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It is very obvious that the west especially the merchants from Europe did not come to Africa for the good of African people. This is not really their fault but the systemic problem of the substructure upon which the superstructure of their society is constructed and placed. The principles of capitalism keep the lord of the means of production in a position that blindfolds his or her conscience. In this system, the man who milks the cow does not care about the state of the cow. Whether it is dying or in serious anguish is very inconsequential to the man who wants the milk. That the cow is crying unto death makes no sense to the milking man. In the above picture, Africa is the cow while the merchants from Europe are the milk men. It is now obvious why the relationship was built the way it grew. The demarcations of African nations were arbitrarily done with a mindset to keep Africa perpetually sick towards death or eternally ailing. Administrative units known to the locals were ext...

If only Africa and her leaders can realize that culture and tradition are vital to understanding, they will definitely start to appreciate the importance of philosophy and especially African philosophy. Hermeneutics which is the Philosophy of Understanding has taught us of the situatedness of tradition in understanding. This simply means that in order to understand anything at all, be it expression in dialogue, discussion or discourse, music or any other work of art, science and technology, cosmology, law or any axiological endeavor, one glances into understanding through the binoculars of culture and tradition. If you need to exercise your power of thinking on the above assertion, you can take a little survey into comedy. Take up a comedy film produced and formed on the experience(s) of the West or the whiteman. Maybe you will at the end say it was actually a waste of time or that it was so dry. If you will, please take that same clip to the whites around you and see how they w...

A LAYMANS GUIDE OUT OF THE RECESSION This is a guide or road map by a man, whose knowledge of such “esoteric” science like Economics was learnt on the streets of the world; so calling me streetwise could be quite descriptive; lets go at how I think Nigeria can get out of the present economic quagmire and degraded Naira. First; lets rescue the Naira; CHANGE THE CURRENCY No, not all the denominations but the ₦500 and ₦1000. We read the gory tales of how one of our former Military Chiefs would order his military accountant/pay master to exchange more than ₦800 million for dollars and other currencies every month end; we have heard about the soakaways and water tanks filled with Naira; we have heard about how the security details of one high ranking politician carted away more than ₦300 Million cash in one fell swoop; all our money that is stolen at the Local Governments Level, embezzled at the State Governments, parastatals and all the MDA’s; All the pillaging and purloining, div...

HOW IGBO APGA MEMBERS CAN SUPPORT WINNING EDO GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION We need a rally or face to face chat with Igbos in Edo state. Statistics hold that 48% of the 1.9 million PVC holders  in Edo State are Igbos. That amounts to about 912,000 voters. I bet you that the winner of Edo State gubernatorial election will not get up to 400,000 votes. The clear fact is that with the slogan that APGA is Igbo party alone, Edo state will be comfortably won. I know that the slogan is no more fashionable in APGA since it is a national party but it can be accepted just for this purpose since all we want is to gain power in Edo state. Like our debate the last time on that slogan, certain view held that APGA should be sold to all tribes and ethnic groups in Nigeria with such idea. What that simply means is that we are giving ownership of the party to the local people. Like we have severally asserted, Edo state is possible. We have been on ground and we know that we just need a little mo...

In what seems a political assault to diminish the importance of the insignificant few who left the party's executive in Edo State some days ago, the National leadership of APGA has constituted a team of political experts to manage the campaigns of her candidate in the Edo gubernatorial election. The team tagged AD-HOC COMMITTEE FOR EDO GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION was commissioned with a mandate to put in everything to deliver the party's flagbearer Earl Osaro Onaiwu as the Governor of Edo State in the near election. Unveiling the crackdown team for the Edo capture, the National Chairman said; "Because of the importance of the Edo governorship  election and the impact we have made in the Edo State, particularly after our last memorable visit, it has become necessary to set up an interim election committee to oversee the affairs of the party in the state until after the rescheduled governorship election". He continued "This step has become inevitable considering...

EDO ELECTION: THE IGBO FACTOR By EMEKA NWAGWUNA As campaigns leading up to the September 28th Edo gubernatorial election reaches feverish pitch, so many factors will definitely determine the outcome. Prominent among them is the number of registered Igbo voters in Edo state. INEC’s record reveals that the number of registered Igbo voters constitute about 48% of total registered voters in Edo. The implications of this figure are copious and have the capacity of determining who emerges winner in the September elections. Igbos in Edo must be united in a concerted effort with other Edo progressives to take advantage of this demography so that the candidate that will best serve their interest emerges victorious. For instance, it is true that Igbos are kings of trade and commerce in Nigeria. Therefore any government whether state or federal that neglects this existential fact by not making plans for trade and commerce to thrive is directly marginalizing Ndigbo. This is the exact sta...

The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the 2016 Governorship Election in Edo State, Earl Osaro Onaiwu has called on Muslims in the State to pray for the emancipation of Edo State from the scourge of bad leadership that has affected its progress since 1999. The governorship candidate made the call in a Sallah message signed by one of his media aides, Mr. Christopher Okagbare to mark this year's Eid-El-Kabir celebraions across the state. He said Edo State has been plagued with the menace of self serving leaders which has plunged the state into a critical economic situation. He called on the Muslim communities in Edo State to come together and play an active role in rescuing and building a better Edo State where development will thrive. Mr. Onaiwu commended Muslims in the state for living in harmony with their Christian brothers and sisters. He asked the Muslim Umrah in Edo State to consolidate on the prevailing peace they have maintained in the state over...

