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  • Nigeria needs a mighty Messiah, says cleric

    Nigeria needs a Messiah to resolve the multi-faceted challenges confronting the nation, a cleric, Rev Adolphus Anyanacho, has stated.

    He also called for more prayer supports for the military operation in the North East against terrorists.

    Anyanacho spoke with newsmen last weekend at the end of a National Pastors’ Conference in Lagos.

    He said sustained prayers will see the nation through the many mountainous issues affecting it.

    According to him, except God intervenes, it is impossible for the masses to take any concrete action to change the country’s situation for better.

    Anyanacho, who is the Superintending Minister at the Gospel Believers’ Mission and host of the two-day event organised with Believers Theological Seminary, also urged  all ministers of God to always speak the truth to all and sundry no matter whatever could be at stake.

    He noted that since the nation’s system is such, the best of Christians who go into politics can do little or nothing to change the situation; the only option is to speak the truth and keep praying to God.

    “God can still send a Messiah. You and I don’t have the courage to do what can change the situation. Can there be any revolution in this country? No!

     “They (referring to politicians) have pauperised us, ethnicised us, religionalised us such that there is always mutual distrust. If I stand up now, they will say no.

    “Don’t go with him, he is a Christian. Or, he is a Yoruba man or Igbo or Hausa man. That’s the tragedy of the country.

    “So the political elites have succeeded in factionalising us. The only way out is for us to pray that God might send the needed Messiah, otherwise we will continue to trudge on,” Anyanacho stated.

    While praying for the nation and its leaders, the cleric canvassed fervent prayers for the military leadership, particularly the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant Gen. Tukur  Buratai, and all the soldiers on the warfront against Boko Haram terrorists.

    The conference, with the theme “Expanding ministry potential”, attracted bishops, general overseers, evangelists and pastors with their wives.

    They were equipped with relevant knowledge, organisational skills and tools to attain a new level of growth and expansion in their respective ministries.

    Experts and professionals in church administration and strategy, health and wellness, legal intricacies of church management, mentoring and networking, engaged participants on how to maximise potential of their ministries for church and personal growth.

  • Confession Of Kolade (Kolad Motors & Kolad Oil and Gas) -“My Wife Finally Found Our 10 Years Marriage Problem’s Messiah On Internet Through Our Bedroom’s Computer

    Confession Of Kolade (Kolad Motors & Kolad Oil and Gas) -“My Wife Finally Found Our 10 Years Marriage Problem’s Messiah On Internet Through Our Bedroom’s Computer

    My True life story and Testimony……

    I’m Kolade, The Founder of Kolad Motors and Kolad Oil & Gas) and My wife is Chioma a beautiful lady who married her handsome and wealth to do Husband Kolade..

    But as pretty as she is,

    My matter some six years back to few months ago made her experienced a miserable marriage

    There’s nothing that could be so embracing  than inability to make her feel My dick in her and to make it worse , making love with her for just 120 seconds, at most 3 minutes.

    Before we got married

    We Both met as friends in church, we became so close that we couldn’t but see each other daily.. She calls me often like I would chat her up each time.

    Infact we were so close.

    Even though she’s Ibo, All My Family member Love her…

    There was this problem  in my life which  she didn’t quite notice as we haven’t married, she actually thought I was only protecting My  body till our wedding Night

    Body is not fired wood,  I was only protecting my self from been embarrassed as I was embarrassed by my ex girl friend  ,  I love her so much  I knew I might end up loosing her If I manage to use the small shit under my boxers in her hole, and to make the matter worst as it was then, If I couldn’t dig her beyond 2-3 minutes

    So I was so cautious!

    I wouldn’t allow her to cuddle me, neither allow her to have a night sleep, I did all I could to safe my self from  being embarrassed, I related with her like this for 2 solid years, with nothing to show  as couple to be.

    we court for 2 years, I was 32, she was 28…

    We finally wed!

