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Many of us know at least one person in our lives who is a Highly Sensitive Person. That person at work, church, or in the neighbourhood who seems easily offended at mundane things, often misconstrues honest intentions and blows little things out of proportion. This person may be an introvert, extrovert or a mixture of both. A HSP is highly emotional and responds intensely, either physically or mentally to social and internal stimuli.

We are often quick to write off HSP as having low self-esteem; nothing can be farther from the truth. If you keep shutting down them with the ‘Oh! Don’t be so sensitive!’ comment, a HSP may eventually develop an inferiority complex.

Because this trait does not occur in many people, it is vastly misunderstood and can be labelled as one having an entitled or diva attitude. First, how can you identify a HSP?

HSP are usually uncomfortable in large crowds and do not welcome unnecessary physical contact from strangers. Easily moved by unpleasant news in the media, they deliberately avoid violent movies and other forms of shock entertainment.

They are self-conscious in romantically intimate situations and worry about getting their partner’s approval. Accepting critical feedback, no matter how constructive and reasonable, is hard for HSP. They tend to take things personally and find it difficult to let things go, thereby building up negative emotions.

Even in minor situations, a HSP is afraid of rejection and there is the tendency to be hard on themselves especially when they fall short of expectations.

That said, these group of people are usually intelligent, creative and innovative. Because of their sensitive nature, they find it easy to empathize with people, make great listeners and also give great advice.


However, as lovers, their partners might find them difficult and hard to understand. Note that once you can get through to a HSP, they love fiercely and are loyal to the very end.

For a Highly Sensitive Woman, the trick is PSSG; Patience, Sympathy, Support and Gentility.

· Be Patient: Patience is a big deal when dating a HSW; her sensitivity may at times drive you up a wall. If you realize your woman is one, try not to cut her short when she is expressing her feelings. Better still, don’t dismiss them or label them as nagging. Opening up to her lover, takes a lot of courage for a HSW and if you cut her down, you can be sure she will not be confiding in you any time soon.


· Show Sympathy: When she is having her meltdowns (and they will be quite a number), show sympathy even when you don’t understand. Many highly sensitive people live by a set of codes and react emotionally when they are violated even if it is unintentional. Showing sympathy calms her down and puts her in a place where she is willing to listen to your criticism. Trying to forcefully make her see reason never works. As long as she is in a meltdown, she would be utterly convinced that she is justified to have one.

· Give Support: Be a shoulder to cry on, a friend/cheerleader and a counsellor who dishes trustworthy advice. Support for a HSW means love and affection. It shows you are committed to her.


· Gentility: Watch your tone and mannerisms. With a HSW, gentleness can go a long way. It encourages trust and puts her in the mood for love. A gentle tone would also help foster feelings of security in the relationship.


With a HSW, trust is earned and not given. Once lost, it can be difficult to regain.


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On November 20, 1999, a detachment of Nigerian troops arrived in an oil-rich community in the Niger Delta. Having arrived their destination, the soldiers set to work; deploying machine guns, bombs and helicopter gunships to deal ruthlessly with enemy. By the time operation was over, 2,483 civilians including women and children had been massacred.

Welcome to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s Nigeria, the same man who yesterday wrote a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari detailing why he doesn’t deserve a second term. Since the letter went public, Nigerians have been agog with reactions. Not surprisingly the traditional media have sought opinions on, discussed and analysed the letter as if Nigerians needed it before the current economic situation could be appraised.

The prevailing reaction from Nigerians so far has been to shower encomiums on Obasanjo for his perceived statesmanship. A close perusal of the letter will show nothing extraordinary. As expected, Obasanjo portrayed himself as an elder statesman who since leaving office, worked tirelessly for the good of Nigeria and Africa in general.

He painted a humble picture of how he tried to steer former President Goodluck Jonathan on the right path and then resorted to tearing his PDP card to signify his exit from politics when Jonathan would not listen to reason. Obasanjo painstakingly explained his decision to throw his weight behind Muhammadu Buhari because there was no ‘better choice’ and recounted the efforts he made to advice Buhari on governance; all sacrifices on his part make sure the Nigeria’s democracy succeeded. Unfortunately to Obasanjo’s dismay, all his efforts have been rewarded with gross incompetence and outright obtuseness from the Buhari administration. So you can imagine his pain in having to write this letter, denouncing his former military comrade and urging him not to seek re-election.

