SANMI ADEKOLA BLOG

Dear reader, it is quite a long time I  have commented on global, national and local issues. It is a along time because so many things have happened, and yet it seems nothing is happening. The time we are in are really not the best of time in our national life, and at the global level though ours seems to have reached a boiling point. Sometimes, it becomes hard to choose what to comment on, and what not to comment. It is particularly appalling at the rate at which lives of people have been lose daily in the global world arising from man in inhumanity to humanity. Indeed, from psychopathic shooting by adolescent in a High School in Florida, USA to the mindless killing by Fulani Herdsmen militia; this is indeed is not a pleasant moment in the global community. The Boko Haram menace is a source of concern and worry equally. As if this is not enough, about 50 Yobe school students have been kidnapped, when we are yet to recover about kidnapped 100 plus Chibok girls. How about the nu...

From the tip top of Kilimanjaro  To the deepest part of River Nile, Across the   Suez Canal in Egypt  To the  Cape Agulhas in  South Africa, Along the West   and East of Africa Crying a voice for justice and equity, Freedom from oppression and servitude.  Men and women bereaved of basic needs, Starved of livelihood and liberty, By their siblings and kinsmen, All for greed and ignorance, Goats in sheep clothing, Soldiers of war appearing as shepherds of faith With swords as Cross, hanging rope as  Subha. Sliced and menaced daily, Slaughter like cows, Strangled like hens, Survived by luck, Silence by poverty, Sedated by ignorance. Amidst the pangs of sorrow and slavery, Arise the moon like palm's hand, Asymmetrical  and symmetrical, Across the breathe and width of the Golden pot, Align with forces of same similitude  Aggregatin...

So much has been said and nothing has been said about the present state of affairs of our dear country Nigeria. Particularly, I am not envious of President Buhari job at this material time. It is the best and the worst job in the world. Running and governing over the affairs of multi-ethnic and ethnoreligious state like Nigeria is not a child play considering the diverse centripetal and centrifugal forces that the President has to contend with.  It is easy to sit down in the comfort of our homes, offices and public spaces to cast aspersion on the person and office of the President for his deeds and misdeeds. The fact as it has always been is that uneasy lies the head that wear the crown. The Nigeria state is a very peculiar State that requires a lot of hard work, due diligence, and divine grace to govern; and it is in this regard, one who have expected that those who desire the number one seat must be people of competence and character.  It is on this basis, that...

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Without attempt to blaspheme, belittle or benign the great sacrifice that our Lord Jesus Christ paid on the cross to secure for you and I a priceless freedom from the grips of sins and Satan; nor take away the copyright of the trio of Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson, and Stephen McEveety in 'Passion of Christ' movie; the daily experience of an average Nigerians at this Christmas is agonizing, nauseating and annoying and could as well be likened to the passion of the cross. Like Christ had to go to the Cross to bear and endure the pains of humanity for no sin of his own; Nigerians today and at this Christmas and like most other years are made to suffer needless pain for no sins of their own because of failure of leadership and governance in managing the economy and most especially the petroleum sector and products. Ordinarily,if it were to be PDP-led government, perhaps no one will birth an eyelid for we have come to identify them with inefficiency, corruption, and failures; but for a...

Thou shall not speak ill of the gods I used to hear when I was growing up. Today, the story is different; the gods must be questioned after all it is human beings that are behind ‘Oro’, which makes Oro to be perceived as a mystery being. The national debate is one funny but timely one. Yes a timely one because the multiplicity of religious organizations especially the Church has not resulted in reduction in crime and enhanced righteousness in Nigeria; rather, evil deeds are on the increase. We are a religious nation not a righteous nation. This calls to question the importance of religion in human affairs. Ordinarily, when people go to church, they are supposed to learn the way of God, and imbibe the virtues of righteousness. This is not the case in Nigeria, miracles and wonders are the main essence why people go to religious settings. The pastors and clerics sensing people gullibility have latched on their gullibility to exploit and explore for their own personal benefits. ...

Three decades seven years, ex-President Mugabe of Zimbabwe was in the saddle calling the shots. He became President as a revolutionary, exited power as a rebel. The same enthusiasm that saw to his emergence was witnessed in his exit . The euphoria on the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe today reminds me of the jubilation that followed the demise of General Sani Abacha in 1998. Yours truly was one of those people who smiled and ease a sigh of relief. It was as if the outset of Abacha then will pave way for a Nigeria that will be flowing with milk and honey. Almost twenty years later, there is hardly little difference between the Nigeria of then and now. Some people might even agreed with me that things have gotten worse than then. Gaddafi of Libya was removed, better still, murdered by Libyan soldiers for refusing to step down after long years of rulership in a coup that the West, and particularly, the US has been fingered in, the reality at the present in the country left much to be desi...