    No More excuse, Nothing to back up my excuses, at least we’ve just been joined together , to live together in good and bad  till death do us part.

    on our wedding night, She gives me that kiss I quickly responded as If I’m a complete man. we both foreplay and landed on our new matrimonial bed.

    Of course, I didn’t let her notice quietly the size of my Dick , so She would not start feeling bad on the first day of our marriage

    But Inside Her I knew I was having a matter very small to accommodate and fit perfectly in her , I was only swimming up and down in her, I also noticed she wasn’t feeling anything special , as I was trying to put more pressure, dig faster and make I shout Honey give it to me, I noticed For the first time I have gotten a new matter worse than before, I couldn’t kerewa beyond 2 minutes…

    I did all I could to go second round, But My Thomas was nothing coming up, went on rest till second day

    My Wife was not Happy ! She almost cried, Because I left her in pain

    I lived like this with her for months, I became more worried when My dick reduces inches  instead to increase, it was now so small

    I begged her , Told her we should look for solution and Never give up

    We started searching and Looking for solution up and down

    We bought all sorts of herbs,  I drank gin (Ogogoro) early in the morning to warm up my blood, inshort I ate the eatable, I drank the drinkable, I did all I could, but nothing Good came

    My wife was checking information on internet through our bed room’s computer , she stumbled on the Uncle George “2 in 1 solution” See it here: http://goo.gl/oq9h53

    It was not strange to doubt easily, due to previous experience.

    Let see the magic this would perform

    Do You want to talk of herbs?

    Yes I Took It

    Agbo, concoction, I even light candles, fasted for several week. but My Dick wouldn’t increase neither allowed for more than 3 minutes.

    But My Friend, This Uncle George’s 2 in 1 was the exact solution that saved my Marriage. http://goo.gl/oq9h53

    All I can say Now is “Don’t Joke with me with your wife” or else You’ll Regret of Knowing Kolade … Lol

    Will you like to discover the Uncle George’s solution that saved my marriage from 10 years problems? Mind you this frustration used to make all woman to take wrong step without letting their husband knows. http://goo.gl/oq9h53

    You need to hear from this expert called Uncle George himself whom i found that has the same secret on how he got cured finally without any side effect, plus his own special story on how he became an expert in this field http://goo.gl/oq9h53

  • Buhari: The awaited Messiah

    SIR: In 1914, the Northern and Southern Protectorates of Nigeria were amalgamated. Since then, the regions of Nigeria have been joined together in a marriage of inconvenience. Chief Obafemi Awolowo and other patriots led Nigeria to independence from her colonial masters with the intention of making the country an egalitarian society.

    Since charity begins at home, Chief Awolowo as the Premier of the then Western Region, practiced and achieved the objective through the introduction of free education, free health care delivery, integrated rural development and industrial emancipation.

    But he was prevented from replicating the same performance in the whole country. Before his death, he predicted that Nigerians will rescue themselves from their oppressors by taking their fate in their own hands.

    In 1983, he cried out that the country was on the brink of collapse, unless a savior came to our rescue. On the night of December 31, 1983, General Muhammad Buhari came to our rescue. The disease, which was inflicted on Nigerians by the then National Party of Nigeria (NPN), was cured immediately through the change of currency and promotion of discipline.

    Immediately, all foreign currencies bowed to the naira in terms of value and the standard of living of Nigerians was progressively transformed. But he was prevented from completing his good assignment by a palace coup in 1985 after which the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) was introduced, a policy that reversed the standard of living of Nigerians to the lowest ebb.

    President Barrack Obama delivered an address in 2013 in South Africa where he identified the root of the malaise confronting Nigeria to include corruption, poverty, favouritism, nepotism, insecurity, Boko Haram and bad governance. All these had become the order of the day in Nigeria, where there is no middle class; you are either rich or poor.

    When America was confronted by debilitating economic problems due to bad governance, Americans called on Obama to rescue them. Americans focused on his past good performance as a Senator and closed their eyes to his defects-Muslim name (Hussein), single parentage, African descent, black colour, former tout and drug user.

    Americans went ahead and voted for Obama massively to become their President to rescue them from economic shamble.