As much as I would like to join the horde of gullible Nigerians with short memory to extol Obasanjo for his selflessness, his antecedents constrain me. It was no other person but Obasanjo whose administration implemented the sharia law; the same law that has been used as an excuse over the years to randomly kill Christians on the slightest pretext and forcefully marry Christian girls living in the north. Who ordered the Zaki-Ibiam and Odi massacres? Odi by the way has yet to recover from that bloodbath. Who was Nigeria’s civilian President when Bola Ige, Funsho Williams and a host of other politicians were assassinated? Mind you, these murders have remained unresolved till date. What about the random impeachment of state governors and the declaration of state of emergency in states during peace time? Have Nigerians forgotten so soon the Kaduna ethno-religious crisis in which over 1000 Nigerians lost their lives?

Who ceded Bakassi to Cameroun just because he was angling after a position in the United Nations? Was that singular action not akin to treason? His selfish ambition uprooted thousands from their ancestral homes and till date, they have not been resettled. Who tried to foist his third term ambition on Nigerians? Who was he that threw his weight behind a terminally ill man, recommending him as the best candidate for Presidency in 2007? By refusing to pick a healthy, competent candidate, Obasanjo threw this nation into a crisis and costs us thousands, nay millions in foreign currency when Yar Adua’s clique kept him abroad for months, refusing to relinquish power, thereby holding the Nigerian state to ransom.

It is this same self-seeking man, who supported Buhari in 2015 knowing full well that he was not capable of fulfilling his campaign promises, that is now writing letters for attention and calling for a coalition. Unfortunately Nigerians forget so easily, that is why educated and seemingly enlightened Nigerians like Reno Omokri, Reuben Abati, and the Peoples’ Democratic Party, supposedly an opposition party, are eulogizing Obasanjo for pointing out facts that even grandmothers in the village are well aware of. Obasanjo is no statesman and Nigerians would do well to avoid him and any candidate he endorses in the 2019 Presidential elections. Or is there anyone left in this country who doesn’t know Buhari has failed and shouldn’t seek re-election?


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Over 3000 indigenes of the state died last year while being trafficked to Europe





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Whenever I read news reports of the inhumane treatments being meted to teenage house helps, I wonder what has gone wrong with Nigeria’s middle class.

Just last week, a 13-year-old housemaid, Nkechi Oseh, was rescued by the police from forced imprisonment in Anthony Village, Lagos. Oseh had been locked indoors for two weeks by her boss, Betty Ifeoma, who had travelled out of the country. The teenager’s food for the duration was two packets of cabin biscuits and drink, toilet water.

This report came just as Nigerians were still recovering from the attempted murder o f a 15-year-old help who was thrown down a two storey building by her boss, Mrs. Motunrayo Ayadi, in Surulere. Ayadi had accused her help, Deborah Matthews, of stealing money and jewelry worth N1m. Across many homes, mostly middle class, the decimation of the poor is a daily routine.

I have been witness to some of these scenarios. I recall an elderly couple occupying a three bedroom bungalow with a teenage houseboy. They would lock the boy out of the house whenever they went out, and leave him to the elements till they return.

This young boy literally had a 20 hour workday. Part of his duties is to assist the couple in selling their wares. He would be on his feet for hours on end, regardless of the presence or absence of customers.

Perhaps these acts of cruelty are meant to be some form of discipline for the help. But to what end? Why treat a person worse than an animal because he is born poor? Refusing your house help a bed to sleep on, good food to eat, decent clothes to wear and even education or a trade, would that make them better servants? The level of physical violence some madams inflict on their helps is the stuff of German concentration camps.

Yet when we hear stories of house helps who murder or maim their masters and, or their masters’ children, we scream 'These household helps are wicked!'. Has it occurred to us that kindness begets kindness, and vice versa? Is it possible that a human being you maltreat on a daily basis would have any concern for your welfare and that of your family?

It is my belief that one of the major drivers of this trend is the desire by the middle class, many of whom come from poor backgrounds, to create a distinction between themselves and their employees. In a desperate bid to reassure yourself that you have ‘arrived,’ you become another version of Idi Amin.


You go out of your way by words and actions to tell your house helps that you are not in the same class. Is that necessary? Which sane parent with the means to take care of his/her child, would give out that same child as a help?
It is cruel, inhuman and despicable to maltreat a child who has left her home to work in your custody. Starving your help, beating them with irons and other dangerous objects is not discipline; that is simply you unleashing your inner Lucifer. It is more merciful to send away an unruly help than use them as a sadistic means of defining your social status.