How much enlightenment has the APC leadership in Edo State bequeathed to her membership especially on the nuisance fronts and cubicles? This is a question that has occupied the minds of the most reasonable supporters of APGA and her very noble and peaceful Governorship candidate in Edo State. This mental inquisition has preoccupied all good thinking humans as moments ago, APGA governorship campaign trail was senselessly attacked by suspected thugs loyal to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Etsako West LGA. After addressing the good people of the LGA, the respectable supporters and party faithfuls, some unidentified young men wielding dangerous weapons ambushed our team. I must commend the gallantry of one of the mobile policemen attached to us who resisted efforts made by the thugs to disarm him of his weapon. Unfortunately, he was beaten to pulp as well as some members of our team. We were compelled to scamper to safety, where we sought refuge under a military check point st...

I know no nights anymore My heart lit the paths intensely Even along the darkest nights The glow is never imagined The wonder rouses my thoughts Whence is this mystery? It is from my heart the lights come This has never always been From the day you tore the iron bars Trudged across the guarded gate Made yourself an abode therein Since your presence here in my heart I know no nights anymore.

EDO: HISTORY BECKONS The journey to occupying the Government House, Benin City begins in earnest on Saturday, July 30 when our governorship campaign is launched. All APGANS from all walks of life  are hereby most respectfully invited to turn out en mass to support our indefatigable candidate, Osaro Onaiwu, in our quest to win Edo to replicate the transformational paradigm in Anambra State. The choice of Osaro as our governorship candidate has changed the equation of politics in Edo State, placing APGA in a vintage position to win the September 10 election. We call on all our teeming supporters from all over the world to join us in our consistent effort to redirect the consciousness of our following as a way of galvanising support to make us actualize our set goals. Don't mind the initial hiccups facing us, we are focused and determined to contihue to deliver the goods. Nothing good comes easy. We need to therefore work as a team to grow APGA as the only viable alternative to the...

HUMBLE LEADERSHIP ARRIVES EDO STATE!!! Profile of the man we call THE SOLUTION Earl osaro Onaiwu was Born 23rd of December 1958 in Benin City Edo state. His parents are educationists. He rose through the ranks as a politician and an entrepreneur. Due to observable wisdom and humility in his process of youthful growth, he was appointed as a Special Assistant at the age of 24 to then Governor of Bendel state Dr. S.O. Ogbemudia under the NPN platform. After the overthrow by the military he went into business in Lagos and in 1993 was the first Mobile Phone Operator in Nigeria (Dream Line Cellular). He then opened a gabbage company, providing green waste bin for residents in the Ikeja District in Lagos and was the first to operate a luxury car service made of all Mercedes. As politics good leadership runs in his vains he gradually positioned himself around key political players in the country. When Nigeria regained democracy in 1999 , it was eminent that Osaro would be a major player...

Even as a student activist I had a brand for myself. Yes we used to. That brand brought me close to some great friends and associates. Many of them I find doing good and succeeding in their various choices of endeavour. Some of them have also maintained that political moral standard while some have caved in for environmental pressures surrounding our political atmosphere. It is a pity. Sometimes I have advised myself to rather pity such situation than blame them. Without blowing my own trumpets, I vowed not to yield but more to it is that I continually meditate against the advances and urge. From 1999, the PDP won political power in Nigerian and have done their best within the timeframe. I didn't really give my full support to them since I firstly was averse to their type of politics and secondly because I've not been partisan. The history of my distance with the PDP dates back to their unacceptable form party primaries in 1998/99 between Former President Olusegun Obasan...

More harm to humanity if states, nations and the world continue this way. When we continue to build cars without building personnel to man them. As we continue to manufacture warheads, arms and armory without forming human morality. I just got tired of reading treads on the social media. Ministers, Special Advisors, Aides and the like are placeholders for the President. To this therefore, the President is responsible for their actions and inactions. It is for this responsibility that he/she (the President) receives reward for the performance on the delegated power to the Minister, SA, Aides etc. But do not forget that reward is either positive or negative. A worry turns up when one is pretty willing to take the praise from his/her delegated power but never to own up to the blame accruing from the use or performance upon same delegated power. Both praise and blame share a source which is responsibility. Praise is the reward that comes from good engagement of the delegate...

Thanks to the study of philosophy. The doctrine of opposites remains a veritable theory in the labyrinthine of metaphysics in particular and ontology in general. However, the broader metaphysics which is ontology has encompassed even axiology. This makes metaphysics or ontology a paramount crux in the understanding of socio-political sphere. Alas those who jump in and out of our own political corridors here and maybe somewhere else are so oblivious of this commonplace truth. Remember that every opposite defines the opposite. And can I say that if you have never known the good, you will always miss the bad. In other words, the knowledge of the day gives you the clearest understanding of the night. However, when we mention the Doctrine of Opposites, we inevitably will run on the attitude of bringing down philosophy from the Ivory Towers into the marketplaces. How do I mean? This is a philosophical stream by which high flown or top intellectual matters are simplified to the clear un...

Just on the 21st of November, 2015 we made that solemn vow where our family, friends, colleagues, compatriots, fellows and brethren were great witnesses. Below is the amateur album... His Eminences Elder Isaac Bello, Elder Iheanyi Godson-Ibeji flanking the couple; KEMKA S. IBEJI & Lieutenant KELECHI JULIET. The couple flanked by the Bestman & Chief Bridesmaid - Mr. Isaac Onwuka & Lieutenant AB Onwudiwe. Sword Party doing it... King Solomon - KEMKA S. IBEJI with his dazzling Queen; Lieutenant KELECHI JULIET... My Queen held the sword against food but she had a few words for her darling husband... With smiles, the cake was pierced for all to feed on... Neighbors were present in honour of our union in love... They live in Wuse 2. It was time to be a caring wife and to the first assignment; feed your husband. The feeding was done graciously and the showers were handy to ride it home on throat. We therefore present to you the n...