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It is almost a usual chorus trumpeting once more and again that in international politics, "might is right and justice is the interest of the stronger". This cliché has remained in the mind and heart of students of international politics for so many years. One particular norm or cliché the craftsmen and women of that earliest cliché have missed to provide is what happens in a situation of equal strength and balance of terror. I am sure they would recline and accept the objectivity of justice and sanctity of morality. It therefore simply speaks to us that international politics is an arena of bullies and power tyranny. This reminds us of the mechanisation of minds across the world by the powers that be. Especially, when any world power lasts so long in our consciousness, they seem to penetrate our substance and subconsciousness to the extent that we cease to ask questions about whatever they do. Most of the time, they assume the status and stature of moral police and become im...

The following are the outline of the leadership of Nigeria in terms of the presidency since the independence in 1960 - 2023; A. NORTH WEST  1. Maj. Gen. Murtala Muhammed 1975 (0.75 year) 2. Alhaji Shehu Shagari 1979 - 1983 (4 years) 3. Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari 1983 - 1985 (2 years) 4. Gen. Sani Abacha 1993 - 1998 (5 years) 5. Alhaji Umar Musa Yaradua 2007 - 2009 (2 years) 6. President Muhammadu Buhari 2015 - 2023 (8 years) NORTH WEST has ruled 6 times totalling 22 years or 34% B. NORTH CENTRAL  1. Gen. Yakubu Gowon 1966 - 1975 (9 years) 2. Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida 1985 - 1993 (8 years) 3. Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar 1998 - 1999 (0.75 year) NORTH CENTRAL has ruled 3 times totalling 18 years or 28% C. SOUTH WEST  1. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo 1975 - 1979 (4 years) 2. Chief Ernest Shonekan 1993 (0.25 year) 3. President Olusegun Obasanjo 1999 - 2007 (8 years) SOUTH WEST has ruled 3 times totalling 12 years or 19% D. NORTH EAST  1. Alhaji Tafawa Balewa = 1960 - 1966 (6 ...

Gush! It's a dream world here Everyone seems tired They're worn out and weak The jubilant is so uncertain The other is angry but bizarre The players have same mind One celebrant today, another tomorrow  Innatism of notorious betrayals  We're victorious We're triumphant Those who shout are afraid What a celebration in fears Do they know what they want The crown of idiots won by one Won for mad ego and no more No home, no knowledge Not regally and no character Don't envy this overbalancing crown It'll be vain and null at last  Nihilism of mores is her substance Our culture is in quagmire Our land in shatters and tatters  We have rejected their overlordship  They won't reign over us Over there are men of mischief A band of betrayals disguised Holy at day, harlots at night A meeting of suspects Trust is a hard currency within They'll never be faithful Their unity is a chaff The weight is crass and empty Once they jubilated Then we saw who they're They...

In the run up to the renascent democracy in 1999, the country was rich with expectations and wishes. They were all for the good of Nigeria after the military era. The games for the succession began and the intrigues ran through. Unfortunately, while the then junta was out to ensure transition from the military to civil rule, it was indeed ill prepared. The preparation had no inclusion of any directional philosophy and what looked like it was well tuned to address the concerns and challenges to come. The junta had a cursory carpentry of the constitution and such became the sickness of the governments to come. Bedeviling the political party that won power, the PDP began on a badly set out race and ran it aimlessly for solid sixteen years. The end of that sixteen years witnessed the drastic horror; an experience that held but will never happen again. Though the Goodluck Jonathan administration has been praised by those who know almost nothing about leadership and whose lives and thought s...

While I make efforts to reach Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu in a bid to persuade, encourage and make him see reason to contest and win the seat of the president of Nigeria in 2023, I have already set out plans to raise the funds to buy him Nomination and Expression of Interest forms of our party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). I have elected to do this on my own and with the help of my friends because of some reasons that are commonsense to all Nigerians who know this great man, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu. They have said in various places that he does not have the money to propagate and fund the enormous amount involved in the Presidential Election. It is not strange to them that a former Governor, former presidential ticket holder, former ANPP national leader and a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria since 2015 till this moment will not have the money because they know his personality. Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu is an impeccable being. He is incorruptible and unblemished. He is a contented man who i...

