Buhari, you do not have 7 days!

 

 

I saw a video this morning (February 5^th 2023), that jolted me. It was a moving video of a man, a naked man in a banking office in Nigeria. I have seen numerous videos of Nigerians distressed in these times, I could add mine too, but this man's distress, compelled by forces outside of his power to strip himself of all human dignity was riveting and startling for I have seen it before.

It is of historical genre. It is the inadvertent, reactive act of an ordinary citizen’s resistance against oppression. It is of the kind, in it’s poignant, wretched appeal, that ignites a spark and moves other ordinary citizens. Empires, and yes government's have been engulfed by such acts and across mother Nigeria by the minute, such acts are being replicated.

Leadership vacuum, Emefiele and Arise Tv's, Rufai's; "T'aja t'eran" presidential aspirants

 

The final parts of the movie; "The Fall of the Roman Empire(1964)", depicted a scene where the emperorship of Rome was being auctioned. At the fall of Emperor Commodus, a Roman Empire, gasping for breath, buffeted by a myriad of mortal dangers, that threatened it's corporate existence, was being offered to avaricious members of the ruling class in a bazaar like haggle that would see it's rulership go to the highest bidder.

 

Rome, had been brought to that shocking and perilous impasse in just the space of a few years, under the stewardship of a man who would rather do any other thing, than rule purposefully. At a time, Rome needed a captain to always have the “conn” and dutifully steer it's ship, Commodus was always invested in other distractions.

 

A form of pernicious mildew, instead of improving on what he found, he exacerbated disaster and debilitated every good or manageable thing he met.

 

Professor Jega's tiny, rabid, and reckless band of elites (Few Reality Checks)

 

 

Professor Attahiru Jega, a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), while speaking in Abuja at the 2022 Workers Political conference organised by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) which held during the past week, called on Nigerian workers to, as a matter of great urgency, quickly wake up and rescue the country from "a few reckless elites in control of the governance process who are running the country aground."

 

Jega's postulations on "a few reckless elites", are historical facts that have plagued our country in the past, continues to do so in the present, while threatening to subsist into the future. The "blight" of these "reckless elites" on our country are manifest in our everyday existential realities.

 

Andy Uba and the ideology of political gangsters

 

Hey, Don Willie, almost all your "button men" are now with me – so how come you won the war! Now, Soludo’s gonna be the new Don(my eyes must be deceiving me) – I had all your “hitmen” with me! You mus'ta had help from outside forces! I refuse to concede I lost and I'll fight on. Yes, I was robbed of my certain victory – I had all the gangsters(raging)!

This is the narrative, that an apparently shocked and unbelieving Senator Andy Uba, candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the just concluded Anambra State gubernatorial election holds as his gospel truth.

Grinning Maina and Deizani's seized assets: exhibits of the mindless depravity of Nigerian kleptocrats!

 

Convicted and sentenced to 61 years imprisonment, but actually 8 years(running concurrently), when there was always the option of it running consecutively – an apparently unremorseful, unperturbed and bubbly Abdulrasheed Maina – infamous fugitive and now confirmed pension lootist, ably assisted in walking out of court by nauseatingly fawning Nigeria Correctional Service personnel – cheerfully walked out of court waving and greeting well-wishers and anyone in sight while grinning from ear to ear.

This is Nigeria, and Maina, might as well be dancing! If we know anything at all, we know – from the slap on the wrist sentence, through to the optics of air-conditioned conveyance (Black Maria is for the poor and #EndSARS protesters) – you can bet Maina’s correctional experience is of the deluxe kind, only available to “big men”.

General Iraboh taps into time-honoured culture to boost troops

 

Revolutionary War colonel and aide-de-camp to Gen. George Washington, Col. David Humphreys, in 1787, wrote: "Few inventions could be more happily calculated to diffuse the knowledge and preserve the memory of illustrious characters and splendid events, than medals".

Military awards and decorations – distinctions given as a mark of honour for military heroism, meritorious or outstanding service or achievement, remains a time-honoured, cherished and sacred tradition in the culture and history of Armed Forces around the world.

Murder of Dr Akunyili, others: A failing country in the grip of "unknown gunmen"

 

What pain! What unimaginable shock! Contemplating the magnitude of unvarnished gut wrenching sorrow, sudden and seemingly apocalyptic, that would have befallen the family of Dr Chike and Dora Akunyili on hearing about the gruesome murder of Dr John Chike Akunyili can be better left to the imagination.

Already bereft and forever left with a hollow vacant space in their hearts from the demise of their ebullient, steady, accomplished mother – the Akunyili children were not spared the brutal reality that disparate families across Nigeria have to come to terms with on a daily basis.