    We now want all the leaders and members of the progressive in the All Progressive Congress (APC) to focus on the discipline and good governance of Buhari’s government of 1984 and 1985 when he rescued Nigeria from possible collapse and not on the mistake he made by imprisoning the progressive leaders while trying to clean the Augean stables.

    In 1984, Buhari was surrounded and advised by soldiers. Now, he is surrounded and being advised by civilians and democrats. The result will be guaranteed good governance without subjecting the progressive to hardship as experienced in 1984.

    He is the only surviving and tested candidate who can rescue and lead Nigeria to the Promised Land after 100 years of wandering in the wilderness.

    Secondly, giving General Muhammad Buhari the opportunity to revive his War Against Indiscipline (WAI) is crucial against the level of present corruption that has pervaded Nigeria. APC and all well-meaning Nigerians should insist on Buhari’s presidency; he is epitome of self-discipline and accountability.

    His experience as former Head of State, Petroleum Minister, and Finance Minister with optimal performances should not be wasted.

    Providentially also, Buhari has never betrayed any form of religious fanaticism. I urge all APC Chieftain to shun politicisation of religion; total de-politicisation of religion is imperative for social equity and cohesion.

    Another political leader whose talents should be seriously tapped is Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I would propose for him the position of Finance Minister, for sustaining the economy of Lagos State even when the federal government seized the bulk of what Lagos should get from the federation account.

    Pa Obafemi Awolowo helped to manage Nigeria’s post-war economy, as a Finance Minister, without any certificate in accounting or economics; Tinubu will not do less. Buhari and Tinubu are not associated with stolen oil wealth; they will be accountable.

     

    • Ademola Orunbon,

    Ajanosi Street, Oke-Posun,

    Epe, Lagos State

  • The messiah, his wife and disciples

    The messiah, his wife and disciples

    I know this will shock some people but what do I care? We have not been fair to the President and his wife. Why are we persecuting them? And why do people want the President to quit the throne of his forefathers at the Aso Rock. Why must he quit? Who does he want to resemble or emulate if he quits? Which of the past occupants ever left the place dancing and laughing? Tafawa Balewa was a man of peace whose tenure ended not in peace. Yakubu Gowon was a prayerful man, praying for this sinful nation for good nine years until Murtala Muhammed and Olusegun Obasanjo invaded his temple. Muhammed himself was foolishly assaulted and assassinated by a man called Bukar Sukar Dimka (don’t you like the evil rhythm?). Then, our man, Olusegun Obasanjo, a man of fun and rum, left the throne after his date expired. He gave it to Shehu Shagari who was later eased out of the throne by Buhari and Idiagbon for his failure to check the vultures in his compound. One man called Ibrahim Babangida became Buhari’s nemesis when he pushed him away from the throne.

    The impatient people of Nigeria did not allow Babangida to do more for this nation after his wasteful nine years that were full of transitional postponements. He therefore stepped aside for a business mogul called Ernest Shonekan. But a dictator named Sani Abacha did not find Ernest to be honest and so, he packaged him and his family back to Olumo Rock, consoling him that Rock is Rock: from Aso Rock to Olumo Rock. But Abacha did what was evil in the sight of GOD, and the man expired without notice after eating some expired apples.  Next came Abdulsalam Abubakar. He came suddenly and left suddenly without leaving much for history to record about him than his hurried transition. From the blue again, nay, from jail, the former man, Olusegun Obasanjo shifted accommodation  from jail to Aso Rock. He was there again for another eight years until some people started unloading some bags sub-regionally tagged “Ghana Must Go” which they said contained some money for a project called “3rd Term”.

    Like all projects in Nigeria, the Obasanjo’s project whatever name it was called was abandoned since the initiator himself denied there was a project like that. Before he left, he gave the crown to a gentleman named Umaru Yar’Adua who did not stay much on the throne before he answered the ultimate call. It was after him that “Johnna the Messiah” ascended the throne of his previous fathers. Now, the messiah says he still wants to sit, but some members of the senior brother’s family are calling for a change. Where is it done that people change a Messiah? Since the death of Christ has any other messiah emerged apart from Jonathan?