I think he is the most deserving member of the APC to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari from 2023.  If you call him the star of Nigerian democracy, you would not have said too much of a bit of what he is or represents. Meek and mild, temperate and poised, focused and undeterred, steadfast and diligent, reliable and trustworthy. Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu can be said to be the most persevering politician in Nigeria approximate to President Muhammadu Buhari. A fine gentleman, blazing intelligence and a fascinating personality. He is not interested in taking praises but willing to keep working. He is the dreamer and visionary of the ruling party - the All Progressives Congress (APC). A dreamer and visionary is indeed greater than a leader though Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu doubles as both the dream owner and visionary leader of the APC. He exudes tranquility, calmness and stability. Why is Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu the best to lead Nigeria as her president after President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023? The a...

Whenever one is reminded or thinks of government, the first thing that occurs to mind is those who tell us what to do in the community. We remember the fears from tax enforcement, levies on the salaries of public and civil servants, bills from electricity, water, tolls and more. Again, especially in Nigeria, we always have in mind the issues of monthly state allocations and the sharing of money in Abuja. Other things we have in our memories once we hear of government are the police who stop you on the road for #50 (fifty Naira), the EFCC that dabbles into every issue ranging from personal and interpersonal businesses to domestic matters, the judiciary that sell judgements in their supermarkets dubbed courts, the legislators who fight for money at the National Assembly buildings and engage in all manner of contract businesses in the name of constituency projects and sorts. We also won't forget their clownish committees where money is severally shared, where budget defenders are hara...

Just like in the days preceeding rainfall or rainy season, the sky has turned heavy and the rest parts of our thinking have gotten boldly pregnant with huge uncertainties. Many who will want to be seen as tactically sound have amassed so much on their desks of political analysis and flipping through pages for sticking predictions. The field workers have gone to farm ploughing their fingers out with the hope to come home with the raw stones for refinement and subsequent windfall. The bright sky has made itself the most fearsome slippery substance. Who knows what will happen? The foregoing question will determine the life of millions of people in and out of Nigeria and Africa as the largest black country in the world gets set for change of political baton in 2023. Nigeria will, once again, go to the polls to make choice of who manages the common will of the commonwealth from 2023. Hitherto, media Maradonas especially from the Southwestern part of Nigeria who are trying to mold public min...

The pursuit, yearning, craving and fight for Biafra has lingered since the 60s especially ranging from the prelude of the Civil War through the war to this present time. Changes in dimensions and forms have been attributed to the reactions of the government at all times. It is very clear to put out the fact that while the people, after the war, have continued to remind themselves of the idea and have asked questions of their existence in Nigeria with very peaceful dispositions, the government has continued visiting them with excruciating violence that has let to the death of a great number of the young people of the Southeast especially. Associations have sprouted and blossomed while many have waned and died. Even more keep springing up each day concerning Biafra, her identity and her people.  Amidst all the agitations and protestations, very important aspects of such craving have been ignored and left out. This is the most insensitive act in this struggle and if it is persistently...

Here in the society are all. You are either a free citizen or a free prisoner. But a free prisoner is not a citizen still. There are a few things that entail and enforce citizenship. At the background, as received by institutional understanding, of all is freedom. This makes for the most time, the reference to the word - Free Citizen. But there are questions that have not been considered by everyone or a lot of people.  According to popular avowal, to be a citizen is to be free within the community, to be free to move around, free to associate, free to talk, free to vote and be voted for. Freedom and freewill are very significant to being a citizen. This is why in the ancient Greek polis, certain class of humans are not classified as citizens. It is however very easy to identify such people when you adopt a method that allows you go through their being free. Such people as slaves and prisoners are not citizens in the primordial understanding and it is so even in this era. Though th...

The day that will bring fortune to the trader shimmers at dawn with soothing sunshine. This is an African adage popular among the Igbos of Nigeria and it has deep meaning. If a people are destined for destruction, there are certain omens that will always greet their mornings and it follows them till the doomsday. This is a re-emphasis of the situation of Nigeria at the moment especially as the 2023 general elections draw nigh. Seeing each day bringing it closer and even closer, many pundits have gripped tight their prediction sticks clicking and clocking for precision. Like the trades of the internet, all eyes are now placed on the screens. This is to say that every political analyst has gone into search for the determinants of the game. What will happen in the next election? Who will go for this or that political party? What are the implications for the political parties, the politicians, the economy and especially the masses? The concern of this piece is the implication of the choice...