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Zimbabwe's President, was today (Sunday) fired as leader of the ruling ZANU-PF party and replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa, the deputy he sacked this month.

Mugabe has ruled the country since its independence from the British in 1980

Nigeria and Nigerians are often in the news for bad things. However that does not mean we should look down on ourselves. Here are a few things we can be proud of....


Religion: Hate us if you will but Nigerians are religious people; we don’t play with our Friday and Sunday worships. In fact many of us are so zealous we are able to attend mid-week services including a vigil. Doesn’t matter if many of these zealots are civil servants who inflate contracts to accommodate their bribes; politicians who rape the treasury so they can live large; policemen who gleefully arraign the innocent so the guilty can walk free; building contractors who use substandard materials all for an extra buck; the list is endless. Never mind your sin, perception is reality.



Unity: Nigerians are united never mind what the media tells you. We are united on one purpose; making sure we do all we can individually to rip the country off for our generations unborn. Or how else can you explain why lobbyists and government policy makers will gladly frustrate an indigenous business over a foreign one? Or why our leaders would collectively frustrate the system so it doesn’t work, only for their families to enjoy healthcare, education and tourism in foreign lands? While they impoverish their motherland, they develop others. We are surely united, in a Mutual Assured Destruction.




Resilience: We are resilient people; the ‘rich and powerful’ put us through hell because they know we will survive. For it is only in Nigeria an employee continues to borrow money to transport himself to work for an employer who owes him. A tenant will even after paying rent and all manner of dues, will live without water and light uncomplainingly least his landlord accuse him of ingratitude. You see in Nigeria we endure anything because we understand that might is right. When it is your turn, you simply do worse.




Humility: Humility is a virtue and we have got that in abundance. This explains why a security agent will happily in the full glare of news cameras and the world, wipe a minister’s shoes with a handkerchief. And why it is a taboo for a politician’s wife to carry her own hand bag; it has to be carried by a police (bag) woman. Even corporate executives are not left out. In a bid to keep our jobs and perhaps ensnare undeserved promotions, many a man or woman has gone plate or car washing in his boss’s house. If that is not a testament of humility, I don’t know what is.


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Not sure if many people know that there are many interpretations to the word Madam. Besides being a form of polite address to a woman, it also means a woman who runs a brothel. In other words, a procurer or a love-vendor (in lay man’s terms) who provides sex workers in arrangement with her customers.

Going by past, recent and future incidents (hopefully not), the average Nigerian woman is a madam. In a recent news report, a teenage housemaid was rescued by the police in Delta State from her madam. From all accounts, aside from the usual house chores, her duties seemed to also include sexual entertainment.


Oluchi (not real name) said, “Several times, I have been sexually harassed by my madam's husband and son. Each time I refused their advances, they accuse me of stealing and I will receive severe beating from my madam, husband and son.”



Her story is not new neither is it strange. In many homes, it has become the norm for many Nigerian women to look the other way while their husbands, sons, brothers, male cousins etc molest and rape their teenage housemaids or even their own female relatives. Perhaps this is just one of the many ways marriages and family relationships are sustained and kept. For the average Nigerian woman, no sacrifice is too big to’ keep her marriage.’


How terrible you may say; I can never do such! Don’t be too quick to exonerate yourself; madams come in various forms and shapes. You are a senior executive but see nothing wrong with your male colleagues victimizing their female subordinates for sex, you are a madam.


When you get poor indigent girls from your village, conscript them into street trading, even mandating them not to return home until all the wares for the day have been sold, you are a madam. Chances that those girls would be molested and raped while selling wares late into the night is 9 out of 10.


You see a male neighbor inviting an underage street trader to bring her wares into his house for sale and you raise no eyebrows, you are a madam. You are in the market and notice some male traders groping at young girls trying to shop and you fail to chastise the men, you are a madam. You are a Head of Department, Dean or a senior non-academic staff of any university and you have not in your entire career, saved any girl from victimization, you are a madam.


A senior member of the military, police or any security agency, yet you have not lifted a finger to support junior female officers raped and victimized daily by their male superiors; you are a madam. You are a church worker and your colleague has been fired by the pastor/ priest unjustly. You are well aware that the sack has nothing to do with her job but everything to do with not satisfying the pastor/priest’s sexual demands. Yet you saw ‘no evil’, heard ‘no evil’ and obviously, spoke ‘no evil’; you are a madam.


