
WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?
The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.
A HERO IS BORN.
I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.
IT IS WHAT IT IS.
"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.
WORD!
A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.
NOW, YOU KNOW.
When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.
JUST THE FACT.
In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle
DO YOU?.
“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.
HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.
Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.
OUR SHARED HUMANITY.
Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.
WORD.
"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.
#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.
"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.
RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.
"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.
WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS
“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ
EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.
"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)
ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?
“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.
Monday, April 26, 2010
PERSONALIZED WAR ON CORRUPTION, JAMES IBORI UNFAIRLY SINGLED OUT?

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Politics Of Acrimony And Vendetta
ReplyDeleteby Dan Amor
Nigeria, our beloved country, is once more lurked in yet another tragic drama. Hobbled by the euphoria or anxiety over President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s long-winding ill health and its embarrassing mismanagement by his executive council and its aftermath, Nigerians have forgotten or failed to ask some pertinent questions on the ensuing political hypocrisy, scapegoatism, backstabbing and immoral dishonesty that have entombed the landscape. This can never be termed an era of practical politics in Africa’s most populous country. Rather, it is a dark era of intrigues, backstabbing, acrimony and vendetta. Like what happened during the dark days of American politics following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the opening is dramatic. Lincoln is dead (Yar’Adua is sick) and the politicians are jubilant at the removal of the only obstacle to their desire for a feast of money-making and vengeance. Splendid is the current? But is the current really splendid?
Swiftly, the intrigue gets underway. The struggle grows tense, feeling runs high, and plots and counterplots are the order of the day. At last the intrigue culminates in the attempts to impeach a sick president, the plotters lose by a hair’s breadth, his vice, Goodluck Jonathan takes over, and a new day dawns. Next comes a vivid plan for consolidation under carpet-bag rule culminating at last in an attempt to invite a certain political kill-joy and erstwhile cop who, out of sheer political expediency, was promoted three steps ahead of his superiors but was later retired into exile, to return home to complete his assignment. But if we think we are not preparing the ground for a series of scandals and exposures that will rock Nigeria to its very depths, we are simply deceiving ourselves.
I have said it before in this column that if members of the so-called Fourth Estate of the Realm fail to monitor these politicians closely, this hard-earned democracy might spell doom for the country. What does this mean? Since our politicians appear to have gone mad again, journalists must now turn our scrutiny to that tentacle monster of our times-government and draw hilarious and potentially subversive conclusions to save our country.
Yet, Nigerians in their suicidal despair and lethargic disposition are not asking questions. Granted that yar’Adua’s men and women played politics with his health condition. Granted that they despised Jonathan. But how many wrongs can make a right? Is this truly Jonathan’s style? Or, is he being prodded from behind as being speculated by an untiring but ageing former dictator? The case between Chief James Ibori, former Governor of Delta state and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is more truly dramatic. There never was a scene more dramatically rehearsed, and the tale only provides it could not have been otherwise. Yet, there are no clues to be uncovered, no enigmas to be revealed. As a sworn enemy to the living supreme deity of the all-powerful political party, it had been predicted that Ibori would go to jail in spite of his acquittal by the court, if only to give meaning to Jonathan’s trip to the United States. This is more so as he is rumuored to be the head of Yar’Adua’s cabal that posed gruelling obstacles to the realisation of the Jonathan presidency. A letter of invitation dated March 27, 2010 was said to have been dispatched to Ibori five hours after he had been declared wanted on April 13, four days before the date he was requested to appear before the commission and a court injunction was granted for the two parties to maintain the status quo ante. But the truth or falsehood of the accusations and counter accusations is not of the first importance. Did I hear you say that the national chairman of PDP Prince Vincent Ogbulafor is also being rebranded for saying that the party must honour its word on presidential zoning?
Politics Of Acrimony And Vendetta by Dan Amor contd.
ReplyDeleteThe critical issue that must enlist our concern as citizens and spectators of this macabre drama is Nigeria’s sick political system and the poverty of integrity of its operators. In this sense, Nigeria is still being detained in medieval times. The Orwellian qualities and nightmarish implications of the whole drama make one sick since the whole game is as absurd as it is puerile. Whether our rulers believe it or not a sense of impending doom punctuated by sinister intrigues, has enveloped the Nigerian landscape. Politics of vendetta, acrimony and rancour has consumed the entire terrain like an inveterate addiction, and the barbarity is gradually assuming a dreadfully hectoring magnitude. Nigerians must condemn this wanton manipulation of corrosive Federal power and the objectionable application of force in a supposed democratic dispensation