    Did somebody not tell us that Jonathan is our Messiah? How else do we convince these people that Jonathan is our messiah if not with his records of performance. So, let us show these “change agents” the achievements of our messiah. Please don’t be fooled by the recent fuel scarcity. It was the handiwork of the enemies. The man who speaks the truth always, Femi Fani-Kayode, had helped us to expose them. Hear him: “We know who the fuel marketers are. We know the relationship that exists between one of the biggest marketers and a national leader of the APC… These unconscionable opposition elements infiltrated the ranks of the fuel marketers whom they have contracted in a calculated attempt to frustrate the good efforts of government…”

    Obviously, the APC, they had no defence at all concerning the allegation of sabotage raised by Fani-Kayode. Instead, they started lying against him that he has health issues. This is what Lai Mohammed wrote about him: “…However, we are seriously concerned that Mr. Fani-Kayode may have hinged, perhaps as a result of a relapse, into an unhealthy lifestyle of substance abuse”. How can anybody accuse a fine gentleman like Fani-Kayode of substance abuse when all his friends know that he has never touched cigarette all his life. That is why I don’t like politics.

    I still maintain my position that Jonathan is our Messiah. The President has told us many times that there is nothing to change but that we should keep moving forward. Now, let us look at some statistics to show that we are moving forward even if it is into the valley. I know the opposition will disagree with me but I think the President has taken us forward in many areas. First, the opposition claimed in an advert that Jonathan met a national debt of $26bn, today it is $70bn. For GOD’s sake, is it a bad thing to move forward backwardly? Is there any country in the world that is not in debt? Nonsense. Illiterate people. What do they know about debts? Is debt not better than death? In the same advert, they said that the President met unemployment rate at 11.8%, today it is 24%. What is wrong with that? I was even thinking we are not moving forward in this area as fast as I had expected. I am sure that very soon the President will take unemployment rate to 70%. When it gets to that level even my jobless grandmother will be painfully employed. Again, the opposition claimed that Jonathan met Excess Crude account at $20bn, today it is $2bn. As far as I am concerned, this is not an issue and I am surprised that nobody in government has issued a statement to tell the nation how ungrateful we have been to a very generous man who still deemed it fit to leave $2bn in the account. Since the account was in excess, the President decided to take care of the excess Chikena!  At least, he has not consumed the balance, only the excess. Why can’t they wait for our messiah to empty the account before talking?

    In a few weeks time, it will be exactly one year that the Chibok girls were kidnapped. The girls who were kidnapped on April 15, 2014, had been in the custody of the Boko Haram insurgents. But thanks to our very compassionate President who has not been eating and sleeping well since the girls were abducted, we now know that the girls are still alive. Wait for it! The President assured us that the girls were still alive because the insurgents had not displayed their corpses to the public.

    I have said it so many times that our President is a very brilliant man. He knows how insurgents and terrorists operate: that is, they display corpses of their victims whenever they have been killed. That is what ISIS is doing in Syria and Iraq. Even if the President cannot get intelligence information about the girls, their families can now sleep well based on this clairvoyance information. Shame on our illiterate opposition who cannot wait for the corpses of the girls to be displayed publicly before crucifying the messiah.

    What is more, the opposition is also persecuting the adorable and beautiful wife of the Messiah. The President’s wife is being crucified for showing much love to her husband. In fact, the opposition has been very disrespectful to Madam Patience.

