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News
Nigeria: God is signing autographs on beef - up North
Tuesday, 22 July 2008 9:48 P GMT+01
Inscriptions of Allah and Mohammed have appeared on cuts of beef up North in Birnin Kebbi - astounding.
Nigeria: Women badly represented at CEDAW convention
Monday, 21 July 2008 6:06 P GMT+01
Our women's minister took a battalion to the UN, they could not shoot their guns and the medics gave them an overdose of sarcastic nudity.
Apes Obey! Lacks the power of organisation
Thursday, 17 July 2008 5:08 P GMT+01
My second Apes Obey! Series post dealing with a stampede caused by the failure to organise an effective recruitment drive.
Nigeria: Lost are the arms of right and wrong
Thursday, 10 July 2008 11:07 P GMT+01
A girl's arms get amputated after an accident for medical reasons, the girl feels cheated, the parents feel wronged, the doctor feels hounded, the situation seems criminal and many feel ritualised.
My father is my mother
Saturday, 5 July 2008 2:16 P GMT+01
Father, mother, child, love - all the world needs to exist in happiness? Maybe, but the roles change and the genders are now non-descript - this is our society running ahead of our prejudices.
Satan's hand in human stupidity as church splits
Friday, 4 July 2008 6:58 P GMT+01
The split afflicting the Anglican Church is more about competing egos than doctrinal differences because it takes the church no further in its work of remaining relevant to the communities they are operating in.
Indonesia: Two heroin smuggling Nigerians killed
Friday, 27 June 2008 11:42 A GMT+01
Reading about the killing of 2 Nigerians by firing squad in Indonesia leaves one wondering if they got any help to appeal their convictions in the hope for a commutation.
In my view, ambassadors have a duty to both law-abiding and criminal Nigerians.
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Frankly, Madam Ambassador, I am not impressed
Monday, 23 June 2008 11:05 P GMT+01
Newly appointed ambassadors should do well to find out about their country folk before pandering to cliches and unfounded generalisations that paint Nigerians in less than exemplary and unfavourable light.
Adedibu: Benevolence, Wills and Legacy
Monday, 23 June 2008 5:20 P GMT+01
Now that Alhaji Adedibu is no more, it also appears his large giving hand has been cut off.
His children are not carrying on his legacy possibly because he failed to bequeath something to that cause and left no instructions to that effect.
Zimbabwe: Ready for Re-Colonisation
Tuesday, 17 June 2008 12:25 P GMT+01
Does Zimbabwe offer anything that would make it worthy of re-colonisation? I think not.
So why the delusions, lies and falsehoods of Robert Mugabe?
Adedibu, Half of Ibadanland, the man is no more
Wednesday, 11 June 2008 5:15 A GMT+01
The strongman of Ibadan, the elder thug that has plagued Oyo State with menace and with impunity - that power broker and peddler of the riotous mob - Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu has died.
Nigeria: Old Dishonest Generals Praise Abacha
Monday, 9 June 2008 5:49 P GMT+01
Three ex-military leaders of Nigeria contend that General Sani Abacha did not loot the National Treasury.
So, why are Swiss banks returning the supposedly legitimate stash?
The old men say, talk with the enemy
Saturday, 31 May 2008 11:56 A GMT+01
Some old men have been in the news about talking to the enemy, they believe it is part of conflict resolution and nothing to do with appeasement.
Would anyone get out of their entreched positions and heed their call?
Nigeria: Splitting hairs on Senate funding
Tuesday, 20 May 2008 5:29 P GMT+01
The clear intent of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation in his directive to the ministries was to ban the funding of National Assembly activities by organs of the executive.
The Senate should abide by that intention.
It's Only a Book
Monday, 19 May 2008 9:38 P GMT+01
A religious book only has value when the words in the book are part of a human development process.
A book in an of itself regardless of the words mean nothing and should exercise no power or influence over anyone.
Nigeria: Ministries banned from funding National Assembly
Monday, 19 May 2008 8:06 P GMT+01
There are positive developments emanating from the Ministry of Health embezzlement of funds and inducement to the National Assembly.
Those activities are banned forthwith - a good development for democracy.
The Yesterday Telegraph for breakfast
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:10 P GMT+01
I have a gotten a reply from the Daily Telegraph, they would not be ensuring the paper arrives early in Gran Canaria
Nigeria: A National Assembly fudge
Tuesday, 13 May 2008 6:26 A GMT+01
Ex-President refused to appear before the House Committee on Power and Steel yesterday, so the committee withdrew its invitation and have arranged alternatives that are worrisome.
Who is an ex-President answerable to?
Josef Fritzl: A man apart, an arch-demon indeed
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 6:35 P GMT+01
The case of Josef Fritzl touches on families, communities, society and humanity.
He might not be wanted in the company of all that is good and decent, but he is still a product of some society that comprises human-beings.
Grand Inga Project: Another White Elephant for Black Africa
Monday, 28 April 2008 7:37 P GMT+01
The Grand Inga Project that involves building that largest hydro-electric dam in the world in DR Congo is sounding like exciting news but it has nothing for Africans in general.
It should be aborted forthwith.
Nigeria: Kick out all foreign British Airways staff
Sunday, 27 April 2008 3:05 P GMT+01
The developments regarding the British Airways treatment of Nigerians are coming to a head, some serious action needs to be taken about their attitude and the revelation that it is institutionally racist.
Some African development issues are covered.
Maybe was a cornflake boy
Thursday, 24 April 2008 9:31 P GMT+01
Our most erudite and esteemed scientists have found out that a bowl of cereal at breakfast is the sure way to having a boy.
Boy! I am bowled, over :-)
Nigeria: Yar'Adua healthy from Germany with love
Sunday, 20 April 2008 8:04 P GMT+01
President Yar'Adua is bundled off to Germany in haste for an allergic reaction - it seems there is no one to treat the President for any simple ailment in Nigeria.
Nigerian scammers will always be a minority
Sunday, 20 April 2008 2:02 P GMT+01
The arrest of Nigerian scammers in Spain leaves one disappointed and ashamed of people who bring the great name of our country into disrepute.
We cannot however shirk from our ambassadorial duties of keeping the good name of Nigeria respected.
Nigeria: Senator frogjumps her back wall
Friday, 18 April 2008 8:54 A GMT+01
The more Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello garners newsprint inches the more embarrassing her case becomes, it is an utter disgrace to say the least.
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