By Reuben Abati As spokesman to President Goodluck Jonathan, my phones rang endlessly and became more than personal navigators within the social space. They defined my entire life; dusk to dawn, all year-round. The phones buzzed non-stop, my email was permanently active; my twitter account received tons of messages per second.   The worst moments were […]

The United States government helped Boko Haram immensly by refusing to classify them as a terrorist organisation until 2014 and by refusing to sell us arms to fight them. Worst still, they imposed an international arms embargo on us so that we could not buy arms from anyone else in the international community. When asked why they are doing this to us they tell us that it is because of the Leahy Act which prohibits them from selling arms to governments that violate the human rights of their own citizens.

Quite often when you read newspapers, listen to the radio and watch television in the West, you will are bombarded with how poor and corrupt Africans are. However, you will never watch, read or hear anything in these media outlets on the role played by Western banking institutions; property development and estate companies; technology corporations; oil and mining cartels; defense and engineering companies; and Western political and business elite in promoting corruption in Africa.

Everything that will stand as an attacker of your life shall be disgraced this year. The bible says that any tree not planted by God shall be uprooted. Believe God and you shall be established, believe His prophet so shall you prosper. No matter the design or plan of the devil and his agents concerning you and all your concerns, know for a surety that they shall surely fail. Who is he that has spoken and shall come to pass when the Lord has not spoken. Listen, no matter your present circumstances God has the final say always. His word is final authority. His word is forever settled in heaven.

When an individual makes up his/her mind to embark on an adventure, the direction he goes is determined by several factors. It will be unfair for an outsider who was not privy to the considerations to forcefully redirect the adventurer without due consultations with him.

So many aspects of our lives seem to be lived online these days, whether we’re browsing on our mobile on the bus, sitting at a library computer, on our laptops… it’s hard to imagine how we ever lived without the internet.

THE way we plunge from one controversy into another, as if we are a people determined to scatter can be baffling sometimes! Some more optimistic persons insist that Nigeria will never break up, no matter what, but many more believe rightly too, that we must not take things for granted, for as long as we have deliberate inequality and unfairness in our handling of very crucial national issues, one of which is corruption.

IT is a fact that since former governor of Abia State and now senator representing Abia Central district, Theodore Orji (Ochendo), parted ways with his predecessor, Chief Orji Uzo Kalu, there has been no love lost between them. Prior to that, Kalu the godfather, had lorded it over Orji, the godson, in the running of the affairs of the state for almost four years of Orji’s first term in office. Orji was then tagged a Bishop without a cathedral by Abia people.

AN Igbo adage says that, “Onye amara ebe mmiri siri maba ya adi ama ebe onoro madobe ya”, meaning, he who does not know where rain started beating him, doesn’t know where it stopped. For a state like Anambra we had the misfortune of having people of questionable character dominated her affairs in the past.

THE situation of our country today, the condition of the president and the intervening variables in the form of our political actors demand that we help President Muhammadu Buhari, if he is to succeed. Whatever we have done with our past are building blocks and serve as direction to the way forward.