Football tournaments should be held every day, continuously, ad infinitum; it is one surest opium by which the poor and needy are sweetly distracted from their life's agony and anguish. Ensure that the Eagles, whether Golden Eaglets,
So it was with this season's
They simply all were Nigerians, same as the sea of heads in green jersey massing and slow-marching the major streets of the Ivorian capital on their way to the stadium for the final match of the tournament squaring
Not so with football. It is such a narcotics that made a man throw his wife down from the window of a high-rise building for not allowing him concentrate watching a live football match on television; just like Escobar, a Colombian player was shot on return to his country for scoring an own goal which prevented Columbia from advancing beyond the quarter finals in USA '94
Not less than five Nigerians were among those reported to have lost their lives to cardiac arrest when
The soccer stupor is now wiped as we can see quite clearly that we are back to the reality of a rapid descent to the nasty, brutish and short life of the state of nature. In the midst of the
In Yoruba land, the Oba is first among the deities; he is àdìmúlà, the one to whom you run or cling to for safety and life in all ramifications. He is òjìmàmà whose mouth is never seen eating; the immortal being who only ascends into the àjà to dwell with the gods and ancestors after the completion of the assignments for which he was sent.
The pain in this annoying occurrence is not the eternal loss; that is felt by his family, associates and community. The pangs and indelibly reminding scar rest in the bosom of a race which existential beliefs have been rubbished by the sights, on social media, of bodies of our immortal beings, fallen by the lethal weapons of ragged terrorists, being hauled into vehicles on our road, in our territory.
The terrorists know that education is our area of comparative advantage and to stop us in that direction, they went kidnapping our children in school buses and in scores. Which parent will not be scared by this devilish development? While the Naira slides uncontrollably the economic woes are further compounded by the collapse of agriculture as farmers are chased away from their farms by armed terrorist herders relentlessly all over the country.
The ember of this strange phenomenon in our clime was fanned by the Buhari administration either by mute indifference or undisguised complicity. No part of the federation is sparred the wanton killings of Nigerians. It is more pronounced even in
In effect, the federation had become undeniably ungovernable under Buhari in all respects and Nigerians were only tolerating the administration till the end. When during the electioneering campaigns the present President said he would continue where Buhari stopped, it was of course seen by many as the natural course of events.
There were those who felt it was only a gimmick to woo Buhari as the incumbent President, a strategy of managing a bull which stormed into a glass shop as it was inconceivable that anyone would honestly see anything to emulate and preserve in the Buhari administration. In its ninth month, it appears that the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration might really have decided to toe the steps of the Buhari administration.
Though the "subsidy is gone" critical policy pronouncement was rather made by
The floating of the Naira policy appears the only exclusive policy of the Tinubu government. In terms of revisiting the structure of the federation as an overall policy with salutary effects on governance modules, security and the economy, Tinubu's government is yet to see nothing wrong with the structure of the federation and thus at home with carrying on as Buhari. Of course, Tinubu is the same and not different from the man who, as Governor of Lagos State, fought the Federal Government, by action and through the courts, on several violations of principles of federalism.
The difference, as some have now suggested, is the attraction of the unprecedented powers vested in the Federal Government by our quasi federal
The starting point is a critical and determined review of the unitary superstructure foisted by military rulers on the federal foundation erected by our founding fathers on the British/Lugardian amalgamation architecture. Buhari first told Nigerians that "restructuring" had nebulous connotations and his government would have nothing to do with a concept it hardly could decipher. Nigerians reminded him of the federal arrangement that was negotiated by the founding fathers but which he and his military colleagues/ politicians torpedoed.
In particular, Buhari ordered that the report of the 2014 National Conference be kept in the national archives. His APC party, then under Chief
Ebiseni is Secretary General, Afenifere.
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