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Accountability as the soul of democracy and a tale of two moralities

E O EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - Indeed, Nigeria has a crisis of morality which we can no longer ignore. We need to start asking people to account for the source of their stupendous wealth and how they exercised power during their time in office. From the president to the councillors, we need to enter a season of soul searching and accountability if our country will endure. The culture of protecting criminals has to come to an end if Nigeria will survive as a united country. This is why it is wrong for the FG to protest the attempt by U.S. to label Boko Haram a terrorist group. The argument of the Nigerian government against this just action is to say the least, laughable. more >>

Orosanye's Reform Agenda: Government must tread cautiously

SILAS REUBEN, (Nigeriaworld) - Perhaps, none of the committee's recommendations have drawn as much public ire as the one relating to the effect that the anti-crime agencies -Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) - be scrapped. To some, these proposals are ill-motivated and appear to cast a pallor effect on the efforts of these crime fighting institutions. more >>

Nigeria in-need of altruistic leader

YEMI ADEGBITE, Brampton, Ontario, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - I listened to the address delivered by Alhaji Maitama Sule during the symposium on 'Security, Governance & Leadership' which I just stumbled on and decided to watch it in its entirety. Alhaji Maitama Sule hits the nail on the head; he talked about many Nigerian politicians going into politics to serve their own interests, while only few of them went in to serve the people. more >>

UPDATED - Reforming Nigeria's aviation systems (Conclusion)

DAUDA A. NUHU, Columbia, South Carolina, USA (Nigeriaworld) - If the reforms preempted in this article as suggestion are taken seriously and implemented, all other aviation related issues that are deemed to be problems may just fizzle away for good. ... Nigeria has enjoyed a relatively long span of time without any air crash, one wonders in the past why the Nigerian Accident Investigation and Prevention Bureau (AIPB) is not allowed to finish all aspects of any given air crash investigation before the ministers in power rashly and recklessly pronounce judgments on the flight crews in question, ignoring further work by the AIPB! more >>

For adequate electricity and landline telephone in Nigeria

ALFRED AISEDIONLEN, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - Both PHCN and NITEL (Nigeria Telecommunication) corporations are monopolies in the country. They ought not to have any serious problems, financial and otherwise. The problems in these Corporations centre on poor management, maintenance, organisation, revenue collection and corruption. It is not as such lack of fund for investments in the corporations. The ability to manage successfully is there in the country but the tendency to manage honestly is not there. To be in senior and strategic post in our public corporations, you have to come from the privilege class. more >>

FROM THE PREACHER'S LENSES

Difficulties in fighting Nigeria's problems (2)

SAM AWEDA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Nigerians go all lengths in pursuit of money not caring how it affects the other fellow. In under 2 years of my return, I have tasted how wicked and inconsiderate we Nigerians are; how we lack conscience, how selfish and greedy we are, how much we are sold to the devil, including those who are quick to claim 'born again experience' We cheat and defraud one another with stone face. You cannot trust anyone with money or house, he will pray that you die so that the money or house can become his or hers. more >>

O Lord, let it be 2015

UCHENNA ODOGWO, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Invariably, the Northern Boko Haram and the South-South militants provide one ugly but complimentary patch-work of glue holding One Nigeria right now. The problem is that both groups are not being activated at the same time. When one is eruptive, the other remains dormant. At some point down the road, both sides have to join the fight for the territorial integrity of what remains of One Nigeria. more >>

On the morality of homosexuality, same sex marriage and the liberty of homosexuals

E O EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - Many preachers have quoted from the same chapters in the Bible they quoted from when homosexuality was criminalised to condemn same sex marriage. As a Christian and psychiatrist with good experience in general medical practice, I have come to see and view homosexuality in a way that enables me help my homosexual patients in a none judgemental manner, condemn the criminalisation of homosexuality, and stand against the normalisation of same sex marriage; while holding on to my Christian faith and teaching that tells me that homosexuality is an abomination which God will punish when he will bring an end to sin. more >>

A retrospect to the passing of Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu and the lessons for Nigeria

BARTH AMAKIHE, Ilisan, Ogun State, Nigeria (Nigeriaworld) - The powerful role played by the late Ojukwu can never be forgotten by the citizens of Nigeria in general and Ndi Igbo in particular. Candidly speaking, the death of the Icon, has forced the entire Nigerian nation to have a second look on the issues that brought about the civil war, and the challenges that have persistently plagued the country up till today. The voice of the people had all re-echoed the problems of Unity, Injustice, Equity and Mistrust, which Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu fought and gave his life. more >>

