Jiang:


Because I saw them in action when boko haram partially got access to Maiduguri in 2014, the NAF was able to accurately decimate boko haram convoys moving on the road.

Not only Americans can fly a fighter jet, at least believe in ur country even if it's a tiny bit

Mitchewww:
Buhari is an unapologetic coupist.

A military dictator who has no knowledge of how democracy works.

The clown thinks democracy is age which is why he sees himself as a father doing his children a favour.

If that man has his way, he wants to be a life time president.

Very bitter vindictive bigot.

9jaArea:
A simple search on Google would've saved you from displaying your ignorance in public.

Jiang:


They really have some planes that do sortie at night, I can confirm

netpro:
PDP has ran out of ideas. All the do now keep refreshing blog pages and reacting like nuclear device.

Up Nigeria. Next Level straight. No time to dey look uche face.

drskyfly007:
OK zombie..mind you this your article is not meant for our own NASS.They are useless.

drskyfly007:
I swear I will vote for anyone who will shut down NASS..Infact Nigerians will vote for that candidate..Those people are just wasting naijas lean resource!

ImadeUReadThis post=55175608
The worst Senate is better than a saintly dictator

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We owe Shakespeare a lot in re branding the wannabe dictator Julius Caeser into a Roman martyr.
According to Shakespeare, whose plays were bankrolled by the British Crown, Brutus and Cassius were not only traitors but treacherous fellows of the worst kind who assassinated Julius Caeser in cold blood.

While Shakespeare did acknowledge Brutus' motives in assassinating Caeser (for Brutus stated that Rome must remain a democratic Republic) Shakespeare failed to portray Caeser in his true colors. Caeser's ambition to transform the Republic to his personal Kingdom was doused by Shakespeare who wanted us to believe that the Roman proletarian class were the ones urging Caeser to assume maximum powers as Rome's first despotic ruler.

When Caeser crossed the Rubicon river, he did this not as a showcase of his military conquest of Gaul in a victory parade in Rome but as a final putsch towards assuming supreme powers and authority over Rome.
This is how the idiom "Crossing the Rubicon" came about which means to pass a point of no return. Julius Caesar uttered the famous phrase "alea iacta est"—the die is cast as his army marched through the shallow river - an act which was considered an insurrection and treasonable offence. Caeser's deliberate act of treason which he committed by Crossing the Rubicon was premeditated and well planned towards seizing power for himself and bringing to an end the Roman democratic tradition . Even the word "cease" owes it's origin to Julius Ceaser.


Now why will Shakespeare distort history in his plays? Well, Shakespeare happened to have enjoyed a very generous annual pension from the British Crown and patronage among the English nobility during his time. There are even speculations that Shakespeare may not have authored most of his plays. Around 230 years after Shakespeare's death, doubts began to be expressed about the authorship of the works attributed to him. Proposed alternative candidates include Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, and Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. The Elizabethan era began the erosion of monarchial powers with mounted pressure by some members of the political class demanding the Monarchy assume ceremonial roles. It is thus not coincidental that Shakespeare will rewrite the history of ancient Rome in an attempt to portray the Roman Senate as treacherous. Shakespeare's caricature depiction of Cassius as sickly and bent was a personification of democracy and the legislative powers of elected officials below that of the Monarchy. Hence the need to depict Cassius a standing Senator of Rome as a sickly angry leach!

The final outcome of Caeser's attempt at assuming full maximum powers is that Rome ceased to be a democracy, a civil war ensued and the man Caeser died and with him the glory of a democratic Republic of Rome.

Just like Shakespeare (or his nobility muse) we have today a very active propaganda machinery desperate at un-bundling the Senate and ushering in a despotic ruler.

ImadeUReadThis:
The People's Tyrant

Plato thought political regimes followed a predictable evolutionary course, from oligarchy to democracy to tyranny. Oligarchies give way to democracies when the elites fail, when they become spoiled, lazy, profligate, and when they develop interests apart from those they rule.

Democracies give way to tyrannies when mob passion overwhelms political wisdom and a populist autocrat seizes the masses. But the tyrant is not quite a tyrant at first. On the contrary, in a democracy the would-be tyrant offers himself as the people’s champion. He’s the ultimate simplifier, the one man who can make everything whole again.

Sound familiar?

Other than Plato's wise council on how a civilized society can find itself a few generations ahead under the vice-grip of a tyrant, the Holy Bible contain a treasure trove of wisdom on how mankind eventually lost their freedoms to their fellow man in the form of hero-worship.

God's original grand plan for man was for man to exist side by side with Him. Then man rebelled and God had to banish Adam and Eve from His presence.

God's overwhelming love for mankind led God to still establish contact with man via heavenly emissaries to those select few He saw worthy of His contact warning and guiding the people through His Prophets of old. We can then safely assume that Theocracy was the first and earliest form of human governance.

Then the temptation of Moses occurred where he gave in to appointing Judges to help deputize God's authority among the Israelites. This marked the Legislative era of corrupt judges.

Groaning under the corruption they had found themselves, the Jews decided that it be wise to appoint a single man among themselves to rule over them and to purge the corruption of the Judges and Priests. The anointing of Saul as King was the beginning of tyranny that the Jews will face for most part of their history.

Despotism thus arises when a given set of people have given up on their own ability to govern themselves and it usually precedes that of a democratized period.

