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KEMKA S. IBEJI  Just like I honestly told all Imo State electorate that fateful night that the result of that day was a runoff, while Uche Nwosu was still in the race, and not declaration of a winner yet, I'm also saying that the Supreme Court's decision on reviewing their judgment should be a rerun in the 388 polling units as the number of registered voters in those polling units can impact on who emerges winner of that election. Any other judgement order different from the above will be a wrong and bad judgement and definitely unjust. Time ticks off, and the land awaits peace in Imo State. However, the crying being in all this experience is posterity. For this brazen aberration to form part of our national statute through judicial precedence is a nightmare and the Supreme Court is under obligation to wake us from such. Justice will grant peace and harmony in the state and ultimately guarantee security for all citizens of the state - Imo. It was an injustice decla...

KEMKA S. IBEJI  Yes! Why 18? Why must people be 18 years before they are eligible to vote or be voted for in an election? The answer has always been that at such age, one is or will be rational enough to make informed choice. He or she should be able to weigh options available and choose appropriately. But now I ask again, WHY 18 when rationality is no longer the point but the ability to receive higher amount of money? Every child in the primary school is acquainted with the figures and can always distinguish between greater numbers. So WHY 18? WHY 18 when the judiciary is a lonesome supermarket where justice is murdered and judgements bought and sold? If after the wrongs and unlawful actions at the polls, the judiciary validates the illegal and everyone will chorus "as the court pleases". So WHY 18? WHY 18 when the Electoral Umpire goes blind on her duty and allow the rule to be "everything goes"? When they are paid not to do their legitimate jobs for ...

KEMKA S. IBEJI at Orphanage Home  Men and brethren, if we as leaders look at what our people are and what they do, we will all become devils. Sometimes it pains to say that our people don't seem to deserve anything good by their actions. However, as leaders our morality should be hinged on courage and strong will. This will only stand out when faced with challenges. Just like Socrates on Philosophy of Education, extricating the people from ignorance doesn't go without the violence of the beneficiaries. The people you fight to save from destruction will be fighting to destroy you at the same time. Ignorance is a big fat disease. Be that as it may, we who have passed through the crucibles of leadership have come to wear a different but far strengthened morality. This has a lot to do with knowledge to laugh at your intended killer who does not know your impregnable immunity against his finite imagination. In the main, we should be able to defend the common will no matte...

Prof. N. Obiaraeri  Recent developments in the polity, especially the wave of defections or change of political parties by elected and serving members of the Federal and State legislatures, have made it imperative to be reiterated that wilful disobedience to the national constitutional provisions remains the greatest albatross to our democracy. Our constitution is an imperfect work no doubt but there is no gainsaying that our democracy will thrive robustly and the needed dividends of democracy delivered faster in quantum leaps and bounds if, and only if, the salient provisions of the constitution are strictly obeyed and not disobeyed with reckless abandon. Change of political party or what we call "political mobility" is both legit and constitutional for every citizen of Nigeria as the right to freedom of association, which includes freedom to dissociate, is inalienable and fundamental. Put differently and simply, a Nigerian citizen is at liberty to change or wit...

It is no longer a breaking news that the Imo State Governor Emeka Ihedioha as declared by INEC on the 2019 election has been deposed by the judgment of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It is no longer new to the ears. It is no longer news that both political parties and their candidates in that election rigged in one way or the other. It is also not new to discerning minds that right from the Tribunal through the Supreme Court, the judiciary has been a supermarket where justice is muzzled while judgement are wares. But there may be something new from all the oldies. These two (PDP and APC) are the same with different names. They are friends and family teamed up for same purpose. They are also like father and son or mother and daughter living without trust for each other. An old woman in my village usually exclaimed; "that there's a should while mother and child were eating in the dark that light should quickly be brought" she continued ...

Man came, saw and is awed He has been overwhelmed by wonders There's confusion as to the reason The reason for man's existence How did man come alive? Why is man here in life? Where will he go when he leaves here? Nothingness! Man seeks to find himself He doesn't know the reality of himself Man's nature eludes man's knowledge This worries as wonders set in Why am I man and not woman? Who made the choice for me? Why can't I be otherwise? What of this reason for my being man? Why are some poor and others rich? Who made it so and why? How could a merciful creator create wickedness? And why death after all? Why why why! Man is empty He lacks meaning Man is elusive His understanding and knowledge They are all imaginations Man is nothing, live for nothing He dies for nothing And exist in nothingness His knowledge of himself The meaning of his existence His reason to be They may be in what is not Perhaps in the opposite of all kno...

KEMKA S. IBEJI  I have read a few snippets from the new year prophecy of the Catholic priest - Rev. Fr. Ejije Mbaka. I have also read responses from other Nigerians especially Imo State citizens. I have read all of them with a smile of great understanding from cradle experience. Let me state that there is no point for the quarrels from the prophecy except for a little lack of understanding of the language of prophecy. Our dearly beloved Fr. Ejike Mbaka is both right and wrong at the same time but we can excuse him only if we know how prophecy works or comes. As a child born in a spiritual home that are in a spiritual church, I grew up knowing prophets, prophecy, the language of prophecies, the character of prophecy and the mistakes of prophets as well. The Bible said that some are giving the spirit of effective prayers, some dreams, some vision, some prophecy, some evangelism, some are imbued with the spirit of speaking in tongues etc. Most importantly, some are also giv...

