Our Chibok girls were kidnapped on April 15, 2014 and Chibok was attacked again last week leaving eight dead. What heinous effrontery and where was the army? Inexplicably our Dapchi girl-child, 15, Leah Sharibu is not released. The killing of the traditional monarch, Agom Adara, kidnapped on the Kaduna highway after several security officials were killed must be seen in the same vein as the Khashoggi murder – another horrendous crime whether in or outside a diplomatic mission. Now General Alkali’s first grave has been found, but his body had been moved. DSS personnel killed in Cross River! Death everywhere and no remorse and respite. There can be no restitution. No one can bring back the dead! And now six people including four nuns are kidnapped in Delta State. Once again we are praying. The rape and murder of a 13 year old girl by the guardian and his son is another heinous crime. No one is safe.
I watched the amazing youth performing as mathematical whiz kids on Cowbellpedia. Inspirational girls and boys. Congratulations to Cowbell and former MD, Keith Richards and other companies supporting different subjects.
Meanwhile the stupid world lottery formula is a mathematical disgrace to the human race, making no moral, economic, social or mathematical sense. Research among past winners has shown that large winnings have destabilised families, emotionally and mentally, with serious results including murder. Collective human madness has raised its irresponsible head in stupendous idiocy with the new rollover weekly jackpot of $1,600,000,000 or N576,000,000,000 or N576b. The obscene prize has been won by a rural American and is 20% of the state’s annual budget. Ridiculous. Contrast that with the famine in Yemen and the 60% poverty in Nigeria, the IDPs and the drowning migrants. Is the local Nigerian lottery system any better? The problem with today’s lotteries is that numbers are picked at random from an infinite combination. The old lottery system was to pick from only the sold numbers. Lottery with no rollover should be used especially where the poor are many. Nowadays with computers, each number can be logged in at point of sale. Just like the banks which use automated but random selection system from a data base of existing customers. This LOTTERY LUNACY MUST STOP because the winnings could have been better divided into 16, 000 prizes of $100,000 or 8,000 prizes of $200,0000 or 1,600 prizes of $1m.
The Americans have, with a fingerprint, allegedly caught the bomber linked to bomb sending to 14 high democrats and he is in jail. Meanwhile back home in Nigeria, we ask ‘wetin be ‘’fingafrint’’ abi fingerprint?’ For your information there are five or six countrywide Nigerian databases, the best of which is the SIM Card database, that are yet to be cross-linked for security benefits to families, and society. And please remember that the man aka Evans, whose name is associated with serial kidnappings, is playing maximally to the public gallery hoping it will be exhausted by repeated delays. Now Evans seeks relief claiming that his statement was made under duress. I am sure those who were kidnapped and accusing him of being the ring leader will also claim they suffered extreme duress and forced to pay under duress, abi no be so?
We all remember there is at least one eyewitness who identified him and his gang and there is telephone evidence. So what has confession got to do with the ‘open and closed’ case? Let him be tried in just one solid kidnap case and if found guilty he can be jailed for life especially if a security agent was killed. Then, if convicted, while in jail he can attend trial on cases more difficult to prove. We must never discountenance the horrendous terrorisation of victims and their families.
Educate Nigerians about plastic and urgently introduce an environment curriculum review for inclusion of modern environmental information in education institutions from the 2018/2019 session. You, the reader, have a personal role to educate your family, workforce, community and commercial contacts including your market users. Note that 200 billion cubic metres of ice are melting in the Antarctic even as the world reels in floods, forest fires and even city fires and droughts. We must join the outrage against ‘The Deadly Worldwide Plastic Epidemic’ even as the 7.6 billion citizens fill our waste systems with plastic which fills the stomachs of fish and animal life, on land, sea and air and enters the food chain as invisible plastic micro-plastic pellets entering fish during feeding and is fed to humans, cows and chicken. Global plastic use stands at approximately 8-9billion tonnes produced approximately six billion tonnes waste. You have a role not to pollute the water and farmlands with waste plastic. Others will not save your world. You spread the word. You reduce your plastic use in cups and straws and spoons and bottles. You recycle plastic items many times. You use bigger dispenser containers for water storage and fill one reusable container, flask or plastic bottle, from it many times. Since last year, instead of wasting 12 bottles each 1.5litres/day x 200 working days or 2,400bottles /year for staff at work, we use zero bottles by using a recyclable and replaceable 20litre water dispenser and everyone brings a flask, so many different colours. And stop chewing gum because it is plastic.
- Uncover ‘I LOVE NIGERIA’ KNOWLEDGEABLE CANDIDATES for 2019 -SDG 16.