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codemaniacs:
who told u she didn't attend school
students of most public schools speak their local language.


ireneony has inferiority complex issues..

what you posted is true. I attended public secondary school too I can tell you that even during English language class, our english teachers do teach and communicate to us with yoruba. That is why I am not good in speaking and writing in English!

ireneony:
stop dividing Nigeria! The president may as well speak fulani/hausa on national tv

She is not the President which means she's free to speak any language she likes, she can inasmuch as she communicates meaningful words.
sheers

ireneony:
because Chinese is their official language.
in country like italy for example, there are 150 dialects but they speak one official language which is italia.
You know Nigeria is made up of different ethnic group, that was why English is our official language in order to get a better understanding within us. I don't mind if she speaks her dialect at home or within families but not on a national tv, she should aleast option for pigdin English because not only yorubas are the ones watching her.

She spoke what she could! Do you know why nigeria-----black in general----- is in this despicable state, it is because of our inferiority complex. Not everybody had opportunity to attend school when he/she was young. At least I could understand what she communicated. may be I should teach you Yoruba, shouldn't I?

ireneony:
Oh she still speak yoruba

When is speaking or communicating with Yoruba a bad thing? You that can speak english fluently, what have you achieved in your life? how many times will I have to tell you guys that speaking english fluently does not mean you are intelligent.
NB: China teaches with its her language, not English language.

Adesegunfat:
Having presented the detailed facts about Aror's case, let me also help the many young Nigerians who may be accessing this site with more information on admission as I see a lot of misrepresentation, falsehood, and misunderstanding from the comments that various people had made on this case.

1. Admission into Nigerian Universities are considered on three grounds based on the nationally specified criteria (which I think ought to be reviewed now, by the way):
A. Merit =45% (This covers all candidates from the country - and it is automatic admission once you meet the cut-off mark)
B. Catchment = 35% (this refers to those in the states specified as catchment area for each University: For OAU, that is Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, Osun and Ekiti)
C. Educationally disadvantaged states (ELDS)=20% = This refers to all the 19 Northern States, and Ebonyi, Rivers and Bayelsa.

So, someone from Delta such as Aror with 75.2% will not get admission into Medicine in OAU automatically as she is only considered on merit criterion and she does NOT meet the specified cut-off, but someone with the same mark from Kwara (which is in the North Central zone) may get automatic admission with the same mark based on the consideration of ELDS if 75.2% is the specified cut-off for ELDS for Medicine.

2. When a candidate chooses a highly competitive course like Medicine in a top-rated University like OAU, the competition is very intense. Believe it or not, many of the candidates that made our merit mark had an average of six A1s in school cert coupled with very high UTME mark (above 300). So, a candidate must carefully think over his choice of course and university. For example, if Aror had chosen ANY other course as her first choice for OAU, whe would have made the merit mark and gotten automatic admission, and she would have made the merit mark for Medicine on merit for most Nigerian universities too (but NOT OAU unfortunately).

3. Because of the high demand and competition for very limited spaces, the College of Health Sciences does not consider second choices as a general rule. OAU, for example, was only able to offer admission on UTME platform (Merit + Catchment + ELDS) to less than 3% of her applicants for Medicine, and less than 2% of her applicants for Nursing Science this year.

4. For cases like Aror where the candidadte has made a high mark but does not make the cut-off, what the candidate can sometimes do is to come to the University and try and see if he or she can be considered for other courses. A candidadte DOES NOT get considered automatically for a course she has not applied to in JAMB. candidadte is ONLY automatically considered for the course he or she has applied for with respect to a particular university.

Unfortunately, Aror has left her case too late as all admission lists have been submitted for this year.

3.

If this comment is truly from my abled provost, that means the case has been settled for good.

DonLo:
There must have been a mix up somewhere. I know OAU for one thing and that is the reasonable perceived fairness in admission process into Medicine. Never trust others applying to study medicine as they might have had a better result but it seems unlikely seeing her O level results too. But at least she should have been given another course.
I'll try calling Prof Fatusi, the provost attention to it if possible.
Lala please move this to front page let OAU come explain, save someone's destiny.