Don't begrudge my rise; my pains from the falls are so excruciating that you will abhor the gift of my rising if offered with the pains of my fall. I'm an Eagle with feathers strengthened and stiffened by the burns from the fiercest furnace even more biting than the imagery of hades. I get renewed by the heat of gnashing teeth, the deadly pinpains of closing claws, and the showers of tears from the groans of dreadful experience. I stand so tall and dazzling in the midst of warriors. The love me, they cherish me, they honor me, they value me and they worship my gaze. I am the lion that spares no foe. My strength lies in that weakness you are so convinced of. I am immortal. And my immorality sprouts on my being; I am a Thinker. I am in the world of the greatest Philosophers that trudged, trudge and will trudge on this great surface. Stand aloof if you can't soak it. Get to bed eternally if you are incapable of absorbing it. I am the greatest giant in the firmament of...

Sometimes it is very difficult to distinguish between leader and leadership. Just like a certain school of jurisprudence could define justice as "what the lawyers do in the court", one could simply say that leadership is what leaders do. While I disagree with the definition of justice in that way and manner, I will agree with the same kind of definition for leadership. My ground for this rejection and acceptance is because whereas there cannot be good or bad justice but justice, there is good leadership and there is bad leadership. For this reason, we can without fault assert that leadership is what leaders do. This simply implies that to gain the meaning of leadership, one should know what and who a leader is. But the leader has no other distinguishing personality than his act which is leadership. This is to say that there is and cannot be a leader without leadership. It therefore means that leadership also defines the leader. Put differently, when we see two men or women...

Yesterday on my Twitter handle, I announced that my response on the disengagement from Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) shall be the subject of discussion in my column today. So, where we are! Tuesday, December 10, 2019, my tenure as the chairman of AMCON would seem to have expired upon the nomination of Mr. Edward Adamu as the new chairman of the bad loan vehicle. News about this development came to me while in London in the middle of a crash education programme. The negatively interesting aspect of it is the lamentations that trailed the announcement by some friends and associates who, in my view, had a disconnect between purpose of service and the relief that naturally accompanies the disengagement of an appointee with an alternative contact address. Barely 24 hours before the presidential nomination of a new chairman for AMCON over which I presided, Mr. Tunde Fowler was replaced in his chairmanship of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) office by ano...

A friend of mine got my attention to this and it is important I give you my professional thoughts as a business participant in the real estate market as both investor, developer and arbitrage dealer. If only your interest is return on investment and no other sentiment, you can be sure of your investment giving you returns in certain specific locations in Nigeria. As far as it is for investment, the following cities in Nigeria are outlined according to their degree of importance in being lucrative and viable in the real estate business; 1. LAGOS: Is a stable market with flowing turnover. Purchases and sales are constant and as fast as the economy permits. The Lagos state market remains at the top because it is reliable and rests on facts and accurate figures. It might not be too big but it remains constant and consistent. Both residential, commercial, religious, Oil and Gas, industrial, hospitality and even research aspects of real estate are active and operational in Lagos ...

Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe  KEMKA S. IBEJI  I woke to the social media being agog with the name of the refined and gentle lawmaker - Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe. As soon as I was so greeted, I knew that the Ngwa born, calm and soft spoken, parliamentarian would have tickled the fabric of the national political engineering for a provoking and witty attention as characteristic of him. I went through the Facebook searching for what has actually happened. I could get some snippets of his submissions but they were not as detailed as I thought they should be. I made further foray of inquisition into Twitter. The issue was not trending on Twitter as I thought it should. I began to wonder if it was worth considering and if it is not one of those social media fake news. But a step further, I searched the name of the gentleman senator and I got an army of information. From the Twitter I got the full video of his interview with the Channels TV presenter Mr. Ladi. I took a seat to relish...

Eze Desmond Oguguo  Greatness is a charm It's deeply infectious Like wind it pervades And like the sun it blazes It is a sublime possession He was a history alive His gait was indeed amazing His words so hallowed And his stand was a worship Amongst the gods, he was prominent He was a demigod No one dared as he was feared Fierce in imagination But so human and humane Enemies of the land stood so far Pointing helplessly as the King mounted Mountain of a man His meek voice roared His gentility so fearsome As kids he was a deity As adolescents he was a gem As adults he was a model He was my friend He was my father He was my defender Truthful but vehemently diplomatic He was age mate across board He was indeed a King When my dream simmered I sought eye contact with greatness To the Delta I met Otubu In the land of Oduduwa I greeted a few and many There in the middle belt I shook great Unongo The Fulanis and Hausas we kept meeting In Efik lan...

