Fwd: [talkhard] Re: Odia Ofeimun: The Writer And His Society
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 at 17:21
Subject: [talkhard] Re: Odia Ofeimun: The Writer And His Society
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Odia Ofeimun: The Writer And His Society
https://ugowrite.blogspot.com/2020/03/odia-ofeimun-writer-and-his-society.html
Amala And The Coronavirus Patient: Matters Arising
“…There are reported 23 laboratories and isolation facilities in the country. But what is their quality? Senate President Ahmad Lawan and a team from the National Assembly recently visited the two isolation centres in Abuja. He had to raise an alarm. He met the facilities in such a poor state… There are lessons that we can learn from elsewhere. As at February 7, 2020, Italy reported only three confirmed cases of Corona virus. By February 16, the number had risen to 21. What followed was an explosion in the numbers. About 9, 172 people are with the virus in Italy today. Over 463 have died. Italy is the epicenter of the outbreak in Europe. Italian Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte has released a health decree imposing restrictions on the movement of people in the region of Lombardy and about 15 provinces, thus quarantining about 16 million people in Northern Italy. They are not allowed to move in and out of the territory until April 3. Violation of the restriction order will attract stiff penalties: jail time and a fine. Italy is now effectively on complete lock down. Sporting events around the world are being postponed. Football matches are now being played behind closed doors. Supermarkets, cinemas have been shut down. The United Kingdom is in a panic mode. The NHS is already overstretched. Many nations are imitating China. The United States has set aside $8.3 billion. This is not just the flu. The world is on fire!
I do not think that the average Nigerian even takes the Corona Virus threat seriously…”
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When A President’s Silence Isn’t Golden
https://ugowrite.blogspot.com/2020/02/when-presidents-silence-isnt-golden.html
A Message To The North: The South Is Getting Fed Up!
“…But the South can’t understand why a brother beset with so many crippling self-inflicted wounds could yet be so aloof, so arrogant, so enamoured of frivolity. This is the North in the eyes of the South today: The picture of a backward brother in a poor family. The picture of a fat family liability. I promised to tell the whole truth. There is a feeling of disgust that seizes a brother when his own brother’s prodigal shortcomings and recklessness threatens to plunge the entire family into turmoil and shame… The South doesn’t and can’t feel safe when his brother’s children rather than become doctors and lawyers are ending up in droves as angry street urchins. The South doesn’t know how to say it, but he is fed up with the North dragging the family numbers down. The South wants the North to see Boko Haram and banditry as wolves that can devour the entire family. The South wants the North to hold a village meeting and find a spiritual solution to the wolves…”
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https://ugowrite.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-message-to-north-south-is-getting-fed.html
Supreme Court judgments Are Clearly Reversible
“…Nigerians must with one voice put this critical question to the seven-member Supreme Court panel of judges that sacked Governor Ihedioha of Imo State and planted Senator Hope Uzodinma as his replacement: Distinguished as you all are, would you have dared to pronounce this same perversity if other than the All Progressives Congress (APC) is currently in control of the Federal Government of Nigeria?... Equity. Diligence. Scholarship. Uprightness. These are some of the intensifiers used in support of Justice Kekere-Ekun’s suitability to sit in judgment over the affairs of her fellow human beings. But, if asked by her son or daughter, would she be able to pinpoint any of these wholesome qualities in the judgement she read, which bizarrely manufactured 103,257 votes in excess of the number of voters registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for last year’s Imo State governorship election? Critical point: None of the parties to the Election Petition disputed either of INEC’s total number of registered voters and total number of accredited voters for the governorship contest, from the Election Tribunal right up to the Supreme Court…”
https://ugowrite.blogspot.com/2020/02/supreme-court-judgments-are-clearly.html
Keke, Okada Ban And The Unspeakable Suffering Of Lagosians
“…Now, what solution did the Lagos State Government consider for people whose houses are two kilometers (or even more) away from the nearest bus stop and who might be carrying some loads or leading very tender children? I understand that government must at times take tough decisions to salvage dire situations, but in doing so, shouldn’t it be wary of presenting itself as an enemy of the people intent on callously inflicting unspeakable hardship on them? …No matter how sweet-sounding the reasons for this ban are, the implementation lacks human face and could have been handled better and more humanely, instead of this rude advertisement of gross insensitivity. The activities of Okada and Keke operators were proscribed in six Local Government Areas (LGAs), nine Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs), 10 major highways and 40 bridges and flyovers across the state. But when you look at the local governments affected, you would wonder what remains of the Lagos that is known to you and me…”
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https://ugowrite.blogspot.com/2020/02/keke-okada-ban-and-unspeakable.html
Natasha Akpoti: Heroine Of The Kogi Election
“…It was so saddening and very unsettling watching Natasha Akpoti’s interview on Arise TV shortly after the “bloody war” in Kogi that grossly diminished Nigeria in the comity of nations. It was most disappointing that Prof Mahm0od Yakubu and his “Independent” National Electoral Election (INEC) could stoop so low to lend a helping hand to the desperadoes in Kogi to execute their crude self-help designs to deny this young woman the opportunity to seek the mandate of Kogi people. Why was it so difficult to allow a level-playing field so that the best candidate acceptable to the people could win, and those who lost would see clearly that they were rejected by the people and not shoved aside by the more violent and financially empowered co-contestant with the help of an electoral body that should have clearly underlined its neutrality?...”
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https://ugowrite.blogspot.com/2019/12/natasha-akpoti-heroine-of-kogi-election.html
Refusing To Go To Afghanistan In Nigeria
https://ugowrite.blogspot.com/2019/12/refusing-to-go-to-afghanistan-in-nigeria.html
Nigeria: Endless Borrowing Will Lead To Endless Sorrowing
By Atiku Abubakar
“…We need to pay heed to Benjamin Franklin’s advise that “he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing”. I call on Nigeria’s youth to identify the Senator representing their senatorial zones and write to them, urging them to vote against this request. Do this, because it is you and your children that will pay back these loans that would be squandered by this ravenous cabal who do not have the word enough in their vocabulary…”
https://ugowrite.blogspot.com/2019/12/nigeria-endless-borrowing-will-lead-to.html
Third Term Agenda And The Buhari We Don’t Know
https://ugowrite.blogspot.com/2019/12/third-term-agenda-and-buhari-we-dont.html
November 16 As National Day For Zik
https://ugowrite.blogspot.com/2019/11/november-16-as-national-day-for-zik.html
Social Media Bill: Short Walk To Total Totalitarianism?
https://ugowrite.blogspot.com/2019/11/social-media-bill-short-walk-to-total.html
Ending Impunity On Crime Against Journalists
https://ugowrite.blogspot.com/2019/11/ending-impunity-on-crime-against.html
It Is A Lie: No Student Impregnated Lecturer At Fed University Lafia – Spokesperson
“…The story Is “nothing but a fabrication by the writer …aimed at destroying the good image and reputation of Federal University, Lafia…”
https://ugowrite.blogspot.com/2019/11/no-student-impregnated-lecturer-at-fed.html
‘Hate Speech’ And The Coming Hangman!
https://ugowrite.blogspot.com/2019/11/hate-speech-and-coming-hangman.html
Second-Hand Smoking Kills 600,000 Annually
https://ugowrite.blogspot.com/2010/12/health-watch-second-hand-smoking-kills.html
Regulate Unemployment And Poverty Not Social Media
https://ugowrite.blogspot.com/2019/11/regulate-unemployment-and-poverty-not.h
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