[Joe Attueyi]

Farooq Kperogi 

The Buharist Cyber Bullies

There is a troubling cyberbullying epidemic sweeping through Muslim northern Nigeria that must be frontally confronted and tackled. I get hundreds of private messages here on Facebook every week from northern Nigerian Muslims thanking me for being their “voice” because they can’t say the things I say about the deleterious effects of Buhari’s policies on them. They wonder how I, a northern Muslim who has access to officials of this government, can risk telling the truth without fear of smears.

They tell me they are called “infidels,” “sympathizers of infidels,” “traitors,” and such other terrible epithets for merely daring to criticize Buhari, for giving vent to the pent-up frustrations that they have bottled up since Buhari’s anti-masses, lethargic, and clueless government started revealing its true colors. So they are cowed and intimidated. Many of them praise Buhari in their Facebook timelines, in comments, and join the crowd to condemn critics of the government just to “fit in,” to avoid social ostracism, but mostly to escape the caustic barbs of the fanatical, unthinking, knee-jerk jerks who have appointed themselves as Buhari’s social media defenders. But then they send me private messages and beseech me to never stop pointing out the tragedy that the Buhari government has become for common people, especially in northern Nigeria.

This cyberbullying culture must not be left unchallenged. No one should allow themselves to be bullied by weak, abusive simpletons. Bullies are often cowardly emotional wretches with puny, fragile egos who get their highs from inflicting pain on others. Return the favor and you will see that they will buckle under. 

If the bullies are intelligent enough to deserve a response from you, return fire with fire. Match their every insult. Point to their illogic, blatant lies, and hypocrisy. If they can’t have a decorous, decent conversation, let them know two can play that game. If they are abusive mental Lilliputians who don’t even deserve your response, block them and let them stew in their own miserable juice. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Our country is going to the dogs and a band of insecure cowards want to rob people of even the privilege to express their frustration. 

Please, don’t send me private messages thanking me for standing up for you; stand for yourself. Your tormentors are cowardly, insecure bullies who can’t stand if you turn up the heat on them. Maybe if we have enough northern Nigerian Muslims freely and without fear calling attention to the serially injurious policies of Buhari, we might see some changes. So let’s start the war against Buharist cyber bullies!

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[Nelson Ekujumi]

Joe,

When will you ever be tired of your concocted lies and falsehood? If anybody is afraid to air his or her views in a democracy because of counter views or rebuke, then such a person or persons is or are coward(s), QED.

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[Wharf A. Snake]

Nelson,

You have written well for a cowardly mind. Democracy is in Nigeria? The leader of the shiites in Nigeria,  Sheikh Allamah Ibrahim Yaqoub Zakzaky, has been ordered released by the courts but he is still in Jail. Is that democracy to you? Many people are arrested and disappeared by Nigerian security forces. Just last week, amnesty international released a report and video of extrajudicial killings in Nigeria and yet you call that nonsense democracy. Dude you have just insulted real democracies all over the world. Nigeria is sliding into a one man government of monumental incompetence. Buhari is perhaps the worst president in the history of Nigeria and in Africa he is no better idi-Amin and Bokossa and Mobutu. Buhari is useless!

Ejo ni Mushin - Prince 

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Have you lost your mind? Is Joe Attueyi the author of that article? You have the pathetic mentality of  a deranged Buharist Cyber Bully.

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[Nelson Ekujumi]

Ejo ni Mushin Prince,

Thanks for your response, but one fact that you can't run away from, is that no democracy anywhere in the world is perfect and Nigeria's own cannot be an exemption. If El Zakzaky is still being detained by the authorities within the ambit of a court judgement for his release within 45 days, then it means that the government is on course since the stipulated days has not elapsed and we are confident that the court order, will be obeyed.

As for the Amnesty international reports on the alledged atrocities of our security agencies, the Nigerian government has done the needful as it is done in civilized clime by ordering an investigation unlike what obtained under the hero of corruption, who was used to dismissing allegation off hand and in exhibition of gross irresponsibility by a leader.

Whatever be the shortcomings of President Buhari, one thing we know for sure is that, his government has not in any way undermined the constitutional and fundamental human rights of Nigerians except in the imaginations of anti democratic elements who have refused to come to terms with the fact that fortunato and hero of corruption has been voted out via the ballot box by the Nigerian people which is a fact of history that nobody can erase.

Nelson Ekujumi

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"'Wharf A. Snake' via NaijaEvent" <naija...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Nelson,

You have written well for a cowardly mind. Democracy is in Nigeria? The leader of the shiites in Nigeria,  Sheikh Allamah Ibrahim Yaqoub Zakzaky, has been ordered released by the courts but he is still in Jail. Is that democracy to you? Many people are arrested and disappeared by Nigerian security forces. Just last week, amnesty international released a report and video of extrajudicial killings in Nigeria and yet you call that nonsense democracy. Dude you have just insulted real democracies all over the world. Nigeria is sliding into a one man government of monumental incompetence. Buhari is perhaps the worst president in the history of Nigeria and in Africa he is no better idi-Amin and Bokossa and Mobutu. Buhari is useless!

Ejo ni Mushin - Prince 

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On Dec 13, 2016, at 8:09 AM, 'Nelson Ekujumi' via NaijaEvent <naija...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Joe,

When will you ever be tired of your concocted lies and falsehood? If anybody is afraid to air his or her views in a democracy because of counter views or rebuke, then such a person or persons is or are coward(s), QED.

Nelson Ekujumi

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'Joe Attueyi' via NaijaEvent <naija...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Farooq Kperogi 

The Buharist Cyber Bullies

There is a troubling cyberbullying epidemic sweeping through Muslim northern Nigeria that must be frontally confronted and tackled. I get hundreds of private messages here on Facebook every week from northern Nigerian Muslims thanking me for being their “voice” because they can’t say the things I say about the deleterious effects of Buhari’s policies on them. They wonder how I, a northern Muslim who has access to officials of this government, can risk telling the truth without fear of smears.

They tell me they are called “infidels,” “sympathizers of infidels,” “traitors,” and such other terrible epithets for merely daring to criticize Buhari, for giving vent to the pent-up frustrations that they have bottled up since Buhari’s anti-masses, lethargic, and clueless government started revealing its true colors. So they are cowed and intimidated. Many of them praise Buhari in their Facebook timelines, in comments, and join the crowd to condemn critics of the government just to “fit in,” to avoid social ostracism, but mostly to escape the caustic barbs of the fanatical, unthinking, knee-jerk jerks who have appointed themselves as Buhari’s social media defenders. But then they send me private messages and beseech me to never stop pointing out the tragedy that the Buhari government has become for common people, especially in northern Nigeria.

This cyberbullying culture must not be left unchallenged. No one should allow themselves to be bullied by weak, abusive simpletons. Bullies are often cowardly emotional wretches with puny, fragile egos who get their highs from inflicting pain on others. Return the favor and you will see that they will buckle under. 

If the bullies are intelligent enough to deserve a response from you, return fire with fire. Match their every insult. Point to their illogic, blatant lies, and hypocrisy. If they can’t have a decorous, decent conversation, let them know two can play that game. If they are abusive mental Lilliputians who don’t even deserve your response, block them and let them stew in their own miserable juice. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Our country is going to the dogs and a band of insecure cowards want to rob people of even the privilege to express their frustration. 

Please, don’t send me private messages thanking me for standing up for you; stand for yourself. Your tormentors are cowardly, insecure bullies who can’t stand if you turn up the heat on them. Maybe if we have enough northern Nigerian Muslims freely and without fear calling attention to the serially injurious policies of Buhari, we might see some changes. So let’s start the war against Buharist cyber bullies!

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[Joe Attueyi]

GK

You get time for these pay per word human rights hactivists. 

Since BAT got put in his place by 'federal forces' most of them have disappeared. Just remaining a tiny few who will soon go the way of their peers. 

I don't respond to them. They are paid per word posted on social media. 

Joe

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[BUSKA OLADOSU]

Warfy omoejongboro,you waste your time trying casting some pearls before swines?

I know you are more discretional to waste your deep thought on folks described in the Perogi article as posted by Pastor joe 

Come to think of it!  Do you know that some characters thereabout earn their monthly packet by the number of pro- Buhari trash they post on this foraand other social media platforms, reasonable or not, they just makesure they had a byline to their names

Anyway, we dey here dey watch 

On Dec 13, 2016 2:21 PM, "'Wharf A. Snake' wharf...@yahoo.com [NIgerianWorldForum]" <NIgerianW...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Nelson,

You have written well for a cowardly mind. Democracy is in Nigeria? The leader of the shiites in Nigeria,  Sheikh Allamah Ibrahim Yaqoub Zakzaky, has been ordered released by the courts but he is still in Jail. Is that democracy to you? Many people are arrested and disappeared by Nigerian security forces. Just last week, amnesty international released a report and video of extrajudicial killings in Nigeria and yet you call that nonsense democracy. Dude you have just insulted real democracies all over the world. Nigeria is sliding into a one man government of monumental incompetence. Buhari is perhaps the worst president in the history of Nigeria and in Africa he is no better idi-Amin and Bokossa and Mobutu. Buhari is useless!

Ejo ni Mushin - Prince 

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On Dec 13, 2016, at 8:09 AM, 'Nelson Ekujumi' via NaijaEvent <naija...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Joe,

When will you ever be tired of your concocted lies and falsehood? If anybody is afraid to air his or her views in a democracy because of counter views or rebuke, then such a person or persons is or are coward(s), QED.

Nelson Ekujumi

Sent from my Huawei Mobile

'Joe Attueyi' via NaijaEvent <naija...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Farooq Kperogi 

The Buharist Cyber Bullies

There is a troubling cyberbullying epidemic sweeping through Muslim northern Nigeria that must be frontally confronted and tackled. I get hundreds of private messages here on Facebook every week from northern Nigerian Muslims thanking me for being their “voice” because they can’t say the things I say about the deleterious effects of Buhari’s policies on them. They wonder how I, a northern Muslim who has access to officials of this government, can risk telling the truth without fear of smears.

They tell me they are called “infidels,” “sympathizers of infidels,” “traitors,” and such other terrible epithets for merely daring to criticize Buhari, for giving vent to the pent-up frustrations that they have bottled up since Buhari’s anti-masses, lethargic, and clueless government started revealing its true colors. So they are cowed and intimidated. Many of them praise Buhari in their Facebook timelines, in comments, and join the crowd to condemn critics of the government just to “fit in,” to avoid social ostracism, but mostly to escape the caustic barbs of the fanatical, unthinking, knee-jerk jerks who have appointed themselves as Buhari’s social media defenders. But then they send me private messages and beseech me to never stop pointing out the tragedy that the Buhari government has become for common people, especially in northern Nigeria.

This cyberbullying culture must not be left unchallenged. No one should allow themselves to be bullied by weak, abusive simpletons. Bullies are often cowardly emotional wretches with puny, fragile egos who get their highs from inflicting pain on others. Return the favor and you will see that they will buckle under. 

If the bullies are intelligent enough to deserve a response from you, return fire with fire. Match their every insult. Point to their illogic, blatant lies, and hypocrisy. If they can’t have a decorous, decent conversation, let them know two can play that game. If they are abusive mental Lilliputians who don’t even deserve your response, block them and let them stew in their own miserable juice. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Our country is going to the dogs and a band of insecure cowards want to rob people of even the privilege to express their frustration. 

Please, don’t send me private messages thanking me for standing up for you; stand for yourself. Your tormentors are cowardly, insecure bullies who can’t stand if you turn up the heat on them. Maybe if we have enough northern Nigerian Muslims freely and without fear calling attention to the serially injurious policies of Buhari, we might see some changes. So let’s start the war against Buharist cyber bullies!

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[Joe Attueyi]

Abba my brother, you are too big to be bullied. 

The hoi polloi are the ones being bullied. I see some of that on Facebook 

Joe

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On 13 Dec 2016, at 3:51 PM, Abba Gumel <abba...@gmail.com> wrote:

My good brother, Joe the Pastor,

It is strange what the writer is saying.  I have been quite critical of some of this government's policies (and have made my views perhaps in larger public audiences), and not a single person from the government's side (or anywhere else for that matter) has ever attempted to bully me privately or publically.  In Kano, for instance, people go on public media to express their views.....and most are very unfavourable to the current government (I recall even saying here, on occasions, that PMB is losing Kano....and this cannot be good for his, or our party's, prospects for 2019).  This is a non issue in my view.

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Joe,

 

But where did the writer specifically refer to my Emir? I saw his writing to be “if the cap fits, wear it”, and if my Emir decided to wear it as he did, why the need to intervene the way you did? I remembered my Emir calling Colonel Umar and Bala Usman “surrogates of the South”, which are essential euphemisms for ““infidels,” “sympathizers of infidels,” “traitors,”.  

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Wike, Nigeria’s Most Bloody, Crude Governor  –Joe Igbokwe
Posted by African ExaminerFeatured, Latest News, NewsTuesday, December 13th, 2016

LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has been described as the most dangerous, bloody and crude Governor in Nigeria.
The Lagos State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Publicity Secretary, Mr. Joe Igbokwe made the submission in a post on his Facebook account.
Relating his accusation to the ongoing Rivers State and National Assembly rerun, Igbokwe alleged that in his bid to retain the ”moribund PDP in the Niger Delta this shameless Governor has sent killers to policemen, army officers, citizens and others”.
”Working in tandem with corrupt leaders in the Niger Delta WIKE has armed reprobates and cultural savages in the region to blow up oil and power installations. WIKE presided over the butcher of APC supporters in Rivers State and stole the governorship position.
”We thought that the Supreme Court in its wisdom will stop this blood thirsty Governor but the Justices collected billions and handed over government house to this butcher. Today WIKE is still on rampage in Rivers State” the APC chieftain asserted.

Igbokwe lamented that his party and the country were still counting dead bodies and the end was not in sight.
”Look at the siege we saw in Rivers State on Saturday because of WIKE. Did you see the number of security personnels that were deployed? Did it stop WIKE from carrying out his devilish acts? When will WIKE know that PDP is no longer in power in NIGERIA” Igbokwe asked?
He however expressed hope that the human rights groups were taking inventory of human rights abuses under WIKE’s watch in Rivers State. 
 
Full details -
http://www.africanexaminer.com/wike-nigerias-most-bloody-crude-governor-joe-igbokwe/

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Joe Igbokwe twisting the facts as usual! Your party invaded Rivers state with federal might. Your party leaders gave orders to kill and maim. Your party men did just that: killed and maimed. Rivers people rallued round their governor to resist where possible.

The people ensured that your party could not steal lore than one Senatorial district and a few assembly seats which the Judiciary may eventually return to the actual winners.

Now, you Igbokwe have the effontery to come to this forum spewing lies as you are wont!

Ayanga e laye!

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Subject: [africanworldforum] Wike, Nigeria’s Most Bloody, Crude Governor  –Joe Igbokwe

Wike, Nigeria’s Most Bloody, Crude Governor  –Joe Igbokwe
Posted by African ExaminerFeatured, Latest News, NewsTuesday, December 13th, 2016

LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has been described as the most dangerous, bloody and crude Governor in Nigeria.
The Lagos State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Publicity Secretary, Mr. Joe Igbokwe made the submission in a post on his Facebook account.
Relating his accusation to the ongoing Rivers State and National Assembly rerun, Igbokwe alleged that in his bid to retain the ”moribund PDP in the Niger Delta this shameless Governor has sent killers to policemen, army officers, citizens and others”.
”Working in tandem with corrupt leaders in the Niger Delta WIKE has armed reprobates and cultural savages in the region to blow up oil and power installations. WIKE presided over the butcher of APC supporters in Rivers State and stole the governorship position.
”We thought that the Supreme Court in its wisdom will stop this blood thirsty Governor but the Justices collected billions and handed over government house to this butcher. Today WIKE is still on rampage in Rivers State” the APC chieftain asserted.

Igbokwe lamented that his party and the country were still counting dead bodies and the end was not in sight.
”Look at the siege we saw in Rivers State on Saturday because of WIKE. Did you see the number of security personnels that were deployed? Did it stop WIKE from carrying out his devilish acts? When will WIKE know that PDP is no longer in power in NIGERIA” Igbokwe asked?
He however expressed hope that the human rights groups were taking inventory of human rights abuses under WIKE’s watch in Rivers State. 
 
Full details -
http://www.africanexaminer.com/wike-nigerias-most-bloody-crude-governor-joe-igbokwe/

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Subject: [africanworldforum] Rivers re-run: SARS invade polling unit, kill voter - Vanguard

SARS invade polling unit, kill voter 

Suspected members of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, have allegedly invaded a polling unit in Bodo, Gokana LGA of Rivers state where they shot sporadically in the air before carting away election materials. 

Reports also indicated that a voter was killed in the process while others were earlier on ordered to lie down by the hoodlums in SARS uniforms.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/rivers-re-run-update-accreditation-voting-ongoing/

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GK,

And you have the pathetic mentality of a deranged fortunatoist and hero of corruption cyber bully by reposting that concocted lies which mirrors your warped mindset.

Nelson Ekujumi


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Have you lost your mind? Is Joe Attueyi the author of that article? You have the pathetic mentality of  a deranged Buharist Cyber Bully.

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On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 2:09 PM, 'Nelson Ekujumi' via OkonkwoNetworks <okonkwo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Joe,

When will you ever be tired of your concocted lies and falsehood? If anybody is afraid to air his or her views in a democracy because of counter views or rebuke, then such a person or persons is or are coward(s), QED.

Nelson Ekujumi

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'Joe Attueyi' via NaijaEvent <naija...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Farooq Kperogi 

The Buharist Cyber Bullies

There is a troubling cyberbullying epidemic sweeping through Muslim northern Nigeria that must be frontally confronted and tackled. I get hundreds of private messages here on Facebook every week from northern Nigerian Muslims thanking me for being their “voice” because they can’t say the things I say about the deleterious effects of Buhari’s policies on them. They wonder how I, a northern Muslim who has access to officials of this government, can risk telling the truth without fear of smears.

They tell me they are called “infidels,” “sympathizers of infidels,” “traitors,” and such other terrible epithets for merely daring to criticize Buhari, for giving vent to the pent-up frustrations that they have bottled up since Buhari’s anti-masses, lethargic, and clueless government started revealing its true colors. So they are cowed and intimidated. Many of them praise Buhari in their Facebook timelines, in comments, and join the crowd to condemn critics of the government just to “fit in,” to avoid social ostracism, but mostly to escape the caustic barbs of the fanatical, unthinking, knee-jerk jerks who have appointed themselves as Buhari’s social media defenders. But then they send me private messages and beseech me to never stop pointing out the tragedy that the Buhari government has become for common people, especially in northern Nigeria.

This cyberbullying culture must not be left unchallenged. No one should allow themselves to be bullied by weak, abusive simpletons. Bullies are often cowardly emotional wretches with puny, fragile egos who get their highs from inflicting pain on others. Return the favor and you will see that they will buckle under. 

If the bullies are intelligent enough to deserve a response from you, return fire with fire. Match their every insult. Point to their illogic, blatant lies, and hypocrisy. If they can’t have a decorous, decent conversation, let them know two can play that game. If they are abusive mental Lilliputians who don’t even deserve your response, block them and let them stew in their own miserable juice. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Our country is going to the dogs and a band of insecure cowards want to rob people of even the privilege to express their frustration. 

Please, don’t send me private messages thanking me for standing up for you; stand for yourself. Your tormentors are cowardly, insecure bullies who can’t stand if you turn up the heat on them. Maybe if we have enough northern Nigerian Muslims freely and without fear calling attention to the serially injurious policies of Buhari, we might see some changes. So let’s start the war against Buharist cyber bullies!

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WHAT A HELL?
NIGERIA CUSTOMS SERVICE (NCS),
NIGERIA POLICE FORCE (NPF) & 
FEDERAL ROAD SAFETY COMMISSION (FRSC) on Yuletide 2016 Services along Lagos-Asaba Federal Highway which will host very heavy traffic this season.
From Shagamu Bye pass to Asaba there are no less than 7 very aggressive Customs Check points, 16 unfriendly Police Check points, and 5 FRCS check points totaling over 28; stressing drivers and travelers on a journey that should ordinarily last no more than 6 hours.
The Customs and Police wield their guns recklessly, physically obstructing traffic by forcing vehicles to a stop to check Custom Papers for duly registered and licenced vehicles plying Nigerian roads for upwards of 5-6 years; the Police ask for "Particulars" including Tinted Glass Permit. FRSC asks for Fire Extinguishers, C-caution signs, Drivers Licence etc. Every loophole provides opportunity for mindless harassment and extortion.
They detain and risk the lives of entire families on a journey thus increasing security risks and accidents on our highways they are paid to keep safe.
Is the FG comfortable with this obvious harassment and extortion galore on our highways, especially at this of all times?
The Inspector-General of Police, CG of Customs in particular should immediately stop this needless torment to law abiding citizens of this country, especially this season.
We must stop painting Nigeria black to foreigners and potential foreign investors who equally ply this route and wish to explore our country.    