You are a teacher and your principal is an unrepentant philanderer. There is always one school girl or the other leaving his office. You suspect he is messing them up but yet say nothing about your fears. Several PTA meetings come and go, yet you are as silent as the grave. Parents remain blissfully unaware until a schoolgirl begins to show evidence of the dangerous liaisons; you are a madam.


I could go on and on but by now, you get the general picture. It is amazing that Nigerian women already disadvantaged by a society skewed in favour of patriarchy, will rather do all they can to entrench the status quo than upturn it.


Why should one expect anything less when our self image comes from being tied to a man? How can we do any better when our sole aim in life is to protect our marriages even if it means offering up our daughters, sisters, nieces, toddlers and suckling babies to please the sexual appetites of our men?


After actively encouraging infidelity in their men, these same women never fail to cry foul about how young single girls run around with married men. You forget so soon the number of call girls you have groomed in your home, office, etc over the years. Having left your’ loving care and tutelage’, those girls have to practice what they have been taught. And what better person to practice with than a man in the image and likeness of madam’s husband or friend as the case maybe (married men)?


I am not hopeful that the sexual harassment of women in Nigeria will be reduced to the barest minimum anytime soon. Reason being that the biggest nurturers of this evil are women. He who wears the shoe knows where it pinches most. Expecting the men folk to put an end to centuries old practice will be akin to looking for a needle in a haystack.


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It seems the wind of retribution which has been blowing steadily over Hollywood’s powerful men and was about to make a historic landing in Nigeria, has faded abruptly. Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris due to face a Senate probe panel over allegations of corruption and sexual misconduct with female police officers, on Wednesday, dragged his accusers before an Abuja High Court.
With the matter now in court, it is very unlikely the planned probe would see the light of day. Also gone is the opportunity to expose what has become a symbol of power for nearly every influential man on earth; sexual harassment.
Sexual harassment knows no race, colour or gender; recent Hollywood scandals have proven this. Since allegations of sexual harassment against Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein broke, more women and indeed men have gathered courage to expose other powerful Hollywood figures such as Ben Affleck and Kevin Spacey.
Unlike Hollywood where sexual predators are being brought down by their victims, the reverse is the case in Nigeria. For IGP Idris, his albatross is a fellow man and former police officer Senator; Isa Misau.
According to Misau, Idris awards special promotions to female officers and ‘his boys’ at the expense of merit. He said, “The IG is openly having two relationships with policewomen who he gave special promotions. One of them is Amina and one of them is DSP Esther which the IG on 15th of last month got married to that woman DSP. Under police act and regulation, you cannot marry a serving woman police unless that woman retires.”
If this news had broken in the United States or any developed country for that matter, it would have been a scandal. Idris would have not only resigned his appointment but also become a pariah to society. But this is Nigeria, where anything and everything goes.
While one might question Misau’s motive for accusing Idris, what is not in contest however is the allegation of sexual misconduct. In virtually every office in Nigeria where a man holds sway, are female victims of his unbridled libido.
In fact it has become the norm for a ‘big man’ to have a girlfriend/ mistress or wife (if you will) in his office. This culture has become so ingrained that the ‘lucky woman’ is ecstatic that she has been found worthy of such an honour, flaunts her relationship and new found status. In offices where there is no structure, the woman begins to throw her weight around, terrorizing everyone and anyone who fail to recognize her.
Should this big man focus his attention on an unwilling victim who raises alarm, it is this same group of women who would shout them down, accusing them of courting attention at all costs. Even worse the media would go on a victim-shaming spree, analsying the victims, their lifestyles and mode of dressing. Anything to let the man off the hook and make the woman take the fall.
So it comes as no surprise therefore that Misau’s planned probe has hit a brick wall and even less surprising that no female police officer would dare show face and back Misau’s claims. This is why the office wife syndrome will continue in Nigeria for decades to come. And why even Principals and their Vices will also prey on their students. After all the school is their office, isn’t it?


