Today's Quote

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Critical observers are waiting to find out how the imminent "indefinite strike" called by Labour would solve the present socio-political and economic problems of the peoples of Nigeria.

-Chidi Anthony Opara(CAO)

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

The mandate of organized Labour all over the civilized world is restricted by law to agitation for, advancement and protection of the welfare of its members. Any other activities outside the aforementioned is unlawful and illegitimate.

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

The Bola Ahmed Tinubu academic records may turn out to be "much ado about nothing".

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

The solution to the systemic rots in Nigeria is not just about removing a purported sinner and replacing with a purported saint. That obviously is shallow and of course would engender a backlash in the long run. The fight should be deep rooted if it must succeed.

[cornelius...@gmail.com]

Chidi,

Indeed, “The fight should be deep rooted if it must succeed.”

You haven’t forgotten that our two-termer Muhammadu Buhari campaigned on a platform named change? .He was going to do what you said, he was going to “ fight the systemic rot” 

How far have we come in that fight?

 As the saying goes, “The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention”

For the umpteen years from Independence till now, wannabe presidents and military coupists of nearly all the African countries South of the Sahara, have declared like USA’s  Obama “Change” and Trump, “drain the swamp in Washington” and now the swamp is trying to drain him, which means that he didn’t drain them, at least not completely. So he wants to come back to complete the job, to finish them off and make America Great Again, Forever ! 

Before and just after taking over, nearly all the wannabes in African countries South of the Sahara have declared their intention to wipe out corruption, you name them and we can count them on all our fingers and our toes all day long : Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea Conakry, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, fast forward from Thomas Sankara’s Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe , Kenya, Jacob Zuma’s South Africa, Gabon, Sudan, Central African Republic, in Cameroon (no laughing matter) 90-year old youth man Paul Biya is still sitting tight in spite of Dr Kofi Dompere’s diagnosis that potentially the man could be shuffering from “Cognitive Imbecility ''..

We could start the list again, in alphabetical order.

In Rwanda,

No flabby phallus

The turgid and randy 

Paul Kagame

Is going for a fourth round

As you say,  “The fight should be deep rooted if it must succeed.” 

So, where does the fight begin?

All I can remember is this part of the song

“ Let It All Fall Down”

 the part that goes 

“So we bring it to a stop

Then we take it from the top”

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

”With the economic challenges we are facing, we shouldn’t be wasting time about some certificate; whether there is a T missing or an I hasn’t been dotted. That shouldn’t be our primary focus at the moment"-Nigeria's Foreign Affairs Minister.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

If morality, which is largely subjective, is not encapsulated in the law, is it legitimate?

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

its bcs of the implications of such issues we are facing those economic challenges 

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Trump and his praise singers are back with far right rhetorics following the recent Hamas onslaught on Israel.

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).

[cornelius...@gmail.com]

I suppose some of the rhetoric is available at FPM , the AJS , and Trump’s website ,

some of it will be surely blaming Joe Biden for what’s happening right now

Joe Biden in the meantime has kicked off his reelection campaign and says that the US will forever stand firmly with Israel and has been chirping, fiercely, one of the USA’s and the Wild West’s favourite mantras: “ Israel has a right to defend herself !”

Whatever the far right rhetorics may be , whether it’s Ukraine or Israel , this message is of the essence: SEEK PEACE and PURSUE IT 

Israel is now united as never before .

The Arab League of course is still dilly-dallying 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

The calibre of "influencers" influencing Nigeria youth should give any critical observer cause to worry.

Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

[David Agogo]

I think this is a global reality we must all deal with. Influence peddling is now the forte of social media companies based in a small county in America. Everyone else is at the sidelines watching the young people in their world being gripped by the iron hold of digital media attention spans.

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Today's Quote:

Air defence infrastructure is the new wonder of war.

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

If a poor teacher in Nigeria(they are usually poor anyway) is sick for example, he or she cannot raise 10 thousand naira via public appeal. All the publicity seeking so called philanthropists who throw in millions of naira in donations all over the place would disappear.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Citizens from countries with visionary and purpose driven leaders don't use getting of visas as prayer points and testimonies. Such citizens only go abroad for businesses and vacations.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

The philanthropy one does from proceeds of evil is not acceptable to God. "Obedience is better than sacrifice".

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

So you really expected the highest strata of jurisprudence in Nigeria to align with your myopic definition of justice?

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Nigeria's opposition leaders should watch the utterances and actions of Israel's opposition leader regarding the current war with HAMAS. There is a time to play politics and a time to defend country.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

"Friends of mine have been bugging my poor life that as many as 32 persons have been awarded the fellowship of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), and they somewhat feel I ought to be among that crowd. Please, social position, class, title, honorifics and so on do not mean anything to me. I actually now feel that ANA is a body of charlatans, hustlers, pimps, toadies, clowns"-Uzor Maxim Uzoatu (Nigerian Poet and Journalist)

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Bombing ambulances is wrong, war is wrong in totality. It is also wrong to use ambulances to move rival war Commanders around.

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

What is commonly known as "Osu" in some parts of Igboland is actually "Osu Agbara"(someone dedicated to and owned by a deity), "Agbara" meaning deity. In most of those areas, there are however no more "Agbaras", whereas there are still said to be "Osus". The question now is, how can there be "Osu Agbaras" without the Agbaras?

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Organized Labour is established by law and so its actions are regulated by law, therefore any of its actions outside the appropriate laws are illegal.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

In a situation in which organized Labour in Nigeria have joined officialdom in disregarding valid court orders, what other civilized conflict resolution mechanism should we subscribe to?