MODIFIED: On a second look at her result, it shows her O Level result is weak when you look at the subjects that matters in the 5 credit requirement. Schools now use point system. Her Biology, Chemistry and Physics are weak and considering that Jamb and O level carries 50%. A candidates with 270 and A1(s) in these subjects would have counteracted her jamb result. But let the school clarify so as to clear our already biased mind of them cheating her.

by calculating her score, she scored 82.2. since you said you know the provost, inform him about it to save the image of great ife. I'm also a medicine part3 student.

prof1999:
Good day here docs please dentistry and medicine which one is more competative in terms of admission because am planning dentistry hope am good to go bros

Medicine is more competitive. check the cut off mark of oau, ui and unilag you will see for yourself. difference of all almost 10. in oau cut off mark, nursing is even higher than dentistry!
Be that as it may, go for your mind!

By calculating her jamb and o level, I discovered that she scored an aggregate of 82.2 which is 4.2 Mark above the cut off mark (78)
I will try to inform provost about this! your hardwork will not be in vain.

Nigeria has many problems to deal with!
To be Frank with you, corruption, laziness and stupidity are the courses of this problem. Don't tell me that Nigeria army personnels are not the one aiding and abetting the issue of vandalism due to their selfishness, venality and unpatriotic tendency!
Nigeria-------black in general are stupid!

How would someone with sense kill his/her Mom because of anything. this guy should be thrown to dog!

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Being able to communicate effectively with english is good. It looks absurd to me when people start over hyping ability to communicate effectively in english language as the yard stick of measuring academic excellence. science and technology is the only way to advanced living--- it's not ability to speak Queen's english! scientific terms were not written in english language, they were written and derived from many european nations' languages. Nigeria------which puts much emphasis on ability to communicate effectively in English language to the detriment of science-----remains developing nation compare to China that teaches with her own languages!

up barca

azeecoboy:
It's a pity we can't do without these set of people in our higher institutions and if unluckily we get to meet them,there are no choices but to adapt..

The only thing they know how to do is blaming government and school administration. When they themselves have failed and are failing to contribute their quotas to the alleviation from the dilapidated state of the hostel and Nigeria in general. Change begins with each and everyone of we the youth!

azeecoboy:
LOl,guy i can relate with all these,i must say its necessary to mingle with people with diff characters,these are experience which give us the insight of life

It's not only about mingling with them, but putting up with their undisciplined, immoral, and egocentric behaviour.
They won't flush the toilet despite the fact that water is running from tap 24/7. Rendering the hard work of those women (cleaner) useless. that is why they remain jobless after the acquisition of their worthless certificates.

The one I am facing now is even worse!
It's not easy leaving among fools, nincompoops, undisciplined, indolent, and self-centered folks.
I wish I could afford renting room outside!
It's part of life shaaaa

Ekiti anti-grazing law
— 13th September 2016
We congratulate the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, for signing into law the “Anti-Grazing Bill 2016,” and we commend the members of the Ekiti House of Assembly for the timely passage of the bill.
The law was long overdue. The government acted within its powers as per the Land Use Act. The law specifies areas in each local government area of the state where herdsmen could graze their cattle. It specifies time when such grazing would cease. Anyone caught grazing on portions of land or any farmland not allotted by government shall be apprehended and made to face the law. Any herdsman caught with firearms and any weapons whatsoever during grazing shall be charged with terrorism. Any cattle confiscated shall be taken to government cattle ranch at Erifun and Iworoko Ekiti community in the state.
The Ekiti State Government has demonstrated leadership in an issue which needed it for years. Even if the law is not perfect as it presently stands, even if it had loopholes, we endorse it as an act that is timely and courageous, a vital contribution to the maintenance of peace and security in Ekiti.
The enactment of the law is traced to the killing of two persons by herdsmen in Oke Ako community in Ikole Local Government Area of the state. The law was therefore a natural reaction to that incident. It shows a government that is in tune with the needs and problems of its people.
There has been no dispute over the ability of farmers and herdsmen to live and carry on their livelihood side by side and in peace. For nearly 100 years, there had been few occasional squabbles, usually sorted out without violence, at a time the herdsmen conducted their business armed with a staff, a bow and a few arrows.
But, trouble began a few years ago when the herdsmen discovered they could tyrannize and terrorize farm communities by arming themselves with AK-47 rifles. Worse, they got away with it. No questions were asked as to the sources of these weapons of war for which the herdsmen clearly had no licence to possess.
The destruction of farm crops by herdsmen in the last five years has occurred in almost all Southern states of Nigeria and would probably be estimated to cost hundreds of millions of Naira.
It has occurred also in some parts of North, including Kogi, Taraba, Plateau, Kaduna, Benue, and Zamfara states. The herdsmen have also killed hundreds of farmers in the country. The number of those displaced are numerous. Indeed in the World’s Index of Terrorism, the Fulani Herdsmen rank 4th in the list of the world’s most violent organizations.
We think the silence of the Federal Government on this issue has not been golden. Government’s exhortations to the security agencies to apprehend the herdsmen have been ineffective. The trampling of farmlands by herdsmen and their cattle and the depredations of the herdsmen in Benue, Plateau, Enugu and, indeed, other states with a history of farmers-herdsmen confrontation call for laws similar to that now in force in Ekiti State.
It is no longer enough to grieve; we should back our outrage with action as the Ekiti State Government has done. We urge the Ekiti State government to go the extra mile to ensure that the law is fully and rigorously enforced. Herdsmen with AK-47 rifles are likely to commit terrorist acts. They need to be tried.
We think that the ultimate solution to the herdsmen carnage is that Nigeria must change from herding to ranching. The Ekiti law shows the way to go in the short term.
http://sunnewsonline.com/ekiti-anti-grazing-law/