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President Muhammadu Buhari is in love with Goodluck Jonathan. Indeed Buhari is so besotted with Jonathan that he will devise any means and seize every opportunity to discredit him. Already his anti-corruption campiagn is actually an anti-Jonathan campaign reason being members of his own kitchen cabinet who have been accused of graft are still in the corridors of power. Buhari took his obsession to a whole new level with the recent request by former Peoples’ Democratic Party spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, to call Jonathan as a witness in his on-going trial. Metuh is accused of receiving N400m from the office of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

Whether that request came about as a result of backroom dealing with Buhari for Metuh to regain his freedom remains to be seen. What is clear however is that the request is aimed at humilating Jonathan to gain the favour of the powers that be.
Now Dasuki who allegedly released the said amount to Metuh is yet to be convicted by any Nigerian court. As a matter of fact, the ECOWAS Court has declared his arrest and continued detention by the Federal Government illegal. Despite an order for Dakusi’s release, the FG has persisted in this trial by media to deflect attention from Buhari’s mounting atrocities.

So if Dasuki from whom Metuh received the money is yet to be convicted, why call on Jonathan as a witness? What happens if the court declares that Dasuki has committed no crime? Would Jonathan’s appearance in court then make a difference? As if on cue, the Nigerian media went on rampage reporting that Jonathan has been ordered to appear in court. TV stations went into an in-depth analysis as to whether or not Jonathan would appear in court, cleverly deflecting attention from allegations of corruption against several members of Buhari’s own kitchen cabinet.

It is unfortunate that Metuh has allowed himself to be used as a pawn in this game in a desperate bid to secure his freedom. While he can deny any intention to humiliate Jonathan, it is simply what it is. Methinks he is regretting his decision because of the uproar from Jonathan’s social media voltrons. Metuh’s lawyer if he was so desirous of Jonathan’s testimony had several alternatives to procure them. The media circus over an intended subpoeana was unnecessary.

The APC government must be commended for their brilliant and formidable publicity machinery but it wouldn’t stop Buhari from going down as the worst civilian president in history. His present antics are not new to reasonable Nigerians who witnessed his military dictatorship in 1983. Just as he is doing now, Buhari went on a corruption cleansing rampage, jailing South-South, South-East and South-West civilian governors after hastily conducted military tribunals. Shehu Shagari whom he overthrew was kept under house arrest while others languished in prison.

Yet Bola Tinubu and other South-West leaders, well aware of Buhari’s sectional tendencies, in their quest to grab power still threw their weight behind him. Unfortunately for everyone involved, Buhari is still fighting the same one-sided corruption battle; attacking everyone who is not of northern extraction while protecting his own people. No one in Nigeria is above the law. However, he who comes to equity must come with clean hands. This trial by media has got to stop. Allow the Economic nd Financial Crimes Commission to conduct proper investigations and let the courts do their work.

Most importantly, no section of this country is greater than the other. There is no reason why people should think it is okay to humiliate some politicians while others walk free. Jonathan is not perfect and so is Olusegun Obasanjo. Under Obasanjo, many unresolved assassinations occurred, ill-preserved bombs went off at the Ikeja Cantonment, Odi community in Bayelsa was nearly exterminated, his indictment in the $74m Haliburton bribe scandal and the unpatriotic hand over of the Bakassi community to Cameroun just to further his selfish ambition at the United Nations. This is just to mention a few, yet today Obasanjo is a saint. If Nigerians truly want to see a change, we must heed the words of late Martin Luther King who said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’


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The campaign for the 2019 Presidential elections has begun and from the look of things, Nigeria already has a winner. This is in spite of the occasional whimper from other political parties and their feeble attempts to present viable options. Here are five signs President Muhammadu Buhari will return to the Villa come 2019.
• Silent opposition: To ensure his uncontested return to Aso Rock, Buhari began his electioneering campaign with a relentless attack against its main opposition; the Peoples’ Democratic Party. With cases of graft hanging on its most vocal members and the party torn from within by internal strife ostensibly caused by APC moles, Nigeria has lost its fiercest opposition.
• Formidable money war chest: Like it or not, you need money to run campaigns and Buhari has already begun to amass an endless stash. Why else do you think he is slow to act on allegations of corruption against his men? Think Babachir Lawal’s N270m grass cutting scandal and diversion of N12bn meant for IDPs; $25bn NNPC contract scam by NNPC’s Group Managing Director, Maikanti Baru; Buhari’s Chief of Staff Abba Kyari who allegedly collected a N500m bribe from MTN; and the $43m stashed away in an Osbourne Towers apartment where Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi also owns an apartment. Also include the search for crude oil in Lake Chad, Bauchi and Nassarawa that has gulped millions of naira. Need I go on?
• Security agencies headed by inner cabal: The security of lives and property are a huge part of any election and 2019 will not be any different. With the heads of the Army, Police and Airforce all part of Buhari’s inner circle, his campaign machinery is sure to get security cover for any form of election malpractice.
• Electoral body firmly in the kitty: The Independent National Electoral Commission is chaired by Mahmood Yakubu, a northerner from Bauchi state. In addition there are five national commissioners; three of whom hail from the north. Little wonder that INEC since Buhari took over power has been unable to successfully conduct peaceful and fair elections. As to whether your vote will be allowed to count in 2019, your guess is as good as mine.
• Sheepish populace: Last but not the least is the gullible Nigerian populace who easily buy into every lie. Every election year, Nigerians happily sell their voting rights for paltry sums, bags of rice, kegs of oil and any other pittance political contestants deem fit to throw our way. We can be trusted again to do same when Buhari’s team comes around with their money bags in 2019. Finnaly, we can be sure to vote in any candidate with Nepa bill as school certificate simply because we don’t like a sitting president’s face or his region.

