Former Education/Petroleum Minister, Professor Jubril Aminu
Professor Jubril Aminu, Nigeria’s former Education/Petroleum Minister, on loving and being patriotic about Nigeria:
Love for this country is just not there. People love their religion more than their country. I am from the North; people from the North are mad about the North but our leaders did not advise us to be as mad about our country. It is the same thing with the West and the East; their leaders did not advise them to be mad about Nigeria too. The people from the West love the West, but they were not thought to love their country, Nigeria. They were told to antagonise the federal government, because of the opposition stance. In my view, everything necessary should be done to get the people to love their country, Nigeria. Not in the fashion of what we see on the television every day, ‘We are Nigeria, we are one’….etc. Even children laugh at it. Invent real ways of making the people love Nigeria.
I remember this quote on patriotism from Mark Twain: “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” Continue reading…
President Goodluck Jonathan had a “chequered past as a corrupt and ineffective state governor”, according to a secret United States diplomatic cable leaked by whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. Full text on AllAfrica.com
The construct of the Nigerian nation is complex, multifaceted, and demands a sound political and executive management that is contrary that what is being operated today. Continue reading…
I can’t readily think of instances of collaborative actions between the Nigerian government and the citizens and organizations in the private and nonprofit sectors working together as partners to accelerate innovative, results-oriented, and sustainable solutions to our nation’s social problems. One thing that is not very common—and really needed—in Nigeria is this public-private collaboration. Continue reading…
Senator Sani Yerima
Will he be expelled from the Senate?
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While hundreds of lesser known names have suffered similar and even worse outcomes in Nigeria, Alhaji Abubarkar Rimi’s manner of death is embarrassing and should be a wake up call to the nation administrators. Rimi was one of their kind; he was affluent and well-connected; he was a former governor and a former federal minister; and member of the ruling party.
A society that can not guarantee basic security of life and property is in serious trouble. This is the reality of Nigeria today. Continue reading…
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