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Not every one knows how to play hard like that/ Those to me, I should say; are kids and if you push them right, they will succumb. The Question here is ; How can we stop this in Igbo land way

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What the police and customs and Frsc folks don't know is that some of the people they are collecting money from are giving then juiced money. You take money from these people and you are taking plague home for Christmas. The only language these guys understand is where looting Igbo people heading home for Christmas could mean eternal ruin for the suckers manning the checkpoints. Before you leave Lagos, you pray that no one should forcibly take your hard earned money without repercussions. If you don't know who to pray to, call home. 

I once threatened customs folks at Lagos and Port Harcourt that I could walk away if the did not release my luggage they were holding hostage and they would have to deliver them to me at my village. They released the luggages. The only thing Nigerians pay attention to is the mystique. They did not want to find out what could happen if they unjustly kept my luggages for ransom. 


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BUHARI , PLEASE STOP CHARADE OF WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION .

By Professor Okey Ndibe 

President Muhammadu Buhari should admit, today, not tomorrow, that his so-called war against corruption is unserious, tiresome, illegitimate, hypocritical, and a waste of Nigerians’ time. Right away, he ought to end the charade that claims to be a war. And then he should seek the best help he can find to focus on Nigeria’s grave economic and political crises.

One significant reason for the administration’s ineffectual war is a crisis of conception. The soundest, most enduring move against corruption is to facilitate a society built on the stalwart foundations of the rule of law. A government that disdains the law, that is selective in its adherence to court orders, is itself corrupt and, know it or not, fertilizes corruption. An administration that discovers corrupt people only in opposition parties, seldom in the ranks of its own political affiliates, is hypocritical. Such an administration may declare at the top of its lungs that it’s warring against corruption, but such protestation amounts to little more than lip service.

Mr. Buhari has long lost the moral capital to wage a serious anti-corruption war. An administration that has invited questionable characters to serve in its inner chambers, and one that looks the other way when legitimate questions about the financial assets of its functionaries are raised, such an administration can hardly be taken seriously when it proclaims itself a foe of corruption. As the Nigerian parlance goes, such a government is engaged in war “for mouth.”

Last week, the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed that 4.58 million Nigerians had lost their jobs since President Muhammadu Buhari’s inauguration. I’d suggest, in fact, that the picture of job losses is much worse than the NBS’ statistics suggest. As we know, the majority of state governments and local government councils are delinquent in paying their employees. The chief executive of a medium-level firm told me his company has had to lay off half of its workforce- more than 70 people. And it’s a struggle each month to pay the salaries of those who remain on the roll.

One sees little evidence that Buhari’s team has viable answers. I’d suggest, for a start, that it abandon the farcical pretense of fighting a war against corruption. Cut that drama that has produced no conviction of consequence in more than a year. Just stop it, period! And then, urgently, seek the help of knowledgeable people with expertise in steering an economy out of a stormy recession.

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Ya kpọtụba!

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[Joe Attueyi]

Obasanjo Vs Awujale: A Delayed Showdown 

BY AZU ISHIEKWENEJAN 05, 2017

The book is nearly seven years in print but I didn’t get a hold of it until sometime last year. Someone very close, whom I had told I wanted to interview Kabiyesi Oba Sikiru Adetona, had sent a copy over to me in Abuja. He advised me to read the book before the interview.

I have since read the autobiography – Awujale – twice and was not disappointed. We have SaharaReporters to thank for an excerpt that removed the pin from the grenade. Anyone who has read Awujale might agree that it was a bomb waiting to explode. 

The surprise is why it took so long.

In 17 chapters of lucid, clear-as-crystal writing in 275 pages, Adetona shares insights of his odyssey from the time he left Nigeria to study accounting abroad to his totally unexpected ascension to the throne at age 26; and from deeply personal family feuds to his adventure as Oba and businessman, and then from his deposition and return to his involvement in some of the momentous events in Nigeria’s contemporary political history.

In a number of instances, the details and candour were unsparing, with no room for indulgence, even for the Oba himself. For former President Olusegun Obasanjo though, it seems like a delayed time bomb.

I can understand Obasanjo’s anger and his concern to, in his words, “set the record straight,” especially in the part of the book brought to his attention that gave the impression that he maliciously disliked the Oba’s cousin and chairman of Globacom, Mike Adenuga; that he has interest in Obajana Cement Factory, and that he sometimes interfered with – or even misused – the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on his watch.

If those who called Obasanjo’s attention to the book nearly seven years after an excerpt of it was published wanted to do him a favour, they should have given him a copy of the book to read first. That way he might not only have been obliged to respond, at great length, to the Adenuga part alone. He would also have had the benefit of knowing in full what Adetona said about him, especially his years in power.

From the book, the Oba appears to have formed his opinion of Obasanjo long before Adenuga applied for a GSM license, or before S.O. Bakare (mostly known by the name of his car marketing company, Oluwalogbon Motors) contributed to Obasanjo’s election campaign. 

On page 174 of Awujale, for example, Adetona described Obasanjo as “a Judas” among the Yoruba, a name he called him twice in the book, the second time, according to him, straight in his face at a private meeting between the two of them in Aso Rock when Obasanjo was testing the waters for a third term.

In fact, on page 181, Adetona said he told Obasanjo that the former president was "no longer credible" even before he started his second term, in the presence of former Ogun State Governor Segun Osoba.

At least two recorded incidents appear to have shaped Adetona’s harsh impression of Obasanjo. It was Obasanjo, he said, who first tried to get the former executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Professor Adebayo Adedeji, to contest to succeed former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, in 1991.

Adetona was initially opposed to the idea – as was Adedeji – because he said he thought Adedeji would be unable to find the money to run. But Obasanjo persisted and even travelled all the way to Addis Ababa twice to persuade Adedeji to run. He reportedly told Adetona not to worry about the money; that he, Obasanjo, would find it.

One thing led to another and it didn’t come off. It is not clear whether Obasanjo failed to keep his promise or whether Adedeji pulled out solely because Babangida out-manoeuvred politicians at the time.

Obasanjo’s lukewarm – some would even say hostile – attitude to M.K.O. Abiola’s victory at the June 12 poll, and the way he undermined Ernest Shonekan and canvassed an interim government, which he wanted to head, appear to have particularly annoyed the Oba.

Recalling what he said during one of the meetings he hosted in the early days of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Alliance for Democracy, Adetona said after telling the parties plainly that the next president must be a Yoruba man and one chosen by the Yoruba themselves, “I added further that I was giving the warning because I was aware that a ‘Judas’ had been found among the Yoruba, whom they (the Hausa-Fulani elements in the PDP) were trying to impose on us.”

He continued: "When they asked me who this Judas was, I replied that it was Olusegun Obasanjo.”

Obasanjo’s four-page reply to the Awujale did not cover this part of the book. It’s either his attention had not been called to it or he deliberately decided to focus on what he considered the most potentially damaging part. It may also well be that having grown a thick skin to public criticisms, he had come to terms with the ‘Judas perception’.

But as I said, Awujale is not a whitewash. Unlike what anyone who has read any of Obasanjo’s books, especially My Watch, would find, Adetona documented his own foibles, including how he bought a Benz on a whim; how he is a more successful grandfather than he was a father; how he almost killed himself with cigarettes, and the painful and distrustful relationship he had with his own brother.

He reserved a shaft or two for Chief Obafemi Awolowo with an honesty that grips you, and acknowledged with humility that even though he backed the wrong horse in the Ogun State governorship race in 1999 against Segun Osoba, he did so out of conviction.

Awujale is also not all bile for Obasanjo. Apart from acknowledging the role Obasanjo played in fixing one of the major roads to his domain, Adetona also recalled that it was Obasanjo who settled the rift between him and former Governor Bisi Onabanjo, the man who despised and dethroned him.

Who to believe? 

Among Yoruba Obas in the last 50 years, the Awujale is one man who earned respect for speaking the inconvenient truth, even when it seemed dangerous to do so. He stood up to General Sani Abacha and his shenanigans, fought his dethronement in court and won, and never shied away from a fight, even with his subjects. 

It didn’t mean he was always right, but you were never in doubt where he stood. 

In a way, you could say the same of Obasanjo, except that he stands only where his personal interest lies – it’s Obasanjo first and last, and that makes him predictable.

In the rage of the controversy, not a few might be tempted to think that the book is about who owns Obajana Cement Factory, Obasanjo’s ingratitude to old friends, and his capricious use of power. 

It’s all of that and more. For its detail and clarity, the book reminds me of the autobiography of the late Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba Erediauwa, “I remain, Sir, Your Obedient Servant.”

Awujale is one of the most forthright accounts of the personal odysseys of a traditional ruler who through longevity and other circumstances of life has earned immortality.

It will take more than a woolly four-page letter coming seven years later to undermine the value of the book.  

Ishiekwene is the MD/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview and a board member of the Paris-based Global Editors Network.

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Frenemies of Trump

What the G.O.P. Really Thinks of Trump

Trump is likely to find that his biggest supports may quickly become his most significant obstacles.

Mitt Romney

The O.G. Never Trumper, Romney effectively renounced his past denunciations of the president-elect, whom he had previously called a “con man,” when Trump began publicly courting him for secretary of state. (He did not get the job.)

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For all that liberals insist that Donald Trump was the inevitable culmination of trends in the conservative movement and the Republican Party, he just wasn’t, and isn’t. Ted Cruz was the apogee of the conservative movement, and Marco Rubio was the apogee of the G.O.P. Trump is his own concoction, less a creature of fixed politics than an oddball with spectacular intuition and (to no one’s benefit) crippling impulses. Republicans are thrilled with the election but, in many cases, almost as apprehensive as Democrats. With Rubio in office, they would have had a genial by-the-numbers politician with a suitcase full of G.O.P. study guides and almost no mind of his own. With Trump in office, they get a mystery.

I’ve had conversations with a number of Republicans over the past couple of weeks, and they all seem to have the same questions the rest of us do. Will Trump’s coalition be one of establishment Republicans and rebel Republicans? Or one of rebel Republicans and Bernie Sanders Democrats? Or one of something else entirely? Trump doesn’t know, and neither does anyone else. “I think we are feeling our way along,” said Deputy Majority Whip Tom Cole. “Just looking at it from a whip standpoint, it’s going to be a very different dynamic in terms of putting together a Republican coalition.”

The Senate is a beast of its own, and some of Trump’s fiercest enemies there are fellow Republicans like Lindsey Graham and John McCain. So let’s focus in this column on Republicans in the House. Very roughly speaking, what awaits Trump there are three groups. The first, a small one, loves his populist vision and intends to hold him to it on all fronts. The second, slightly larger, is made up of Republicans who are anywhere from half to three-quarters on board—they like Trump’s line on trade, or immigration, or nationalism more broadly, while dissenting on Trumpian policies on spending, or taxes, or tariffs, or Russia. A third faction doesn’t buy into populism at all and seems to view Trump like an uncontrolled bull, one they hope to rig up to a generator and harness for G.O.P. energy. I’ll call them the Trumpists, the Freedomists, and the Ryanists.

Start with the Trumpists. Prior to the ascension of Trump, and before it had a name, Trumpism—a Pat Buchanan–esque philosophy of economic and military self-containment—was just one school of thought among Republican outliers in the House and Senate. Those who easily fit the category were few in number—fewer than five, would be my guess, and arguably as few as zero, if you define it narrowly enough. Jeff Sessions, who in 2013 advised Republicans to choose a “humble and honest populism” over Gang of Eight–style immigration bills, is one of them. Tennessee congressman Jimmy Duncan, a trade skeptic and reliable foe of illegal immigration—plus one of few Republicans to vote against authorizing George W. Bush to go to war with Iraq—is arguably another. There are a few more. But, again, it’s a small group.

This makes the Trumpists important mainly as keepers of the flame. Whatever Trump does, he wants to keep this group on board. One line that I encountered when speaking to people in this orbit was that deficit spending on infrastructure would be necessary as a bandage during hard times. That is to say: putting the brakes on globalization—with tariffs, revised trade deals, and stricter immigration control—could play near-term havoc with the economy, even if it causes longer-term benefits. The way to ease the transition is to create lots of jobs—in the construction and repair of roads, bridges, tunnels, rail lines, and airports. While that is going on—in this hopeful scenario—the private sector will complete most of its adaptations and emerge in a couple of years ready to hire, with shiny new roads and bridges at its disposal to boot. This would require tolerating considerable deficit spending, which could mean losing Republican support but gaining some among Democrats, especially those who represent working-class districts.

It’s all very simple, in theory, but such plans run with a thud into group two, which I’ll call the “Freedomists.” (No one in Congress, to my knowledge, goes by such a label, but I’m using it as a catchall for Republicans who dissent from the establishment.) These include the Tea Party caucus, although it exists more in name than in action, and the House Freedom Caucus, which was founded two years ago and has about 30 members. The Freedomists generally espouse limited government, and they have rebelled against Republican leadership on various issues, leading the charge to oust John Boehner as House Speaker in 2015. But the strongest glue bonding them has been fiscal hawkishness. (South Carolina congressman Mick Mulvaney, who is among their number, will be Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget.)

Many of the Freedomists are sympathetic to Trump. They know what it’s like to battle the establishment, and most see themselves as advocates for the little guy. Virginia congressman Dave Brat, famous as the underdog who defeated donor-class favorite Eric Cantor during a primary in 2014, is among them. Brat and his supporters view illegal immigration as a gift to the cheap-labor lobby, which, as Brat reminded me in conversation, gets all the benefits of low-paid employees while palming off the large attendant costs—an average of $10,000 a year to send each child of these workers to school—on middle-class taxpayers. Brat is also generally excited by the populism of the Trump movement and told me that he fears mainly that the kludgeocracy of Washington will impede efforts to create real change. But if Trump is hoping to levy trade tariffs or raise the debt ceiling, Brat is unlikely to join him. “When it comes to sticking points, the debt ceiling is going to be it,” he says. “There would have to be some credible commitment to a pro-growth corporate-rate bill that has a trillion in repatriation or something like that to get my buy-in. Otherwise, it’s a no.”

As Brat and many other Freedomists see it, doing away with regulations that hamstring U.S. industry will make it competitive and equip it to fight off competition from China. In this view, no tariffs will be required, nor will we need any infrastructure stimulus, at least not one that involves increasing deficits. Simply cutting red tape and regulations will unleash an economic boom in itself and revive labor markets at home. If there are tough times for a year or two, we ride them out. Proposals to increase deficit spending will therefore cause a lot of Freedomists to jump ship, and some of them, like Walter Jones, have a record of doing so even when George W. Bush was in power. Since they are over 30 in number, the Freedomists can stand in the way of party-line legislation. Quite possibly, then, Trump will find that the Freedom Caucus are supporters in spirit but obstacles in practice.

This leaves the establishment G.O.P., now called the Ryanists. In theory, the Ryanist G.O.P. is Trump’s biggest headache, since it’s as in thrall to Bushism today as it was 15 years ago, happy to continue down the current path on trade, war, and immigration, with a repeal of Obamacare and cuts to Social Security and (by using vouchers) Medicare to boot. In practice, though, this faction of the party, which is by far the largest, is probably easiest to work with on deals. The question, then, is who trades what. If Trump gets his infrastructure bill, will the establishment demand a swifter repeal of Obamacare, for instance? The answer depends a lot on clout. Supporters of Trump would argue that the recent election proved that most Republican voters—to say nothing of most Americans—reject the establishment priorities. Supporters of the establishment would argue that establishment Republicans keep getting elected, so voters are with them.

Working in favor of the establishment members of the House and Senate is that the money is largely on their side, that Washington doesn’t change, and that they have much more seasoning in politics than Trump. Most try to live by the famous adage of Texas legislator Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr., father of Lyndon, who said, “You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you, and who’s against you.” For all of Trump’s success in business, no one knows if he’s got anything close to Sam Johnson’s skill when it comes to navigating the labyrinth of legislative deal-making, even if he’s got Mike Pence at his side.

In Trump’s favor, though, is that he’s got an army of ardent fans who are prepared to direct a storm at anyone who defies their man. This is one reason why Trump went on a thank-you tour after the election. It was to keep these supporters energized for the clash of swords that starts in January. Also, despite having the thinnest skin of any politician ever to advance beyond the neighborhood-council level, Trump comes across as much shrewder than Ryan, even when he’s weakened. In early October, when Trump was in the biggest trouble he’d ever faced, Ryan still seemed like the feckless one, while Trump stayed on the warpath. “Disloyal R’s are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary,” he tweeted on October 11. “They come at you from all sides. They don’t know how to win—I will teach them!” And, arguably, he did just that.

Watching this battle play out will offer us fascinating lessons on the workings of power. (Forgive the cold word choice, but it’s a bleak truth that periods of human suffering and peril are those to which historians are most drawn—hence the curse of “interesting times.”) “I think most Republicans thought they were going to be a firewall against Hillary Clinton’s overreach,” says Cole, the deputy majority whip. “Now all of a sudden they’ve got to be the point of the spear. And they’re going to be confronted with some dilemmas they didn’t anticipate.”

While the skirmishes and scheming will take place in whispered conferences in rooms all around downtown Washington, D.C., what comes to mind is an image of armies, swords drawn, unleashing a war cry and launching headlong into a battle of all against all. This all starts the day after the inauguration. You can almost hear the horses stomping.

T.A. FrankT.A. Frank is a Vanity Fair contributor who covers politics and policy.

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January 8, 2017 at 3:05 pm

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Ohanaeze Exposes Corruption Among The Youth Wing, Leaks Secret Document

….As Govs Hijack Ohanaeze Elections

Ohanaeze Ndigbo have reacted to accusations from the Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) that it collected billions of naira from Jonathan as conditions for pre-election endorsement, shared same at Chelsea Hotels and Ohanaeze Secretariat among themselves and gave them only N2 million naira. In their reaction, the parent body described the Isiguzoro led executive ‘as a bunch of corrupt individuals who have enriched themselves on the behalf of the Igbo nation’

Three members of Ohanaeze Ndigbo National Executive Committee (NEC) who spoke with Obinna Akukwe,  at the secretariat on Monday on conditions of anonymity, over why they introduced corruption to the youth body by showing bad example, released copies of the secret report of the investigations committee which indicted the youth wing of monumental corruption.

The infuriated NEC Members and Onanaeze Chieftains claimed that before they went to see Jonathan in January, 2015, the Ohanaeze Youth Council led by Isiguzoro  had already gone  to Aso Rock  in December, 2014, where the First Lady. Patience Jonathan gave them $20,000 dollars.

According to one of NEC Members “ the sharing of the money caused serious fight in Agura Hotels, Garki,  Abuja to the point that the hotel management had to invite soldiers from the nearby Army Headquarters who used horsewhip to separate them,  these boys were wearing Igbo red caps while fighting and disgracing the entire Igbo race.” They also claimed that another quarrel ensued in Sokoto when  Ohanaeze Youth Council visited the Sultan of Sokoto , Saad Abubakar last year over sharing formula.

Below are excerpts from the Ohanaeze Report on the Youth Council as obtained by Obinna Akukwe.

” we discovered that the youth leader has uplifted the act of group begging with phantom projects as proposals to an inglorious business ventures. This is to the extent that they dangle 30 percent commission on the face of members as an incentive to scout for prominent persons  to be approached among Ndigbo and Non=Ndigbo. By so doing they brought the dignity of the Igbo Nation to disdain, especially with the reported shameful conduct of fighting themselves publicly over sharing of funds and women at Abuja”

“The extent of this disgrace  and damage brought upon Ohanaeze is such that prominent sons of Igbo land like Eze N’Ukpo  Chief Engr Arthur Eze have temporarily shut the door against Ohanaeze.”

The Panel Chaired by Nze Okpani Nkama, Prof Philip Atanmo, Chief Ene Ebe,Mr Pius Nnankwo  and Chief Mrs  Azubuike recommended many measures and sanctions , two of  which include “that the National Youth Leader , Mr Okechukwu Isiguzoro be made to render proper and detailed account of how  the N5 million naira they collected from Arthur Eze, being the only money actually banked, was used.”

“For many people, Ohanaeze has become a barrack whereby all manners of men of Igbo extraction walk into for protection and possibly economic survival with high hopes and end up walking out most frustrated and unfulfilled. This is essentially why the leadership of Ohanaeze had at various times remained handicapped  to pursue needed programmes for the ordinary people. Everything is with caution to avoid offending the political leaders whose support is the livewire of the people.”

The rattled members of the Ohanaeze Executives told Obinna Akukwe that they will make the entire report a public document if the youth leaders ever insinuate and attribute forms of corruption to them.

Meanwhile, reports have it that the Governors have hijacked the Ohanaeze Local Govt Congress being held on the 6^th of January, 2016, and are forcing aspirants to either step down for some others or be screened out. Some aspirants who spoke to Obinna Akukwe expressed displeasure at the development and promised to fight back.

The Igbo Mandate Congress have earlier called for a level playing field for all candidates and have accused Ohanaeze in a press release of conducting a fraudulent election, an accusation they have privately denied. The General Assembly of all Igbo Christian Organization and Ministers (GAAICOM) had earlier written all State Governors condemning their interferences in the elections and calling for polls extension.

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When national value is lost, all is lost.

Twisted Values

By Pius Adesanmi

Yesterday, President Obama gave one of the most significant speeches of his life - his farewell speech. Sasha Obama, his youngest daughter, was missing in action. Naturally, the Americans needed and wanted to know the whereabouts of the young lady.