    One small boy called Mallam Garba Shehu referred to our esteemed First Lady as an ‘incredibly crude woman’ for speaking her mind. Here are the sins they alleged the woman committed. At a rally in Lokoja, the First Lady told the crowd: “Vote for my husband, Jonathan. Do not vote for Buhari. He is an old man. People, when they become old may not reason well and their brain may even be dead”. Also, at a campaign rally in Calabar, Dame Patience instructed the people to stone all change agents-euphemism for “stone on sight”. Please tell me, is this enough to describe such a beautiful woman with attractive and awesome curves as an ‘incredibly crude woman! Chai, what an insult. These opposition people are only jealous of the woman because she can speak good English unlike the wives of both Buhari and Osinbajo who speak Queen’s English. Is Queen our leader here? Why must they speak her English? Our leader here is Jonathan, so we should speak Jonathanian English like “Princpal, na only you waka come”, “this blood you are shearing”, “chai, there is GOD o”.  These illiterate opposition people now have the effrontery to call “my fellow widow” an ‘incredibly crude woman’ because she said they should stone people. Did they even try to find out if the order was for hunters chasing innocent animals in the bush? A decent and civilized woman like our First Lady will never say a thing like that when she is not from the jungle.  Let us even agree for the purpose of mischief that “my fellow widow” is crude, is that why Garba should be rude?

    We have been moving forward retrogressively not only because our President is blessed with a very theatrical wife but also because he has some competent, hardworking, capable, intelligent and law-abiding disciples that surround him. Here is a list of  the  honourable disciples that love the President with all their hearts even more than Mama Peace: Chief Edwin Clark (Old soldier never dies), Doyin Okupe (John the Baptist who told us Jonathan is JESUS), Tompolo (Militant of Water Resources), Asari Dokubo (Militant of a University in Benin Republic), Bode George (Koro’s Punching bag), Femi Fani-Kayode (a man of substance(s), Yinka Odumakin (defected, nay, dejected activist), Segun Mimiko (South-west Coordinator), Iyiola Omisore (Atari Ajanaku), Adesiyan Jelili (the author of “The Ghost of Bola”), Ayo Fayose (Buhari must die campaigner), Kashamu Buruju (a friend of the US who is afraid of going near their Embassy) and Gbenga Daniel (the man whose life secrets are locked up in Ibikunle Amosun’s wardrobe).

    Mr. President, please don’t mind Bola Tinubu. He is jealous of you because he does not have such great men of honour and integrity as his own disciples. Yinmu!!

  • Nigeria @ 54: Waiting for the messiah

    IR: When British colonial administrators lowered the union jack on October 1st, 1960, Nigeria was Africa’s faith and hope for economic transformation. However, despite the vast wealth of the nation and those early promises, it has continued to struggle to provide basic necessities for its citizenry.

    In 1999, when President Obasanjo took office, Nigerians were told that with the massive investment in building generating plants, Nigeria by 2003 would have at least 10,000 megawatts installed capacity. Eleven years down the line, the available power some months back was a meagre 2,400 megawatts. This is in spite of the several billions of dollars spent; the new generating plants said to have been built and commissioned and renovation of old ones.

    Countries like China, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates and others that have transformed their countries from backwaters of development to World class economies appreciate that corruption retards development and threaten their survival and sustainability; here in Nigeria, corruption has been allowed to eat deep into the fabric of the Nigerian system. Fifty-four years down the line, we celebrate independence and other anniversaries in an environment of impunity.

    A measure of the mismanagement of resources is the current situation in which less than 15 out of about 460 forest reserves are effectively functioning. The question is what has happened to the others?

    Employment which should be based on merit are now hijacked and shared by politicians among their cronies. In a country where youths are said to constitute 65-70% of the population, they are excluded from participation in decision-making including those that concerns their future; ironically, they are still regarded as the future of the nation.

    Insecurity and insurgency threatens to bring the country to its knees. If it is not Boko Haram, it is Fulani herdsmen on rampage.

    The only thing left for us to do  is to keep hoping for a messiah to emerge to save the country before it falls apart.

     

    • Temitayo Taylor

    Abeokuta.

  • Olusegun ‘Messiah’ Obasanjo moves again

    Baba, as former President Olusegun Obasanjo is fondly called, has been quiet lately. Not known to be inconspicuous and invisible, even his quietude is a rumbling, roaring presence for those who ought to know. Though since he fired his ‘toxic’ missive at his estranged godson, President Goodluck Jonathan, a few months ago, he has retreated from the political sphere. But be not deceived that he has been removed from Nigeria’s political scene or machinations if you like.