Oil prices rebounded slightly Thursday after tanking the previous day, but gains were capped by US stockpiles data and the prospect of rising output in Libya and Nigeria, dealers said.
At about 1015 GMT, US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for delivery in October was up 20 cents at $43.78 a barrel.
Brent North Sea crude for November delivery won 32 cents to $46.17 compared with the close on Wednesday.
The market had tumbled Wednesday after the US Energy Information Administration said gasoline and distilled products inventories rose last week, overshadowing news of a surprise fall in crude supplies.
Later Wednesday, Libya’s National Oil Corporation said it would double production within four weeks after it was handed control of crucial ports that had been seized by forces loyal to the country’s rival administration.
The news from Libya — which has Africa’s largest oil reserves — fanned long-standing worries about a global supply glut and overproduction that have hammered prices for more than two years.
At the same time, Nigeria — which is the African continent’s biggest crude producer — appears set to also increase its oil exports, traders said
.http://punchng.com/oil-prices-rise/

esident Muhammadu Buhari has urged the National Youth Service Corps members of Igbo extraction to tell their colleagues that there is no hope of having a sovereign ‘Biafran State’.
Buhari said this when over 100 corps members serving in Katsina State came to visit him at his Daura residence on Tuesday.
A statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Garba Shehu, said the President urged the corps members to do everything to ensure the unity of Nigeria.
Speaking specifically to corps members from the south-eastern states, the President said, “Tell your colleagues who want Biafra to forget about it.”
The President said as a young soldier during the Civil War between 1967 and 1970, he fought hard to ensure the unity of the nation.
He, therefore, maintained that Nigeria would never disintegrate under his watch.
Buhari added, “As a military commander, I walked from Degem, a border town between the North and the East, to the border between Cameroun and Nigeria. I walked on my foot for most of the 30 months that we fought the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War, in which at least two million Nigerians were killed.
“We were made by our leaders to go and fight Biafra not because of money or oil, because oil was not a critical factor then, but because of one Nigeria.
“Thus, if leaderships at various levels failed, it was not the fault of the rest of Nigerians who had no quarrel with one another. So, please tell your colleagues that we must be together to build this country. It is big enough for us and potentially big enough in terms of resources.
“Those who work hard will earn a respectable living. I have seen this country, I fought for this country and I will continue to work for the unity of this country.”
Buhari hailed a former military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, for inaugurating the NYSC scheme in 1973.
He said the scheme had helped to foster national integration by exposing young people to the uniqueness and cultural diversity of Nigeria.
The President said, “I asked for those from the other end of Nigeria because I very much appreciate the NYSC scheme and whenever I see General Gowon, I always thank him for that.’’
In his remarks, Mr. Egbewumi Adebolu, the Corps Liaison Officer in Daura, thanked the President for the honour of receiving them and making their stay in Daura memorable.
He said the youths strongly believed in the programme of the President to reduce unemployment and create jobs for more Nigerians.
Adebolu thanked the President for his personal gifts of cows, bags of rice and cash to corps members in the community for Sallah celebration.
But reacting to the directive of the President to the corps members, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra said Nigeria had never been a nation.
MASSOB spokesman, Comrade Samuel Edeson, who spoke in an interview with one of our correspondents, insisted that all Igbo, including those NYSC members that met Buhari, were Biafrans.