The answer was swift in coming. In a democracy, a Presidency does not have the luxury of joking with the time and emotions of its employers - the people. When they want to know something, you provide information.

Sasha Obama has an exam this morning. She needed to remain in Washington and study for it. In other words, some teacher in a secondary school in Washington fixed an exam which conflicted with the schedule of the Presidential family and the President's schedule had to take a back seat. An SS1 exam fa. 

We need to draw weighty lessons and conclusions from this scenario. This has happened in America at a time when someone enforced the extant laws of Nigeria and was fired and the law suspended altogether because it affected an extremely powerful one percenter.

The Nigerian secondary school teacher who sets an inconveniently-timed exam for the child of a Local Government Chairman, and the principal who allows it, would have been taught the difference between khaki and leather. Let alone setting an inconvenient exam for a Governor's child, a Senator's child, a Minister's child, the President's child. Let alone setting an inconvenient exam for the child of any sufficiently powerful private Nigerian citizen (and that is where these kids are even in the Nigerian school system at all o. Chances are they are in Europe, Canada or America).

Going by how we recently suspended a valid law on account of one powerful Nigerian, I wager that the basic education board, the secondary education board, the state and federal ministries of education would have been suspended.

However, beyond all of this, the chief lesson to be noted from Sasha Obama's absence from her father's speech is the quality of parenting she has and the values of her parents. We are talking about the American President and his wife who were at the mercy of a secondary school teacher.

No interference. No cutting corners for their daughter. No wielding of influence. No pressurizing the teacher to change the exam date. No teaching the daughter that it is okay to wield influence to arrange things for her.

Last year, I had a run in with the irresponsible Governor of Ogun state who goes about blocking the view of progress with his fila peteesi. Such is his level of disrespect for and unhealthy interference in education that he vetted a secondary school exam question, did not like it because the students were asked to write an essay on the quality of education under his oversight, and promptly fired the teacher, harassed the school principal, the state chapter of NUT and the ministry of education.

The teachers' union had to go and beg him and promise that no exams would ever be set in Ogun schools again that did not flatter his fragile ego. They also thanked him for paying their salaries!

I went after him in a series of op-eds. He unleashed his aides on me in sponsored attacks. They even reported me to some prominent Nigerians. I hope the Governor of Ogun state and his aides can learn a thing or two from this humbling encounter between the Obamas and education.

President Buhari is so alienated from sentient reach by anybody with wise counsel that it is perhaps a wasted effort to try and draw his attention to the lesson in symbolism that President Obama has taught all of us. No Nigerian President has ever understood the power of symbolism. One's hope was that President Buhari would understand it but he is just as blind to it, as obtuse as his predecessors.

By symbolically submitting himself to the supremacy of his country's education sector, President Obama has done something for education that no amount of funding, budgeting, and infrastructural development can achieve.

We have been saying it for a very long time that the collapse of the Nigerian education sector is not all about rotten infrastructure and the absence of funds and resources. 

Beyond these material and physical issues lies the complete absence of symbolic valuation of education in Nigerian life. It starts from the top of Nigerian society and seeps through - all the way to the very bottom. The collapse of education is a function of a collective national plebiscite to destroy it. From the President to the pure water seller, every Nigerian is armed with an axe, hacking down the education sector bit by bit.

That axe is represented by our twisted values. Parents write exams for their kids - when not buying exam papers for them. They harass teachers and cut every cuttable corner for their kids in the education sector.

President Obama says education is supreme. He says education comes first. He says education is sacrosanct. He says that very loudly by telling Sasha Obama: "no, young lady, you are not coming with us to Chicago. You have an exam on Wednesday. Stay at home and study."

Let me add this little detail for the axe wielders destroying education in Nigeria. Just because Sasha Obama is the President's daughter does not guarantee her a passing grade in the exam she will write today. She may get a B or a C. Nothing will happen to the teacher.

Beyond President Buhari's absence of symbolism and arrogant Governors wielding negative and destructive influence on education in Nigeria, we need a concerted national effort to re-invent our values. All our formative institutions have a role to play: the family, the church, the mosque, etc. We are here talking about what one family has done.

I said that the Church has a role to play. However, I feel one kain about the ability of Nigerian Christendom to play a restorative role in the struggle to re-invent our values.

When the laws of the land are suspended because they are inconvenient for a Christian leader and you have Christians hailing such a brazen assault on decency, then you know that Nigerian Christendom is finished.

One last lesson for the 99%. When a notoriously slow-to-act President Buhari moves with lightning speed to discipline a government appointee - he is yet to discipline those who padded his first budget - and to suspend a valid law of the land on account of a powerful member of the 1%, you should know that it is time to stop tearing at each other on account of faith and in support of your favorite politician.

In the 1% there are no Muslims and there are no Christians. There is only group and class interest. Greater love hath no Muslim one percenter than this, that he lay down his country's life for a Christian one percenter...

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The Tshadda Expedition of 1841

Mr. Schön here refers to the devastations of the Felatahs, or Foulahs, or Phula, so called from their complexion — Pulo, plural Fulbe, meaning yellow, brown— a race of nomadic shepherds, who arrived in Haussa from the north-west in the last century. 

“ After they had been tending their cattle a long time in the forests and grass fields, without towns, and subsisting simply on the produce of their herds, one of their priests, of the name of Fodie, had an apparition of the Prophet Mahommed, which was destined to form a most signal epoch in the history of the Phula, and indeed in the whole of Central and Western Africa. 

“ In this apparition Fodie was  informed that the whole of that beautiful  country around them, with all its populous towns and countless villages, belonged to the believers in the Prophet, to wit, the Phula ; and that it was Fodie’s divine commission, with the help of the faithful, to wrest all those flowery plains, those fruitful fields and lovely valley, from the hand of the Kafir, and then to bring all the Kafirs into subjection to the Islam, and to devote to the sword every one who refused to believe. 

“ Almost beside himself with enthusiasm, and burning with fanaticism, Fodie summoned the believing Phula from every country, to the very coast of the Atlantic, to rally round his banner, and to fight with him the battles of the Prophet, for the subjugation of all the Kafir tribes of Africa to the religion of God and His Prophet. 

“ And like an electric shock this message of Fodie pervaded all the lands where the Phula were sojourning, and with a magical power converted the shepherds into warriors. 

“ Soon Fodie saw himself surrounded with an army convinced of its own invincibility, and thirsting for the battle. Thus commenced, in the beginning of the present century, when, in France, Napoleon was preparing to shake Europe, those extraordinary Pulo movements in Central Africa, which, though unrecorded on the pages of our usual universal histories, are yet written in streams of blood on the pages of that real universal history of our race in which every human action records itself. 

“ On the spot where Fodie had his apparition he afterwards built the town Sokoto, which is now the great centre of Pulo power in Africa"- 

Church Missionary Intelligencer by The Church Missionary Society

Published 1855.

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[Wharf A. Snake]

Amazing... from there they conquered the major Hausa tribe and all minor tribes in the north and have subjugated them to subhuman treatment ever since then. The next tribe conquered were the Yoruba and the Yoruba have remained their canon fodder and myrmidons. Then the Ijaw people of the southeast aligned with them such that today the Ijaw tribe are living in hell on their land and water full of profit. The profit is carried away to the North for the Fulani and West for the Loyal Yoruba sons and daughters of Zeus without mercy. As a Yorubaman I condemn any act of inhumanity from whomever anywhere in the world. The Alliance of Fulani and Yoruba  have destroyed Nigeria. A situation where the master steals unhindered the slave have turned themselves unassailable crooks and thieves. 

The only saving grace in that nation that must break up are the Igbo ethnic nation of the SouthEast who have shown by example that hard work has its rewards. Stealing, fraud, looting, et al not a part of their DNA.

Ejo ni Mushin - Prince 

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"The only saving grace in that nation that must break up are the Igbo ethnic nation of the SouthEast who have shown by example that hard work has its rewards. Stealing, fraud, looting, et al not a part of their DNA.".......Baba Wharfy.

Afis comment: You are right, Looting is not in Igbo's DNA.......

"Ex-Aviation Minister Stella Oduah Stole N3.6b, Shared It Between 8 Companies

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has traced N3.6b in stolen funds to former Minister of Aviation Stella Oduah, according to EFCC sources."....Newstory.

"Nigeria: Obasanjo Fires Osuji, Indicts Wabara, Others

By Josephine Lohor, And Chuks Okocha

Abuja — N55m Bribery Scandal 

President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday announced the dismissal of the Minister of Education, Professor Fabian Osuji, from his cabinet. The former minister will also be handed over to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for prosecution over allegations of giving N55 million bribe to members of the education committees of the two chambers of the National Assembly to make them jerk up budgetary allocations to his ministry in the 2005 fiscal year.".......Newstory.

Baba Wharfy, the above are Yoruba sef.

Shikena 

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Wharf the Snake of Orlu's statement is so self-serving as it is unbelievable. The fact of the matter is that Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Ijaw, Fulani and members of other ethnic groups have at one time or the other  looted when the opportunity is available to them. But Wharf The Snake's disgraceful parochialism has blinded him to the stealing perpetrated by his fellow Igbo brothers and sisters.

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[Wharf A. Snake]

Alagba Afis,

You are nitpicking sir. When we mention thieves we are not talking of miserly ₦5 million. Let's talk looting and stealing sir.

Tafa Balogun - prison term for stealing ₦75 Billion

Bode George - prison term for stealing ₦100 Billion

Aunty Nike Grange - fired for stealing ₦75 Billion

Gbenga Aluko fired for stealing ₦75 Billion

Erastus Akingbola - liquidated Intercontinental bank when he stole ₦2.1 Trillion 

Olusegun Obasanjo - stole $26 Billion USD

Amos Adamu - fired by FIFA for stealing

Patricia Olubunmi Etteh - fired for stealing 

Alagomeji Bankole - arrested while hidden in a closet where he pissed himself. Stealing too.

Fani-Kayode - fired for stealing

Rauf Aregbesola - stole $60 million USD - BBC news 

Kayode Fayemi - stole $40million

Bukola Saraki - stole 1.1 Billion

Kola Aluko - $5 Billion USD

Bola Tinibu - sole owner of Lagos

EFCC reported that 97.9% of all thieves and looters in Nigeria are Yoruba and Fulani

Alagba I am tired of typing. The football game is on and I am missing it.

Please refer to the following websites for comprehensive list

http://askbbcnews.com/cnn-releases-the-list-of-20-most-corrupt-nigerians/

http://www.nairaland.com/2266459/top-10-list-nigerian-looters

http://www.nigerianmuse.com/20090713053327zg/sections/general-articles/of-looters-leaders-and-the-efcc-list/

http://www.newsbreak365.com/2015/04/shockingworld-bank-releases-list-of.html?m=1

Ejo ni Mushin - Prince 

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[Wharf A. Snake]

Ogbeni Oha my friend of immense quantity: 

I reject your off the cuff dismissal of my afore. To correct the record I have provided a detailed list of thievery and their principal actors and a list of sources too.

Please take a gander at the list and get back to me sir.

Ejo ni Mushin - Prince 

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They are looking for Patience Jonathan. Ask them abouy Turai.

We cannot have One Nigeria with selective justice system.

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May be the igbo Thieves you tabled are just smarter than the Yoruba Thieves I mentioned?

Ire o, my brother.

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[Wharf A. Snake]

Alagba Afis,

Considering how much the Igbo are hounded in Nigeria? I mean you just posted some Igbo guys who lost their jobs for misappropriating ₦5 million. Now tell me how Nigerians in power (Yoruba, Fulani) would turn the other cheek when onye Igbo is stealing billions as the Yoruba below?

Ejo ni Mushin - Prince 

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[afis 'Deinde]

Baba Wharfy, sir, my words should not be lost in the Semantic Windmill of tribal politics.

My point is obvious, "gbogbo won ni ole", only when they are caught we call them "Barawo!"

About the Fulani/Yoruba rulers: I present to you with no ounce of bias or Tribalism, the 2nd Niger Bridge project signed and sealed with "Me Amigo" Julio Berger.......

"FG committed to completion of 2nd Niger Bridge, Ziks Mausoleum projects – Fashola ON JUNE 20, 20166:23 PMIN NEWSCOMMENTS Onitsha (Anambra) – The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, says the Federal Government is committed to completing the second Niger Bridge and Zik’s Mausoleum.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/fg-committed-completion-2nd-niger-bridge-ziks-mausoleum-projects-minister/".......Newstory.

Goodluck Jonathan and Okonjo Iweala were in office for about six years, they are Igbos. Nothing done.

Now comes "Me hombre" Fashola.

I rest my case like I need to.
Shikena

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How President Buhari is dealing with Nigerians

By Muhammad Ajah

 

President Muhammad Buhari is such a lucky president who came at the time of need; though he had seen; he is attempting to conquer. He has come on a rescue mission. But not lucky in the Nigerian context because no contemporary Nigerian leader has suffered the humiliation and betrayal he underwent in his quest to lead and cleanse the country. He is really dealing “boldly and wonderfully” with Nigerians as the need arises. In such wise, many are happy while some are unhappy. It is natural. And history has records of how enemies sprout up against good men in societies where massive corruption, injustice, iniquity, lawlessness, free wealth, hooliganism and faithlessness held sway. Nigeria had been under the spell of a cabal in the government.

 

This cabal has been fighting to undermine the plans of Mr. President who has planned to break the deadly group. It has not been easy but he is dealing with the situations. And positive results are palpable. Let us examine some of his pragmatic methodology in dealing with Nigerians as a people who had proved difficult to govern in the past. There are over a 1001 ways the President has positively dealt with Nigerians, though some people are born destructive critics. The order of placements here is insignificant. Undoubtedly, there are great challenges facing the nation.     

       

His victory in the last presidential polls

This topic, obsolete as it may look, is still very relevant in the discussion about modern Nigeria democratic evolution. The spirit of patriotism in him made him not to lose hope in his determination to change the wrongs of the past leaders and place Nigeria on the course of development. It is patriotic to be persistent for a good cause. Many Nigerians know that he won the previous presidential elections before that of 2015, though he was denied by the wall of corruption. A man who wept profusely for betrayal by his compatriots would have opted out of contest for the fourth time. He set aside all the harrowing moments for 12 years and here he is doing all what is possible to revive our fatherland.      

 

Foreign trips

Criticisms have overtaken rationality in many citizens who claim that the foreign trips of the President are waste of funds and administrative time. But sound minds have comprehended the duo of security and economic reasons as the paramount motive for the trips. There can be no compromise to the security of this land. Nigeria was at the brim of national disintegration in a calculated attempt to use Boko Haram from the Northeast. Hardly was it to disconnect foreign hands in the terrorist activities. It still baffles observers the capture of white men and foreigners in the Sambisa Forest which was the stronghold of the terrorists. There were reports of captured foreign war helicopters alleged to have been supplying weapons to the Boko Haram group in the forest that resisted defeat for long time. Just like the way the Niger Delta militancy began and gradually stabilized due to arms machinery dealings, the Boko Haram could not have had factories to produce the arms it required to fight or the money it needed to recruit members. There must have been illegal arms dealings. In the nutshell, the President had to go to all the countries that can help in defeating the terrorists. And for sure, no amount of money spent on such mission to save Nigeria can be termed to be much.

 

Additionally, results from the trips are manifesting. Boko Haram has been chased out of its stronghold and many countries where looted funds from the nation’s treasury were hidden are returning or ready to repatriate the funds and properties back to Nigeria. Recently, the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi said China was investing $40 billion as part of the plan to deepen relationship with Nigeria, in addition to $22 billion projects already invested.

 

Defeat of Boko Haram and restoration of Nigerian military dignity

The Boko Haram has been defeated, not merely debased as before. The remnants of the terrorists are running for their lives from one city to the other, still trying to call attention through suicide attempts. By this victory, the dignity of the Nigerian military has been restored. Our gallant military personnel have proved their worth in the world. They have been going to keep peace in other countries. Why was ours not possible? The right President is now with them and with all Nigerians. May the souls of our murdered heroic soldiers rest in perfect peace, ameen. I personally hail the Nigerian military for this great achievement for our dear nation. We must all celebrate with and pray for them.

 

Removal of fuel subsidy

Fuel subsidy was an empire for corrupt importers who fleeced the country of trillions of naira. It became clear that most of the acclaimed importers were mere political office holders dealing through proxy. Funny enough, each time removal of fuel subsidy was raised the beneficiaries made it look as if Nigerian would suffer untold hardship from that. It was a sacred pole that touching it was a taboo. Before taking over the leadership, President Buhari severally described it as a fraud and non-existent. He has boldly removed it, though it is not clear if all those subsidy fraudsters have paid back their loots. Since the subsidy removal and adjustment of the fuel price to N145 per liter, there has been steady availability of the commodity at the stabilized price. However, the prices of oil control the prices of local commodities and foreign imports. Nigerians are not finding life easy but there is hope of reviewing the minimum wage of N18,000 (about 40 US dollars per month).

 

Refusal to devalue Naira

The refusal of President Buhari to devalue the Naira to the tune of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other foreign influences has been good indirectly for our economy. Restriction on forex has been a good thing for local processors and manufacturers. Rather, he has supported the IMF decision to ensure alignment between monetary policy and fiscal policy. Despite the hike in prices of commodities due to the impact of forex scarcity and regulation, it is hoped that thing will get better than accepting to devalue the Naira. This would create more problems than solutions for the country.

 

War on corruption

The war on corruption by the present administration is real and succeeding. 565 billion naira has been recovered and properties worth over three trillion naira have been seized from looters. Cases of corruption being prosecuted by the federal government against treasury looters are many in the courts. Many of the accused looters have spent days in the prisons.   

Many have confessed by returning part of their loots, though virtually none of them has been convicted. This is why the menace may not be defeated because the looters know that nothing can come out of the prolonged courts proceedings and judgements. However, the federal government said all ongoing corruption trials should be concluded promptly. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo while meeting with the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) chaired by Professor Itse Sagay urged the anti-graft agencies to step up their engagement with the public.

 

Court trials

For the first time, the perceived untouchables in Nigeria including former army chiefs, former federal ministers and senior judges have been held for corruption. Some have spent nights behind the bars. More top shots are still being investigated. There are corruption allegations against the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF); such allegations that have caused disaffection between President Buhari and the upper chambers of the National Assembly. In addition, the Niger Delta militants have threatened wide protests against the continuous stay of the duo in the government.

 

Introduction of TSA and fattening of foreign reserve

The introduction of a Treasury Single Account (TSA) has yielded fruitful results as it has generated and saved huge sums of money for the government. Nothing can be more laudable as this national bank. The Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) used for salary payments to civil servants is gradually being extended to all sectors.

In 2016, about 50,000 ghost workers were discovered in the payroll of the federal government, thus saving the nation about N4.2 billion every month totaling N156 billion according to the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC). In addition, over N23 billion per annum is saved from official travelling and sitting allowances. The reduction in the number of ministries and rationalization of the MDAs has created more efficient public service. The nation’s foreign exchange reserves have also increased to $27.223 billion as at January 16, 2017, according the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN), derived majorly from the proceeds of crude oil. This is compared with the $25.843 billion that it was as at December 30, 2015.

 

Defeat of age-long padding of budgets

Apart from savings, President Buhari has been inculcating in Nigerians the way public money should be spent. The former practice of padding budgets by the executive and legislative arms of government has been blocked. The controversies this padding menace generated in 2016 budget embarrassed the nation. Series of rogue projects and figures were injected into the financial document. The lower chamber of the national assembly is yet to cleanse itself of these controversies. The President has assured that it is over and that the 2017 will not be padded. So, Nigerians now hope to have a budget that is more transparent, more inclusive and more closely tied to development priorities. President Buhari noted that he had been in government since 1975, variously as governor, oil minister, head of state, and Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), and did not hear the word ‘padding’ till the 2016 Budget.

                                                                                                                                              

200,000 jobs created with the N-power initiative

There have been the plans to create 500,000 employment opportunities for graduates, with another 370,000 for non-graduates, in addition to the provision of micro loan facilities for market women. 500 billion naira social investment was earmarked in the 2016 budget for the employment purposes. The project has begun in earnest.

 

Payment of N5,000 to poor Nigerians

The President promised during his presidential campaigns to pay N5,000 to the downtrodden citizens. The N500 billion social investment plan was part of measures to tackle the myriad of economic problems as well as provide palliatives to the citizenry. The pledge is now being redeemed and pilot states have started implementing it. On how the beneficiaries were identified, the poorest local government areas of states were identified using an existing poverty map for the state. Then the poorest communities in the LGAs were identified. Focus groups comprising women, men, youths are trained to go to each of their communities to sensitize the leaders, including traditional rulers on the selection of the poorest of their societies. But it must be monitored as politicians have been making attempts to hijack the project to replace their constitutional obligations to their constituencies.  

Repair of Ajaokuta Steel Company

All issues relating to the Ajaokuta Steel Mill have been resolved by the present administration. It is expected that within the year, production will commence with estimated employment capacity of 100,000 Nigerians. This is a wise move by the government which has the interest of Nigerians in heart. What have been the issues?  In December, President Buhari presented a total sum of N4,272,797,371 appropriated for the company, higher than the N3.9 billion budgeted for 2016. Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Fayemi Kayode, reiterated the government commitment to settle all litigations between it and Global Steel Holdings Limited. This company is Nigeria’s leading steel plant. Since its inauguration in 1983, the plant had been embroiled in managerial inaptitude, controversy ranging from allegations of obsolete machines and outdated blast furnace model. Despite its initial completion, the plant was neglected under previous successive administrations.

