SANMI ADEKOLA BLOG

Since yesterday, the social media has been agog with commentaries and vituperation arguments on the execution of three Nigerians found guilty of drug trafficking offences in Indonesia. Ordinarily, needless I need not add my own. However, international law and paraphernalia appears to be one of the area of intellectual discourses am fascinated about in recent time. Please don't ask me, why I am interetested in the subject. It is pertinent to ask why 14 people should be on a death row, but only four will be executed out of which three Nigerians were among. One, it questions our sense of morality, and criminals disposition in recent time. Secondly, it smacks of and make mockery of our diplomatic capacity. Am still wondering, if USA will allow three of its citizens to be publicly executed without ability to get some reprieve for them. The question however is should we lay the entire blame on the government or the perpetrators of the crimes, I think both are guilty at charge...

In the last  twenty-four  hours, I've watched and read intensely the ongoing events and activities at the 2016 Republican Convention in the United States of America; and one sore point I have found appalling is the tendency for the present gladiators in the race to resort to name-calling and personal attacks rather than issue based-politics. One major issue that Donald Trump and his team have used against Hilary Clinton is her inglorious role in Benghazi as regarding the US troops. On the other hand, Hilary Clinton and her team have consistently spoke about the controversial nature of Donald Trump of which the later is perhaps proud of. While Donald Trump has promised that the convention will be an unusual one and the events in the last 24 hours have proven so, indeed, from the use of ' We are the  champions'  song' without permission to the plagiarized speech given by  Melania  Trump. While anybody can make mistake, the quality of a good leader is ...

  In Nigeria, the saying the more you look the less you see seems not to apply especially as regarding the numbers of startling information about the animistic stolen of our collective wealth by those who are supposed to be protector of our common heritage. How on earth will a normal human being buried over $1.5 billion in a farmland in a country where some people go to bed without food? It can only happen in Nigeria under the watched of a careless President. Unfortunately, those who should be mourning and challenging the status  quo  are polarized along parties and religious lines, so the status  quo  remain unchallenged and the looting continues resulting in mounting unemployment rate,  povertous  lifestyle, decadence infrastructure facilities, and  moribund  institutions. As I write this piece, I remembered my undergraduate thesis: Anti-corruption Crusade in Nigeria: An Appraisal of EFCC, 2004 -2007 in which  during  the r...