“Every Igbo man is a Biafran. Biafra has come to stay and Buhari should know that 95 per cent of Igbo want Biafra.
“We are not going to take up arms against the Nigerian government but we will make the country ungovernable until we actualise Biafra.
“There is no way we will forget Biafra and there is nothing the government will do that will make us to give up the struggle.
“Even if they continue to oppress and intimidate our members, we will continue to push ahead with the struggle,” he said.
The MASSOB spokesman advised Buhari to call a meeting of all ethnic nationalities where Nigeria’s future would be discussed.
He said, “Rather than telling the NYSC members to tell their people to forget Biafra, he should call the Biafra agitators and other ethnic nationalities to a roundtable meeting to discuss how Nigerians would continue to live together.”
Also reacting to the development, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo said Buhari should restructure the country, if he really wanted the pro-Biafra agitation to go away.
The President of the Ohanaeze Youth Council, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, also said Buhari should set free all detained Biafra agitators, particularly Ben Onwuka, the leader of the Biafra Zionist Movement.
He said, “Buhari should ask himself why the Biafra agitation resurrected during his tenure. He should also explain what he meant by 95 per cent and five per cent.
“The people of the South-East are angry and there is hunger in the land. There is a total collapse of infrastructure in the zone; federal roads are no longer passable.
“The South-East zone has the highest number of unemployed youths in the country. Those NYSC members that went to see him will be unemployed tomorrow.
“The only solution to the agitation for Biafra is restructuring. Ohanaeze Ndigbo is not calling for secession but we are calling for restructuring. The North-West has seven states but the South-East has only five; it is not acceptable.
“If Buhari fails to restructure the country, we are afraid that those calling for secession may succeed so if he really wants Igbos to forget Biafra, he should restructure the country
http://punchng.com/tell-friends-forget-biafra-buhari-igbo-corpers/

Hoodlums kill mother of triplets, remove her intestine
September 14, 2016
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A group of bandits suspected to be ritual killers on Sunday stabbed a woman identified as Mrs. Comfort Jackson to death.
The incident happened in Rumuekini community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Mrs. Jackson, who was recently delivered of a set of triplets, was allegedly murdered at her husband’s residence in Rumuekini.
A source in the area, who gave his name simply as Mr. Jonathan, disclosed that the unknown killers broke into the home of the deceased and stabbed her to death with a knife.
Jonathan told Southern City News that the babies were abandoned by the killers after executing the dastardly act.
He added that the killers also opened Comfort’s stomach and removed her intestine after killing her.
Jonathan noted that neighbours only came out later to meet the lifeless body of the woman in a pool of her blood, alleging that the victim’s husband had just travelled before the incident occurred.
The source said the incident had been officially reported to the Choba Divisional Police Headquarters.
A senior police officer at Choba Police Divisional Headquarters, who also confirmed the killing, added that investigation had commenced into the circumstances that led to the murder.
But as at press time, the Rivers State Police Command had yet to confirm the incident as calls made to the Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr. Nnamdi Omoni, were not answered while a message to his mobile phone was not replied.
http://punchng.com/hoodlums-kill-mother-triplets-remove-intestine/

The ineptitude of buhari's administration is ludicrous! The only thing they know how to do is blaming past government venality on their failure to perform the miracle they promised. I could remember vividly when my former roommate brought Buhari's manifesto, I tore it and screamed that they are not feasible! They thought it was due to hatred for him. I'm now disencumbered!

