Ruling Nigeria On Orwellian Terms, By Osmund Agbo
Nigeria could be burning to the ground and you wouldn’t even hear anything in the semblance of a presidential address to calm frayed nerves.
…what volume of business, if one may ask, is expected from Niger Republic, which is more than the thousands of containers of goods making their way to South-East Nigeria, clogging the highways and constituting a daily nightmare to those unfortunate to commute through those routes. Yet, there is no single rail road, at this moment, linking Onitsha or Aba to Lagos…
“One of the swiftest ways of destroying a kingdom is to give preference to one particular tribe over another or to show favour to one group of people rather than another.” –
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Buhari’s base instincts bear eloquent testimony to his nepotism
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By Ikechukwu Amaechi
ON January 29, 2021, Aso Rock once again raised an alarm that some unnamed Nigerians were plotting to wage a campaign of calumny against President Muhammadu Buhari. Femi Adesina, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, said a plan was afoot to portray the president as pandering to ethnic and primordial tendencies contrary to his pledge to belong to all Nigerians.
Sketching out the alleged plot with the sole intent of sullying Buhari’s supposedly sterling repute, Adesina said it entails the release of editorials by media houses alleging, among other things, that the president places members of his ethnic nationality in sensitive positions.