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President Muhammadu Buhari is in love with Goodluck Jonathan. Indeed Buhari is so besotted with Jonathan that he will devise any means and seize every opportunity to discredit him.
Already his anti-corruption campiagn is actually an anti-Jonathan campaign reason being members of his own kitchen cabinet who have been accused of graft are still in the corridors of power. Buhari took his obsession to a whole new level with the recent request by former Peoples’ Democratic Party spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, to call Jonathan as a witness in his on-going trial. Metuh is accused of receiving N400m from the office of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.


Whether that request came about as a result of backroom dealing with Buhari for Metuh to regain his freedom remains to be seen. What is clear however is that the request is aimed at humilating Jonathan to gain the favour of the powers that be.


Now Dasuki who allegedly released the said amount to Metuh is yet to be convicted by any Nigerian court. As a matter of fact, the ECOWAS Court has declared his arrest and continued detention by the Federal Government illegal. Despite an order for Dakusi’s release, the FG has persisted in this trial by media to deflect attention from Buhari’s mounting atrocities.


So if Dasuki from whom Metuh received the money is yet to be convicted, why call on Jonathan as a witness? What happens if the court declares that Dasuki has committed no crime? Would Jonathan’s appearance in court then make a difference? As if on cue, the Nigerian media went on rampage reporting that Jonathan has been ordered to appear in court. TV stations went into an in-depth analysis as to whether or not Jonathan would appear in court, cleverly deflecting attention from allegations of corruption against several members of Buhari’s own kitchen cabinet.


It is unfortunate that Metuh has allowed himself to be used as a pawn in this game in a desperate bid to secure his freedom. While he can deny any intention to humiliate Jonathan, it is simply what it is. Methinks he is regretting his decision because of the uproar from Jonathan’s social media voltrons. Metuh’s lawyer if he was so desirous of Jonathan’s testimony had several alternatives to procure them. The media circus over an intended subpoeana was unnecessary.


The APC government must be commended for their brilliant and formidable publicity machinery but it wouldn’t stop Buhari from going down as the worst civilian president in history. His present antics are not new to reasonable Nigerians who witnessed his military dictatorship in 1983. Just as he is doing now, Buhari went on a corruption cleansing rampage, jailing South-South, South-East and South-West civilian governors after hastily conducted military tribunals. Shehu Shagari whom he overthrew was kept under house arrest while others languished in prison.


Yet Bola Tinubu and other South-West leaders, well aware of Buhari’s sectional tendencies, in their greedy quest to grab power still threw their weight behind him. Unfortunately for everyone involved, Buhari is still fighting the same one-sided corruption battle; attacking everyone who is not of northern extraction while protecting his own people. No one in Nigeria is above the law. However, he who comes to equity must come with clean hands. This trial by media has got to stop. Allow the Economic nd Financial Crimes Commission to conduct proper investigations and let the courts do their work.


Most importantly, no section of this country is greater than the other. There is no reason why people should think it is okay to humiliate some politicians while others walk free. Jonathan is not perfect and so is Olusegun Obasanjo. Under Obasanjo, many unresolved assassinations occurred, ill-preserved bombs went off at the Ikeja Cantonment, Odi community in Bayelsa was nearly exterminated, his indictment in the $74m Haliburton bribe scandal and the unpatriotic hand over of the Bakassi community to Cameroun just to further his selfish ambition at the United Nations. This is just to mention a few, yet today Obasanjo is a saint. If Nigerians truly want to see a change, we must heed the words of late Martin Luther King who said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’