 

There is now accountability in government agencies like the customs, the immigration and all other revenue generating organs of the government. There is freedom of operations by the EFCC and ICPC. All the groups attempting to endanger the peace and security of the nation such as the IPOB, Niger Delta and herdsmen are being put under control.

 

Enough of the struggle to convince Nigerians that President Buhari means well for our dear country. The above achievements are manifestations of patriotic revolution. Wailers and sadists cannot cease to be in a society but it is important to note that even the sadists know too well that the man at the helm of affairs of Nigeria today is not corrupt; he hates corruption and its associates and he will do anything constitutionally possible to crush them. He is rebuilding a totally broken country - reconstructing the spine of the Nigerian state and this has made hardship inevitable.

 

Muhammad Ajah is an advocate of humanity, peace and good governance in Abuja. E-mail mobah...@yahoo.co.uk.

[Joe Attueyi]

The Righteous Nigerian and the Rationality of Corruption

By Pius Adesanmi

Can Nigeria overcome corruption? Will Nigeria survive corruption?

The optimistic, overconfident Nigerian who offered me a “no shaking yes” to both questions was only able to do so because he successfully outed me as I tried to remain incognito and maintain a low profile at the hotel pool in Lagos. Retreating incognito to a hotel in Lagos to assess our warfront strategies in matters Nigeriana is something I often do with Omoyele Sowore.

This time in the summer of 2016, I was alone in a secluded corner of the poolside, trying not to look like me. I didn’t want the burden of public recognition which often ruins my attempts at privacy in Nigeria. 

It was evening and my niche on the poolside terrace was poorly-lit, increasing my chances of an uninterrupted time to unwind alone. On the table, in front of me, a half-finished big bottle of Orijin was trying unsuccessfully to help a bowl of nkwobi down my throat. I thought that the bottle was doing a poor job of accompaniment and blamed myself for believing that only one bottle could successfully accomplish the task of helping the nkwobi to its final resting place in my gut. 

I decided that the unsuccessful bottle would need help from at least two more bottles to guarantee the nkwobi’s funeral. I was about to order the reinforcement when I heard shrieks of excitement at the other end of the pool.

“Abi my eyes dey deceive me? No be Prof Pius Adesanmi I dey see yonder so?” My cover was blown. He was yelling in excitement, talking to everybody and nobody in particular, pointing at me. “Ah, it’s Prof o. I can’t believe this! Waiter, waiter, oya, bring my things, I am going to join Prof.”

By now he had reached my table, grabbed my hands in a ferocious handshake. I stood up and gave him a bear hug and we sat down to a familiar story: of how he had been reading me for over a decade; of how he had always prayed that he would meet me; of Sahara Reporters; of Omoyele Sowore; of how much he admires the work we do; of the need for us to ignore naysayers and detractors; of Nigeria. 

I listened with rapt attention, interjecting as appropriate to agree with him, keeping everything in a Pidgin laced with contemporary Nigerianisms and ijinle slangs.

“Ah, Prof, I can’t believe you still talk like this after so many years abroad. This is what I’ve been saying. You are not like some of our yeye people who will spend two months abroad and go begin dey yarn fone through the nose.” 

Then he appeared to notice what was on the table for the first time. 

“Ah, Prof, no be nkwobi you dey whack here so? And Orijin? Prof, you sef dey follow us quaff Orijin? Waiter!!! Waiter!!! Oya, bring more nkwobi for Prof and two bottles of Orijin.”

I protested vehemently and insisted I should be the one ordering him peppersoup and drinks. I was taking a dangerous gambit. Given Nigeria’s abysmal economic downturn, especially the economic doldrums supervised by President Buhari, the cultural schema of refusing hospitality and offering to pay for it, expecting the initiator of that social contract to insist on paying, no longer works. 

Luckily for my pocket, he stood his ground and insisted on paying for the orders. At this point, I confessed that I was about adding two bottles of Orijin to the tally when he recognized and hailed me.

We returned to Nigeriana. Like every Nigerian I know, he’s had it with Nigeria. Like every Nigerian I know, he is fed up with the Nigerian tragedy. He gives the standard speech: the failures of Nigeria; the trauma that is Nigeria; the self-inflicted wounds; the avoidable tragedies; and, of course, corruption. 

Like every Nigerian, he knows about or had heard stories of corruption that are much worse than the worst case scenario you know. Whatever you think you have heard about Nigeria’s corruption is always child’s play compared to what every other Nigerian has seen or heard.

 

If you go to town with the story of a Governor who just stole 20 billion naira, the first Nigerian you encounter has only just read somewhere that a Minister stole 20 trillion naira. Thus it was that my new friend dismissed every story I had to tell with, “shior, Prof, na dat one you dey call corruption? Dat one no be corruption now. Prof, you never hear say…” And he would regale me with the latest dizzying figures of heists by members of Nigeria’s political leadership.

And he moaned. And he lamented. Things took an interesting turn here. He said he had identified Nigeria’s problem: wickedness and greed. Corruption, he stated, is attributable to the unquenchable greed and wickedness of Nigerians. If only every Nigerian was like him, he continued, corruption would become a thing of the past. Nigeria, he concluded, will overcome corruption when those who are content with the deserved fruits of their labour outnumber the wicked and the greedy.

He returned again and again to the theme of his own righteousness. What Nigeria needs are more people like himself. That is why he admires my writing. That is why my Facebook Wall is a daily ritual for him. That is why he is in awe of Omoyele Sowore and Sahara Reporters. On and on he went.

I was intrigued by the thesis of his righteousness - the basis of his assurance that Nigeria can survive and overcome corruption. I realized that he still hadn’t even properly introduced himself. We had hugged and exchanged banter. He had ordered me nkwobi and two bottles of Orijin. He was by all accounts now part of my socius yet I still had no idea who he was. I love Africa! I deftly nudged the conversation in the direction of his identity.

As it turns out, he was with one of the numerous uniformed corps which litter Nigeria’s land borders. To enter Nigeria through any of her land borders – but most especially Seme – is to encounter a maze of uniforms processing you through an extremely long pipeline of corruption. Immigration passes you on to Customs who passes you on to NDLEA who passes you on to SON who passes you on to the Police who passes you on to the Army who passes you on to FRSC who passes you on to LASTMA. Repeat process several times till you get to Lagos. 

It is absolutely possible for immigration to check you for drugs while NDLEA tries to see if your passport is stamped. It is possible for FRSC to check you for smuggling while Customs tries to determine whether you are speeding.

My interlocutor works for one of Nigeria’s uniformed border nightmares. What he sees there daily is the basis of his exceptional righteousness. With considerable pain in his eyes, he told me stories of wickedness and greed; of the terrible things allowed into Nigeria daily after bribery – expired drugs, expired tires, and all sorts of goods long past expiry date. 

“Prof, people do this because they want to own ten jeeps and five mansions in Lekki and another five mansions in Maitama. You will allow somebody to smuggle tires that expired five years ago. You will allow somebody to smuggle drugs that expired five years ago. I don’t understand it. Prof, look at me, I have only two houses in this Lagos. We live in a duplex in Magodo. Then we have another house that we rent out. I have two jeeps and my wife drives a Venza. That is it. We are satisfied. Even God does not like ojukokoro."

He continued: "Left to me, anything that is more than one year past expiry date will never enter, but how can you say that to all our rotten Ogas at the top? They are the greedy ones. They are the wicked ones. So many times, I have risked my neck and job trying to say that we should not allow certain categories of goods that are more than two years past expiry date to be smuggled into the country but nobody listens.”

By this time, my mind had overcome the effect of alcohol and was now quite alert. Before me was sitting the summation of Nigeria’s unsolvable dilemma of corruption. Such are the layers and the encrustations that it is no longer possible for a morality of zero corruption to be the basis of national self-imagining. 

Thus, the righteous Nigerian is not the Nigerian who is not corrupt but one who still has a sufficient moral clarity to be alarmed by and be resentful of any corruption superior to his. Given this dynamic, overcoming corruption, in the understanding of way too many of our citizens, means minimizing and bringing it down to one’s level of rationalized individual corruption. 

One major reason which accounts for the intractable nature of corruption in Nigeria is that we pay scant attention to its rationality in our national experience. Why is the sort of individual corruption described above rational? 

I am talking about the rational, considerate, and compassionate corruption which allows drugs and tires only one or two years past expiration to be smuggled into Nigeria, unlike the wicked corruption which allows products up to five years past expiration to be smuggled. I am talking about the corruption which is content with accepting just enough bribes at the border to be able to afford a standard Western middle class life – one residential house, one rental property, two or three cars – as opposed to the wicked and unacceptable corruption which must have twenty mansions and twenty jeeps scattered between Lagos and Abuja.

What provides the rationality and legitimacy of the first kind of small-scale individual corruption in our national experience? It would be a simplistic mistake to attribute it singularly to Nigeria’s ontological unfairness. It is true that Nigeria is ontologically unfair by which I mean that there is no conceivable way to survive on an honest wage. In this case, corruption is the singular means of survival. Once your nose supplies your share of the oxygen required for life, only corruption can sustain it in your body to keep you alive. 

Does this ontological unfairness account for the rationality of corruption? It explains but does not account for it. What accounts for it is the death of symbolism in Nigeria’s national life – starting with its centres of power.

The sort of corruption which is rational can only be made irrational in the life of a nation and people when it confronts symbolism. If Nigeria had any chance to effectively confront the rationality of corruption, it was with the potential symbolism of President Buhari when he was elected. 

A few symbolic steps, never-before-seen in Nigeria’s orbit of power were required of him. No Nigerian in power has ever accounted for or retired campaign funds. Retirement of his funds – I am not even sure that many of our citizens understand what it means to retire campaign funds because it has never been part of their civic experience – would have been a first in our history. 

It would have meant a thorough auditing of his campaign fund raising and expenses with the attendant transparency of Nigerians knowing who funded the campaign. It would have meant a return of whatever was left to the party treasury to fund future campaigns. It would have implied other things that we need not go into here. Beyond campaign funds, beyond the Presidential fleet that he has immorally and amorally refused to reduce, we do not need to go into President Buhari’s extensive library of failed symbolism and failure to launch. His hostility to symbolism has had tragic consequences by not only undoing his anti-corruption war but also enhancing the rationality of corruption.

One such consequence is the way in which the work of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC) is failing to eventuate in any drastic systemic changes. You cannot do better than Professors Itse Sagay and Bolaji Owasanoye. They are among Nigeria’s very best. And they and their colleagues are deploying unmatchable genius and innovation to provide a thoroughgoing national canvass for fighting corruption. 

I was privileged to attend one of their brainstorming sessions in Abuja in the summer of 2016. It was a rich session, with so many brilliant ideas flying across the room.

However, I did warn the committee that the most brilliant idea, the most solid willpower on their part, still depends entirely on the willingness of the President to facilitate their work with symbolism. Without symbolic acts from the President, it will be impossible to reverse the rationality of corruption. For instance, a Director from the Federal Ministry of Information, who represented Lai Mohammed at the meeting, opined that to successfully combat corruption, the media must help the nation’s anti-corruption war with investigative journalism!

I couldn’t believe my ears. I reminded the Director that in our recent memory, Sahara Reporters, Premium Times and the defunct NEXT Newspapers – not to mention The Cable – all built their reputation almost exclusively on investigative journalism in the arena of corruption. Tolu Ogunlesi was in the room and I mentioned him as one of those rendered jobless when NEXT folded up due to a combination of factors ranging from poor management to hostility to its relentless investigative exposes into corruption under Goodluck Jonathan. President Jonathan even went on air to declare that newspaper an enemy.

What President Buhari lacks, I opined, is not help from investigative news media. Rather, it is the will to shift the paradigm with symbolic acts. President Jonathan greeted every investigative scoop into corruption around him with his trade mark, “I don’t give a damn”. President Buhari’s handling of the plethora of investigative scoops on the festering corruption of his lieutenants even makes the response of his predecessor sound like a responsible answer. 

At least his predecessor said he didn’t give a damn. Sahara Reporters has been screaming about the fetid and mammoth corruption of Abba Kyari, Dambazzau, Buratai and a host of other Buhari lieutenants and the President’s answer has been something like silence is the best answer for a fool. Who is going to buy into PACAC’s splendid work when, at every turn, the President who empanelled them pulls the rug from under their feet and shreds it with his poverty of symbolism?

This lack of symbolism, this lack of change, has other consequences. When the incumbent fails to supply the symbolism needed to unravel the rational bases of the corruption of the moment, the corruption of the past begins to acquire its own logic of rationality in the hands of witting and unwitting revisionists. 

You would have noticed by now that Dasuki has lost its capacity to shock – despite the daily revelations which have continued to drip. You would have noticed that despite the admissions of the key players in the Jonathan corruption industry – Diezani, Fayose, FFK, and the military officers facing trial – a space of rationality has been carved out to defend and make meaning of that plunder. I even recently read a “brilliant” expose saying that anybody who believes the Diezani heist figures must be sick.

Past corruption builds its rationality on the symbolic poverty of the incumbent. Those who betray the present do the most damage because they enable a rationality in which the past begins to appear to be not as bad as people had thought. And in the hands of brilliant revisionists and masters of discursive sleights of hand, the past can become really attractive. 

This revisionist imperative is what is going on when you read essays stating, “Jonathan never did; or Jonathan never said; or Jonathan never promised…” Don’t worry. If you dig into the archives, you will discover that Jonathan did or said or promised precisely what the author is denying. Buhari’s failures and betrayals of the people’s trust are the enablers of the revisionist impulse through which past corruption acquires rationality.

This is not limited to the Buhari-Jonathan dynamic. Just as President Buhari’s tragic failure has opened a window of rationality for the behemoth corruption supervised by Jonathan, Jonathan’s own failures also provided the window through which former President Obasanjo’s empire of corruption acquired rationality. 

Because Jonathan failed on the symbolism front during his own time, President Obasanjo who spent $16 billion on darkness, supervised Halliburton and Siemens, spent billions trying to buy NASS for his third term gamble, and exited Aso Rock as one of Africa’s richest men, is today strutting around the country chastising Jonathan and Buhari and giving lectures on corruption.

From the foregoing, it should be obvious that fighting corruption is but one small step of a huge journey. Addressing the modes of its acquisition of rationality is a more significant step. This acquisition of rationality is a function of the supply of symbolism – or lack thereof – by the incumbent.

President Buhari is again in London on a medical safari at public expense. His staff also jaunt to London for toothache at public expense. Given this reality, how am I supposed to deny a righteous Nigerian the rationality of his own individual corruption at a poolside in Lagos? I have no moral basis to do this because there is no symbolism from the top.

But I have a pragmatic basis to appeal to the righteous Nigerian to resist the temptation of using the symbolic failures of the buccaneers in the 1% as the rationalising alibi for his own individual corruption. President Buhari and members of the political class have no stake in Nigeria. Your Pastors and Imams have no stake in Nigeria. Their children are not in Nigeria. The bulk of their property is scattered from Dubai to New York via London.

 

When unbridled corruption sinks Nigeria, there will be no democracy of consequences. The tragedy will be borne exclusively by the 99%, not the 1%. The Yoruba say that when the sky falls, it is everybody’s burden. That does not apply to Nigeria’s liabilities. Those who stole billions and trillions will disappear overseas with their children. 

You, stealing crumbs to survive and using the mega-corruption of the one percenters to rationalize your own individual corruption, have no place to go. The consequences of Nigeria’s unraveling will be borne by you and your children. It therefore behoves you to identify with any of the nascent values movements in the country.

The build-up towards 2019 is not singularly about politics. Beyond politics, there are energies being mobilized towards a renaissance of values by those who look at the bigger picture beyond 2019 and understand that the practice of democracy every four years will always be consumed by the rationality of corruption until we fight and win other wars on other fronts – notably the values front.

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[Abraham Madu]

Which one? Fred's dissection of the Yorubas or the holy books as literatures. By Maazi Daniel Akusobi

Maazi Daniel Akusobi,

Both .

Maazị Fredrick Ọnwụmbiko did a good analysis of Yoruba profile , HO! HA!

An ignoble and bestial character of the Yorubas, is the result of the continued harboring of groveling thoughts from Awolowo free awụufu education,kpọm kwem!

Ya kpọtụba!

Ya gazie.

Ụmụ nne Abrahamụọgụ Aṅụsịobi Madụ

On Friday, January 27, 2017 6:24 PM, daniel Akusobi <daku...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ho ha,

Which one? Fred's dissection of the Yorubas or the holy books as literatures?

I just read Fred and his analysis of the root of Nigeria's problems.

He said Yorubas had the contract of designing policies with which NIGERIA managed everybody following the war. Most he said, were anti Igbo. He said all the failed policies were because they were crafted by Awo's free education products. Since the education was substandard, he argued, most of what they used it for, for Nigeria , are half baked, Ill fated and inconsequential towards any progress.

I think he said too, or implied most Igbo problems in Nigeria following the war were caused by the Yorubas.

Fred never failed .

Dan

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 7:01 PM FREDRICK ONWUMBIKO <fonwu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Abraham,

This is hilarious, good job.

Fredrick

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 9:39 PM, 'Abraham Madu' via OkonkwoNetworks <okonkwo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

 

Self defense is not a crime.

With this weapon you are save.Don't mind that crap in Isaiah 54:17 " No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord , and their righteousness is of me, saih the Lord."

"No weapon that is formed against the shall prosper.." Not this weapon, not even knife that you are talking about. This weapon here will send you quickly to that your LORD my foot.
This man is wise man,HO! HA! He can reason like a reasonable person. Nobody in his or her right mind will pay any attention to this Jewish books of dogma--bible and Koran and Tora.
Just read them as a literature as I do.

Rev. Chukwuemeka Reuben Ọkala is that you?

I told you don’t be afraid.

You are now thinking like a human being with brain in you skull.

Congratulations !

Now you prove that bible dogma wrong that teaches you to turn the other cheek.

Thou shall not kill.

Gun in the hand of a Rev. Father is a weapon that can save and kill at the same time.

If this is not you Reverend Chukwuemeka Reuben Ọkala, go get one,HO! HA!

You really needs protection badly.

Ya kpọtụba!

Ya gazie.

Ụmụ nne Abrahamụọgụ Aṅụsịobi Madụ.

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If only you had attended Awo awufu schools.......

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"Abraham Madu is an illiterate who pretends to be semi literate.".....Ayo Ojutalayo. 

Comment:

"WAO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Ya kpọtụba!

Ya gazie." (Apologies Abraham A. Madu - the illiterate who pretends to be semi literate).

 

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Here come the biafra nazis again with their malicious hatred of the Yoruba ...

These bestial characters don't deserve to be treated better than the beast they are ...

And if they think their hatred of the Yoruba will make the Yoruba into what they think, they are thoughtless.

Those who drink the cup of hatred will drown in their own cups.

Those who have ears ...

O.E.

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"An ignoble and bestial character of the Yorubas,"

Which of these words is true of the Yoruba outside of someone expressing their hatred?

There's nothing to debate in a statement of hate. 

Such statements ensure that all other considerations are not on the table.

Those who have ears ...

O.E.

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Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:17 PM
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O E

You just proved Fred right again with your half line sentence reaction to Fred's .

 Remember, Fred accused Afis of same and attributed it to what he called the failures of Awo's free education. 

Common sense dictates you refute a word or a sentence or any ideas Fred has conveyed you believe to be false. 

Igbos say; nmadu ime ishi ka nhe akoro ya, wu ajo nhe. 

Thanks.

Dan

[maxim...@yahoo.com]

And as for the Yoruba, who think jerusalem, mecca or rome will save you...

The only interpretation of such statements as these directed at the Yoruba from any quarter is:

Anyone who characterizes you as ignoble and bestial will not wait for you to refute them. They will only want to eradicate anything they think has such "character".

Arm yourselves and watch those who herewith/hereby declare themselves as your existential enemies.

The hutu said the same thing about the Tutsi for years (it did not matter that they had intermarried for generations), just as the nazis said about the jews in germany, and then took machetes to them killing 800,000 souls in 100 days, including their own blood relatives. 

jerusalem, rome, mecca, washington, london or paris did not come to their rescue or stop the hutu. 

Those who have ears ...

O.E.

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Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:19 PM
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[maxim...@yahoo.com]

There is no place for any form of discussion with anyone who dares to think another is ignoble or bestial talk less of both.

Those who have ears ...

O.E.

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Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:50 PM
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Maxima,

Again, what did Fred say you disagree with?

Let's try this;

Did Awolowo give his people free education?

Was he a minister  during the war?

Was Awo and some of his tribal intelligentsia involved in drafting Nigerian national policies and implementing them in Nigeria ?

Do you agree the policies were defective or badly managed by him and the national governments he supported? 

Do you think Nigeria has, anytime, witnesseed a good governance or

Do you believe we, Nigeria, would have been better,  if our natural resources were managed with visionary integrity and 

If your answer is NO,

Would you say the cause of our failures were you and me, that is, if you were ever in any position of authority in Nigeria,  or by the managers or they failed because they were no good? 

