By Ifeanyi Ubakanwa The very existence of different viewpoints is not a negative thing. It’s how we handle it that usually transforms and turns it into a negative thing. But no matter the circumstances, a time still comes when we must tell the truth. If you ask me, the one truth I know is that in 2015, it was charisma not competence that brought Gen. Buhari to power. And now that he is President Buhari, democracy ultimately demand that we keep reminding him of the competence expected from him in finding answers to the basic problems and overwhelming challenges confronting…
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By Ifeanyi Ubakanwa When one sees how Nigerians become captive to new governments and castigate the former ones, one could easily say that they don’t deserve any kind of pity. If they don’t pity themselves, why pity them? But for the level of our civic and political enlightenment, I write to use the ongoing rascality of Jasper Ndubuaku committee set up by the Imo state government to opine that government is a continuum and should be handled with caution. No matter the level of abomination committed by the government of Sen. Rochas Okorocha, Rochas is still not the devil and…
BY MANDI RENNIE My number six child was a bit of a rebel. I had real problems getting him to come home from hanging out with his friends. Well, I’d had enough, and, when he was 11, I told him that if he was late home tonight, no later than 7:30pm, he would be locked out in the cold all night. It was November, and I knew he hated the cold. Also, if he was on time, he’d get special hot chocolate, with cream, fudge chips, flake and sprinkles, as well as pizza from the takeout and a movie, whichever…
ALBNI Seeks Peaceful Resolution…….Warns against forcing Shi’ites underground The Accountable Leadership for Better Nigeria Initiative, ALBNI, has tasked the Federal Government to embrace political measures to resolve incessant confrontations between members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, and the Nigerian Police with the aim of bringing an end to increasing violence and loss of lives. ALBNI stated this in a statement jointly signed in Abuja by Remi Adebayo and Ibrahim Dan-Halilu; President and Secretary of the civil society group on Saturday, where it called on the government to toe the path of respecting the rule of law by releasing…
Have you seen those pictures making rounds of Ekiti State governor, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi warmly relating with a 7-year-old pupil of a public school? The story has it that Gov. Fayemi and the boy met during the launching of the Federal Government’s school feeding programme in Ekiti. Since then, the governor had struck a friendly accord with the boy, forcing the former to invite the latter, his little friend, over to visit him in the office. The pictures actually brought out another salient character of the governor, whose critics had accused of being disconnected, especially from the lowly. Many…
How can I write on Otunba Niyi Adebayo without being emotional ? I was his commissioner for health 1999-2003. People can say that I know him. Ekiti has not had a humble, patriotic and totally devoted governor like him since the new civilian dispensation. He governed before petrol money monthly sharing at Abuja yet his accomplishments are yet to be broken or equalled. He started about 6 six new Hospitals, a new School of Nursing, the Medical School that is just graduating its first set of students (For the delay, thanks to Fayose and the tardiness of govts to released…
The Ekiti State Commissioner for Information, Tourism, and Values Orientation, Aare Muyiwa Olumilua has urged followers to hold leaders accountable for their actions, saying, until they start asking questions, the nation might not get the development it craves for. Aare Olumilua gave this charge while addressing students of the International Institute of Journalism Abuja, Nigeria (Ado-Ekiti campus) at an award ceremony and public lecture with the topic; “The role of Leadership in the Transformation of Nigeria” organized by the Students’ Representative Council. The Commissioner who was honoured with the award of the most outstanding politician in the State at the…
Adelani Adepegba, Ade Adesomoju, Leye Aluko and Godwin Isenyo The Federal Government has obtained a court order to proscribe the Shiites’ organisation formally referred to as the Islamic Movement in Nigeria. The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the proscription of the Shiites’ movement as protests by the Islamic organisation rock Abuja. Saturday PUNCH reports that Justice Nkeonye Maha issued the order in a ruling in which she also designated the activities of the Shiite organisation in any part of Nigeria “as acts of terrorism and illegality.” The court restrained “any person or group of persons” from participating…
Activities at the Iranian Embassy in London were on Friday paralysed by angry Nigerians over the alleged involvement of the Asian country in the protests and actions of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, otherwise known as Shiites. The protesters, under the aegis of Concerned Nigerians in the United Kingdom, were seen chanting songs and displaying placards with various inscriptions, warning Iran to stop sponsoring terrorism in Nigeria. The action came following the demand by the Iranian government for the release embattled Ibrahim El-Zakzakky for treatment in the middle east. Addressing the protest on behalf of Concerned Nigerians in the United…
The Ambassador Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran 16 Princes Gate, Knightsbridge London SW7 1PT, UK Your Excellency, STOP SPONSORING TERRORISM IN NIGERIA Concerned Nigerians in the United Kingdom have been following development in Nigeria with concerns. The concerns arise from the rapidity with which Shia group, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) has evolved into a full blown terror group, a development which security experts and organizations in our home country have attributed to support from the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the month of July alone, IMN members, reportedly radicalized by Iran, have precipitated two major incidents…