FEMI AJAYI'S OUTLOOK

Revolution: How will Jonathan sustain peaceful co-existence in the squishy Nigeria: Readers Digest

Prof. FEMI AJAYI, Ilishan, Nigeria (Nigeriaworld) - Possibly, President Jonathan read, or, someone briefed him on some of our writings, or, just following his instincts, or, it is coincidental; whichever way, he commented over the 1914 amalgamation barter on Friday, May 18, 2012, during a funeral mass in honor of Mrs. Theresa Ekpeluchi Chime, mother of Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State, at the St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral Church, Udi. more >>

On the battle of the mind; Religious thinking which underline the Nigerian problem (2)

E O EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - Muslims also claim that they pray five times a day facing Mecca, while Christians do not seem to care what direction they face while praying or how many times people pray as long as they do. Both the Christians and Muslims are convinced that abstract ideas people hold in their minds or speak out to an unseen deity has ability to alter reality. They imbue these ideas with potency that can only be derived from magical thinking. They fail to subject their beliefs about prayer to scrutiny and judge it by the outcomes. more >>

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�River Juju� Chapter 2

CHIGACHI EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - Waterfront people held serious matters as nothing while taking to heart things relatively inconsequential. They resigned to fate when jailed arbitrarily by the police but spent thousands of naira interpreting a bad dream. Putting it mildly, life in the Port Harcourt backwaters, or waterfronts, was lived in quasi-religious, quasi-metaphysical fantasy. The enduring minds were those mercifully cocooned in prayer houses where crusades and open revivals lasted the entire week. To be sober was to die. more >>

Giving peace a chance in an environment of turmoil

BARTH AMAKIHE, Ilisan, Ogun State, Nigeria (Nigeriaworld) - The faceless groups perpetuating mayhem in Nigeria must realize that the killing of defenseless Nigerians will never proffer any solution to their grievances, but rather will harden and create more hatred for them and their sponsors. Most often political analysts blame poverty and unemployment as fueling the spate of attacks on the nation. The fact is that the majority of the attacks are sponsored by disgruntled politicians and their domestic/foreign backers. more >>

FEMI AWODELE'S HOUSE CALL

The gay marriage debate

FEMI AWODELE, USA (Nigeriaworld) - In our day to day activities, many of us often forget that we are tripartite beings, whose activities and decisions not only have physical ramifications but also spiritual repercussions. Our decisions, especially depending on our positions could have influences beyond even our own dreams, for good or for evil. The gay marriage debate has never been about the LGBT community rather it is one of the reliable tools used by the enemy against the kingdom of God.... more >>

Political Consultancy (a satire)

FEMI AKOMOLAFE, (Nigeriaworld) - In Africa, it is almost a given that the president will win. What is left is for the opposition to make enough noise ... and before you know it, the opposition leader vociferating loudly has accepted to serve as Prime Minister, or a Minister or an Ambassador. ... I almost gag when I watch the outgoing French President calling to congratulate his opponent, when even the official results have not been announced. It was only an exit poll analyses, and the idiot conceded. What was he thinking about? I am glad I'm not among his supporters; I could have put fatwa on him. Can you imagine a sitting African president conceding defeat and congratulating his opponent? more >>

For the Constitutional Amendment to succeed

ALFRED AISEDIONLEN, London, UK (Nigeriaworld) - What Nigeria becomes from now, her direction, stability and prosperity rest on the quality of the constitution. With the current impetus behind the amendment, it is envisaged that this is no longer a piecemeal but a holistic amendment or rather a quasi brand new constitution exercise. ... The people have been voicing what they want and past conferences have made their recommendations clear. ...the materials for holistic amendment are readily available. more >>

FROM THE PREACHER'S LENSES

Difficulties in fighting Nigeria's problems (1)

SAM AWEDA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - God gave me a vision of what we ought to do to get things straightened out in the country, including the poverty, which has overwhelmed the majority. I wrote out the vision in a book and even relocated to Nigeria to work on it. I gave the book freely to hundreds of Nigerians. On enquiry after a year or thereabout, I am to discover that the book is not read: more >>

Rashidi Yekini and madness: A myth or reality?

