bukynkwuenu:
say all you like..... all I know is... the dullard is heading back to daura

bukynkwuenu:
say all you like..... all I know is... the dullard is heading back to daura

Built2last:
Blame Passing, Social Media Automated Mumus – The New Year Gift To A Nation By Wole Soyinka

Its noisome claque in the meantime, the automated mumus of social media, practiced in sterile deflection and trivialization of critical issues, unwittingly join hands with government to indulge in blame passing and name calling – both sides with different targets.

n the accustomed tradition, I wish the nation less misery in the coming year. A genuine Happy New Year Greeting is probably too extravagant a wish.

The accompanying news clipping from June,1977 came into my hands quite fortuitously. It is forty years old. It captures the unenviable enigma that is the Nigerian nation. It is however a masterful end-of-year image to take into the coming year, not only for the individual now at the helm of government, General Buhari, but for a people surely credited with the most astounding degree of patience and forbearance on the African continent – except of course among themselves, when they turn into predatory fiends. When many of us are blissfully departed, an updated rendition of this same clipping – with a change of cast here and there – will undoubtedly be reproduced in the media, with the same alibis, the same in-built panacea of blame passing.
Let this be called to our collective memory. Even before the current edition of the fuel crisis, other challenges, requiring immediate fix, had begun to monopolize national attention, relegating to the sidelines the outcry for a fundamental and holistic approach to the wearisome cycle of citizen trauma. This has been expressed most recently, and near universally in the word “Restructuring”, defined straightforwardly as a drastic overhaul of Nigerian articles of co-existence in a more rational, equitable and decentralized manner. Such an overhaul, the re-positioning of the relationship between the parts and the whole offers, it has been strongly argued, prospects of a closer governance awareness of, and responsiveness to citizen entitlement. An overhaul that will near totally eliminate the frequent spasms of systemic malfunctioning that are in-built into the present protocols of national association.

I recently ran the gauntlet of petroleum queues through three conveniently situated cities – Lagos, Abeokuta and Ibadan – deliberately, this Friday. Even with ‘unorthodox’ aids of passage, this was no task for the faint-hearted. Just getting past fueling stations was traumatizing, an obstacle race through seething, frustrated masses of humanity, only to find ourselves on vast stretches of emptied roads pleading for occupation. As for obtaining the petroleum in the first place – the less said the better. I suspect that this government has permitted itself to be fooled by the peace of those empty streets, but also by the orderly, patient, long-suffering queues that are admittedly prevalent in the city centers. It is time the reporting monitors of government move to city peripheries and sometimes even some other inner urban sectors, such as Ikeja and Maryland from time to time to see, and listen! Pronouncements – such as the 1977 above - again re-echoing by rote in 2017– are a delusion at best, a formula that derides public intelligence. Buying time. Passing blame. Yes of course, the current affliction must be remedied, and fast, but is there a dimension to it that must be brought to the fore, simultaneously and forcefully? This had better be the framework for solving even a shortage that virtually paralyzed the nation


Just to think laterally for a moment - what became of the initiatives by some states nearly two decades ago – Lagos most prominently - to decentralize power, and thus empower states to generate and distribute their own energy requirements? Frustrated and eventually sabotaged in the most cynical manner from the Federal center! The similarity today is frightening – for nearly four days on that earlier occasion, the nation was blacked out near entirely. We know that one survival tactic of governments is to keep their citizens in the dark over decisions that affect their lives but, this was literal! And yet each such crisis, plus lesser ones, merely reiterate again and again that this national contraption, as it now stands, is simply – dysfunctional!. What this demands is that, in the process of alleviating the immediate pressing misery, we do not permit ourselves to be manipulated yet again into forgetting the MAIN issue whose ramifications exact penalties such as petroleum seizures and national power outage. These are only two handy, being recent symptoms - there are several others, but this is not intended to be a catalog of woes. Sufficient to draw attention to the Yoruba saying that goes: Won ni, Amukun, eru e wo. Oun ni, at’isale ni. Translation: Some voices alerted the K-Legged porter to the dangerous tilt of the load on his head. His response was - Thank you, but the problem actually resides in the legs.

