Gani Fawehinmi “Stand up for what is right even if you are standing alone”
Thomas Sankara “While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas!”
Madam Dora Akunyili and her colleagues in government have come to the conclusion that Nigerians are zombies who would take everything that comes out of the mouth of government officials hook line and sinker.
Chief Alex Akinyele, the former Minister for information or communication has urged the banished DEJI of AKURE to commit sucide for haven domestic dispute with his wife in public, which has been randomly condemmed.
Yet there are still countries that retain the death penalty. According to recent figures from Amnesty International, twenty-eight of the fifty-four countries of the Commonwealth retain the death penalty. Of the remaining twenty-four countries, fourteen have officially abolished capital punishment while nine have not carried out execution for over a decade and are considered to have a de facto abolition.
Frequent reports of harrowing experiences of Nigerian immigrants in different parts of the world have become an embarrassment to the country. One of the most recent of these is the revelation that no fewer than 20,000 Nigerians are languishing in prisons and detention centres in the United Kingdom (UK) over immigration offences.
Last Sunday another spate of maltreatment was meted out to some Nigerians living in Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. This latest incident, like some past ones claimed the life of a Nigerian, while 32 other foreigners, mostly Nigerians were arrested.
I do not know of any educated Nigerian who could claim ignorance of the fact that the ritual of Nigerian elected officials – governors, senators, reps – travelling en masse to foreign countries to attend these so-called capacity building or training workshops and seminars is ensconced within a broad atmospherics of corruption.
Arizona’s tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration is dividing police across the nation, pitching officers against their chiefs and raising questions about its potential effect to damage efforts to fight crime in Hispanic communities.
I however, sympathised with General Obasanjo and his co-travellers of their inability to take into consideration the uniqueness of Ondo State, what the State stands for, what the people of the State are known for, our attitudes and unique way of politicking.
He was solely behind the drift of Nigerian intellectuals overseas and the loss of hundreds of Nigerian doctors and nurses to the Middle East. IBB plunged Nigeria into darkness and despite the huge windfall from the sale of
“Western productions, slick as they are, do not gel with people — their everyday experiences are too different. For Africans, those films are fantasies.” Mr Ejiro, who looks more like a nightclub bouncer than a film mogul, with tight black T-shirt and sparkling bling jewellery, said that the industry is now at a crossroads.
Mum, dad steals show at Tosin Isola’s 18th birthday…it’s mummy’s day too… a thing of beauty…..
All hail Dupe ‘Toju Jackson, a proud Nigerian helping to reshape the nation’s politics for the better!
Olutayo Awogboro of Mary Kay fame says:” I am a living witness to Mary Kay beauty magic”
All hail the golden couple, Patience Dickson Airienbuwa and Emmanuel Urhiofe on their special day.
Sweet sensation: Our top of the range ‘Sunshine Arise Africa’ model is a beauty record smasher!
Candid photosplash:Love untainted as Osemades show true colours.
Serena Williams final at Wimbledon in pictures as she is four times winner.