    In fact, while Nigerians and indeed the entire world is carried away by the Chibok girls abduction saga in the northeast state of Borno, Baba’s attention is riveted toward the northernmost of the northwest states, Jigawa. He is reported to be on a kurukere political shuttle to Dutse, the rustic capital of Jigawa State. Any neophyte politician in Nigeria would know that Baba’s silence on the “Bringback the girls” campaign is the loudest statement and is a cause for worry for his political opponents. Baba is not one to keep mute when world leaders like Obama, Hilary Clinton, Cameron, Pope Francis and so on are speaking on an issue about his country.

    Well, unless of course Baba is on to something more important than the issue of the day. And his detractors think he is. Recall that he has been absent at state functions recently, the last of which was the World Economic Forum (Africa) held in Abuja last weekend. But he has been very visible in Dutse where he posed for a picture with numerous teenage girls (dressed in hijab) of Government Girls Secondary School (not Chibok) in Kudai, Jigawa State. He is said to have adopted the school. The young girls who flock around Baba in the bold photograph immediately remind one of the abducted Chibok girls, except that while these ones are gay, the others are morose. Think nothing of the coinciding (conflicting?) images but remember that Baba is a master of the Nigerian art and his imprints loom large on this shambolic edifice called Nigeria.

    Hardball is doing all this jiu-jitsu just to establish the fact that Baba’s ominous silence and peregrinations up north have been a cause for indigestion for not a few of his party members, especially those in the camp of his disanointed son, the sitting president. Baba’s Jigawa shuttles are said to have so emboldened the state governor, Sule Lamido, to go beyond mere splashing campaign posters in Abuja to preparing to give the president a fight pound-for-pound and neighbour-to-neighbour in the upcoming Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary. In a contest being planned to be a fait accompli for President Jonathan, any serious contestant would be deemed ‘dangerous’ in the light of the hullabaloo (of global proportions) weighing down the presidency.

    While you may want to accuse Hardball of being a busy body growing gray hair on a small family matter of the PDP, you may worry if you recall that Baba, the ‘messiah’, is about it once more, looking for a ‘president’ to anoint on our behalf. You will agree with me that Nigerians don’t want another president from Baba because the poor soldier he sent out to the war front has not returned… because he is a bad ‘chooser’ of presidents, he should leave us to make our own choice this time, we beg of him.

  • Where is the messiah?

    Where is the messiah?

    I recollect when President Goodluck Jonathan was campaigning for election in 2011, he promised a new beginning for Nigeria and her citizens. He assured his countrymen and women that he would set examples and ensure a complete turn around in the fortune of Nigeria, a country with enormous potential but had been plundered by successive leaders since independence.

    Bu today this regime has succeeded in further impoverishing Nigerians with its inconsistent policies.

    Many Nigerians now live below $ 1 per-day, a sad reflection of the current state of the “self acclaimed “giant of Africa.

    The president and his co-journeymen in government had committed two very grievous sins against Nigerians – lack of political will to wage effective war against corruption and secondly, the failure to effectively tackle the Boko Haram insurgency.

    Security, according to Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), is the most important duty of government.

    The governor was quoted as saying at a recent function in Lagos that “government can reconstruct roads and bridges, revamp the infrastructure and ensure growth in the economy. But cannot recreate lives that had been lost.”

    There are many questions begging for answers: Many have been forced to ask that – how many roads and bridges have been reconstructed since this government assumed office in May 29, 2011? What is the state of the Nigerian economy now compare to pre-2011? What has this government done to address the rapidly increasing unemployment rate in the land? How many “big guns “have been prosecuted for corruption in Nigeria? How long would it take the federal government to complete the privatization of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria? Is this government really keen about ending the Boko Haram insurgency in the country? Is the president more interested in 2015 project than the well being and safety of Nigerians? and Does he deserve another term in office after his abysmal performance in the last three years?

