From this:
Haiti National Palace, pre- earthquake, May 2009.
To this:
Haiti National Palace, post- earthquake, January, 2010.
Time like this brings deep reflection…despite all the craziness back home, Nigeria is lucky.
My prayers go to the people of Haiti as they deal with this catastrophe!
The president has broken his contract with the Nigerian people who voted him into office. Even if he now appears to have resurrected and able to give a barely-over-one-minute-interview on BBC, there are just too many controversies surrounding his medical stay in Saudi Arabia to warrant forgiveness from the Nigerian people.
Dead or alive, Alhaji Umaru YarAdua is no longer fit to govern Federal Republic of Nigeria.
People rally to protest over a power vacuum created by the absence of President Umaru Yar'Adua, Abuja, 12 Jan 2009. Source: VOA/AFP
The dissing will continue until…
The Nigerian president may be brain-dead, or severely physically and mentally incapacitated to ever function in the executive capacity he was elected some three years ago. There are some damning reports from NEXT and Punch dailies.
The story in Next is particularly jaw-dropping! Several spasms of shiver ran down my spine reading how a handful of people have been able to mount the greatest charade in the nation’s history.
The story better not be true!
Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua. President Federal Republic of Nigeria
If Mr. President is still in control of his mental faculty, and his sights have not failed him as some of his other body parts and organs have, he needs to read Princeton Lyman’s piece on Nigeria: “If Nigeria fails?”, published in BusinessDay on Jan. 7. (In fact, all federal ministers, legislators and state governors should read the article.) Mr. Lyman was a former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, so his analysis can not be discounted. Continue reading…
Nigeria is a sick nation needing disruptive turnaround!
Kara meat markey in Lagos, Nigeria. Photo: Reuters
There are three clear-cut prognoses to any medical malady: It can either resolve; turn chronic, lingers and cripple the victim, figuratively; or the victim may just caput, and succumb to the illness.
That Nigeria is sick is stating the obvious, but as apparent as this may be, Nigerians keep getting smacked in the face, incessantly, by actions and developments that continue to buttress this fact. Here are some reference points in 2009: Continue reading…
This video clip tracks the blame-game following the failed terror attack involving Nigerian Umar Abdulmutallab. Take a look:
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