The providential image above sums up a defining moment for both individual and collective self-assessment, places in question the ability of a nation to profit from past experience. Vast resources, yes, but proved unmanageable under its present structural arrangements. As the tussle for the next round of power gets hotter in the coming year, the electorate will again be manipulated into losing sight of the BASE ISSUE. Its noisome claque in the meantime, the automated mumus of social media, practiced in sterile deflection and trivialization of critical issues, unwittingly join hands with government to indulge in blame passing and name calling – both sides with different targets. From the anguished cry of Charley Boy’s Our Mummu Done Do! to expositions from academics such as Professor Makinde’s recent intervention, the public is subjected daily to a relentless barrage of awareness, underlined in urgency. Nobody listens. One wonders if many people read. And certainly, very few retain or relate – until of course the next crisis. The labor movement declares that it awaits a guarantee of the ‘people’s backing’ before it embarks on any critical intervention. Understandably. There is more than enough of the opium of blame passing on tap to lull mummus into that deep coma from which – give it a little more time – there can only be a rude awakening.

Sooner than later, but not as soon as pledged, the fuel crisis will pass. And then, of course, we shall await the next round of shortages, then a recommencement of blame passing. What will be the commodity this time – food perhaps? Maybe even potable water? In a nation of plenty, nothing is beyond eventual shortage – except, of course, the commonplace endowment of pre-emptive planning and methodical execution. Forty years after, the same language of re-assurance? “There is something rotten in the state of Naija!”


Wole SOYINKA

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2017/12/30/blame-passing-social-media-automated-mumus-%E2%80%93-new-year-gift-nation-wole-soyinka

NewsWorthy247:
This 2-year-old boy's hairstyle has gone viral on social media. His parents processed his hair with chemicals to make his natural hair texture curly – and his hair was dyed.

Some people like it, some think it's too much.

http://www.torimill.com/2017/12/checkout-this-2-year-old-boy-hairstyle.html

oshe111:
Buhari shudnt WORRY cos if anytin hapens to him, the cabal will get him ANOTHER YUSUFU FROM SUDAN

oshe111:
Buhari shudnt WORRY cos if anytin hapens to him, the cabal will get him ANOTHER YUSUFU FROM SUDAN

prettyboy5:


How funny, but where I know that legal bike ridding happens in Abuja is not where you mentioned to suit your opinion. Do you even know the amount of top shots who are members of Nigerian bikers associations all over Nigeria? So Charly boy, an emir in Gombe state to mention a few. I have seen some of their shows that even the road safety corp Marshall attends as well.

You people always like to carry political affiliation on your head to reason subjectively, all the leaders whom are even in different political affiliation to Buhari have all sent their words of prayer and concern to Buhari. If the top shots put aside political affiliation then who are you please? A minnow like you is inconsequential here please! You would see that those at the top have a way of settling their issues but its minnows like you who make noise over nothing.

frankyychiji:
Nobody says he won't recover, he will make Nigeria proud in next years Paralympics, that's if the blood mixed with his brain doesn't leave him a complete dindinrin.

NaijaMutant:


Now read this :




My Opinion
:

Buhari and his military gang killed armless protesters who are also peoples children and it felt right because you all urged him to kill on.

Now Buhari knows the pain of losing a loved one yet he spearheaded the death of peoples children.

My judgement: May the souls of those armless protesters that Buhari cut shot in their prime hunt him to his grave.

Buhari son's life is not worth more than others

Narldon:


Everybody is praying for Yusuf...


Who will pray for Yusuf's friend in coma, Bashir Gwandu?


Who will pray for victims of Benue Road Accident?


Who will pray for BokoHaram victims?


Who will pray for victims of Fulani Herdsmen?


#Just wondering

salbis:
Bros no be only "IPOB miscreants" dey suffer for dis fuel matter wooo it cuts across naija.

ugolance:
I want to ask one question mbok? This woman that EFCC are busy prosecuting on Twitter page and Facebook has she been found guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction to have truly looted as much as she was portrayed? It's high time we stop sensationalizing issues down here o. Perhaps, this woman in question has never tasted poverty she worked her way to the top as a top mgt staff of. Shell and other related Senior positions before attaining to NNPC chieftain. #smh