We are witnessing a severe assault on our nascent democracy by surprisingly enough those who are currently within the corridor of power as a result of the same democratic processes.

To these set of charlatans, democracy is merely a means to acquire power and not a suitable form of governance.

To these bunch of tin gods, the very people who elected them into power are to be whipped into line and their concerns and voice gagged.

Surprisingly their gullible zombies are very much in agreement with their assault on democracy and her tenets.

I don't blame Buhari at all for being a despot and a tyrant neither do I blame his hordes of Abacha era cronies and sycophants that have been transplanted from their state of hibernation into the corridors of Aso Rock. Rather I lay the blame squarely on the myopic, slavish and gullible morons who voted and still champion this despot as the best thing since slice bread.

life2017:
Shutting down NASS will be a good thing. They are actually useless parasite to Nigeria.

Racoon:
One can imagine how learned people of Prof.Soyinka's nature among many to fell for an illiterate sadist, bigot and ethnic supremacist of the president nature.It just remains a mystery.

Sarkin:
what's paramount is the progress of the nation.

porka:
Prof. Wole Soyinka should just go and hide somewhere.

Does Buhari has to announce his intentions verbally before professor realizes that he been a dictator since 1900?

What was he thinking when he was persuaded by Tinubu and Ameachi to look the other way about Buhari brutality in 2015?

Is he just waking up now?

What has he been doing since Buhari has been displaying his dictatorship character?

When Buhari was seeking emergency powers to suspend the constitution and turn himself to a 21st century African 'god' where was Soyinka.

What does Soyinka think of refusing Dasuki and El-Zakzaky bail despite several court pronouncements?

Sarkin:
If he has to become a ruthless dictator to change this nation, I'll vote him in 2023 if possible.
If he even suspends the constitution for this country to change I'll still have his name inscribed in my heart.

netpro:
Another wailing lame attempt. PDP is going nowhere, try another blackmail.

We are not going to allow the criminals we chased away to return and steal everything unabated again.

Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari over his comments at the opening ceremony of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) conference last Sunday.

In a statement Thursday, Mr Soyinka mocked the president by saying Mr Buhari had obviously given a deep thought to his travails under a military dictatorship and concluded that his incarceration at that time was also in the ‘national interest.’

Mr Buhari was imprisoned for years by the Ibrahim Babangida regime after his military dictatorship was overthrown in 1985.
Since returning to power in 2015, Mr Buhari’s government has held some Nigerians for years without trial. High profile detainees have been denied freedom despite court orders.

“Here we go again,” Mr Soyinka said in the statement he titled ‘Buhari’s Pernicious Doctrine.’

“At his first coming, it was ‘I intend to tamper with Freedom of the Press,’ and Buhari did proceed to suit action to the words, sending two journalists – Irabor and Thompson – to prison as a reward for their professional integrity.

“Now, a vague, vaporous, but commodious concept dubbed “national interest” is being trotted out as alibi for flouting the decisions of the Nigerian judiciary. President Buhari has obviously given deep thought to his travails under a military dictatorship, and concluded that his incarceration was also in the ‘national interest.’”

Mr Buhari sparked outrage with his statement while addressing a gathering of lawyers when he said: “the rule of law must be subject to the supremacy of the nation’s security and national interest.”

The president’s comments drew criticisms from the lawyers and Nigerians who condemned his statement in strong terms.

In his statement on Thursday, Mr Soyinka described the timing of the president’s speech as “perfect.”

“We have cause to be thankful for the advance warning, since not all rulers actually make a declaration of intent, but simply proceed to degrade the authority of the law as part of the routine business of governance,” said Mr Soyinka.

“We have been there before. It should be of mere interest, not despondency, that this latest proclamation of dictatorial recidivism has also been made before an assembly of officers of the law, the Nigerian Bar Association. We expect a robust response from the NBA as part of its conclusions.”

Mr Soyinka noted that there is no shortcut to democracy and that the history of law, even where uncodified, is as old as humanity.

“Numerous rulers have tried again and again to annul that institution,” he said.
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“Sometimes, they appear to succeed, but in the end, they pay heavy forfeit. So does society.

“The rule of law, however, outlasts all subverters, however seemingly powerful. If the consequences for society in defence of the rule of law were not so costly, any new attempt would be merely banal and boring, hardly deserving of attention. We know, historically, where it will all end.”

http://newsbreakng.com/2018/08/30/buhari-full-blown-dictator-allowed-return-2019-soyinka/

netpro:
Another wailing lame attempt. PDP is going nowhere, try another blackmail.

We are not going to allow the criminals we chased away to return and steal everything unabated again.

bantudra:


keep on provokin us and see if we will not give buhari dictatorial powers....!!

keep on pissin us off....

this boko matter has already passed who is president or political party since 2008....

bantudra:


keep on provokin us and see if we will not give buhari dictatorial powers....!!

keep on pissin us off....

this boko matter has already passed who is president or political party since 2008....

bantudra:
boko haram is killin our elite warriors and you people dont worry....

with who una wan fight boko haram...??...with only fresh recruits....??...

equip recruits with best weapons and you will still loose....

2 generals lost...high rankin officers lost....

and you people are still not worried....

Tenison96:
They're not militants, they are Terrorist
Hopefully Nigerians will vote wisely and not think with our stomachs.
Will the peanuts you receive during elections last you for the tenure of said politicians? If no, then...