Did we have a Yoruba become HoS and president and another , a momentary president of Nigeria?  

And if you agree the ball stops at the president's court;

Would anyone be wrong to allege a Yoruba or Yoruba presidents of Nigeria and the Yoruba intelligentsia that drafted policies that would be bad for Nigeria forever, also failed and

If Nigeria hired them because they flaunted some university degrees, and the products of their intelligentsia are questionable because they smell,

Would it make sense to question the education system that produced them?

Dan

[maxim...@yahoo.com]

Hatred is not debatable ...

Those who have ears ...

O.E.

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Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:50 PM
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Maxima,

Again, what did Fred say you disagree with?

Let's try this;

Did Awolowo give his people free education?

Was he a minister  during the war?

Was Awo and some of his tribal intelligentsia involved in drafting Nigerian national policies and implementing them in Nigeria ?

Do you agree the policies were defective or badly managed by him and the national governments he supported? 

Do you think Nigeria has, anytime, witnesseed a good governance or

Do you believe we, Nigeria, would have been better,  if our natural resources were managed with visionary integrity and 

If your answer is NO,

Would you say the cause of our failures were you and me, that is, if you were ever in any position of authority in Nigeria,  or by the managers or they failed because they were no good? 

Did we have a Yoruba become HoS and president and another , a momentary president of Nigeria?  

And if you agree the ball stops at the president's court;

Would anyone be wrong to allege a Yoruba or Yoruba presidents of Nigeria and the Yoruba intelligentsia that drafted policies that would be bad for Nigeria forever, also failed and

If Nigeria hired them because they flaunted some university degrees, and the products of their intelligentsia are questionable because they smell,

Would it make sense to question the education system that produced them?

Dan

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 7:19 PM <maxim...@yahoo.com> wrote:

[maxim...@yahoo.com]

"An ignoble and bestial character of the Yorubas,"

When these words are analyzed, it becomes apparent that the writer, who expresses such opinion is filled with hatred for whatever they seem to be describing. Thus their idea of "research" is to go and find the most demonic descriptions, which white people have used against Africans, to describe the Yoruba.

These same words have been used by caucasians to describe Africans and non caucasians, using them to justify crimes against the humanity of their targets. Read Frederic W. Farrar: Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London Vol. 5 (1867), pp. 115-126.also, herewith attached. A totally fraudulent and malicious, hate-filled, anti-intellectual, anti-human claim by a so-called "intellectual" in a so-called "intellectual" "journal". those are the ones that people believe should know the "facts" when anything they spew is everything but fact.

And if that does not convince you, read the article in a so-called christian baptist newspaper of 1910: The Standard

The Standard

This is the kind of material they read and come up with intellectually fraudulent and deceitful statements that they use to pretend to justify and cloak their hatred against the Yoruba. And anyone who doubts this can check the discussion fora, to see if there is any single week or month in the past 20 years that they have not made similar statements against the Yoruba cloaking it in their so-called "biafra" movement and hiding behind their tribal cloak, when all they are doing is using their ethnicity as a cloak for their hatred of the Yoruba.

Definitely, biafra nazis like achebe, or whatever his name, have succeeded in passing their hatred to some unsuspecting younger generations.

More generations down the line, we should not be surprised to see the heart of darkness being perpetrated by these inheritors of hatred on African peoples, starting with escalating their hitherto covert attacks on the Yoruba, including the recent one on the Redeemed church, trying to dictate governance and pretending that their target was financial accountability. 

They even sided with a known hater of black people in trump, trying to cloak that in their warped idea of "freedom," when their actual intent is subjugation and destruction of their victims, especially the Yoruba.

Anyone who happens to be their target, like the Yoruba are, should never take them lightly. 

Unto thy tent, O Israel ...

Those who have ears ...

O.E.

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[Joe Attueyi]

Life in America: Rising Sun

BY IKHIDE R. IKHELOA (NNAMDI)  JULY 20, 2002

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It is dawn in America. Spring is coming. I think the trees are excited about the coming re-birth of the earth. The trees, they are lined up along the boulevard to nowhere, brown gods holding up the sky, the beginning of green rising from their roots, harbinger of the coming of the sun. Spring is coming and I think I should pick myself up from where I got shoved off life’s train, find my hat and my chewing stick and continue on in search of what I do not know. For it has been several moons now, when shock garroted my voice box and left me a speechless gesticulating lunatic running alongside a train gone crazy. This is the rotted echo of a voice gone unused for several seasons. Be patient, listen and the wind rush thru this valley will eventually make sense to one of you.

What I tell you about America is what I know. America is like the big elephant that is surrounded by a hamlet of blind people. The heart talks about that which it touches. I am one blind person and I tell you of that part of the elephant which my inquisitive hands have touched. America is like a marriage; you have to be in it to understand it. But I shall tell you of that which my feverish hands touch. Sit down and I shall tell you a story.

The road.
It is another Saturday morning in America and I am up. My wife is gone to the hospital where she ekes out a living from snatching the wretched from the valley of death. It is quiet and dark in our townhouse. Cecilia, my trusty laptop is sitting on the kitchen’s island, its monitor’s glow bathing the kitchen in the warmth of its night light. Sometimes I think Cecilia has eyes and a mind. This morning I think it is mocking the frailty of my creative juices.

My wife is gone for the weekend and I am alone with my four children. Soon, the boys will peel their itty-bitty eyes open and I shall have to give them a bath. They love hanging out in the bathtub. Getting them out of the bathtub is like wrestling sharp-toothed alligators in a Florida swamp, and I am not looking forward to the ordeal. I don’t like weekends in America. My wife, my best friend works all weekend and not having her around hurts. When our children go to bed on Friday, they don’t see my wife, their mother until Monday morning when we rouse them up to go to school. So all day Saturday and all day Sunday our four children have me to torment until Monday morning.

As tough as life is for me as a man in America, I think that it must be harder on the woman. I look around me and my wife has everything organized to minimize my hardship, if that is possible. The boys’ diapers are arranged in a neat pile on the crib that we bought that they never use. The boys sleep with us, coiled tightly in fetal positions, deeply comforted by the warmth of our stressed out bodies. The children’s clothes are laid out neatly on the spare bed in the other room that will be theirs when they grow up, the room that is now used by the weekly pilgrimage of immigrant relatives from Nigeria come try their luck in the new Lagos, the new gamble that is America. My wife has laid out all of the children’s clothes; clothes for roughing it, clothes for the birthday party of the week, and pajamas for everybody. The food for the weekend was cooked yesterday night – rice of various colors and styles – white, yellow, fried, and jollof rice, ogbono soup, egusi soup, okro soup, pounded yam wrapped in aluminum foil to keep it warm, for the children, macaroni and cheese, spaghetti and meatballs, ravioli, and all sorts of breakfast foods that Westerners (and my children) eat. Things like eggs, sausage, bread, croissants, and breakfast drinks like orange juice and apple juice. Boy we must have grown up severely malnourished in Nigeria. I can recite the exact date that an all-knowing uncle fed us sausages in Nigeria. Man that was quite a production. My father worried that his in-law, our uncle was trying to ruin his children with delicacies like Satis sausages! I always laugh when I see a platter of fried eggs. I remember the joke about a mother in-law who went to visit her son and daughter in-law in Lagos. The daughter in-law wanting to impress the old lady put her on a daily regimen of fried eggs. When the old lady returned to the village, she wailed that her son had been cursed with a wife that was so extravagant she ate the eggs before they hatched! She should see America. The eggs are eaten before they are laid!

The only thing I have to do all weekend is feed the children, make sure that the boys are dry and generally keep the peace until my wife returns from work. I think it is harder to be a woman immigrant in America but I can’t prove it because you see, I am not a woman. Can you imagine what it must be like to put in 12 hours at work earning minimum wage, come home to the kitchen to cook for your husband and children, serve them food, clean up after them and go to bed to most probably satisfy your husband before you go to sleep? And all the time while you are pregnant and or nursing a baby? I can’t imagine it because, you see, I am a man.

The Nigerian woman in America is fighting a losing battle – holding on to a tradition that is sadly out of alignment with the reality of our existence in America. And the Nigerian man is fighting a losing battle – holding on to archaic traditions that demand that the husband should ignore menial tasks in the home. The increasing burden on the woman to be a super housewife is an unbearable burden on the marriage that keeps the divorce rate very high among Nigerian couples living in America.

“Daddy! I can’t eat this anymore! I am going to throw up!”

I retrieve the breakfast from my 5-year old daughter and wolf it down myself. The daily ritual of eating what my kids will not eat saves me from making meals for myself. American children! Can you imagine turning down a breakfast of croissants, eggs, sausage and orange juice?

The stress of living in America is unspeakable; it is beyond the telling of it. Sometimes I think that I should have never left Nigeria. I remember visiting Nigeria several years ago deep in the heat of the shame that was the Abacha-Diya regime. Years of driving taxicabs on the streets of America for a living had reduced me to a shriveled coconut of a man. I was so embarrassed at how I looked, a couple of weeks before I left for Lagos, I enlisted the help of a crash diet of protein enriched drinks, mountains of foofoo, spaghetti, and vitamin pills, all in a vain bid to put on weight before my departure. In Nigeria, I listened with skepticism as ruddy-cheeked Nigerians wept buckets over their Stout and Gulder as they described in gory detail their “suffering” in the hands of Abacha and fellow hoodlums. I didn’t tell them then, but I would have killed to exchange their suffering for a pair of ruddy cheeks.

I listened to their tales of woe and decided not to compete with them in the macabre “woe is me” story-telling category. I wasn’t going to win. How do you compete with a tale of suffering in a country held hostage by a most evil dictator? How do you explain that there is suffering in the land of freedom – America? Before I came to America, I didn’t believe the tales of suffering that my friends in America scrawled on the backs of color photographs. I thought they were trying to make me envious for being stuck in Nigeria. When I read Nnamdi Azikiwe’s great book, My Odyssey, I laughed hard at Azikiwe’s tales of suffering in America. Sleek Nnamdi, I thought he was trying to keep the beautiful secret that is America to himself. I know better now. Armed with enough degrees to take Nigeria to the moon and back, I have become an expert on virtually any menial job that exists in America. I have done dishes for a million restaurants, changed diapers on incontinent elderly Americans, been shot at while being a security guard, and I have had a near-death experience while being a cab driver. 

Driving a cab in America is beyond backbreaking work; it is the closest to indentured servitude that I have ever experienced. You wake up at the crack of dawn and start ferrying passengers from one potentially dangerous place to another. You have little choice in the matter because all requests for cab service are called into the central office and the dispatcher assigns passengers to you by radio. I hated taking passengers to poor neighborhoods because your chances of not being robbed and perhaps badly hurt were very low. You just prayed that you were not assigned to a poor neighborhood because all the way there and back you almost wet your pants anticipating that bullet with your name on it. Cab driving is a dangerous, dangerous job but it put food on the table and it helped satisfy some of the insane requests for money via Western Union from home. This one day, my bullet came calling. The very minute I picked up these two youngsters, I just knew I was in trouble. You could sense the tension in the cab; the hairs at the back of my neck were literally wetting their own pants begging for mercy. The young men said very little to me as I drove them downtown to the area we cab drivers dreaded so much, we called it Beirut. I could tell I was in trouble as soon as they directed me to a point I knew from experience was a dead end. Even before I stopped, I could feel the gun at the nape of my neck, “Give it up, asshole!” one of them barked. I wet my pants right there. I had just started working that morning and I had only eight dollars on me. I gave the other chap the eight dollars on me and that seemed to infuriate the thug with the gun.

“DON’T FUCK WITH ME, KUNTA KINTE!! I SAID GIVE IT UP!”

I mumbled something about not having any more on me and he pressed the gun against my head and I closed my eyes as I heard something click from inside the gun. As I always do when I am under stress, I started a silent prayer to the gods of my forefathers for deliverance, if not, for forgiveness, I started a silent prayer for my dead grandfather to come get me out of there. In the darkness of my consciousness as I was waiting for death to free me from the horror of my existence, a siren started wailing our way and I heard the other chap without the gun, the chap with my money scream for them to run away from the cops. They thug with the gun hit me savagely with the butt of the gun and they both fled. I was on the street bleeding profusely when the ambulance with the siren wailed right past me perhaps to save the relatives of the thugs that had just traumatized me. A wailing ambulance had saved my life. The thugs had thought that the siren was a police cruiser coming our way. My cousin, Monday, was not that lucky. They took his two dollars and killed him anyway. I performed the awful rite of passage of going to the morgue to identify his body. That was ten years ago. His mother still moans in the dark, waiting for a son that will never come back.

So my wife decreed that cab driving for me was out of the question. And in return for that principled decision, she remained the major, at times, sole breadwinner of the family. I stayed at home to take care of our four children and perhaps to write that great novel. It was a burden that kept her tired all the time and one that invited medical ailments of mysterious origin that doctors ascribed to stress. She must rest, they said, but how, when, and why, when the demands on our family wouldn’t go away? She disagreed with me, but it was a most unfair burden that kept me wrapped in guilt. Sometimes it seems that in this new dispensation, it is the extended family system that nurtured us that is trying to bring us down. We cannot cope with the economic demands of everyone in Nigeria. But they don’t understand. Who was it that said the extended family system spreads poverty, not wealth?

The end of the road.
She has been crying. Tomorrow I start driving my taxicab again. She has been crying. All day she has been crying, wiping her face with the wrapper that my mother brought her to strap the boys to her back with. That was on mama’s last trip to America. Her last trip, she said. The pain of watching her children suffer so in an alien land was too much for her ancient heart. Don’t invite me back to America, she said; I won’t come. Send me the money for the air ticket through Western Union. And I shall eat and drink and not knowing shall delay my sadness.

Yes, tomorrow, I start driving my taxicab again. I have the same cab, the one the police returned to me, scrubbed clean of my blood. I have been drinking. They let you drink before they shoot you. It dulls the pain. The scotch giggling on the cold rocks of ice drains the fear from my beating heart. When the kidneys flush the scotch down the bathroom, the fear returns. And I must drink again. I don’t want to go out there in that cab, but our needs outweigh the terror wetting my pants.

I am the new warrior, the reincarnation of my father the warrior who was the reincarnation of his father the warrior. My father died for somebody’s dream of one Nigeria. Every morning he would go out to fight. And every morning my mother would cry. One day my father did not return, felled by the bullets of the thug that has Ikeja International Airport named after him. I am the new warrior, ashes born of the massacre in Asaba.

Leaning against the tired walls of her dreams

In this smoke-filled alcohol soaked tavern

She stared at the solo horn gasping for breath

Sobbing wailing sweet sorrow into the limp air

Of an alien land relentlessly hostile to her dreams

And wading listlessly through the fog

Of this smoke-filled alcohol soaked tavern

She handed me her PhD and her pocket book of dreams

I’ll be right back, she said, don’t worry, I can still do it

And with the solo horn leading the way

Through the bush path of her childhood

She stood on this one spot

And with her nimble feet and her eyes of dreams she told me

Of a distant past that soothes today’s pain that won’t go away

And as her feet and her eyes brought joy and tears to my heart

I raised my gourd to my lips

And drank deep from the pain of knowing and not knowing.

Sent from my iPhone

[afis 'Deinde]

"For it has been several moons now, when shock garroted my voice box and left me a speechless gesticulating lunatic running alongside a train gone crazy. This is the rotted echo of a voice gone unused for several seasons.".......Ikhide Nnamdi.

Igbos always going crazy.

Once it was Azikwe who tried to kill himself by lying on a train track.

Now this fella Ikhide wanna kill himself again.

And Igbos don't need Dr Osuji?

Afis

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Please assist in publishing in our beloved news outfit. Thank you very much for your cooperation.

 

Re: Buhari’s opponents behind Southern Kaduna crisis

By Muhammad Ajah

 

If the truth must be told about the killing in Southern Kaduna, nothing can be more convincing than the proclamation by the Northern Nigeria Christian Politicians (NNCP), though the crises predate the present federal and state governments. Many religious and non-religious bodies as well as responsible citizens have revealed it all. Why are the communal clashes in Kaduna South given such acute attention and always given religious coloration. There are hundreds of recorded communal wars all over Nigeria; some are still unresolved in the southern part of the country. But the truth again is that religion has remained an attractive tool used to ensnare sympathizers and catch national and international attentions.

 

Herdsmen have killed hundreds of Nigerians most of whom are Muslims of the north. Boko Haram was started by targeting churches and Christians. Gradually, the truth revealed that Muslims were the prime target and it is today unarguable that more Muslims have been killed by Boko Haram terrorists who were presumed to be Muslims. During the peak of the Boko Haram terrorism, reports were recorded of arms and bags of hijab found in big churches in the north. There are recorded reports of Boko Haram members caught with the cross hung on their necks. There were reports of arms throttling and importations. What do all these reveal? Conspiracy against Muslims and Islam! The recurring false alarms of unfounded attempts to Islamize Nigeria!   

 

In Ebonyi, Cross River, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Benue, Bono, Plateau, amongst others, Nigerian people have been killed in communal wars over land and claims on ancestral heritages. Writing on ‘the Bloodbath in Southern Kaduna’, Simon Kolawole queried why the issue of framing is at play, believing that it has been successfully framed in the media as a religious war. “This is understandable”, he postulated because the Southern Kaduna is predominantly Christian and the Fulani herders are Muslims. It is, therefore, expected to be cast as Christians vs Muslims rather than Kaura, Sanga et al vs Fulani herders. This is the same way, according to him, the Berom vs Fulani in Jos north was cast as Christians vs Muslims. “It just so happens that people in the same local grouping are not unlikely to be of the same religion. Ethno-religious framing is thus inevitable, even if the core issues have nothing to do with religion.”

 

Why are these ‘men of God’ so interested in Kaduna state, despite Christians are killing themselves or pagans killing them in communal wars in many states of the federation? Investigations have shown that some pastors – men of God – fix televisions in their churches and dedicate greater parts of their service time showing followers how Islam is a common enemy. They play video records of wars inside the churches to convince their followers that Muslims are their number one enemies.  This attitude must be stopped because no learned imam would fix audio-visuals in Mosques to preach hate speech and instigate followers. However, the existence of political imams cannot be foreclosed.    

 

Yes, Nigerian clamour for peace and unity. They say they want development. But why are the Christian citizens, always backed by the media, furious against Islam and Muslims in Nigeria. How many cases unconnected to religion that have nearly caused religious upheavals in Nigeria! Everything the Muslims do, according to their Islamic injunctions, is envied by Christians. Look at the national pilgrimage body. Look at attempts to institute Christian courts. Look at the Ese-Orurugate, despite thousands of female teenagers are daily abused in villages. Name them.

 

What do these people gain by instigating the killing of innocent citizens other than political relevance and gains? Truly, because the media both local and outside are in the hands of the non-Muslims, nothing is more threatening. It is preferable to use the word ‘non-Muslims’ because the Christians have allowed themselves to be ready tools in the hands of the Jews to fight Islam and Muslims. Why must Christians allow themselves to be used to destabilize Nigeria through the hidden agenda of “Islamization’ of Nigeria. Migrant herdsmen who have lived peacefully with their hosts across the country have suddenly become violent due to instigation by some political elements in the society. Some have even started calling on the Christians to boycott consumption of cow meat in their presumed attempt to stagnate Muslims’ economy.

 

This accusation against the herdsmen has been refuted, however, by the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN). Speaking at a press conference in Kaduna, the Assistant National Secretary General of the group, Ibrahim Abdullahi, denied a newspaper story that members of the group had carried out attacks in Godogodo last September. He called on herdsmen nationwide and in particular Southern Kaduna to disregard the article and remain law abiding.

 

Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, in an interview described the Kaduna South brouhaha as fuelled by twisted reports, desperate politics and hate preaching. According to him, so many things have gone wrong including the breakdown of society that has to be rebuilt. Beyond this, he said, there is a lot to worry about concerning politics and religiosity and even media coverage of the crisis. “I think it needs to be more enlightened, balanced and evenly handled. It is a crisis where communities are fighting one another and when you read media reports, it is just one side of the story of the victims that is being told.”

 

He noted that involved are Muslims and Christians killing each other but people report only one part of the community suffering which is the misinterpretation of the facts. Politics has a role in all of these things. “Don’t forget that Southern Kaduna is the only PDP senatorial district in the entire North-West and that has implications for the way politics is run. There is a lot of interest; the PDP is interested and is assuming someone wants to use force to capture this place. The PDP, the media and everyone is throwing things into this thing. So, we have to de-escalate by ensuring balanced media reports, depoliticize the situation and the sermonization of some of the religious leaders. We have seen lately, for instance, there have been this video going viral all over the country that people should be killed.

 

However, Northern Nigeria Christian Politicians (NNCP) is touched by the truth therein. They believe that that the perpetrators of the crisis are political opponents of the government, who are out to discredit the administration ahead of 2019 general elections. Chairman of NNCP, Hon. Keftin Amuga, at a press briefing in Abuja, called on President Buhari not to give in to such political. He argued that the group is grieved over the crisis and those in neighboring Nasarawa, Benue, Plateau and Taraba states and condemns it in its entirety. “We, therefore, demand that the federal government arrests and prosecutes both the masterminds and the foot soldiers”.

