THE IGBO GIANT STRIDES AGAINST ALL ODDS
9 years ago
Squinting under the bill of his baseball cap, Leonary Marcus scans the treetops for ripe clusters of palm fruit to hack down with the aluminum scythe hanging from his shoulder. When a flame-red bunch catches his eye, he hooks the tool at the crux of the branch and yanks downward with...
Squinting under the bill of his baseball cap, Leonary Marcus scans the treetops for ripe clusters of palm fruit to hack down with the aluminum scythe hanging from his shoulder. When a flame-red bunch catches his eye, he hooks the tool at the crux of the branch and yanks downward with...
When it comes to women who are beautiful and at least have above average looks there are two kind...
In his acclaimed seminal, ‘’Tell no lies, claim no easy victories’’, Amilcar Cabral warned revolutionaries of the dangers of telling lies and claiming easy victories, even before the final battles are wo...
"If you wanna be somebody, if you wanna go somewhere, you better wakeup and pay attention" was the message of Whoopi Goldberg to her exuberant young students in Sister Ac...
Mediocrity, Ignorance, Money and Manipulation Equals Corruption, Violence, Dictatorship and Hopelessne...
Progressive Lethargy: APC and the Task of Refining Nigerian Politics
Party politics in Nigeria is for all comers where identity and values mean nothing. Members don’t need to have any special attribut...
Governance and Economic Programme Commitment: Defining, Distinguishing and Lifelong Attributes of Politics
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Attention Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and others.
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Growing up in Zangon Kataf, Ikara and Saminaka of Kaduna State between 1970 and 1975, it used to be extremely pleasurable to visit Zaria. Zangon Kataf, Ikara and Saminaka were then villages with no electricity, pipe-borne water and except for Saminaka none had tarred roa...
Nigeria is set to unveil a bank note five times more valuable than its largest denomination bill as part of a major overhaul to its currency, a change some worry will further speed devaluation of its currency and hurt the nation’s poorest.
The addition early next year of a 5,000 naira...
Nigeria Voters Assembly has warned that the plan by President Goodluck Jonathan to increase prices of petroleum products may precipitate a revolution against the leadership.
The president had indicated at the economic summit in Lagos last week that prices of petroleum products might...
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March 11,
2013
We convey fraternal greetings of solidarity from our
teaming patriots and nationalists working under the platform of Patriotic Front
(PF) seeking to develop a common framework with you toward resolving the
critical issue of producing a truly alternative people-oriented...
If we are ever going to be able to make any meaningful
impact on the 2015 general elections and influence an outcome that will be in
our collective interest; one that can begin to truly combat the many challenges
that face us as a people and nation, and proceed towards laying...
I am one with all the poor, marginalized, exploited, and working peoples of the world, for whom El-Comandante represented hope, in mourning the passing of this extraordinary personality, and in celebrating his life and legacy – the Bolivarian Revolution, whose aim is to build Socialism...
Many of us want change, in fact perhaps the overwhelming
majority of us desire to have such a decisive and impactful change in our
polity, in the way we are governed, in the processes of governance, in the
dynamics of our national economy, and in the nature of social cohesion among
our...
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Against the backdrop of the recent forecast issued by the Nigeria Meteorological Agency [NIMET] with predictions and alert on potentially devastating floods in the 2013 raining seaso...
My take on this cry of marginalisation, is that for all intents and purposes, it is a cry that is even among the Yorubas, quite a sectional, and perhaps self serving one!&nbs...
‘There is one army stronger than all armies
in the world put together; that is an idea whose time has come’- Victor Hu...
This nation has been ‘independent’ for more than 52 years
[some will say ‘gained flag independence’], yet as of today the promise of independence
has become a mirage and the immense potential at the ‘birth’ of our independent
nation recklessly frittered awa...
IN LIEU OF AN
INTRODUCTION:
There is no such thing as a perfect revolution, no such
thing as a crystal cut class struggle which is devoid of inert and intra class
skirmishes and battle...
Revolutions are 24-hour-a day events - they require stamina and quick thinking from both protesters and dictators. An elderly inflexible but ailing leader contributes to the crisi...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has reversed itself on earlier policy cancelling payment for electricity meters by customer...
BUILD THE PARTY TO
TAKE BACK NIGERIA: CONVERT YOUR ANGER INTO LIBERATING POLITICAL ACTION
[STATEMENT ISSUED BY
THE PROTEST TO POWER COLLECTIVE ON THE RELEASE OF THE MANIFESTO OF THE PROPOSED
PARTY – DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR SOCIALIST...
TAKE BACK NIGERIA
...Reclaiming
Our Humanity/Nigeria for Social Justice and Social Transformation
Being the
Manifesto of the
DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR SOCIALIST
RECONSTRUCTION (DPS...
By: P-J Ezeh
Some time in 2009 a friend of mine who read Political Science in University of Nigeria, Nsukka, was visiting me after eight year...
[BY JAYE GASKIA JAN 15TH 2013]
Let us begin with a quote from The Communist manifesto written in 1845 by Marx & Engels.
“A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of communism. All the powers of Old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar; Metternich and Guizot; French radicals and German police spie...
OCCUPY NIGERIA PROTEST MOVEMENT:
AGENDA FOR THE PRESENT TIMES[1] [BY JAYE GASKIA]
Originally written in early February 2012, it still
resonates with our situation today, in particular in the circumstance created
by the the betrayal of the January Uprising then [in its abrupt call off],...
