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"Let there be work and bread for our father was not lazy. Let there be water and salt for all because he who work must eat. Yes our fathers have water the land, With their blood, their sweat and tears. We dance in the market place to celebrate, For our wounds are getting heal. Our Iroko the roof over helpless forks, Church for polisinner and the colorphobia. We've been set among the pinnacle, and our father has touch the heavens. Freedom have been bought with arm struggle mix with jix of sages. May the fire you light burn in our marrows, May we never see rest until our generations is free. May we know not peace until our children sleep in comfort. May your unconqushable light lite our part to oneness, May our ubuntu knows no boundaries.   #VivaMadiba #UbutunMadiba #ÀdupéMadiba #NmanmaMadiba #ForzaMadiba ©ÈníÒbánKé: The Ghosts diaries

By now, every Nigerian with a sense of decency who has seen the video, which has since gone viral, of the  impeachment  drama in Rivers State should be disheartened. The power play that blew up after the crisis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum chairmanship election is inching towards an unpalatable conclusion. It is not sufficient that 35 governors could not resolve between their bumbling selves who won a simple election, the story keeps taking unpleasant twists and turns. It is increasingly obvious that as long as the “Ogas-at-the-top” from our corridors of inordinate power remote-control the crisis, there can be no fairy tale ending. The continuing skirmish feeds their insatiable savage egos; where the whole affair is headed is pregnant and nursing a baby at the same time. As the sordid tale emanating from Port Harcourt goes, five lawmakers, who were probably high on their own supplies, decided to “impeach” the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. The fact that ...

Oyinlola Rotimi, a 400-level student, has reportedly spoken for the first time since she delivered her baby boy in the student residence toilet of Moremi Hall at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. Already OAU authorities have explained that it was not an attempted murder as earlier speculated and both mother and child were doing well. In an interview published on   CKN Nigeria CKN Nigeria reports:   In spite of the trauma she had passed through since last Wednesday, the student, a native of Ijabe, a border town between Osun and Kwara states, says she is happy that the embarrassment she received from the controversy that surrounded the birth of her baby has turned into a blessing for her. She says the baby’s birth has made her more popular and important in the society. Her plan for the baby “I will continue to keep him more handsome, healthier and nurture him to attain greater height in life. But what he will become later in life is ...

CONTROVERSY is currently trailing the outcome of the South-West chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] leaders’ meeting in Lagos, during which delegates reportedly endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan for a second term in office in 2015. Feelers indicated on Wednesday that a number of the leaders were kicking against what they described as the smuggling of the issue of the presidential race into the communiqué of the meeting by some desperate delegates. The meeting came on the heels of a similar endorsement by PDP leaders from the Middle Belt and the South-South at separate meetings. Some notable PDP members, including former governors of the party from the zone, were absent at the South-West PDP leaders’ Lagos meeting. Some of those present, who craved anonymity while speaking with Nigerian Tribune on Wednesday, blamed the current furore on the communiqué on “some overzealous elements and fifth columnists, who were bent on jumping the gun since the president said Nigeria...

PUNCH ** Police declare Lagos ex-deputy gov wanted for fraud ** ‘150,000 Nigerian children born annually with sickle cell’ ** Okada ban, a painful decision – Edo ** Niger Delta amnesty ends in 2015 – Kuku THE SUN ** Sixteen pregnant ladies rescued from baby factory in Abia ** I’m not a gunrunner –El-Zakzaky ** Edo police in search of remains of abducted 82-yr-old ex-police inspector ** Ogun Police arrest 1,340 suspected criminals TRIBUNE ** I was not behind Achebe’s accident - Soyinka ** Amaechi plans street protest over security breaches •He is a victim of injustice - Tam David-West ** PDP NWC IN MASS RESIGNATION •NEC decides Tukur’s fate today •Tukur-must-go govs battle-ready ** Emergency rule: Thuraya phones banned in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa THE NATION ** Tukur’s fate shaky as eight NWC members resign ** Police arrest suspected killer of Nigerian in New York ** FIFA cancels Nigeria’s victory dinner party ** Alleged bribe: Court to rule July 10 on Lawan, Eme...

Let’s just say this event… never happened in reality. Let’s assume I made it up, in my usual hydrocarbon fuelled craze. There was a gathering of looters and semi-pious gangsters. So it happened that they had to vote for the next ring leader, and the incumbent head-man, who probably also has a Mexican name, was interested in leading again. READ:   Release the whole video – Mimiko challenges Amaechi On the other side, the side that had the backing of the Cap’n-in-chief, was a confused jaguda whose name rhymes with Jangirova. He-whose-name-rhymes-with-jangirova is known to be presently presiding over a non-ending gang war in the part of town he lords over. So the gang gathered to cast lots on who rules next. A gang member, well known for his Kangol hat (he had it on that day too), and who is a kinsman of a former gang member who is currently doing time in a foreign land, was called forward. He would watch over the cast lots. He accepted the noble role with aplomb. Very gr...

“..In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations”                                                                           Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn I will never understand how this Boko Haram phenomenon got this far. Sometimes when I read about their atrocities, I pinch myself to be sure that this is st...