The Fulanis simply have no place in Nigeria, they are just in Nigeria. They came in, spread and now own emirates with 1st class Chiefs across the northern Nigeria. The Fulanis are practically the most spread ethnic nationality currently in Nigeria and this record may well be found in the world if the present trend continues. They are also gradually coming down the Eastern Nigeria where they have already had a seat in Enugu which is the practical headquarters of the Southeast. This will further reduce the space of Ndị Igbo within the minute confines of the Southeast geopolitical zoning. The Fulanis are calmly spreading, expanding and dominating wherever they enter in Nigeria. They lead their cows and rams along the bushes and forests while establishing their domain and abode everywhere they touch their feet. These folks are planting their nation, culture and existence wherever they are or pass. In many places they have planted themselves in the past, they have now germinated. T...

After now, dear Lord I would throw these questions at you: Why have you turned the other way? Why don't you come down here anymore at night to rest? Why don't you speak with command in our time? Dear Lord, have you joined the league of our merciless leaders? After now, dear Lord I would throw these questions at you: Why have you forsaken us? Why can't there be peace in our land? Why do you now plead to brutish mortals? Dear Lord, have they bought you over with my country's juicy loot? After now, dear Lord I would throw these questions at you: Have you gone extinct? Have these worldly princes subverted your kingdom? Are you a religious creation to delude Mankind? Dear Lord, do you find delight in blood spilling? After now, dear Lord I would throw these questions at you: Should patience be considered a virtue where oppression thrives? Is it not cowardice to turn the other cheek in the face of mounting abuse? If we don't react, won...

'Ka, goddess of the first light and of muteness, fragile looking; stern minded You built intervening walls of granite against the soft whispers of the heart Though we both agreed such love was strange A stranger even, but that love is a winner and the determinant would be time Since time and love walk hand-in-hand You even said talk is free and most welcomed But action beyond those magnetic words were solely epileptic Do not suppose 'Ka that the strength of utter silence is greater than the gentle nudge of love While the Arietian fire burn in us- Opposites Both, at the extreme of the same star Bewitching force over our free choices Know also, silence is no feminine ornament That I never lit the fire, NEVER It began with a spark which I kindled In hope I have weaved poems from the depth of my heart; Commissioned the Best Man to recite my pledge but you did not listen Maybe you did When you graced fellow's invitation though drag-footedly with ...

Sign of the time ************* If I were you Shioba, I would hang myself. Shame is no tailored coat for the brave but you have no shame so you wander like truant for life. True blood does not stand in progress' way but you are not different from the betrayer, Peter. Peter's father had this bad blood in him too which made Isoma frown at such hopeless miscast, ekuru-eku bia remains a surface shame. Even now, you, them, the shamed pack dare not stare at my white eyes filled with audacious flame. The tiger's fur is his pride, struggle, his only recourse. He fights till the end; without retreating, without surrendering. Where do you stand; among the brave and sound; or in some low spot, some make-shift bar? Opportunists draw harvest where they did not sow; Not in my time- never- you would return with smashed baskets for I am the end to all beginnings. Shame is theirs who lack prowess, those subdued by a puppet with no guts. If I were you Shioba, I w...

Obiangaeri, i chetara n'aka ka igba bia nga m n'izizi; enweghi onye woro gi nri? i chetara n'ala gwuru-agwu n'ezi ebe anyi lere gi obia? Obiangaeri, i chetara na ndi oyi gi si anyi, 'anya saa, na agu-buu-onu ka i bu?' i chetara na anyi kwuru chim oge ha choro iji okwute tugbuo gi ka onye ohi? Obiangaeri, Ololo si na aha akporo ya ya efufe isi abughi aha ya, mere ojiri ji iwe wutuo n'osisi; ma i ghoonaghi nke gi, mere iji adakpu ala. Obiangaeri, i chetara na IKIRI ñuforo gi ara; i huru ka ejiri nwugbuo ya? Okwa onu a ijiri rikpo nri anyi ka iji eri nsi? Obingaeri, Obiara nga anyi biara ibiagbu anyi; Apari riri ihe aguru onu; Okaka n'amaghi na mbido na ogwugwu bu nwanne; Eze ohi n'amaghi na nchigbu na odida Kwu aga; Anumanu yiri ihe ejiri koo ya onu! By Comrade Reginald Ifeanyi Chiekezi 

Behold the great fall of mighty Olympus! Behold rumpled integrity aided by filth! Behold the blood-soaked hands of hate kicking like a mantis in-between an eagle's beak! 'Daura,' hades is that closed wall awaiting your reckless return; it's door, your armed zombies cannot slam. By Comrade Reginald Ifeanyi Chiekezi 

Without exception save rebels, in us live beaten men, men with dead penis'; dry stick for the campfire. Our steps are conditioned by crowd command; we anticipate silly outcome presented by fear. We fear to call an ant a poisonous insect lest we be stung at night; our faith offer us a frightening room where we hide from threat before us, too scared to redress our battered humanity. In our obstructed mindset, lies become truth, spelt by blind views. Not many of us will ask why; not many of us will challenge the status quo; or even shake our shackled hands in defiance; not for self but for the buds of humankind faced with annihilation: yet we are cursed by dumb loyalists, who go prostrating after the battle line is drawn. They call us, Comrades doomed to die because we refuse to drink from the well of hate; because we refuse to be cowed. From fear we die a million times before our actual gory death which cut deep into the night like today's firestorm...