Is Gov Otti Tinubu’s agent? By Ugoji Egbujo
If every major ally of Peter Obi behaved exactly like Alex Otti, the practical effect would be a significantly weakened, fragmented, and less confrontational opposition ahead of 2027. And this isn’t because , he didnt move to the NDC with Peter Obi. No, far from it. This is because if all Obi’s allies adopted the same stance, […]
President Jonathan at the door step of shame?
Benevolent spirits may have cracked his palm kernels but President Jonathan must have nudged them, by being effortlessly self effacing and disarmingly unambitious. The mien and disposition of a lamb amongst wolves alone may leave one with the inconsequentiality, the inconspicuousness, needed to progress untracked by envy but in Nigeria where the humble and hesitant are choked out by the nakedness of ambition and its riotousness , Jonathan was particularly fortunate .
Of sickening corruption and the tales of sicknesses
When late Houphet Boigny made the state treasury his own , his madness allowed him transform his village of Yamoussoukro into a tourist attraction. He saw St Peters Basillica in Rome and greed couldn’t stand in his way as ego propelled him to replicate it in his home town in Cote d’ivoire. That project may be dumb but our politicians make Boigny a visionary.
The Senate : A petty, paranoid, red – eyedchamber intent on castrating the youths
“Banish the social media, dismantle the internet and confiscate their mobile phones. Isolate them, put out their lights and shut in these trouble makers and there will be peace.” “All in favour say aye” If we hesitate, with this senate, the ayes will have it. The biggest threat to the perpetuation of the enslavement of the poor majority in Nigeria by the political class is the social media.
Of peace, tolerance !
It is good that muslims , good muslims, are drawing the line. And it’s time they did. Boko haram members are not muslims, I agree. ISIS is not Islam. And that has to be the summation because Islam is a religion of peace , therefore any interpretation of the Koran that portrays Islam as a religion whose adherents cannot coexist with people of other faiths in peace must be discarded.
Diezani in Dele Momodu’s wheelbarrow
When the society substitutes true spirituality with showy religiosity then conspicuous consistent sinning will abide and recourse to rigourless magical atonements will be the rule. When the tokenistic giving of alms becomes a common penance for iniquity, hypocrisy and beggarliness will be jointly promoted. And because the economic situation has become increasingly desperate even begging has become competitive . In being competitive, it became an art, creativity and imagination are now freely employed.