    On corruption, the present government has been a huge disappointment. Or how will one explain the inability of the government to prosecute those that been indicted by several panels of inquiry for corruption.

    Nigeria is the only country in the world where we have the “sacred cows” and the “sacrificial lambs” in the administration of criminal justice.

    The powerful and influential people within and outside the government are the “sacred cows” or the “ untouchables,” while the poor and the less privileged within the society are the “sacrificial lambs” who are expected to atone for the sins of the former either with their blood or their personal freedom.

    Many ordinary Nigerians have been sent to jail for stealing (the same offence committed by the elites), while those that pilfered the country’s wealth either individually or collectively go unpunished. How would you describe a situation where a man was sentenced to 21-year imprisonment for stealing a mobile phone handset?

    Whereas a man that single handedly looted the purse of a vital national agency was given a one-year jail term and upon his release got an heroic welcome. Recently a convicted former governor (a persona non-grata in the United States and Britain) was given a presidential pardon by President Jonathan. Although this had been described as one of the president’s subtle moves to elongate his stay in Aso Villa beyond 2015.

    Many had described the president as an extremely good and humble man in testament to his personal qualities. But is it necessary that a leader, a president of a country for that matter should be a good man? Many respected leaders the world over are not necessarily good men or good women. But they get their works done with ruthless efficiency.

    I’m not saying a leader should be a dictator in the mould of Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussoluni and others. A good leader could be effective without being a dictator. A leader should not be a “zombie” or “mechanical rubber stamp” that “would robotically” subject himself to the whims and caprices of his followers. A good leader should be able to put his foot on the ground to get the job done. A good leader should be able to “walk the talk.”

    Many of the president’s apologists and supporters would readily point to his good nature or gentle mien for his inability to move against those that pilfered the country’s wealth. But this same set of people kept quite when the president moved against perceived enemies or opposition groups.

    How successful has the president’s Transformation Agenda?

    This is another salient question Nigerians would ask proponents of Jonathan’s 2015 agenda as the next general election inches nearer. The transformation agenda, the president’s developmental plans akin to the seven-point agenda of his predecessor, the late Umaru  Musa Yar’Adua, was designed to serve as bedrock of the administration’s action plans.

    But three years down the line, one may be tempted to ask how successful has this agenda, looking at the comatose state of the nation’s power sector, the growing insecurity in the land, the dilapidated public infrastructure, the poor state of the nation’s hospitals and the fallen standard of education. What about the crawling state of the Nigerian economy, despite claims to the contrary, the widening gap between the poor and the rich and to a larger extent the elimination of the middle class.

     

  • Keshi is Home Eagles’ Messiah – Egwuekwe

    Keshi is Home Eagles’ Messiah – Egwuekwe

    Super Eagles defender Azubuike Egwuekwe has described Coach Stephen Keshi as a true Messiah of Nigerian football. Speaking after the friendly match in Miami, Florida on Thursday, the hard-tackling Warri Wolves defender said Stephen Keshi had revolutionalised the sport in the country.

    Egwuekwe began: “He has given hope and confidence to all home based players. He has made every player to start taking the game serious, knowng full well that you stand the chance of being given a chance in the senior national team.

    “Keshi has given us the privilege to serve our fatherland, and we will not allow it to slip. One does not need to play overseas before being given an opportunity in the national team, thus we have no option than to continue to pray to God to see him through in all his endeavours.”

    Continuing, the towering defeder said: “It is because of this, that I’m always happy whenever I’m putting on the national colours. There is always a spirit in me that makes me feel brave, and to try as much as possible to do impossible things on the pitch. I am a very fulfilled man now, that I am serving my fatherland in that capacity.”

    On the possibility of the Eagles making an impact in South Africa next year, the hard working defender said: “Yes, we are going to do well in the tournament. We have all it takes to move out of our group in the tournament, it is after that we would start thinking of winning the trophy or not.”

    On the friendly match against Venezuela, he said Coach Keshi just told them to go into the match and play their normal game, while not giving the opponent the opportunity to dictate the pace of the game for them.