What Peace? Peace of the Graveyard?, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
Any peaceful coexistence will have to be on the universally accepted condition of, when in Rome you behave as the Romans .
ADVERTISEMENT Pray thee, what manner of peace are they urging now? Peace of the graveyard? People are being asked to accept peace conditions on terms dictated by those who want to forcibly acquire their land, means of livelihood and who have, in reality, launched a scorched earth policy to browbeat them into forcible submission!
Equal rights and justice, the hit tune by the late Reggae singer, Peter Tosh, was often blared on megaphones in beer parlours and barber’s salons as a rally cry during the dark days of the struggle for the restoration of democracy, after General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida annulled the 1993 presidential election. Further on, the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) crowd loved the punchline, “Everyone is crying out for peace, none is crying out for justic
Tinubu, Run! Please, Run!, By Festus Adedayo
I think Tinubu should not to take a plunge into the potentially destructive brackish waters of Nigeria’s presidential contest. This is because, it will make either an MKO Abiola or Umaru Yar’Adua of him. Both paths are ruinous… So, Tinubu, please run, run from the SWAGA gang.
What could have prompted Aunt Adelina to declare in
The Feast of the Goat that, “Well, that’s what politics is, you make your way over corpses…”? After seeing what politics and politicians do with us in Nigeria, should I have asked that question in the first instance? Optimists that Nigerian politicians are, they have started a race ahead of God to the year 2023; and they do not appear to mind stepping on the blood and the corpses of their brothers into the office they covet so badly. While at it, they are most times unmindful of how the people feel about their sprinting ahead of the Creator. Not even the perishability of their selves do they give
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What could have prompted Aunt Adelina to declare in The Feast of the Goat that “Well, that’s what politics is, you make your way over corpses…”? After seeing what politics and politicians do with us in Nigeria, should I have asked that question in the first instance? Optimists that Nigerian politicians are, they have started a race ahead of God to the year 2023; and they do not appear to mind stepping on the blood and the corpses of their brothers into that office they covet so badly. While at it, they are most times unmindful of how the people feel about their sprinting ahead of the Creator. Not even the perishability of their own selves do they give consideration. Being humans, can any sprinter be sure they will see that selfsame 2023? This time around, however, they seem to be hushing the 2023 permutations and projections.
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