 

As remedy, he urged northern governors, traditional rulers and political elite of both faiths in the region to be honest enough to admit the root cause of the endless crisis in the region, and join President Buhari in finding genuine solution that would bring about development to the region.

[Joe Attueyi]

Air, You're Under Arrest!

By Pius Adesanmi

President Buhari's administration, its supporters and well-wishers, do not want Tu Baba to have his say in a democracy. They do not want him to organize a protest against the direction of Nigeria under President Buhari's supervision.

They have denigrated him.

They have abused him.

They have abused his father and mother.

Those who defend the musician's right to agonize and organize in a democracy have been surprised by the ferocity of those determined to silence the man.

I think that Mr. Innocent Idibia's traducers - the Buhari administration and its voices in the public sphere - have a better understanding of history than those who are acting surprised and are blindsided by the ferocity of the opposition to Mr. Idibia's planned protest.

Let's be clear: I support and endorse that protest and the spirit which informs it. If I were in the country, I'd join it to protest against the failures and the shortcomings of the current administration and insist on better, responsible, and accountable governance. 

If we cede Nigeria to the crude and primitive instincts of those who would have us perish even the mere thought of peaceful and legitimate protest in a democracy just because they deify President Buhari, we are totally finished. A Nigeria in which the right to protest is demonized cannot contain us and such people.

It is instructive that many of those who are attempting to prevent legitimate protests against President Buhari in Nigeria see no contradiction whatsoever in hailing legitimate protests against President Trump in another democracy in faraway America. Perhaps we should not be surprised because irony and the Nigerian have never been good friends.

I said that the Buhari administration and its supporters who are trying to block Mr. Idibia's right to dissent have a better handle on history than those who are surprised by the state's reaction.

Come with me.

Centuries before Christ, in ancient Greece precisely, a fellow called Orpheus became the perfect embodiment of poetic genius in music. It was said that his father, the god Apollo, gave him a lyre and taught him to play it. Orpheus became the greatest musician in the universe. The world obeyed the command of his art. Rivers, mountains, animals, and humans all melted when he played the lyre. He fell in love with a beautiful lady called Eurydice. 

Misfortune happens to this perfect love story and his wife died and descended to Hades - the underworld. Orpheus had one power, one weapon that no force could withstand - his music. With his lyre, he was able to descend to Hades, cross the dangerous Stygian realm, charm Cerberus the monster with three heads, and gain admission into the presence of Pluto, the god of the Underworld, whose heart he melted with music and retrieved his wife.

Nothing was able to withstand or block the liberating capacity of the music of Orpheus. Orpheus had served notice to humanity that music liberates. Music frees people from tyranny. Such is the awesome power of the musician.

Such is the awesome power of the musician. Fast forward to several centuries after Christ, in 13th-century Germany, the people of the little village of Hamelin were in bondage. The bondage of rat infestation. Doctors could not save them from that bondage. Armies could not save them from that bondage. A single musician and his pipe saved them. He also of course had the capacity to punish them for failing to compensate him as promised. Just as the Pied Piper of Hamelin used his music to lure the rats away, he lured the children away. Such is the awesome power of the musician.

Such is the awesome power of the musician. In Jericho, the invading Israelites had to make the transition from professional soldiers to professional musicians. They laid down their arms and blew trumpets. And the Wall of Jericho fell. Such is the awesome power of the musician.

Such is the awesome power of the musician. In folktale after folktale after folktale after folktale, Ijapa the tortoise uses song and music to conquer, to overcome, to liberate, to bring down tyranny in the Yoruba world. Such is the awesome power of the musician.

Such is the awesome power of the musician. If you watch the documentary, Amandla (find it on YouTube), you will gain an understanding of the fact that it was song and music that brought down Apartheid in South Africa. You will hear former Apartheid police officers and security forces declare that they were more afraid of the song and the chanting "of the blecks" (Blacks in South African English) than the stones and the bullets of the anti-apartheid fighters. Such is the awesome power of the musician.

The man who finds favour with the Muses and they invest the art of music in him immediately becomes an existential threat to power because he is in possession of a weapon that has been the nemesis of power throughout history. Whether he is singing or just operating in the secular realm of a protest beyond musical performance, he is still an existential threat to power.

This explains why the Buhari administration and its supporters are so afraid of Mr. Innocent Idibia. This explains why they are so jittery. And this explains why their reaction and hysterics should be familiar to those who have read enough books to understand the history of such reactions to the musician.

The Nigerians trying to stop the artist have ancestors dating all the way back to ancient Greece - agents of power and forces of reaction who have always tried to catch the wind and arrest the air. Sadly, they will go the way of all those who have tried to arrest the air before them. They will go the way of those who have tried to "arrest the music", to borrow the title of Tejumola Olaniyan's excellent book.

If you are a blind Buhari supporter, Mr. Innocent Idibia is not your problem. President Buhari is. Face him and tell him to up his game and deliver on his electoral promises. You did not elect him to run Nigeria catastrophically on auto-pilot as he is currently doing. At any rate, if you are a patriot, your loyalty will always be to Nigeria and not to any President.

If you belong in Team Nigeria, the team of transcendental non-partisan patriots who believe that Nigeria is bigger than anyone, including the President, and his supporters must consequently not be allowed to reduce Nigeria to a theocracy run by their god, defend Mr. Innocent Idibia's right to protest. Support him.

Physically, they may shut down that protest or even prevent him from holding it. Don't worry. Mr. Idibia is an artist. He has song. He has music. He is beyond them.

Let them continue to arrest the air.

It's their funeral.

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[Joe Attueyi]

Quit Asking Me to Take it Easy on Buhari 

Farouq Kperogi 

Over the last several hours, I have been inundated with a steady stream of impassioned pleas from many well-placed and not so well-placed Nigerians, including the emir of my hometown, requesting me to “please take it easy on Buhari.” I thought it is Buhari that should be pleaded with to take it easy on Nigerians so that I won’t have a reason to call him out on his incompetence and insensitivity. Believe you me, it’s no fun being openly critical of a person whose candidature I staked my reputation to promote, and in whom I invested enormous confidence and hope.

If Buhari actually had a clue and was governing well and wasn’t wasteful, protective of corrupt associates while pretending to be fighting corruption, insensitive to the plight of the poor, clannish, clueless, incompetent, etc., I would have been one of the proudest people today. I would have been glad to gloat and say, “You see, I told you this man can do it! He is the change we needed!” But he has made Nigeria way worse than he met it—and that says a heck of a whole lot given where we thought we were before now.

Nigeria is at its most perilous state right now. Everything is falling apart. Suffering has reached dizzyingly crushing heights. The poor cannot feed, and relentless hyperinflationary conflagration is eating up the middle class and dragging it to the ranks of the desperately poor. Nothing is working. It was customary to say that the country was on autopilot during Jonathan’s days. Now it has come to a standstill. And people want us to be quiet? What sort of conscience do people have? I would rather be dead than be quiet. As Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” That’s what I told my emir. And that’s what I am telling everyone who is asking me to “take it easy on Buhari.” No, it is Buhari who should take it easy on Nigerians.

I DID NOT want, DO NOT want, and WON’T EVER want, a job, ANY job, from this government. I made this crystal clear in my April 4, 2015 column titled “After the Euphoria, What President-elect Buhari Needs to Know.” No government job in Nigeria can give me the comfort and fulfillment I have here. All I want is for the government to actually GOVERN and make life bearable.

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[Otitigbe Obadiah Oghoerore Alegbe PhD]

Joe Attueyi, The Akunakuna of African Forum.

Na who you sleep with last night wey him pay you fine fine?

No be you dey support Buhari before?

Wilson Iguade,please bring some Olokun holy water to cleanse this our Pastor brother.

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Abba my good and cerebral brother, you are making me cough the way that's not healthy. Please keep your integrity intact by not rubbing Buhari's mud on yourself.  Nigerians are not finding it funny any longer to trivialize the hardship the present leadership has visited on them. As a sound intellectual, you should not be told that politics and governance are entirely different things even though related. 

Enjoy your peace bro. 

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My good brother,

I find the ``take it easy on Buhari" claim to be rather strange.  I (and many others I know) have openly criticized PMB and/or his government....and no one has ever called me and ask me to ``take it easy on Buhari".   I know (and interact with) quite a number of Buhari's people at the Rock and elsewhere, and I do not recall a single instance when any of them mentioned this particular writer.  Another good and obvious example is that no one criticizes the President than you .....and I doubt if anyone (including our beloved Oba of Ajegunle and beyond) has called you and asked you to ``put a sock in it".    The writer seems to enjoy placing himself in the thick of whatever it is he is writing about .....and that, in my view, diminishes the weight of his argument.

We live in a democracy.  Neither PMB nor anyone else is above scrutiny.  Not only is it permissible for us to question our elected leaders, it is our civic responsibility to do so.    PMB, like the rest of us, has his fair share of weaknesses....asking others to help him quash ``dissenting voices" ain't one of them.   Yes, Socarates was probably right in claiming that an in-examined life isn't worth living ---we should question things, seek for truth/knowledge/wisdom and/or approach things with reason, rationality, scepticism (may I remind you of the words of Immanuel Kant, in his Critique of Pure Reason, that skepticism itself is ``a resting-place for human reason").

Abba

[Joe Attueyi]

Abba my brother,

In fairness to Kperogi, he never claimed --directly or indirectly-- that Buhari sends out people trying to convince the writer to ``take it easy on him. 

He claims that '...many well-placed and not so well-placed Nigerians, including the emir of my hometown..' have been requesting he takes it easy on Buhari.  

Actually his assertion is not surprising. In an environment where most people's livelihoods are tied to 'government ' , a critic of 'government ' known or close to one is a potential 'spoiler of one's garri'.  So neither Buhari nor anyone in his government needs to send these 'well meaning' folks to dissuade Kperogi.  These well meaning folks are not necessarily interested in Buhari or Kperogi for that matter. They just don't want Kperogi pouring sand into their garri ( or potential garri). In fact reporting what they said to Kperogi ( which no one sent them ) may in their view enhance their access to government garri. 

If I search the archives I will show you where Imperial asked me to stop criticising PMB and that I should remember I am in the oil business---and directly or indirectly have to deal with NNPC / Government at one point or another! I know for sure nobody in PMB government sent Imperial. In fact to be fair to PMB and his government, I know a few of them rather well and personally---and they read my comments on their (non) performance. No one--not even once-has ever threatened me. 

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On 3 Feb 2017, at 12:34 PM, Abba Gumel <abba...@gmail.com> wrote:

My good brother Okorie,

The issue was not about Buhari's performance or lack thereof in office.  It was about a writer claiming (indirectly perhaps) that Buhari sends out people trying to convince the writer to ``take it easy on him (i.e., Buhari", to which I found rather strange.  As I stated in my rejoinder, I have, on numerous occasions, publically criticized (in my refreshingly constructive yet forceful manner) PMB and his government......and not on a single moment did any of PMB's people or my chums and/or family/community folks asked me to spare the fabulous gap-toothed General from the equally fabulous city of Daura.   My best and twin brother, Joe the Pastor of Ajegunle and beyond, is, arguably PMB's most ardent critic.....and I submit to you and the rest of our readers that not once was he ever asked by our Ajegunle folks (including our most beloved suya-maker) to lay off the swords against the thoughtful and measured General.  My point is simply that I found the claim of the writer to be somewhat strange......because they clearly counter what some of us (who did and are doing the same thing....or even more) experienced over the last year or so. 

Abba 

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“I have, on numerous occasions, publically criticized (in my refreshingly constructive yet forceful manner) PMB and his government” – Abba

 

My Emir,

 

It is the inconsistency in your approach that stinks to high heavens. Your “refreshingly constructive yet forceful manner” of public criticisms of others, is available for a read. Invectives such clueless, hopeless, etc etc etc. seemed to have eloped you on these numerous occasions stated. These forcefully refreshingly constructive activities, as you claimed them to be are coded signals of approval. By the way, when did you make these refreshingly constructive criticisms? Was it in the aftermath of the Kaduna massacre, the Shia massacre, the SGF bribery scandal etc etc?

 

One thing  I agree with you on, is the claim by the writer, which  is neither here or there, and why? Those that exercise their alienable rights to appraise Buhari and his government, we have seen in recent times,  are either tongue lashed or harassed and locked up by his cousin who heads the secret service.  

 

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My good brother Okorie,

 

The issue was not about Buhari's performance or lack thereof in office.  It was about a writer claiming (indirectly perhaps) that Buhari sends out people trying to convince the writer to ``take it easy on him (i.e., Buhari", to which I found rather strange.  As I stated in my rejoinder, I have, on numerous occasions, publically criticized (in my refreshingly constructive yet forceful manner) PMB and his government......and not on a single moment did any of PMB's people or my chums and/or family/community folks asked me to spare the fabulous gap-toothed General from the equally fabulous city of Daura.   My best and twin brother, Joe the Pastor of Ajegunle and beyond, is, arguably PMB's most ardent critic.....and I submit to you and the rest of our readers that not once was he ever asked by our Ajegunle folks (including our most beloved suya-maker) to lay off the swords against the thoughtful and measured General.  My point is simply that I found the claim of the writer to be somewhat strange......because they clearly counter what some of us (who did and are doing the same thing....or even more) experienced over the last year or so. 

 

 

Abba 

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 10:54 PM, okorieacee <okori...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Abba my good and cerebral brother, you are making me cough the way that's not healthy. Please keep your integrity intact by not rubbing Buhari's mud on yourself.  Nigerians are not finding it funny any longer to trivialize the hardship the present leadership has visited on them. As a sound intellectual, you should not be told that politics and governance are entirely different things even though related. 

Enjoy your peace bro. 

 

 

 

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My good brother,

 

I find the ``take it easy on Buhari" claim to be rather strange.  I (and many others I know) have openly criticized PMB and/or his government....and no one has ever called me and ask me to ``take it easy on Buhari".   I know (and interact with) quite a number of Buhari's people at the Rock and elsewhere, and I do not recall a single instance when any of them mentioned this particular writer.  Another good and obvious example is that no one criticizes the President than you .....and I doubt if anyone (including our beloved Oba of Ajegunle and beyond) has called you and asked you to ``put a sock in it".    The writer seems to enjoy placing himself in the thick of whatever it is he is writing about .....and that, in my view, diminishes the weight of his argument.

 

We live in a democracy.  Neither PMB nor anyone else is above scrutiny.  Not only is it permissible for us to question our elected leaders, it is our civic responsibility to do so.    PMB, like the rest of us, has his fair share of weaknesses....asking others to help him quash ``dissenting voices" ain't one of them.   Yes, Socarates was probably right in claiming that an in-examined life isn't worth living ---we should question things, seek for truth/knowledge/wisdom and/or approach things with reason, rationality, scepticism (may I remind you of the words of Immanuel Kant, in his Critique of Pure Reason, that skepticism itself is ``a resting-place for human reason").

 

 

 

 

Abba

 

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Joe Attueyi <topc...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Quit Asking Me to Take it Easy on Buhari 

 

Farouq Kperogi 

 

Over the last several hours, I have been inundated with a steady stream of impassioned pleas from many well-placed and not so well-placed Nigerians, including the emir of my hometown, requesting me to “please take it easy on Buhari.” I thought it is Buhari that should be pleaded with to take it easy on Nigerians so that I won’t have a reason to call him out on his incompetence and insensitivity. Believe you me, it’s no fun being openly critical of a person whose candidature I staked my reputation to promote, and in whom I invested enormous confidence and hope.

 

If Buhari actually had a clue and was governing well and wasn’t wasteful, protective of corrupt associates while pretending to be fighting corruption, insensitive to the plight of the poor, clannish, clueless, incompetent, etc., I would have been one of the proudest people today. I would have been glad to gloat and say, “You see, I told you this man can do it! He is the change we needed!” But he has made Nigeria way worse than he met it—and that says a heck of a whole lot given where we thought we were before now.

 

Nigeria is at its most perilous state right now. Everything is falling apart. Suffering has reached dizzyingly crushing heights. The poor cannot feed, and relentless hyperinflationary conflagration is eating up the middle class and dragging it to the ranks of the desperately poor. Nothing is working. It was customary to say that the country was on autopilot during Jonathan’s days. Now it has come to a standstill. And people want us to be quiet? What sort of conscience do people have? I would rather be dead than be quiet. As Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” That’s what I told my emir. And that’s what I am telling everyone who is asking me to “take it easy on Buhari.” No, it is Buhari who should take it easy on Nigerians.

 

I DID NOT want, DO NOT want, and WON’T EVER want, a job, ANY job, from this government. I made this crystal clear in my April 4, 2015 column titled “After the Euphoria, What President-elect Buhari Needs to Know.” No government job in Nigeria can give me the comfort and fulfillment I have here. All I want is for the government to actually GOVERN and make life bearable.

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Nope, Otitigbe is not mistaken you for Igbokwe.

Otitigbe is just plain retarded.

If there was Individual Early Evaluation Program in Naija schools, Otitigbe's IQ would've equaled that of a ferret........enough to enable him eat, sleep, and fart.
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"... and not on a single moment did any of PMB's people or my chums and/or family/community folks asked me to spare the fabulous gap-toothed General ..." by Radical Muslim Islamist Abba Gumel

My take: Buhari needs to go see a damn Dentist and have his tooth fixed! 

Buhari, after stealing million is unsophisticated to know that he needs to fix his crooked tooth. He must be using chewing stick to clean his teeth since there is no water to brush them. 

Stay tuned! 

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Jack WelchExecutive Chairman, The Jack Welch Management Institute

Tom Brady: Business Guru. Who Knew?

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By Jack and Suzy Welch

What a game last night. There’s never been, and there may never be, another Super Bowl like it -- and we’d say that even if we weren’t huge New England Patriots fans! 

But we’re writing this article because, in all the frenzied excitement of the post-game celebration, we were thunderstruck by one particular thing Tom Brady said in explaining his team’s stunning win. 

“That’s why you play until the end.”

He was talking about endurance. About sticking with a challenge when it’s difficult and daunting in extremis. About not surrendering -- even when the odds feel impossible. About never losing the hope that if you keep trying – switching things up, refining your plays, overcoming your weaknesses -- there is always a chance you can still win.

So true, Tom. But we would add: That is business, people. That is how competition works, and how careers work.

Look, there are many aspects of business today where you get instant results. That’s one of the advantages of the digital economy. You can know within hours if a certain ad campaign is working or not. You can know within days if a new product has taken off.

But just as often, and maybe even more so, business is the story of long cycles. At the extreme, think about aerospace, where the process from sale to delivery can take five or eight years, with interminable but inevitable setbacks along the way for complex design reconfigurations and the like. There’s movie-making. There’s book publishing. There’s construction of apartment buildings and cargo tankers. Thousands of people are involved in the ten-year build up to every Olympics. The list of in-for-the-distance enterprises goes on and on.

And in every case, the “game” can feel like the Super Bowl probably did for the Patriots last night. A protracted, discouraging slog, punctuated with occasional moments of, “We. Are. Not. Dead. Yet.”

Not always, but very often, victory goes to the team that holds onto that last notion the most fiercely. That identifies its mistakes quickly and corrects them, that gets fired up, not disheartened, by its competitor’s boldness, that doesn’t slow down to figure out who to blame for the mess it’s in. 

The same is true about careers. Sure, some people zoom to the top of their chosen field. That’s rare, though. Most of us get passed over for a job or two (or three), wait far longer for a promotion than we’d like, and sometimes even get let go for not cutting it. The truth is, professional success is generally a long-cycle thing. And “victory” – say, a sense of meaning and accomplishment – goes to those who keep at the jagged path, getting up when they fall down, finding a way around blockages again and again, never slowing down to assign blame or throw a pity a party. 

When it comes to competition and careers, to paraphrase a quarterback who knows what he’s talking about, the win goes to the people who never stop believing they can win, no matter what. 

You just have to play to the end. 

Jack Welch is Executive Chairman of the Jack Welch Management Institute. Through its online MBA program, the Jack Welch Management Institute transforms the lives of its students by providing them with the tools to become better leaders, build great teams, and help their organizations win. The program was recently named one of the Top 25 Online MBA Programs for 2017 by the Princeton Review for its excellence in five areas of selection criteria: academics, selectivity, faculty, technical platforms, and career outcomes. The program was also recently named the #1 most influential education brand on LinkedIn and one of the top business schools to watch in 2016.

Suzy Welch is co-author, with Jack Welch, of the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post best-seller The Real-Life MBA, and of the international best-seller Winning.  

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Gerry Nuovo

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This is true in all challenges that we face in life..determination to overcome and win!

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That's why I follow Jack. Your words of wisdom are priceless Sir

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So true, Jack...that same comment struck me as well...as I have had the privilege to meet you on a couple of occasions, I follow you and always appreciate the wisdom, which comes from having "been there and done it".... your comments on the Sales Cycle, often misunderstood by the impatient, "got to have it now, mentality"when it's the relationships and staying in front of… See more

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016 

by: Maggie Fick in Kano, Nigeria

Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president, risks exacerbating the country’s economic woes and undermining his government’s achievements on security and corruption by endorsing exchange rate policies that are doomed to fail, an influential former central bank governor has said.

