There’s no indignity as having the news of a people’s misery and deaths denied, played down or unsympathetically politicised. The only tragedy worse than this may be the lack of strategy or, as some have said of the ongoing counter-terrorism, of the “will” to end these many killings. The past few weeks have been peculiarly Nigerian – a condition I ... Read More »
If you still hold on to the delusion that your worth as a human, and even as a citizen, is as important as the ambition of our desperate politicians or that, as an ordinary citizen, you’re indeed indispensable in their political calculations and foresights, you have obviously stopped using, a misfortune this brings, that with which you were born, to ... Read More »
Angels lay in the pool of their own blood, Their fire snuffed out, the ashes blown away, The barrage of lead their fragile flesh could not defy, To nocturnal marauders have they fallen prey, Thus by shine or shower we ceaselessly mourn, Despondent, miserable, bereaved and forlorn. From whence, and why these menacing cannonade? The back of tripod-stones has become ... Read More »
The Sunday Trust reports that the Governor of Borno State may be replaced with a Military Administrator by President Jonathan Jonathan Plans Next Move: Military Governor To Replace Shettima – Sunday Trust .It’s Unconstitutional -Lawyers .Nigeria Closes Border with Cameroon Governor Kashim Shettima is to be suspended from office early this week and replaced by a Military Administrator as part ... Read More »
Religion and nationalism are the most powerful forms of indoctrination and, in the name of these two, many injustices can be done so that our idea of a shared humanity [in terms of religion and nationality] is thus contradicted and ridiculed. Nationalism is theoretically the healer of a colourfully diverse country possessed by the ghosts of hatred along the lines ... Read More »
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