Even if the government is inclined to celebrating, majority of the citizens are not in the mood. Faced with existential crisis, an average Nigerian would rather think of how to survive than celebrate a country that has offered no more than tears, blood and sorrow
The Spokesperson for the Northern Elders Forum, Mr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed, should, with due honor addressed this begarly mentality of Nigerians in the North and guide the people to embrace honest productive means of earning livelihood out of hardwork
By Suyi Ayodele (Edited) “For so many years, the North has been behaving like the King that feels he cannot be challenged; the one who determines the destinies of others while wearing the toga of supremacy. The region has been reaping from where it did not sow and has been enjoying the sweat and labour of the South, unchallenged.” This is a true-life story. There was once a Yoruba Traditional Ruler who talked down on his subjects. His tongue was so acerbic that even his Council of Chiefs avoided him.…
Ebube George Ebisike “The notion that funding the National Assembly or any political institution in any measures is more important than funding the Academic Staff Union must be perceived as a grave error and those responsible should be banned from holding any political office” Authur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes novels and other literary masterpieces commented later in his life that the academic system he experienced in the 1860s could only be excused “on the plea that any exercise, however stupid in itself, forms a sort of mental…
“With the size of a nation like Nigeria, taking into consideration its hardworking youth population, natural vegetation and mineral resources scattered all over the country, States naturally should be self-sustaining and competitive.
“If we allow politicians to get comfortable inciting division and violence when throwing tantrums, angling for chunks or crumbs, we will ruin the country. If we encourage politicians to forgo moderation in speech and action by rewarding political arsonists with recognition and prominence, we will destroy society.
The pastors are religious representatives of faith, if they take advantage of people’s innocence or join the politicians to do wrong be rest assured, they cannot go scot-free both on earth and in the spirit and if they chose to be double faced and forked tongue…
Nyesom Wike had decided to use state powers to stop the inflow of Money earned in Rivers State as Value Added Tax (VAT) to Abuja, where it is shared as Free Money to states that generates virtually nothing but crisis upon crisis
“Neither United States nor France is said to have followed this path of mutual respect to the people and their region until recently they begin to create one or two impression of engagement that are certain to produce devastating consequences
We are the largest black nation on earth even without Nigeria. We must never remain stagnant and blinded by fake arrangement. Colonial nation states arrangement like Nigeria are fast losing relevance.
