My Mode of Thinking

Professor Jega Against a monster proceeds an intentional unfortunate is the statement that should best be used to epitomize the case of Professor Jega and his new assignment as the boss of Independent National Electoral Commission. From the direction things are taking in the recent developments, Jega and INEC is a clear case of a lion in the zoo cage where he still holds onto the title of the King of the jungle but can absolutely not act like one. In the very first week of Jega's appointment, I registerd my doubts that Jega upon all the roars can hardly be able to achieve what is expected of him in his new office at Maitama District in Abuja a few meters away from the Aso Villa; the very corridor of the power in the strict literal meaning of the  term. When I first posted my comment on my wall of the facebook, I said I quote " I am trying to believe that Jega's radicalism 'll deliver Nigeria. But whenever I put the puzzling pieces of the picture together I see some...

By Muhammad Kabir Yusuf “He was a man full of life, and he obviously wanted to live a full life; but he saw no contradiction in denying others theirs when according to him, they stood in the way of national progress. That was the irony….” Obasonjo Nzegwu Kaduna Chukwuma Nzegwu Kaduna Chukwuma was the young military officer who permanently changed the cause of the political history of Nigeria. The guy is being remembered in the East as a hero for an attempt on an abortive coup d'etat which favors the Igbo people. In Northern part of Nigeria Nzegwu’s name is synonym to betrayal, remembered for having assassinated the northern premier, the Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the then Governor of the Northern Region who stood to the northerners as the statue of the very core essence of the progress of the North. In between the two extreme ends of the continuum, with Nzegwu the hero at one end and Nzegwu the villain at the other lie a lot of contradictions and con...