Police have arrested 18 pro-Biafran agitators while celebrating the 17th anniversary of the creation of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra in some states in the South-East geopolitical zone.
The Anambra Police Command on Tuesday arrested 14 Biafra agitators in Onitsha, Anambra State, while its counterpart in Abia State arrested four other pro-Biafran agitators.
The agitators were celebrating the 17th anniversary of the existence of the MASSOB.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state confirmed the arrest.
She said 13 of those arrested were males while one was a female.
She said they were arrested for their conducts likely to cause the breach of peace.
Soldiers mounted road blocks at different locations in Onitsha and its environs to monitor the procession of the agitators of the Biafra Independent Movement.
This made vehicular movement in and around Onitsha difficult.
Reacting to the harassment of its members by security agencies, BIM warned the Federal Government not to provoke it into resorting into violence.
The Joint Security Task Force set up by the Anambra State Government which comprises soldiers, police, navy and civil defence, among others, cordoned off parts of Onitsha while the march lasted.
There were reported cases of shootings.
The BIM members were seen chanting songs while on the anniversary procession.
Anambra North Zonal Leader of the group, Emmanuel Omenka, while addressing its members, urged them to exercise patience as “the day of freedom is near.”
He said, “The present call for restructuring by some segments of the country came about as a result of the fear for the Biafran independence by those who have tied the country down”.
“Going by the numerous times of unprovoked attack on our members by the Nigerian security forces, we may resort to violence.
“The fact that we chose non-violence is not out of cowardice but to maintain the pact Uwazurike signed with the United Nations.
“No amount of restructuring gimmick can make BIM and MASSOB derail from their agitation for a sovereign state of Biafra.”
Anambra Central Zonal Leader of BIM, Chief Vincent Iloh, said, “The Nigerian government should allow the Biafra agitators have their own independent state, since the amalgamation of Nigeria in 1914 by our calculation had expired in 2014.
“Let the whole world know that we are resolute in our stand for a Biafra Republic. It is not compulsory that we shall remain one indivisible nation. Therefore, they should allow us to go to our Promised Land.
“We will not fail to praise the resilience of Chief Ralph Uwazurike who started the struggle on September 13, 1999. We want to remind those working to destabilise the struggle that they can never succeed, because 17 years is not 17 days, even as we are not ready to relent or relinquish the struggle”.
In Abia State, about four persons were reportedly arrested by the police in Umuahia, the state capital, for taking part in the 17th anniversary of MASSOB.
Members of MASSOB defied the rain to mark the anniversary.
The event started with a prayer session at its zonal secretariat in Umuahia, before a peaceful procession round the state capital.
But few hours after the procession, the MASSOB-BIM zonal Information Director, Anselam Ogbonna, alleged that about four of their members were arrested by the police.
He also alleged that about four Nigerian Police (Hilux) vans, with one having NPF6619C number, stormed their secretariat and seized the Biafran and Israeli flags hoisted there.
Meanwhile, the MASSOB also marked its 17th anniversary of existence on Tuesday.
It renewed commitment towards actualising Biafra republic without violence.
MASSOB leader, Uchenna Madu, said in a statement in Awka that the Biafra agitators were using the occasion to remember those who lost their lives in the course of the struggle.
Madu said, “Today, as we celebrate the 17th anniversary of the formation of MASSOB, we remember our brothers and sisters whose lives were cut shot because of Biafra in the hands of security agents.
“We remember our non-violent MASSOB members, who died innocently and with brave hearts for the Biafra cause. They were molested, mesmerised, humiliated and brutally killed by the armed security agents of our oppressors.
“Today, we the remnants of genuine MASSOB activists also remember the parents of our fallen heroes. Some are still traumatised and some died because of shock while others are living ghost of themselves.
“MASSOB still remembers our dead members who are still in mortuaries for the past 10 years. They were brutally killed in Onitsha in June 2006, during an order of shoot-at-sight against armless MASSOB members.”
Madu said it had come to the notice of MASSOB that some members of the Biafra Indigenous Movement, led by the former MASSOB leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, were also marking the anniversary. He said while the movement was not against such participation, it should be on record that only one MASSOB, led by him, exists. He said MASSOB has its headquarters at Okwe in Imo State.
He added, “While MASSOB acknowledges other Biafrans in celebrating with us, we counsel the confused and brainwashed members of Uwazuruike’s BIM to understand their stand in the struggle. A group of people cannot be MASSOB and BIM members at the same time under the leadership of two different persons.
In Cross River State, at least 200 members of MASSOB held procession along major streets in Ikom to mark the 17th anniversary of the pressure group on Tuesday.
The members, who came in from Ogoja, Ugep, Obubra, Obudu and Abi local government areas of the state, converged at the Ikom Township Stadium, before parading the streets, chanting victory songs and Biafran anthem.
Zonal Leader of MASSOB in Cross River State, Mr. Samuel Okah, who led the parade, said the event was to mark 17 years of peaceful struggle for the actualisation of a nation for the people of Biafra.
He said, “It has been 17 years of peaceful agitation by the people of Biafra, led by Chief Ralph Uwazurike, and we are making steady progress for the coming to fruition of our efforts. This is a clear demonstration of the fact that peaceful efforts could get more mileage than violence.”
http://punchng.com/police-arrest-18-pro-biafran-agitators-massob-clocks-17/