SEYE GBAROYE, USA (Nigeriaworld) - I am not in any way attempting a diagnosis of the Mental Health status of Rashidi Yekini before he died. My specialty is Children and Family at Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work. I do not have the competency to diagnose as an authority in mental health. But I am writing based on my study and knowledge of Mental Disorders as a result of the mandatory courses I took in Psychopathology and Psychopharmacology before I chose my Specialty. I also have experience working with Mental Health population as a Behavioral Health Counselor. more >>

ONYINYE'S MIRROR ON LIFE

WATER ....Colourless, Odourless and Tasteless

ONYINYE OYEDELE, (Nigeriaworld) - Sinking of boreholes and installation of water purification plants is now �fashionable� in our country. It is the new household accessory. Apart from that, all kinds of water companies now produce �mega bottles� of water to meet your drinking water needs. So it is no longer �pure water� as usual. Water packaging has gone beyond water in a small sachet. The search and struggle for clean drinking water to a certain extent is being met by �water entrepreneurs�! more >>

Nigeria is hot; Prehaps too hot (7)

TEMPLE C. UBOCHI, Bonn, Germany (Nigeriaworld) - Not only are the poor living in poverty, everything governments do, irrespective of political party, conspire, if they are not designed, to keep them (the poor) mired in poverty for generations. Nigeria had lost several generations to grinding poverty - meaning people have lived all their lives only to constitute a burden to the nation because their net contribution to the wealth of our country had been negative. more >>

Same-sex marriage

WUMI AKINTIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - As a freelance columnist who has predicted many times that Barack Obama will win again in November, it will be hypocritical of me to not meddle or comment on how the raging debate on same-sex marriage is likely to validate or invalidate my prediction on the outcome of the election. I happen not to believe that the election is going to be won or lost based on the economy alone and who out of the two candidates the will do a better job of managing the economy. more >>

On the battle of the mind; Religious thinking which underline the Nigerian problem (1)

E O EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - The development in north Nigeria should be a source of serious concern to anybody who loves Nigeria and understand the nature, aims objectives and mind set of Islamic extremists and what they are determined to do to others because of their beliefs. In countries where there have been similar problems, persecution of other groups has become endemic and the level of tolerance of differences and diversities have deteriorated. Such countries have been consumed in violence, instability, poverty, sufferings and extremism. more >>

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�River Juju� Chapter 1

CHIGACHI EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - When women expose their motherhood in protest, mysterious forces latent in trees and the very air we breathe are waken. The DSP knew this. This was no rocket science that anyone could teach him. It was plain truth. Christianity had nothing to do with natural forces when it came to Afrikan culture. Attempt it and see the repercussion. The naked woman who forced her way into the back of that van just pointed at him and nothing would make him cross that line. He had come up against the greatest force in the universe. more >>

FEMI AJAYI'S OUTLOOK

Revolution: How will Jonathan sustain peaceful co-existence in the squishy Nigeria

Prof. FEMI AJAYI, Ilishan, Nigeria (Nigeriaworld) - How much muscle does Jonathan's administration have, to sustain the fragile co-existence of various nations within Nigeria? Succumbing to the pressure that a Federal Ministry has to be created for the North would further heightened the quick way for further disintegration of Nigeria as separate Federal Ministries have to be established for any other regional challenges facing Nigeria like OPC and MASSOP. A state that is grappling with insecurity, filth, hooliganism, unemployment, incessant traffic gridlock, poverty, among other devastating fiasco, is revolution or breaking up the answer? more >>

BABS' MUSE

Fraudsters in High Places

BABS AJAYI, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - It has been frauds all the way! Fraudsters are everywhere in the land! Fraud is the dominating word in the Nigerian lexicon of today. Frauds now dominate national discourse and in every nook and cranny of the Nigerian landscape. It is truly scary how it has suddenly become so endemic and now perpetuated in the billions of naira. As Lagbaja would say, ''that one don pass your mathematics'' if you try to calculate or add up what has been stolen within a short time. more >>

'FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING' SERIES

Learning from The Apostolic Churches: The Church in the Epistle to The Ephesians (Part 2)

S. 'JIDE KOMOLAFE, (Nigeriaworld) - Millard J. Erickson has done a great service to biblical ecclesiology by exposing the attempt of contemporary transformers to develop a doctrine of the Church based mainly on ''empirical presence'' in isolation of its ''theoretical essence'' (1998:1036-1045). It is indeed a fact that our culture is dynamic and changing fast. This, however, begs the question as to how ''dynamic'' the Church should be in order to keep up with our fast-changing culture? more >>

HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY

God's woman - Change your mind

Rev. Dr. Mrs. IJEOMA IBELEME, St. Ann's Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago (Nigeriaworld) - I wonder what is on your mind right now. Would you like me to be able to read your mind right now? Does that thought make you uneasy? Well I've got news for you, God can and He does invade your privacy and read your mind all the time - even right now, but I'll like you to calm down because there is good news for you - even if the thoughts in your mind are not wholesome: YOU can do something about that. Right now you have a right to and you definitely can Change your Mind. more >>

