On Thursday, 20 June 2013, the National Human Rights Commission will launch an initiative against electoral impunity in Nigeria. This is an overdue idea. It deserves the support of all politicians, citizens and friends of Nigeria. The modest progress in 2011 notwithstanding, we have, as a country, historically struggled in Nigeria with organizing elections and counting votes credibly. In ... Read More »
Corruption has been with Nigeria for a long time but some would argue it has never been this daring. We are at the stage of impunity and the transformation has been extraordinary. Under the Jonathan administration alone, some N5 trillion have been stolen under one guise or another. This was the assertion of a PUNCH Newspaper investigation November 2012. The ... Read More »
In an article titled ”On A False Premise- U.S. Looks To G8 Summit For Consensus Over Libya”, the American journalist Shawn Helton of the ’21st Century Wire’ wrote the following- ”Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Adviser to President Obama declared thursday that the Syrian Army had used sarin gas on it’s own people. These claims have been unsubstantiated. Just one ... Read More »
And God is able to make all grace (every favour and [a]earthly blessing) come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need [b]be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation]. 2 Corinthians 9:8 (AMP) Religious organisations in ... Read More »
My father was not a perfect man; he had his flaws ad his excesses, but he had one thing that many lack today – compassion. They say every rich man in Nigeria has a story; perhaps, this is true, but his is one that anybody at all in Abeokuta can confirm. My father sold firewood to make ends meet, he ... Read More »
