Since Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as president, the Nigerian polity has been subjected to unnecessary, unproductive, yet all-consuming national distraction in the form of the heated debate regarding the alleged zoning agreement of the PDP, the ruling party at the center. Just when the nation is gearing up to launch itself on the path of sustainable development after recovering from the Yar’Adua saga that almost rented the very weak fabric of our nation, agents of darkness have suddenly introduced an utterly divisive issue that is currently sapping out vital energies from our developmental efforts.
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Africa and the New Homophobia Brand
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George Onyeama
The recent Demi Project in the UK defined human sustainability as…..”A way of configuring civilization and human activity so that society and its members are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while preserving biodiversity and natural ecosystems, and planning and acting for the ability to maintain these ideals indefinitely…”
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RACE RELATION S IN AMERICA : A SNAPSHOT
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Professor Dr. Emmanuel Omoh Esiemokhai
Race relations in America got into a messy tangle last week..It is a rotten shame that in America, there are still many people, who embrace racial intolerance, without understanding the disastrous consequences of such racial outbursts.
There is a spiritual dimension to racial discrimination and denigration of Man. Those light-headed individuals, who are racists are advertently or inadvertently questioning the Creator of the Universe, why He created people with different skin pigmentations, noses, hairs and eyes.
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OBAMA AND DODD RE-SHAPE AMERICAN FINANCIAL SYSTEM
- Professor Dr. Emmanuel Omoh Esiemokhai
When Adam Smith wrote,"The Wealth of Nations", he did not imagine that a class of property-owners,financial gurus and investment speculators, would hold societies to ransome and feather only their own nests. When the African slaves were viciously transported to America, they worked in the cotton fields, in plantations and industries.
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THE NIGERIAN POLITICAL QUANDARY
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Mohammed Sani Galadima
The Nigerian political landscape has produced a series of headlines which have for some time enthralled news lovers, the absence of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua to the cabinet reshuffle by President GoodLuck Jonathan and presently the zoning issue have produced certain characters like the said cabal, President Obasanjo and his famous blasphemous utterances, former justice Minister Aoandoka, former first lady Turai Yar’adua, former PDP chairman Vincent Ogbulafor, former President Ibrahim Babangida, former vice president Atiku Abubakar, the Governors forum and others.
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I AM PATIENT(LY) WAITING FOR MY GOOD-LUCK AT 50
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Olugbenga Oresajo
There was a time, I was ranked with under developed nations of the world. There is no need to dissipate energy on this. Thereafter, I was classified amongst developing nations. You may wish to note that some of the developing nations are now competing with developed Countries in terms of Industrial and technology advancement e.g. India, China, Iran just to mention a few but till date I cannot provide adequate power supply talk-less of refining some of the solid minerals bestowed on me for the benefit of my people. Why should my people import common tooth pick?
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Jonathan and the Niger Delta Struggle…and Related Matters
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Franklin Otorofani, Esq.
I have had cause in several of my previous write-ups to compare Nigeria’s newly minted president, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, to the US president, Barack Hussein Obama. And I will plead with the reader to be allowed to do the same again in this presentation even at the risk of repetition. It is not some fanciful, feel-good indulgence on my part, but a deliberate attempt that is designed to draw out certain salient leadership qualities that seem to define these two leaders of totally different worlds, who are nevertheless harping on common themes, as both continue to reveal the inner and outer cores of their personalities to us, albeit within the constraints and limitations of their official duties.
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A Cry Out to President Jonathan to Take Speedy Action on Nigeria’s Extremely Bad Health Care.
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John Egbeazien Oshodi
Mr. President, you are fully aware of the deeply held culture of indifference that filters through our public institutions and especially, our hospitals.
The psychological and cultural realities of the Nigerian institutions are not strange to you and should not therefore, be much of a surprise to you. As you know, Nigeria’s institutions are degenerating and wallowing in corruption, while religious and ethnic strife are a threat to good administrative governance and public sanity.
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