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[muhammad ajah]

Dear Editor, 

Please assist in publishing in our beloved News outfit. Thank you very much for your cooperation.

 

President Buhari and the four wise men

By Muhammad Ajah

 

The category of Nigerians who withstood all the oddities for the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari and were immediately recognized and rewarded is few. The reward I mean is not the monetary but the call to serve the nation in a capacity, though it is premature to conclude that some appointees are often bereft of the required technical knowhow, thus learn on the job.

 

The people in this connection are basically four: those who are known in Nigerian political landscape with socio-political and economic influences, those who are unknown but they contributed financially through scratch cards and donations to the funds raised for the presidential campaigns, and those who – known or unknown – fasted and prayed fervently for President Buhari’s victory. Some had extraordinary worship experiences for the almighty victory.

 

The fourth group is made up of the noisemakers, the journalists who in the actual sense are supposed to be the most powerful players in making the leadership a deserving, resounding but objective entity. The fairness which the profession demands in reporting events has often been put to test. However, the profession does not forbid the journalist from having interest in the peace, unity and progress of the nation, thus the inclination towards a citizen who can guarantee those abstractions for the country people.

 

Yes, this category is the noisemakers because every noise has its significance and import. There is hardly any meaningless sound in the world of the human. Nowadays in churches, pastors command their followers to make some noise for their lord. Therefore, the gentlemen of the pen make the greatest noise by being the ones who shape public opinions of personalities, dictate how the public should think and act. They are the real mobilizers of the masses.

 

The journalists make the most reasonable noise for politicians. Even the writings against the politicians are very useful in making them sit up. Though in many cases such writings are termed allegations, most eventually turn out to be true but let to be for peace. The politicians know it and that is why many of them have established media organizations to pursue their goals. In just few cases, the journalists are favoured with appointments. Unlike the learned men of the law, journalists are more versatile and exposed to governance.          

 

However, all of these four groups voted for the victory, though additionally the media gave wide publicity to the influential who may not have actually taken the pains to queue and follow the boxes till the results were finally announced at the polling units. Most of the influential sit in their houses and give orders through phone calls. They do their parts by buying up the electorate and the electoral system: the voters or their cards, the election officers and the mechanism. Nonetheless, the general belief remains that President Buhari was elected through free and fair electoral processes. Professor Attahiru Jega is a living testimony.

 

However, the four categories of men who made the victory for Mr. President are all important, even as many of them can only feel the impact of their efforts through the slow but steady positive changes in the Nigerian society. But let us examine the three and how they can still be of immense help to the government. Frankly, some patriots voted for change, having been exhausted by the failures of the past governments. Some voted purely for the love they had for President Buhari as a distinct patriotic individual. The third group was made up of either the old political foes or allies who voted essentially for predetermined returns. However, every voter wanted something for the personal, for the general or for both. Who have been favoured and who have been excluded?     

 

It is well known in Nigerian that politics is all about interest. Human beings, philosophers postulate, are political animals. The import is that there are no perpetual political friends or fiends. This also means that in the time of reward for loyalty and fraternity, the past should be forgotten for peace to reign. That, unfortunately, has been difficult in Nigeria. Politics favours only the influential. Those who have been in the corridor of power have been recycling. These are ex-political office holders and their people who may be friends or relatives to the elected politicians. This government is yet no exception; though hope is high the trend may change.

 

Look at the formation of different organs of the government. The appointments into offices have been stereotyped in a unique manner. To be eligible to be in the executive or the judiciary or head/member of government agency, commission and parastatal, one must be ex-this or ex-that. Ex-governors, ex-ministers, ex-servicemen, ex-aspirant/candidate, or ex-top political party loyalists are components of government year in year out. In short, some politicians, due to this trend, go into hiding after every unfavourable political dispensation to reappear and bulldoze their ways into the ruling party when another electioneering permutations approach.

 

One cannot just be appointed without being recommended by these ‘ex ex’ in the power blocs. This makes me think if there should open practical examinations for every position in Nigeria so that merit can have meaning in the nation’s political scheme. When will the sons and daughters of nobody be somebody basically on merit in Nigeria? Those who are unknown but contributed to President Buhari’s victory are yet to be carried along. Men of the pen also have better understanding of governance.

[Joe Attueyi]

Kudos to EFCC and THE whistleblower that helped us recover $10 MM out of the $20 billion missing from NNPC. 

EFCC should shine their eyes o. This N42 billion matter. Maybe it has be remotes!

EFCC Press Release

 Magu Commends Officer who Recovered $9.8m from former NNPC GMD

 …Says No Police Officer Recovered N42billion for FG.

 Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC Ibrahim Magu has commended Mr. Adamu Dan Musa, the Commission’s head of operations in Kano Zonal Office, who led a team that recovered over $9.8million from the residence of a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Andrew Yakubu in Kaduna. He said the officer and his team demonstrated courage, professionalism and integrity in executing the raid that yielded the astounding discovery. He called on staff of the Commission to emulate the team as the EFCC is poised to take the fight against corruption to new heights.

 The EFCC boss also used the opportunity to clarify the misleading information in a release by the Police Service Commission, PSC, concerning the promotion of six policemen for outstanding performance. One of the newly promoted officers, Suleiman Abdul, who is currently on secondment at the EFCC, was purportedly promoted to the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police because he “recently recovered N42billion for the Federal Government”. He said he is unaware of any recent recovery by the officer. “He may have made recovery in the past. But in the last six years I am not aware of any recovery by the officer to warrant commendation by the Commission.”

 Magu who spoke after the Commission’s monthly keep fit programme on February 11, urged all staff of the Commission to be dedicated to their jobs as only diligence, professionalism and uncommon courage would be rewarded with promotion.

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[Joe Attueyi]

Can someone send some of these monthly payments?

Kperogi Farooq 

Buhari’s Government of No Substance and Propaganda

In trying to verify the accuracy of the odd appointment letter I posted here yesterday, I discovered that President Buhari actually has 9, not 6, media aides, all of whom also have a retinue of personal aides.

The presidential media aides are Femi Adesina (Special Adviser, Media & Publicity); Garba Shehu (Senior Special Assistant, Media & Publicity); Tolu Ogunlesi (Special Assistant, Digital & New Media); Lauretta Onochie (Personal Assistant, Social Media); Bashir Ahmad (Personal Assistant, New media); Sha’aban Sharada (Personal Assistant, Broadcast Media); Naziru Muhammed (Personal Assistant, TV Documentary); Sunday Aghaeze (Personal Assistant, Photography); and Bayo Omoboriowo  (Personal Assistant/ President’s Photographer). 

In addition, the president has about 40 paid journalists, bloggers, media analysts, commentators (whose names I have but will leave out for now), working under the Buhari Media Centre (BMC) in Utako, Abuja. The BMC is a well-furnished one-storey building with expansive premises. It has security guards, clerks, and cashiers. The team members are paid a monthly allowance of between N200,000 and N250,000.

They are mandated to react to all media contents critical of the president, write favorable news items for the president, and attack/demonize/smear people critical of the president.  They also work with government agencies such as the EFCC to push narratives to deflect attention from the ineptitude of the government.

They work behind the scenes and use pen names in extended articles, and pseudonyms on social media. Almost all the members of the APC Presidential Campaign Media Directorate operate from the BMC, with the exception of those with appointments. And this excludes Lai Mohammad’s well-oiled lie squad.

When a government takes propaganda and mind-management this seriously, you know it’s not ready to change. Good deeds are their own PR. It is when people determine that they don’t want to do good deeds that they resort to mindless propaganda. If only they invested and expended as much energy in managing the economy as they do in propaganda, we won’t be where we are. I have more, but I will stop here for now. By the way, that appointment letter is authentic.

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[Ishola Williams]

AG I am sure that GMB does not know that a costly and unnecessary propaganda machinery exist.At the same time,there is a whole Minstry of Information system of press and electronic media.
Haba,Abba wa,GMB is not entitled to that wasteful cum job for the boys outfit in addition to regular Brown Envelopes for Aso Villa Correspondents .
It appears that GMB is.not in control and neither are his personal staff,kitchen cabinet,formal cabinet and friends are helping him to be in control.
Finally,the propaganda machine is not working , will not work and therefore SCRAP it to save money.
By his action,he shall be known.gasikiya ne.iw not laffin taya matter.

Abba Gumel <abba...@gmail.com> wrote:

My good brother, Joe the Pastor of the good people of Ajegunle and beyond:

I am laffin taya here.  You are probably one of PMB's ardent critics.....and I can't remember reading anyone trying to smear or demonize you (well, whoever so dares will have me to deal with, first of all).  Further, I also, from time-to-time, speak out against the President and/or his government....and no one ever dared to do to me what this writer is claiming.   Again, PMB, like the rest of us, has his fair share of human weaknesses....but trying to suppress dissent ain't one of them.  Further, there is nothing wrong in PMB having a rapid response media team...to counter the mis(dis) information our friends in the wailing community manufacture every second....he, like the rest of us, has the right to ``defend/promote himself", doesn't he-:)))?  C'mon, bro., you ought to give to PMB those things that are (rightly) PMB's.  In other words, you ought to practice (``give to Caesar what is Caesar's") what you preach in our beloved Ajegunle every Sunday-:)))). 

Abba

[Afis Deinde]

"When a government takes propaganda and mind-management this seriously, you know it’s not ready to change. Good deeds are their own PR. It is when people determine that they don’t want to do good deeds that they resort to mindless propaganda. If only they invested and expended as much energy in managing the economy as they do in propaganda, we won’t be where we are. I have more, but I will stop here for now. By the way, that appointment letter is authentic.".......By a Member, Wailers Association of Nigeria.

Afis comment: Naija palaver is "if you do you damned, if you don't do you damned".

No win situation for Buhari.

I feel sorry for the Fulani man, he's getting heated on all sides over the mess created by Inyanminrin Looters and Ijaw Fools. 

Here you have layers of lying Sons and Daughters of Bitches, out with lies everyday against the government. You even get to a point it becomes so foggy you don't know which is a lie and which is not. Like America News, you just click the Off button.

So should poor Buhari do?

These constant fabrications by these out of job out of contracts out of Awufu Funds guy's and gals, how do you bring out your facts and Truth?

Can a government keep quiet if faced with Liars day and night?

I mean, Afis is not on anyone side here, I don't even like Fulani people since I see them as Religious Fanatics and very Homicidal people. However, Truth don't change, how can a government fight to curb the excesses of these Lying Wailers who are very bitter and hateful because they can't Loot any longer?

May be having 9 PR men equals killing a mosquito with a hammer, but no government can keep its proverbial arms folded, doing so may cause chaos or even a coup.

Shikena 

Afis

“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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https://www.google.co.uk/amp/ynaija.com/opinion-2017-ministry-information-culture-budget-analysis/amp/?client=safari

"...Facilitation of Ministerial Media Appearances with Influencers and Analysts on Radio, TV Social and Print Media” has a budget allocation of 180,000,000. For starters, this line item can be termed the “propaganda budget” or as someone who comes from Rivers State, I can also call it the “Bobo Juice budget” because that is where the money to oil the big big talkmovement will come from, so stay woke. There seems to be a duplication of functions or items as can be seen with the 100,000,000 budget for the “Interaction with Stakeholders e.g NUJ, NAWOJ, RATTAWU, NGE, Bloggers, Online Publishers, NPAN.” A careful look at this and you can say there isn’t much or any difference between it and the item above and below."

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Oga General,

I think every government needs a good team of PR folks (or ``spin doctors" if you like....albeit not necessarily of the mold of Blair's Alastair Campbell or, betterstill, Malcolm Tucker) to effectively convey its key priorities to the people and/or to defend it from the onslaught from its detractors (in PMB's case, the latter day wailing wailers and their PDP friends some of whom are palpably and laughably masquerading in APC clothing).

I didn't know they give brown envelopes to journalists..... sad if they do; and sad for the men and women of the press to stoop to this low level (how can they possibly discharge their duty as independent arbiters of the truth if they receive bribes from the people they ought to be relentlessly holding to account)?  I honestly am surprised if the PMB government is truly in the business of bribing journalists....if this is the case, we really aren't any different from the awfully corrupt PDP (and this massively saddens me).

In any case, Oga president is returning back to town in a short jiffy (forgive the tautology)....and I gather he is going to announce some sweeping reforms (as well as ``clean the swarm" in Abuja....but we have heard the latter bit before; from ``the Donald" himself-:)))).

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[Joe Attueyi]

Abba my brother nothing has changed in Nigeria 🇳🇬--MILITARY, PDP or APC. And nothing will change until we restructure Nigeria into a truly federal republic ( or it collapses under the weight of its contradictions)

Joe

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My good brother Joe the Pastor of Ajegunle and beyond:

I am taken aback that our (fiscally prudent) APC government will allow such an item in its budget.... is it really earmarked to bribe journalists/analysts (and even social media folks and bloggers)?  I thought we (at the APC) are different from (i.e., morally superior to) the awfully-corrupt PDP for goodness sakes.  And how will any serious journalist allow himself or herself to be so disrespected (with a bribe)?   We used to have media folks of immense integrity....the likes of Dele Giwa (of blessed memory), Ray Ekpu, Halilu Ahmed Getho etc.   It seems that the era of independent and incorruptible media is long gone....and our beloved APC has (albeit in a small way) contributed to its demise. 

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“For CBN Governor SLS (as he then was, and now our most beloved royal father sitting majestically tight on the colossal throne of Dabo) stated (boldly as always) that we spend over 70% of our hard-earned money every year servicing our democracy, about 10% servicing national debt and only about 20% can be used to build (rebuild) the nation..... any system or economy that is built on this premise is not only unsustainable but obviously doomed (for catastrophic failure). “ – Abba

 

My Emir,

 

Let Sanusi Lamido Sanusi lead by example. The billions he squandered pursuing his personal adventures, why did he not think of investment in infrastructure and services? How much does he collect from the 44 local governments in Kano. Now that he is the Emir, does he think that Kano, with only 9.3 million people compared to Lagos with 21 million deserve to have 44 local governments while Lagos has only 20? The 70% of total resources devoted to servicing democracy, how does this 70% is spent. Does he receive pensions from the CBN yet receiving salaries as a first class chief from the Federal Government and collecting subventions from all the local governments in Kano State?

 

 

 

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Really sad.   I truly thought our APC government was different.....    if this APC government couldn't change the corrupt culture in Abuja, then I doubt if any other federal government can (owing to PMB's personal record of incorruptibility and laser-focus on curbing corruption in all its forms and ramifications).

 

I am all for restructuring, particularly reversion to the far streamlined (and less cumbersome and expectedly less expensive and less prone to mega corruption) parliamentary system along the existing six geopolitical entities.  For CBN Governor SLS (as he then was, and now our most beloved royal father sitting majestically tight on the colossal throne of Dabo) stated (boldly as always) that we spend over 70% of our hard-earned money every year servicing our democracy, about 10% servicing national debt and only about 20% can be used to build (rebuild) the nation..... any system or economy that is built on this premise is not only unsustainable but obviously doomed (for catastrophic failure).  It seems like a no brainer that a nation such as ours, with such complex socio-politico and socio-economic structure, should operate a (Canada-like) parliamentary system....this is a view I have always advocated since time imo river (as  Kasirim Nwuke of Naijanet of yore would say).

 

 

 

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My Emir does not know his subjects receive brown envelopes, chei!!!!!! All the meguards must go?

 

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Oga General,

 

I think every government needs a good team of PR folks (or ``spin doctors" if you like....albeit not necessarily of the mold of Blair's Alastair Campbell or, betterstill, Malcolm Tucker) to effectively convey its key priorities to the people and/or to defend it from the onslaught from its detractors (in PMB's case, the latter day wailing wailers and their PDP friends some of whom are palpably and laughably masquerading in APC clothing).

 

I didn't know they give brown envelopes to journalists..... sad if they do; and sad for the men and women of the press to stoop to this low level (how can they possibly discharge their duty as independent arbiters of the truth if they receive bribes from the people they ought to be relentlessly holding to account)?  I honestly am surprised if the PMB government is truly in the business of bribing journalists....if this is the case, we really aren't any different from the awfully corrupt PDP (and this massively saddens me).

 

In any case, Oga president is returning back to town in a short jiffy (forgive the tautology)....and I gather he is going to announce some sweeping reforms (as well as ``clean the swarm" in Abuja....but we have heard the latter bit before; from ``the Donald" himself-:)))).

 

Abba

 

 

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 12:23 AM, Ishola Williams <isholaw...@gmail.com> wrote:

 

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[Joe Attueyi]

Moses Ochonu 

SYMBOLISM MATTERS

Symbolism matters in leadership. Many members of the Nigerian ruling class do not realize this. In three weeks of being acting president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has not done anything substantively different from what President Buhari has been doing for almost two years. He has not healed a broken economy, tamed inflation, stemmed the collapse of the naira, improved power, or engineered a miraculous infrastructural renaissance. Nor has he dealt a final, decisive blow on Boko Haram. In other words, he has not changed the governing paradigm of the APC/Buhari administration and has thus not fundamentally altered how the administration is perceived and evaluated. It is still a calamitous administration on several fronts. 

What the Acting President has done however is to introduce a new temperament into governance, a new civility, a new ability to clearly articulate the trajectory and anticipated outcomes of governing decisions. Whether you agree or disagree with the decisions, the new clarity is refreshing. As is the new decisiveness, a marked contrast to the indecision and delay that reigned prior. More importantly, Professor Osinbajo has brought a tone of empathy and humility into presidential pronouncements. He has brought a culture of outreach, conciliation, and deliberation to the management of the familiar tensions and fault lines of the country; a new sensitivity and a willingness to listen rather than lecture.

When Buhari granted interviews to local journalists, he sounded irritated at being asked questions bordering on his obligatory accountability to the Nigerian people. He would get angry, bark answers, adopt a self-righteous, preachy tone. Everything was always somebody else's fault; he never took responsibility for anything. When he was not delivering a sermon to Nigerians on what they were doing wrong and what they should be doing, he would rant about the previous administration, his favorite scapegoat for all that ails Nigeria, and about those who "destroyed Nigeria." He acted, talked, and carried himself as though he was doing Nigerians a favor by being their president. There was always an arrogant, insensitive aloofness when he spoke about the mess his administration has created. He seemed to be trafficking in alternative facts and inhabiting a different universe. On the unprecedented level of suffering in the country, Buhari came across as blaming Nigerians, their consumption choices, and their impatience. He would snarl at any suggestion that he has anything to do with the suffering or that it is his job to alleviate it.

Osinbajo in the other hand has been humble, sensitive, paternal, empathetic, and lucid. Buhari adopted an attitude of insult, infantilization, and blame toward the Niger Delta. Osinbajo's words toward the same region has been marked by sympathetic understanding. What's more, instead of dismissing and antagonizing nationally controversial but locally beloved regional flamethrowers like Wike as Buhari has done, Osinbajo has reached out to them. 

Whereas Buhari was in the habit of dismissively infantilizing Biafra agitators and angrily scolding the Igbo with outbursts such as the infamous "what do the Igbo want?," Osinbajo has adopted a more respectful tone in dealing with the Southeast. When the #IstandwithNigeria protests occurred recently, Osinbajo tweeted and granted interviews in which he expressed sympathy with the marchers and with Nigerians who are suffering and groaning in this recessed economy. Unlike Buhari, he acknowledged that Nigerians deserve better, that the government takes responsibility for the situation, and that it is its job to bring relief and recovery. Buhari would have responded to the protests with his usual angry, grumpy dismissal of the marchers. He would have called them impatient and compromised by corruption. His minions, knowing how their principal would have reacted, organized a counter protest in Abuja and took to multiple media platforms to insult and smear Nigerians who protested or expressed solidarity with the protesters.

We wish President Buhari a total and speedy recovery. He will get well soon and return to the country and it would be a relief to the country, a happy occasion to douse the current tension surrounding his absence. However, when he returns, he needs to take a cue or two from his Vice President, who has shown that, no matter how bad things are, symbolic gestures can go a long way, that no matter how divided the country may be, empathy and sensitivity can heal some of the divide. Osinbajo's three weeks in charge has shown how Buhari missed several opportunities to bring the country together in the wake of the 2015 election and instead deepened our fissures with his clannish, arrogant, self-righteous anger and sense of infallibility. Osinbajo has shown that, sometimes, no matter how ferocious the agitation may be, a leader cannot and should not take it personal, and that in some cases what the agitators are looking for is simply to be heard, to be shown empathy.

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[Tchouteu Janvier]

There is a need and desire for change in Cameroon. That is something we all agree about. Pundits acknowledge the fact that the majority of the Cameroonian people are living in uncertainty and poverty, while the unscrupulous minority in the clique, which constitutes the present oligarchy, are living in affluence and arrogance. This criminal minority has hijacked our prosperity, our future and our dignity. Their affluence, which is made pervasive by corruption, nepotism, ethnocentrism, regionalism and waste, has blinded them to the point where they are completely indifferent to the plight of the majority of Cameroonians who are living in poverty and deprivation.  It is not the concern of the Biya regime that its fair-minded citizens are starving, that they are inadequately clothed, that they are excluded from effective sanitation and medical care, and that they are being prevented from the possibility of having a job. It does not bother the Biya regime and its collaborators that the Cameroonian children who are the major asset of this nation are being deprived of their right to education and training. The Biya regime is even arrogant in its misrule by denying us our basic human rights, our freedom and the right to choose. It is even clear that this oligarchy is bent on denying us the access to our own brains. They expect us to stay docile or mute like dummies. The wrongs of the Biya regime are inexhaustible and cannot be justified. The true exponents of change are those who reject everything that condones the exploitation and oppression of one man by another and tags the exploiter and oppressor with the justifiable word “WRONG”.

