Editorial

Certain things mark a man out in life. The same set his grave apart, making it uncommon; they make where he lies a holy land of sort, where men and women come to pay their respect.  What history says is responsible for the latter.  A man's actions while he is alive takes care of the former. Both account for what sustains the relevance of  some people from yesterday till tomorrow. Historians go into the archives when a  former  US Attorney-General, William B. Saxbe, died the other day.  What is found is a basis for comparison  between that former  Attorney-General out there, and men in power  - especially a former Attorney-General  - here in Nigeria. 

I read with puzzlement the blunders made by one blinded English language writer, which murdered the Queens English when he strenuously attempted to join issues with a towering personality in the person of Hon Anthony Madwatte, a member of the National Assembly representing  Lamurde, Numan, Demsa Federal Constituency.

The repugnant junk write-up appeared in the Daily Trust Newspaper of Monday July 12TH 2010 by one Homtapwa Vrati Wonoamo, a pitiable and deplorable praise singer who is grappling with the chasm of poverty and wants Grace to extricate him from the dens of paucity and deficiency. 
I beg to say the blunders made in that write-up rather exposed the political profligacy and buffoonery of the person the write-up was meant to serve as a platform to aspire for the second time in the Adamawa Southern senatorial zone.

THE saying that 'the place of the woman is in the kitchen' is a true reflection of how they are in the African society generally and Nigeria in particular. A woman is only good for the kitchen and for child rearing.  The unfair treatment of women world over led to the Beijing Conference of 1995 where basic demands were made by the women folks on their male counterparts.  How far the communiqué issued at the end of the conference has impacted on the lot of women is obviously visible.  Women now have a right to aspire to every political office amongst others.

THEY are parents; mothers and fathers with families they are responsible to; they are men and women who have with a large heart to share love with the motherless, the orphans and less privileged children. Having shown these special children love over the years through their orphanages and homes, founders of orphanages and homes in Nigeria came together to form an association with an objective to showing more consolidated love and care to the under privileged.

WITH the battle for 2011 now in earnest, a group known as  Goodluck Jonathan Vision 2011 has vowed that it would mobilize millions of Nigerians to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan to remain in office come 2011 and here is no stopping them.  Speaking to Trend'tainment, the National Coordinator of the movement, Mr. Obiorah Otti said the group is poised to realize the dream of making the President remain in Aso Rock come 2011. “By divine providence, Dr Goodluck Jonathan is the president of Nigeria and will remain so come 2011 because he has shown that he will provide good governance, transparency and accountability in the handling of public affairs. Let everybody support him.

THE Nigerian police by the statute setting it up are charged with the responsibility of maintaining law and order as well as the protection of lives and properties. But unfortunately of late, the activities of the indisciplined Nigerian police under the leadership of Mr. Ogbonna Onovo have assumed a frightening and calamitous dimension.

The Nigerian police just like under the leadership of Onovo's predecessors have discharged their responsibilities in ultra violation of the constitution and the statute establishing it and thus there is urgent need for a thorough appraisal of this organ of the state before we are all consumed by its failure. The pain and anguish that this irresponsible organ of the state has subjected Nigerians to ever since is unimaginable. They have brought opprobrium upon the Nigerian state by their callousness and criminal behavior.

BABANGIDA is back, as usual General Ibrahim Babangida, a former military President is back and this needs no heralding. He is back with bells around his two legs and two arms so every move he makes jingles with bells and that is vintage “IBB”. In a paid advertorial which he splashed across various networks of Television across Nigeria, the former dictator took the airwaves by storm with his announcement that he wants to rule Nigeria again come 2011. He also invited top ranking newspaper editors to a news briefing where he enunciated the same testament He has also planted Pro-IBB for president spokesmen in virtually every public discourse covered by the media “IBB” is definitely welcome to the fray of democratic life.

PRIOR to the Nations Independence come 1st October, a count down clock has been unveiled by President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan recently.
It is expected that the count down clock be placed at strategic locations of state capitals with a view to remind Nigerians of the Nations Golden jubilee Celebration billed to take place soon.

But as the Nation makes preparation to celebrate its Golden Jubilee, with an attempt to be in the Guinness world book of record by cutting the world's largest cake, she should not forget that the people of the Niger Delta are dying of abject poverty.