RIP
God will give his family members fortitude to bear the loss

Falana--an hypocrite--is a fool that should not be taken seriously! The man is a fool. I loathe his garrulousness.

‘Law school caught lawyers writing exams for students’
August 25, 2016
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Prof. Olanrewaju Onadeko, Director-General, Nigerian Law School, said on Thursday that some lawyers have been caught writing examination for students in the school.
Onadeko, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), disclosed this when he presented the school`s report to the annual general meeting of the Nigerian Bar Association in Port Harcourt.
Onadeko, who did not state the number of affected lawyers, said the matter had been reported to the NBA.
He urged the association to take action against such lawyers to save legal education in the country.
Mr Rotimi Jacob, SAN, charged the NBA to address the issue raised by the director-general of the law school.
He said those found guilty should be disciplined after due process had been followed to determine their cases.
Jacob said the issue was serious because of its implications on the future of legal education in the country.
The outgoing President of NBA, Mr Augustine Alegeh, said the association had not received report of such incident in the past two years.
He, however, said that the NBA had a committee to handle the matter on receipt of the report.
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This has to stop!
Northerners are not sacred cows!
They are not elites nor nobles, while we commoners-------we are equal! We Southerners are contributing more to the economy than these ignorant, religiously intoxicated illiterates!

On the matter of the dog named ‘Buhari’
August 25, 2016
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When the Ogun State Police arrested Joe Chinakwe after his neighbour reported him for naming his dog “Alhaji Buhari”, and for walking the same dog in their “Hausa dominated neighbourhood,” they did not try to mask why they took that line of action. Accord
ing to media reports, they charged him to court because his “provocative” act could cause a breach of peace, and that was because “an average Northerner would feel bad over such a thing.” Underlining their motive is the reality of our socio-political environment. When law enforcement admits to arresting a man to preserve the feelings of his accusers who can launch gratuitous violence, they mean the evil we are dealing with surpasses their level of efficiency.
History has taught us that whenever the “average northerner” says he “feels bad over a thing”, the rest of us are supposed to hurriedly rearrange our manners. We are told to take heed of invisible limits that “infidels” are not permitted to cross. Alarmingly, a number of us have restricted ourselves to this emasculating avoidance of wrath. We have mapped out “no-go areas” of public discussion that we trespass at grievous risks to ourselves. We have seen the repercussions of trespassing these bounds and they are not pleasant. From Gideon Akaluka’s killings to the Reinhard Bonnke crusade violence, the Miss World riots, the Danish cartoons saga, and many other instances of unwarranted violence that have occurred, we have long realised we are dealing with a short-tempered evil spirit who demands a sacrifice of our collective dignity so he can let us live.
The trouble is that this evil spirit of violence who has a chokehold on our society is implacable. He has tasted vats of blood of the innocent and assumed a proprietary right over our lives. Violence in Nigeria happens, not because of intrepid and insensitive people who say things that make others feel bad. Rather, they stem from a cultivated attitude of those who think others’ lives are theirs to take, and they have no regard for any law that attempts to restrain their execution of mindless violence.
Otherwise, what did anyone say or do that warranted the post-election violence of 2011? What did a simple exchange between Mrs. Bridget Agbahime and them result in her death? What of the four killed in Niger State in May? What of the eight burnt to death in Zamfara State just three days ago? Who thinks their victims, people who live in close proximity with them, did not know not to upset them? So why did they still end up dead? Is it not because the state, by never redressing these incidents of violence, has indulged the idea that whoever makes them feel bad deserves what it gets?
Rather than challenge those murderers when they resort to meaningless violence over some offense, Nigerian leaders have blamed the victims instead. When Mrs. Agbahime was killed in Kano, the Presidency issued a press release that suggested people should know better than do things that make these killers feel bad. Over the years, religious and political elite have imbibed the language of justifying violence and it feels very natural when they express certain worrisome ideas. For instance, a man goes to the police station to report a neighbour who supposedly named his dog after his father and certain well-meaning Nigerians say, “At least he tried. You know what would have happened if it had been Kano or Kaduna?” That kind of thinking is dangerous because it suggests that these murderers are ferocious beasts whose raw sensitivity needs to be larded with our self-restraint. Since they cannot be tamed, the rest of us had better put ourselves in a cage so we do not get bitten. Whereas they are savages precisely because Nigeria has failed to tame them.