FEMI AWODELE'S HOUSE CALL

Home Improvement Series CXLXIII: Turning weakness into strength in your marriage

FEMI AWODELE, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Many, if not all natural attributes are difficult to overcome or change (except with the help of the Holy Spirit) and what we were taught as children either at home or at church are also difficult to change, even if it is staring us in the face. Because of our sinful nature, we all believe that who we've become is better than the other person, and such believes are brought into our marital relationships, many going through marriage problems believe, if only he or she changes, we all sincerely believe that we are right and the other person is wrong? May or may not be true! more >>

Boko Haram and the Taliban I saw in Kandahar; Nigerian flag in an Afghan kitchen; Politicking with national security

HENRY OKOROAFOR, New York, USA (Nigeriaworld) - I was dumbfounded when President Goodluck Jonathan told South Korean based Nigerians that our leaders are playing politics with terrorism in Nigeria. He made the statement during his visit to South Korea for the Nuclear Security Summit on 27 March 2012. It was a two part statement which was preceded by his assertion that he plans to replicate the economic principles of the ''Four Asian Tigers'' in Nigeria. The ambiguity of the President�s statement instantly pushed me to analytical overdrive.... more >>

FROM THE PREACHER'S LENSES

The hope I have for Nigeria (6)

SAM AWEDA, USA (Nigeriaworld) - It is quite a delight to watch the zeal by which Nigerians, both the Muslims and Christians take their religion. We do not take the prayer times with joke. We pray a lot. But why have all the night vigils not taken our poverty away in spite of all these prayers? Why is life still difficult for most citizens? more >>

Nigeria and the Paradox of two wars

E O EKE, (Nigeriaworld) - Many years ago, the government of Nigeria developed a penchant for declaring war on problems that require simple and clear thinking, planning and strategic execution of the solutions. The first of these wars was the declaration of war on corruption WAC. Since the war on corruption was declared in Nigeria, corruption has grown from strength to strength. From being something the society abhorred, it has become institutionalised, endemic and normalised. Nigerians have come to embrace corruption as a way of life and it is now well embedded into the fabrics of our society and who knows if it has found its way into our genes. more >>

Mahatma Gandhi was exactly right then and now ...We all must strive to become the change we want to see in Nigeria

WUMI AKINTIDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - If we all want Nigeria to ever move forward, we all must, of necessity, become the change or part of the change we candidly want to see in Nigeria. Looking back in time, Nigerians would recall that Murtala Mohammed arguably the best military leader to ever come our way in Nigeria had done so by following the Gandhi precept. ... Looking back I can now see that Obafemi Awolowo pretty much followed the Gandhi precept as Premier of the old Western Region. Awolowo had returned from England determined to do for his region some of what he had learnt during his sojourn in the U.K. more >>

Akumba Igwilo - When a jewel goes home

DUKE IGWILO, (Nigeriaworld) - In the traditional Igbo society, it is said that you don't speak evil of the dead rather you sing eulogies of the good people when they are gone. To write about my mother is simply turning me inside out. To state that my mother was a good woman is praise-singing which she does not subscribe to and would not tolerate. As I was searching, I found an unknown quote which state that ''A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure'' - I immediately felt that this is a true summary of my mother. more >>

BABS' MUSE

The dishonest and disingenuous legacy of TY Danjuma

BABS AJAYI, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada (Nigeriaworld) - No Nigerian soldier living or dead has been more devious and hypocritical than the retired general Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma. A master coup plotter and leader of military juntas for nearly three decades in Nigeria, TY Danjuma is the master opportunist and gifted grabber, the very pedantic soul with a price measured in stolen oil block. ... One of a few men who high-jacked the future of our nation and set it on a course to perdition.... more >>

Nigeria is hot; Prehaps too hot (6)

TEMPLE C. UBOCHI, Bonn, Germany (Nigeriaworld) - The national assembly members may be feeling that they�re doing Nigerians a favour by representing them, so they have the right to loot Nigeria to death. Nigerian legislatures are different breeds from their counterparts all over the world. In other climes, where things work as they should, legislators strive to make their respective constituencies happy as that would determine whether they will be re-elected or not, but, in Nigeria, the legislators give no damn about their constituencies, because, they can easily win re-election through rigging or they would remember their respective consistencies only when election draws nearer. more >>

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