In another futile attempt to silence the media and prevent the world from knowing the extent of their brigandage, the political establishment top-heavies in Nigeria, have assassinated the assistant political editor of Lagos-Nigeria based Guardian newspaper! Mr. Bayo Ohu, whose lifeless body is pictured here right, was killed by hired hit-men early hours of yesterday's morning, in his home at Egbeda, a Lagos suburb. Reports reaching Icheoku.com said that the late Mr. Bayo Ohu allegedly was working on some story concerning certain politicians in Lagos state before he was brutally dispatched from this earth? What a country of killers Nigeria have become that will go to any extent to silence the good-men in order to keep their atrocities from seeing the day light? And this is the same country whose Minister of Information, Dora Akunyili was grinding axe with Sony Pictures because her country Nigeria, was in her own words, portrayed unkindly in the movie, "District 9"? Icheoku says, Madam Dora Akunyili should try and fix what is broken in Nigeria and she will see the same film-makers portray her country in a much better flattering light? It does not lie in the mouth to just proclaim the effort being made to fix the humpty-dumpty Nigeria; but Madam, should please show us the evidence on the ground that her message of re-branding is sinking in! It is indeed regrettable what is going on in Nigeria. This is another killing too many, and Icheoku asks, when will Nigeria become safe again for decent human-beings to freely inhabit the territory without fear of a sudden violent death in the hands of paid marauders? The death of Mr. Bayo Ohu is regrettable and since Icheoku does not have confidence that his killers will ever be found, we can only ask God to please forgive him his sins and receive his soul in his paradise. To his grieving family, our sympathies; and to his colleagues at the Guardian, take heart. His death once again, is a reminder to many observers of what Nigeria and Russia share together - killing off the fifth estate! The perils faced by journalists working in some nooks and crannies of this world? Bayo Ohu's death adds to the roaster of prominent journalists killed in Nigeria in circumstances suggestive of hired assassination to silence them and prevent a story from making it to the open or as a revenge for what had been previously written? We may recall that Dele Giwa, then Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch magazine, was killed through Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida's parcel bomb on October 19, 1986; Godwin Agbroko, the Editorial Board Chairman of ThisDay newspaper, was gunned down on Oshodi-Mile Two Expressway Lagos during Olusegun Obasanjo's regime on December 24, 2006; and Abayomi Ogundeji, another member of the Editorial Board of ThisDay newspaper was killed during the present Umaru Yar'Adua government on August 17, 2008. Icheoku asks, when will these madness ever stop?
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Monday, September 21, 2009
NIGERIA'S UNENDING ASSASSINATIONS, HALLMARK OF A FAILED STATE!
In another futile attempt to silence the media and prevent the world from knowing the extent of their brigandage, the political establishment top-heavies in Nigeria, have assassinated the assistant political editor of Lagos-Nigeria based Guardian newspaper! Mr. Bayo Ohu, whose lifeless body is pictured here right, was killed by hired hit-men early hours of yesterday's morning, in his home at Egbeda, a Lagos suburb. Reports reaching Icheoku.com said that the late Mr. Bayo Ohu allegedly was working on some story concerning certain politicians in Lagos state before he was brutally dispatched from this earth? What a country of killers Nigeria have become that will go to any extent to silence the good-men in order to keep their atrocities from seeing the day light? And this is the same country whose Minister of Information, Dora Akunyili was grinding axe with Sony Pictures because her country Nigeria, was in her own words, portrayed unkindly in the movie, "District 9"? Icheoku says, Madam Dora Akunyili should try and fix what is broken in Nigeria and she will see the same film-makers portray her country in a much better flattering light? It does not lie in the mouth to just proclaim the effort being made to fix the humpty-dumpty Nigeria; but Madam, should please show us the evidence on the ground that her message of re-branding is sinking in! It is indeed regrettable what is going on in Nigeria. This is another killing too many, and Icheoku asks, when will Nigeria become safe again for decent human-beings to freely inhabit the territory without fear of a sudden violent death in the hands of paid marauders? The death of Mr. Bayo Ohu is regrettable and since Icheoku does not have confidence that his killers will ever be found, we can only ask God to please forgive him his sins and receive his soul in his paradise. To his grieving family, our sympathies; and to his colleagues at the Guardian, take heart. His death once again, is a reminder to many observers of what Nigeria and Russia share together - killing off the fifth estate! The perils faced by journalists working in some nooks and crannies of this world? Bayo Ohu's death adds to the roaster of prominent journalists killed in Nigeria in circumstances suggestive of hired assassination to silence them and prevent a story from making it to the open or as a revenge for what had been previously written? We may recall that Dele Giwa, then Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch magazine, was killed through Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida's parcel bomb on October 19, 1986; Godwin Agbroko, the Editorial Board Chairman of ThisDay newspaper, was gunned down on Oshodi-Mile Two Expressway Lagos during Olusegun Obasanjo's regime on December 24, 2006; and Abayomi Ogundeji, another member of the Editorial Board of ThisDay newspaper was killed during the present Umaru Yar'Adua government on August 17, 2008. Icheoku asks, when will these madness ever stop?
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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