Whether “Trader Joe” was right (or not) to have named his dog “Alhaji Buhari” is an open argument that would be moderated by cultural and religious sensibilities. What is far more important is for the law enforcement not to react based on fear and curtail another man’s freedom. We cannot claim to live in a free society if the best we do is contain ourselves out of fear of what certain rogue elements can do to us. Freedom is not freedom if its limits are not tested every now and then. It is up to the law to enforce its legitimacy without merely pandering to malevolent threats.
In the account of the incident, those who lodged the claim against “Trader Joe” threatened to kill him if he returned home. Now, if the police arrested the man due to the threat of violence his action could have caused, why then did they overlook the threat of violence to his life? Why is the threat of violence Chinakwe’s traducers could have caused against the entire society considered more egregious than the one they threatened against him as an individual?
If Chinakwe truly named his dog President Muhammudu Buhari as he claimed, and it matters less whether his motive was admiration or disrespect, then arresting him would be setting a bad precedent. There is no one who is, or seeks to be president in the age of social media – where the distance between people’s sometimes unrefined thoughts and their fingers on their mobile devices grows shorter everyday- who will not suffer harassment from the populace. Former Goodluck Jonathan endured so much insult -from ethnic slurs to malicious wishes against himself and his family- such that at some point he labelled himself the most criticised president in Nigerian history. At no point did his rabid followers ask anyone to be arrested because they “felt bad” about the insults to their hero. President Barack Obama and his family suffered some of the most vitriolic insults any American First Family president has ever received but the sky did not collapse on anyone’s head.
The Republican contender for the US presidency, Donald Trump, is not yet president (and he may never be) but he already deals with similar insults hauled at him from various corners of his country. Lately, some artists put up nude statues of him in five busy cities depicting him in the most inelegant manner. People have virulently protested such distressful artistic expressions but that is as far as it goes. In universities this fall, Trump’s nude statue will be a topic of discussions in classroom as people try to give a philosophical slant to the artist who has “disrobed patriarchy”, “undressed male white hegemonic power” and laid bare the libidinal energy that the oppressor has used to keep the rest of the society subjugated.
Do we imagine that these societies attained such level of restraint overnight? No, it is an attitude that is bred into people and sustained with the state’s efficient judicial structures. As a matter of fact, the various social crises erupting in a place like the US should teach us that what is called civilisation is not a destination but a journey. Every country faces the possibility of regression to its Hobbesian state; their citizens just do not let it happen.
Ogun State Police can go ahead and convince themselves they acted in the best interest of the state, that they arrested “Trader Joe” to protect him from the marauders who wanted a taste of his blood, and that he needs to be seen to be punished by his would-be killers. Eventually, they will realise that this evil trait cannot be appeased. When he is thirsty for blood, he simply goes for it because the Nigerian state has let him get away with it too many times. The police should know that the fear of the killers’ petulance is not the beginning of wisdom, it is the very definition of moral cowardice.

Another name for this man should be 'attention seeking mofo'
A revered man of God should not be garrulous like this!

mikolo80:
solve your own damn problems It's high time fg did something to stop this inflation!
in as much as I support fight against corruption, less time should be allocated to it! fight against venality is not the only issue affecting our dear country. inflation-----economic recession
enter farm ; and security-------bokoharam, buy gun [/b]nda, [b] snitch [/b]herdmen [b] gun,arrow and bow, pepper or rat poison and bear traps are the momentous!
solve your own damn problems br'er

who told you that I'm looking for job? what prompt you to say I should enter farm? you even said I should take up arm! I am loss of word for you! you are not conversant with real life, take it or live it!