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malele:
Its like wole is one sided now.
APC

Thee bank said it was impressed with Nigeria's
determination to join the league of industrialised nations like Germany, Britain, United States, China, Japan with the unveiling of the first ever truly made-in-Nigeria cars by the Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) Company Ltd, in Nnewi, Anambra State.

lonelydora:
Soyinka is taking sides.

Caseless:
they say gej cant be impeached, yet they are celebrating at this news. Devil is really with the saTANist

Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has criticised the Nigerian media for continuously describing as ‘show of shame’ the incident where some members of the House of Representatives scaled the gate of the National Assembly
to gain entrance into the complex.


Speaking at a press conference in Lagos, Tuesday, Mr. Soyinka said that the phrase ought to be reserved for Suleiman Abba, the Inspector General of Police.

About 15 members of the Lower House scaled the fence to gain access into the complex, two weeks ago, after they were stopped by police officers.

“Legislators are not elected for their athletic prowess, and such endeavours should not be demanded of them,” said Mr. Soyinka, a professor of Comparative Literature.

“There are even presidents and prime ministers who were elected despite physical handicaps. The brain is where it matters, the vision and commitment to service.”

Mr. Soyinka said that by scaling the National Assembly gate, the legislators were made to perform over and beyond the call of the Olympics.


“I don’t understand why some media have described their action as a show of shame – this is a very careless, easily misapplied designation. The act of scaling gates and walls to fulfill their duty to the people must be set down as their finest hour. They must be applauded, not
derided.

“If shame belongs anywhere, it belongs to the Inspector General of Police and his slavish adherence to conspiratorial, illegal, and unconstitutional instructions – to undermine a democratic structure, and one – to make
matters worse – convoked in response to an emergency of dire public concern.”

At his last press conference in Abeokuta last week, Mr. Soyinka, 80, announced that he had been diagnosed of cancer in December 2013, adding that the “nuisance” had been disrupting his normal existence.

But on Tuesday, he was his usual jocular self, cracking jokes as he entered the venue of the press event 20 minutes after the scheduled time.

“Tell me what you are doing about the electronic media,” he asked jokingly to the half a dozen journalists seated in the hall.

“This medium of supposed information is becoming dangerous.”


Later, he informed the reporters that he would be handing them written texts of his speech “personally” to avoid an impostor handing them copies of what he never said when they leave the hall.

At the end of the question and answer session, he issued an apology: “Sorry, there is no brown envelope. But I have drinks.”

The writer and poet, however, did not mince words when he spoke about the menace of the Boko Haram terrorist group and its danger to Nigeria’s corporate existence.

“The cliché ‘heating up the polity’ may grate the ear- drums with its banality but I think that we have a right to demand of a leader not to stoke up the furnace in which events have cast its citizens. Every day records a new violation of our humanity,” said Mr. Soyinka.

“The atrocious targeting of the great mosque of Kano has rendered any lingering doubt of impending national imposition an invitation for collective suicide, preferably through piecemeal dismemberment. The theories of cause and effect can wait, or continue – it does not
matter – the omniscient in such matters continue to pontificate, some of them blithely forgetting that they indeed contributed to policies that landed us in this brutal
cleft.”

Mr. Soyinka also said that President Jonathan’s recent visit to the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, underlined his total alienation from the reality that has engulfed the nation.

“Yes, political campaigns are part and parcel of the bloodline of the democratic process. We know that they never stop,” he said.

“However, that a national leader should go campaigning on the platform of ethnic support at a time when priorities dictate a united national engagement for survival, is a grotesque undertaking that was tragically rebuked in the massacre of worshippers and desecration
of the Kano mosques, almost simultaneously with the alienated gathering of selected crowned heads and journeymen at the OAU campus, a macabre echo of Balthazar’s feast.

“Long before Nyanya, long before Chibok, long before the mildest of the now innumerable violations of our basic right to existing as free citizens, the march of a nation towards implosion has dominated the landscape,
but an obsession with the pettiness of power has obscured remedial vision and thus, the creative options constantly open to any prescient leadership.”

Mr. Soyinka said that the call for Nigerians to be vigilant is real and urgent, adding that there is a need to clip the wings of the predatory bird.

“Let no one cry anarchy when the people respond to that historic cry of liberation, to which one leader after another – the most recent being the Emirates of Kano and the Ulama leader Yahaya Jingir – have felt moved to
urge upon their people.”


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justi4jesu:
They claim it is dangerous to human health so they wouldn't want the "starving inmates" to drop dead on them frozen turkey.

leofab:
please rush down and deposit today's sales before the bank closes hence you won't get your minimum wage salary for last this weekend(#7,500)

raumdeuter:
Clueless Jonathan as a teenager in that picture probably believed that wooden horse can take him out of Otueke.

I hope the horse still dey to welcome him back when he comes back in 2015

GboyegaD:
Do we have enough domestic production for consumption? We too do for out country as though no be imported Turkey dem dey serve for our government official quarters. Imagine how some business men/women capital is destroyed.

Stoical:
I scoff, when I went through your comment. Atleast, you do try at times to be non-partisan in making them. But, sometimes you still give others a reason to think you are.

Yeah! Intelligence gathering is the keywords...I will tell you an experience, even though it may seem generalized. I happened to have discussed with a relation, who was re-posted back to Ph from Taraba state. A police officer, whom I met with two of his colleagues. Our discussion centered on this same "planting of mole" and his response was that the force have been doing their best, but most officers had to resign from the force because of such postings cum mole planting attempt. That they prefer to rely on the local hunters and vigilantes. Also, that their training has been so limited when it comes to handling such job...cutting the long gist short; the officers don't always appreciate such jobs.

Coming back to your statement regarding them being used by someone who wants to retain power by all means. I wish, these things weren't so, but what do you expect from politicians?? I bet you, if you were a politician, you'll do whatever to remain in office. I am smiling as I make this statement because I expect you to say, "you're different". Well, I have heard that since when I was playing school politics and believe me, only 5% of cases do prove me wrong. This is because, when you are on sit...it looks so exhalted that you feel if you don't retain it, you're falling so low. I tell you, it's always a "I" thing, before a "we" consideration.

Well, I join you in praying for peace in Nigeria. And I mean Nigeria, not SS,SE,SW,NC,NE,NW-Nigeria, where anybody can aspire to better the life of all...

This response is tailored to Omenka's comment and only is response is expected, if necessary. Anybody who feels offended, should please ignore. Thanks

LeOstrich:
Malctunji if you can move the Kaduna Abuja rail project to Travel then I see no reason why this overinflated rubbish jetty should remain here.

Frankmishael:
may God destroy Islam and APC in Jesus name amen

Nctrice:
You are just Hungry my bro!