In the struggle against the perpetrators of wrong, we are right. However, being right or being aware of the right and not ensuring its realization is a wrong in itself. We need to know that the task confronting us today is that of overcoming the wrong (the French-imposed system) and realizing the right (The New Cameroon through the Cameroonian ideal embodied in its union-nationalism).  This task of overcoming the wrong is so colossal that many of us are divided over the approach to take and the extent to go. Over the years, each time that the  exponents of change think or try to act in doing  something about our plight, the question of how far we  can go in correcting, dismantling and building crops up  to divide us. This division is all the more disheartening and confusing due to our varying degrees of commitment to change. Why there should be this division while we are confronted by the agonizing wrong of the anachronistic French-imposed system is something few mortals can justify. However, we can clearly discern the divided forces:

1)            Firstly are the ignoramuses, the indifferent, the skeptics and the cynics:

·        The ignoramuses who fortunately constitute a small minority of the Cameroonian population are those who do not truly know what is theirs by right (their freedom, liberty and share of the Cameroon’s wealth) as citizens of the nation. It is because of their ignorance that they extol the custodians of this system for the handouts dished out to them, without being aware that they are being given hardly a decimal of what is theirs by right that has been stolen from them by the Biya regime. Make these ignoramuses to understand that their pathetic state, which they themselves abhor, is the responsibility of the system, and then we can rest assured and even boast that we have won powerful converts. Explain to them the objectives of the struggle and the turbulent phases it has gone through, and we shall be certain that we have trained the most reliable soldiers for the cause. These ignoramuses are aware of the fact that the handouts from the Biya regime cannot alleviate their misery.

·        The indifferent are aware of the Cameroonian plight, but because they are in secure or comfortable positions, or because they have lost hope and are weary of the struggle, they have chosen to close their eyes, block their ears and pocket their noses. In short, they refuse to see or comprehend the wrong. What they need is a fresh spirit and a forceful engagement.  And in a way, they can be made into remarkable assets for change.

·        The skeptics and cynics can be said to want change, but doubt or distrust the change that the majority of Cameroonians are striving for. This may be due to their rigid attachment to outdated concepts, ties, futile dreams or their envy for not being the pillar in the struggle. They are perhaps the most retarding force outside the system.

2) The second futile or less committed force in the struggle for change are the liberals and moderates:

·        The liberals accept the fact that the French-imposed system is anachronistic and unworkable and that it should be changed. However, they cannot come up with a realistic approach to change the system and an alternative system to replace it. It is because of their despair and fear of any action that would have to change the wrong system that they would engage in uncommitted moves or actions based on conciliatory rhetoric that instead serves the interest of the system than that of the struggle. When their rhetoric become indefensible, at a time that the true exponents of change have their backs to the wall in the tight corner of oppression, repression, extortion and deprivation, and see no other relieving option except the path of liberation (protest and resistance), our liberal in his deceptive ways opts out, which basically is giving in to the oppressive power of the system. However, the liberal would continue to talk of the wrong, agonize over it, and yet stay unwilling to fight against it because in his minor mind, the price for challenging the French-imposed system may result in more misery than it is presently the case. However, the liberal fails  to understand that though misery may be the price, it  would be temporary and would end oppression and  release the emotions, spirits, ideas and assets, which  are all democratic and development forces that would  ensure prosperity and security for the people. We only have to look at Bello Bouba Maigari, the leader of the National Union of Democracy and Progress (NUDP), to understand what I am talking about.  The bed partners of the liberals are the moderates.

·        The moderates also talk and work for change through the struggle without intending for a fundamental one.  It is because of their desire for a partial change of the system that they have detached themselves from the present day Cameroonian reality and embrace a utopian notion of conciliation that promises nothing for the Cameroonian people .A clear example in sight is Adamou Ndam Njoya of the Cameroon Democratic Union (CDU).

Unfortunately for us in the Cameroonian struggle, these liberal and moderates constitute a potent force on the side of the exponents of change and easily whip up the support of those exponents of change who are without the revolutionary zeal or comprehension of  the struggle for the New Cameroon framed on Cameroon’s union-nationalism. The greatest deception about these liberals and moderates is that they boast of their attachment to sobriety and the Cameroonian reality, which to them is devoid of a dream. But our struggle is basically that for the realization of our dream of true independence (unity, prosperity, freedom, self-confidence and an equal place in the community of nations). This true independence would culminate in interdependence with other progressive groupings and nations as an extension of our fraternity.

3) The third force are the confused and one-sided who  are fervently fighting for causes that do not address  the general Cameroonian plight, but rather address the plight of an ethnic group, religious belief, region or linguistic entity. The fact that they are deeply attached to their belief in the righteousness of their cause, and the fact that they consider all those who are not fully behind them as their enemies, this one-sided and confused force for change (which by their demands call for partiality), not only alienate themselves from potential allies for change, but also alienate themselves from the general objectives of the Cameroonian struggle that encompass their plight.  And in a curious way without them really knowing it, they stall the wind of change because of their divisive actions and directions...

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HOW COMMITTED ARE CAMEROONIANS IN THE STRUGGLE TO CHANGE THE FRENCH-IMPOSED SYSTEM AND THE BIYA DICTATORSHIP

HOW COMMITTED ARE CAMEROONIANS IN THE STRUGGLE TO CHANGE THE FRENCH-IMPOSED... There is a need and desire for change in Cameroon. That is something we all agree about. Pundits acknowledge the...

[Joe Attueyi]

R for Respect, R for Resignation

By Pius Adesanmi

Recently, Justin Trudeau was in the province of Quebec for a townhall meeting with citizens. He has been holding townhalls across Canada. An Anglophone Quebecois woman asked him a question in English, he responded in French saying he preferred to respond in the official language of the province. 

Although French is the language of Quebec, there is an Anglophone minority in that province. English and French being the two official languages of Canada, the Anglophone minority woman deserved to have her question answered in English.

The national outrage was swift and major. The Prime Minister was condemned everywhere. Such was the intensity of the nationwide condemnations of the Prime Minister that I almost exclaimed Yorunigerianly: “ki ni Trudeau gbe ki ni won ju gan sef?” 

Why were Canadians so aghast? It was said that the Prime Minister had disrespected a citizen. And by disrespecting a citizen, he had disrespected his office.

Trudeau has since been writing profuse letters of apology. He has apologized to the woman in question. He has apologized to Quebec Anglophones. He has apologized to Canadians. 

Yesterday, I read another apology and nearly exclaimed, again Yorunigerianly: “wo, ogbeni yi ma f’idobale pa wa jare.” 

I intend to draw heavy conclusions from this situation in the light of ongoing scenarios with President Buhari in Nigeria, sorry, in London.

I have been intrigued by the idea that respect for the highest office in the land starts with the occupant of the said office. I have been intrigued by the fact that Canadians are saying that respect for the said office and respect for the citizen are two indissociable elements of the political lifeworlds we refer to as statehood and nationhood.

 

In other words, as Prime Minister or President of a country, respect for your office – the highest office of the land – starts with you. To respect your office, you must start by respecting your employer – the citizen. 

When these two fundamental prerequisites are met, a powerful symbolism emerges which automatically makes the people respect your office. For it to be respected, the highest office in the land must first be made respectable by the occupant.

From Obasanjo to Jonathan via Yar’Adua, I have written treatises on the Nigerian presidency. The most enduring of my reflections on that branch of the Nigerian state is, I believe, my essay, “Why the Nigerian Presidency is not Respectable.” 

I wrote that essay in 2012. Its salience has returned to me as aides and supporters of President Buhari have intensified the familiar and sanctimonious calls we’ve been through with every President since 1999: “respect the office of the President!”

I call this category of compatriots Citizen Abobaku. We took civics to Citizen Abobaku during the respective tenures of President Buhari’s successors. I am afraid we must continue that task of civic engagement of Citizen Abobaku today. 

The first thing to note is that throughout our recent experience with democracy, whenever Citizen Abobaku has been at his loudest, condemning his compatriots for not respecting the office of the President, it means he has run out of excuses, rationalizations, and justification of the incumbent President who disrespects that very office by: 1) continuously disrespecting the citizens, his employers; 2) reneging on campaign promises or failing to fulfill them.

Calls for respect also means that Citizen Abobaku has never really learnt to separate Nigeria from the person and body of the incumbent President he supports. 

If we witnessed this scenarios with every President since Obasanjo, it has been raised to a level worthy of a Nobel Prize by President Buhari, his administration, and Citizen Abobaku who has been all over the airwaves taking umbrage at compatriots insisting on their right to be respected by President Buhari and his handlers.

If Citizen Canadian insisted on and got an apology from the Prime Minister for answering a question in the wrong language, can you imagine what would happen if this Prime Minister, knowing that he was ill and going to take care of his health in another country, wrote a letter to Parliament asking for a rest and recreation leave abroad instead? It would have led to so many problems at so many levels. 

First would be the problem of not trusting the national health facilities under his supervision in Canada and going off to another country’s health facilities. Second would be the problem of who exactly is paying for the health safari. Third would be the most serious problem of all: lying to your country’s parliament to conceal the real reason and purpose of your trip. That is lying to the people. That is disrespecting the citizen. That is disrespecting the office of the President – the very office you occupy. Any single one of these itemized problems is an impeachable offence. 

A combination of all of them would create not just impeachment but possible investigation and prosecution – in serious democracies. Ask our friend, Sarkozy in France. The former President is now facing prosecution for concealing certain aspects of the disbursement of his campaign funds. He is on trial for more than corruption. He is on trial for disrespecting the office he occupied and disrespecting the citizen through concealment of his activities.

Because Nigeria is never satisfied with little absurdities, the National Assembly decided that President Buhari would not outdo them in disrespecting his office and the citizen. The Senate President and the House Speaker took off to London to visit the President. They reported him hale and hearty. 

Before the London trip, the Senate President also twitted vociferously about his telephone conversations with a “hale and hearty” President Buhari. Then he returned from London and read a letter from the President to the Senate asking for an extension of the President’s extended tenure in London on medical grounds.

On Twitter, spokespersons of the Presidency have been at their arrogant best, raining insults daily on citizens who dare to insist on respect. I did not want to dignify the utterly silly Femi Adesina with a mention in this treatise but he is inescapable. In tweet after tweet, he has been calling his boss’s employers - Nigerian citizens - unprintable names. He says they prefer to embrace lies no matter how many times he confronts them with the truth.

 

Yet, his television appearances are an ode to shallowness and incoherence. He is never able to get his facts straight. Who exactly is he talking to in London? He will begin to dance kokoma and palongo around that question. I don’t blame him. He understands fully well that he is operating in an environment where power overwhelms and there is not enough civic consciousness to engage him. 

Citizen Abobaku is always in line, screaming that the people must “respect the office of the President” by unquestioningly accepting the latest stomach-churning incoherent verbiage coming from Aso Rock.

This maxim needs to be translated into every Nigerian language: respect for the office of the President starts with the President, not with you. It starts with everybody he appoints in the Presidency to help him serve you as citizen. And the first requirement of respecting their office is to respect you. 

The entire situation of President Buhari’s trip to and stay in London is an epic of disrespect for the Nigerian citizen. Apart from the original grand deception (for which the President deserves impeachment as far as I am concerned), every aspect of the trip has been handled as if the dissemination of information to Nigerian citizens were a privilege. 

Lai Mohammed – bless his soul! – even opined that the President is a victim of his own forthrightness. Translation Nigeriana: it is not you people’s fault that you feel entitled to information about the President. Shebi it is the President himself who on reaching London initially let you know that he is seeing his doctors. Na una fault?

When Lai Mohammed and Femi Adesina are in a mode so contemptuous of citizens and they enjoy a drumbeat of support from a large fragment of their victims, how does one even begin to teach such citizens that they are owed daily press briefings on the President’s condition by the Presidency? How does one teach such people that they owed regular briefings by President Buhari’s Nigerian doctors who would have conferred and coordinated things with his medical team in London before holding such briefings in Abuja? The citizen is entitled to these things. It is not a privilege.

R stands for more than respect. R also stands for resignation whenever you understand that you are no longer in the position to carry out the solemn responsibilities of any office, especially the highest office in the land. 

In Nigeria, resignation from office is a taboo word. Mention resignation and the supporters, political, religious, and ethnic “owners” of the concerned public official enter into a demented public orgy, screaming and foaming. A Nigerian can pardon rape. A Nigerian can pardon genocide. A Nigerian will never pardon you if you so much as hint the resignation from office of a politician he supports.

One of the many untenable reasons he is going to mobilize against resignation is – you guessed right – the need to respect the office in question. This why we need more diligent workers in the national civics enterprise. We need to decriminalize resignation in the national imaginary of our people. The idea that it is unthinkable for my man to resign from office gave us Yar’Adua. It gave us Danbaba Suntai in Taraba.

I am not saying that President Buhari is anywhere near these circumstances. However, there are 180 million lives at stake. Those lives do not live in Femi Adesina’s alternative universe of milk and honey all over Nigeria. A state is always more important than any single citizen and that includes the President. One month away, poorly handled, is enough ground for resignation especially if there is no telling how exactly you would be able to handle compound problems on your return: the economy, insecurity, Fulani herdsmen, etc.

Resignation is not leprosy. Resignation is not a crime. In certain cases, it is a moral obligation, an ethical one. Where there is a conscience, it is a decision to be taken in loneliness, away from heehawing opportunists capable of convincing Sigidi that he can swim successfully across the river Niger. Sometimes, resignation is the only way to respect one’s country and one’s compatriots. Sometimes, resignation is the only way to enter history in a grand fashion.

President Buhari, take a measure of your conscience. If you know that even in the best of health, you are overwhelmed, go ahead and resign without listening to the fawning voices around you. Many of your overwhelmed predecessors had a chance to resign. None did because they were admired into perdition and ignominy.

The other day, I heard Femi Adesina saying that it’s still early days for you. You are just in year two of a four-year tenure and you have two more years to deliver miracle. Silly talk like this is what I call admiring one’s boss to perdition and ignominy. Sadly, the majority of your support base speaks like this.  That is not how it works. You don’t really have any time left. 

Perhaps many in your support base cannot tolerate the idea of your resignation because they fear the chest-beating reaction of the Lilliputian promoters of the corrupt era of your immediate predecessor who are still prosecuting the 2015 election. That is why they can’t even criticize you for not only not prosecuting the anti-corruption war properly but for also harboring your own clan of corrupt aides and associates. That is a shame because it puts such people in your support base in the same infantilist and puny partisan boat as the promoters of the last order.

Anybody who sees Nigeria above such clowning partisan pettiness should be able to give you the advice I have offered you here: respect your office by resigning if you know you can’t go on.

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I said it befroe he is a small boy.

One Yoruba musician sang in those days that when a small boy puts on the clothes of adults he jumps.

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[Afis Deinde]

"First would be the problem of not trusting the national health facilities under his supervision in Canada and going off to another country’s health facilities. Second would be the problem of who exactly is paying for the health safari. Third would be the most serious problem of all: lying to your country’s parliament to conceal the real reason and purpose of your trip. That is lying to the people. That is disrespecting the citizen. That is disrespecting the office of the President – the very office you occupy. Any single one of these itemized problems is an impeachable offence. 

A combination of all of them would create not just impeachment but possible investigation and prosecution – in serious democracies. Ask our friend, Sarkozy in France. The former President is now facing prosecution for concealing certain aspects of the disbursement of his campaign funds. He is on trial for more than corruption. He is on trial for disrespecting the office he occupied and disrespecting the citizen through concealment of his activities.

Because Nigeria is never satisfied with little absurdities, the National Assembly decided that President Buhari would not outdo them in disrespecting his office and the citizen. The Senate President and the House Speaker took off to London to visit the President. They reported him hale and hearty. 

Before the London trip, the Senate President also twitted vociferously about his telephone conversations with a “hale and hearty” President Buhari. Then he returned from London and read a letter from the President to the Senate asking for an extension of the President’s extended tenure in London on medical grounds.".............Pius Adesanmi.

Good one!

When Nigerians are losing in a debate that's when they remember "woin leebu agba".

The above sounds good, but Naija is another keg of palmwine.

Can you impeach a Fulani or Hausa president? Nope.

Can you impeach a Yoruba president?

Nope.

The only impeachable president, if ever one is electable, is an Inyanminrin.

Why?

Everyone hates Igbo. I don't hate igbos but I hear it all around.

You can hear a Fulani hissing Dan bura ubanka Inyanminrin mutumu keremi.

And vis-a-vis ( no green card) you can hear Yoruba cursed out an igbo "asiwere omo ajokuta mamomi!"

This is very common in Naija. The Nigeria's igbos are like the Kureshi people of Mecca. Just so so cursing on their heads!

Shikena 

Afis

“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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THE APPRECIATING NAIRA AGAINST THE DOLLAR-What My Friends In Business Should Know. 

By Anayo M. Nwosu

Many of my friends have been asking the reasons why naira has been appreciating against against the dollar for the past few days and I have decided to deal with that in a simplified language. 

There is an economic explanation to that.

Imagine that during fuel scarcity, whereby there is an irregular supply of fuel to filling stations hence making motorists and generator users to rely on black market for supply of fuel. 

The fuel pricing at the black market normally depends on the sellers' perception of the scarcity and how much in need the buyer is. 

The price per litre is not the same from one point to another. 

Also, imagine that NNPC decides to punish the boarders of fuel by releasing a one week's supply in one-fell swoop through its accredited filling stations at the normal price and mandates the fuel stations to sell fuel day and night. 

Certainly, the price of fuel at the black market will tumble  and crash until the black market sellers go out of business. 

What if the fuel need of the country is 40 million litres per day and NNPC exhausts it stock after 7 days? 

What would happen to the black market activities? 

Everybody would once more resort to the black market and their prices would rise to the levels or even above what it was before NNPC flooded the market with fuel. 

The smart black market players who decided to warehouse their "stock" and hibernated during the NNPC's intervention would recover their costs of holding inventory and still make a kill. 

If you replace:

Fuel with dollar or FX, 

NNPC with the CBN, 

Accredited Fuel Stations with Banks,

Customers with FX Users;

then the description would make sense to you. 

The truth is that CBN has accumulated over $30billion in our external reserves owing to the increased crude oil production following the Acting President's peace moves in the Niger Delta and the increased oil prices in the international oil market. 

Therefore, CBN's has an increased capacity to supply more FX to the market. 

However, given that there is a blacklog of over $7 billion FX required by various manufacturers, investors, parents with outstanding overseas students' school fees, foreign bank loan repayments etc., it would be too optimistic to assume that CBN shall empty our reserve to satisfy all manner of FX users. 

Banks would cause an increased demand of FX by granting manufacturers more naira loans to import raw materials. 

Some manufacturers who scaled down capacity to produce or closed down due to their inability to get FX to import raw materials would start bidding for FX from CBN. 

Recall that many banks reduced loans for working capital to the manufacturer ingredients industries due to poor loan utilization and performance. That would change. 

The naira appreciated sharply against the dollar last few days simply because CBN surprisingly pumped over $500 million to the market through accredited banks to sell to FX users who had before now had gotten use to sourcing their FX needs from the black market. 

The sharp reduction in the demand of FX by heavy users from the black market caused a panic offload of dollar cash and inflows at hand by the black market players. 

That fall from ₦528/$ to ₦490/$ within 4 days (i.e from 21/02/2017 to 24/02/2017) has wrecked some black market operators. 

I'm sure some of them must have ended up in the hospital by now. 

My friends should know that there is no way the black market price shall converge with the official market as there are traditional customers who would never buy from CBN even if it sells money N50 below the black market rate. 

This group of people includes those that under invoice their imported goods to evade paying high custom duties; those tired of onerous documentation before accessing  CBN FX; those that are repatriating illegal profits abroad; those involved in money laundering and persons that finance terrorism and other crimes. 

The sustainability of the current exchange rates depends on the following :

1. Maintenance of peace in the Niger Delta to assure increased and sustained volume of crude oil for export. 

2. Reduction in FX used to import arms and ammunition to fight insurgency 

3. Reduction in FX used to import fuel if the refineries work as promised. 

4. Reduction in importation of rice and other agricultural products that consume huge FX. 

5. Increased confidence of foreign direct investors on the FG's economic policies. 

It must be noted that black market is an illegal channel of procuring FX but it rates became important or recognised when the legal source(i.e the CBN) was no longer assured and all, including the saints and the sinners resorted to the black market to source FX for both eligible and ineligible transactions. 

My dear friends, I advise that you watch for a while for now. 

Don't make any hasty long-term projections using this flash of hope. 

You must see a trend before you commit.

All I have written above is my personal perspective with limited information available to me. You are hereby advised to apply knowledge gathered herefrom with caution.

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