Often read the quibbles of Karl Marx in the pursuit of what eventually turned out to be Marxism. Importantly, those ideas could hinge on socialism and Communism in the loosed sense. However, striking on his lines of extensive arguments are his stampede on the bad vagaries of religion and the cache of surplus value. These made excellent read for many young readers, scholars and members of the intellectual world. Karl Marx was unappreciative of the underhand of religion. For him, religious practices have made lilliputians of giants and have tremendously decapitated good reasoning from the people. It was for this reason that his popular maxim that "religion is the opium of the masses" held the winds at a time within readers. Of course, when you begin to atomize or analyze issues with religious concerns, you will begin to realize how sentimentally held religious axioms have usurped the thinking capacity of humans and practitioners of these sect beliefs and have rendered them inca...

Don't dare dread me Soothing sounds of soul Gently jamming jim jim Healing and hurting hearts Candid calls craving calm Waning warrior willing to win Rising root's reason or strength  The power of eros Deeming mild the wild Whittle of warriors and wolves  Casting blind, sharpest sights Devouring beauty in hearts Damning daring dangers Shunning shame or shock Lifting the weakest to awe Maiming the mightiest How has she done this?  Thou symbol of peace Quiescence of the noisiest Vaining valuable virgins Yielding their innocence And let them plead for more More woes and cries in relish Relishing the fights of joy No one wins but all in bliss Then again may I wish That I hand this heart Only to an angel of rose On the bed of her chest Let me rest in thoughts Thoughts in thy blessings Oh thou stupid cupid

Laughing in dark minds Such smiles that floats  Talking love but full of hate Wants respect but disrespects Murderers relishing their lives  It feels like hypocrisy or so Tell me, I don't know please While in the best mansions Mansions called cathedrals In the best of apparels Garments of cost and worth The luxuries of priests and laity No one bothers, no one worries With sweet winds of sorts Claps, timbrels, strings and drums Water and oils in their hands They visit others with violence Worshippers of African manner They're the others and victims  Turning themselves to lords They judge all else evil and ill Them alone are good and none People of the cathedrals  African brethren who prides not Humility is a part of their rituals Under trees and decors of shrines Humbly dressed, lowly bending Undying faith in worship, honour Praying good and for all Never saying ill on the cathedral From the cathedrals they come With all intents to desecrate Falling down the shrines B...

Proverbially you'll have to say That's if you're able to see But otherwise as unassumed It turns out you'll have to see If you ever could say a thing We plant wrongs all farms We await a harvest of goods It's a travesty we live in Our masters are a terror Correct them to your peril Condemn them to your grave Who'er they? Dare not say Pens have gone silent  Voices have been muted Maids of all serve just a few But don't make a sound Who sings praises all day In good and in bad is all Do it while drowning  Stomachs are all that matter Do it once more to be alive You'll eat or live malnourished Whichever way, one is certain Live as dead and die as living  Certitude of the day Opposite standers are same You must agree with them You'll die if otherwise Fascism outside temple Temple of common will's admin Lest we all die in a swoop Let's prostrate to might Justice is dead and no more We're here just as our beasts We've lost all differing ess...

I saw the day Bright, drizzle and shine Cloudy, dark and rainy The floors with feet stamps  The heavens and the earth  I saw the church and mosque  Worshippers and idolaters  I saw the schools  The teachers and learners  I saw the elements  Water, air, earth and fire Everything working together  I saw humans and heard of God  I also heard of gods and deities  A tree fell and it sounded  It did because I perceived it Humans and animals Beings; organisms and inorganic They all are and I know  Your joy and knowledge Your peace and love Your family and actions Your thoughts and ideas They are because I am And all things are because I am When I cease to exist Nothing else exists I am the world

It was indeed a sunset and closure of an era when the strong hands of death held fast on the being of our dear father and traditional ruler, His Imperial Majesty Eze (Dr.) Sir, Desmond Oguguo (Mmiri N’edoro Ọha 1 of Eziudo), and landed him to the realms of ancestry. He was a great man, an indefatigable personage, a roaring human lion, an untiring master and a King of some ethereal standing. He bestrode the reigns of our dear ancient kingdom with such grace and grandeur that questions transition or succession in terms of quality of guise, guard and guide. The built, trudging, thrust, guts and gusto, sounds and stands of Eze Oguguo were, if anything, really regal and classically majestic. Oh Eze Desmond Oguguo! And he was sincerely a human being wearing the garb of some demigods or extra human. A lot of us were only convinced of his being a human being at his performance of the mandatory mortal act of all humans - the finito and finish of every human person. He died and joined the queue ...