nigerians will forget that he
promised them a breath of fresh air.Details

