Showing posts with label founding fathers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label founding fathers. Show all posts

Saturday, November 26, 2022

Happy Birthday Dr. Chika Christian Onu, One of the Founding Fathers of Nollywood

Happy Birthday Dr. Chika Christian Onu, One of the Founding Fathers of Nollywood

Today is the birthday of Dr. Christian Chika Onu, one of the best and greatest filmmakers in Africa. He is famous as one of the Founding Fathers of Nollywood and the author of "The Unusual Story of the Early Years of Nollywood" distributed by Amazon and other booksellers.

Top Nollywood filmmaker, Christian Chika Onu received his PhD in Film Studies from the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. 

He is famous as the director of the bestselling Nollywood movies "Living in Bondage 2", "Glamour Girls", "Peacemaker" and other popular movies for which he has won many awards in Nigeria and America. He is the co-author of "Nak-ed Beauty", the first Nigerian screenplay to be published and sold as book. The recce for the film production was completed on Bonny Island, Rivers State in 2008, but production has been delayed by the political violence in the Niger Delta. The screenplay is based on crude oil thieves and militancy before the Amnesty for Niger Delta militants, co-written by Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, aka "Orikinla Osinachi" after four years research on Bonny Island.


Dr. Christian Chika Onu who also studied filmmaking at the highly esteemed Colorado Film School in Denver, USA. 

Chika Onu has always been an outstanding achiever with numerous awards since he won the first prize in the J. F. Kennedy International Essay Competition in 1973 and went on to excel as President of the Oak Theatre during his undergraduate years at the famous University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) where he was also the Associate Editor of “The Muse” Departmental Magazine. In 1979 he won the British Council Award for the Best Creative Writer (University Press); Prime Director Award by Video/Film marketers in 2002; Member, Movie Makers Hall of Fame, Abuja in 2006; Pioneer Director Award Best of the Best (BOBTV) Expo, Abuja in 2008 and many other accolades of which the most recent are the 2014 TV and Film Achievement Award by Los Angeles Nollywood Film Association (LANFA) in August and Life Time Achievement Award in Cinema by Nollywood Africa Film Critics Awards (NAFCA), Los Angeles in September, 2014.

Dr. Onu is also the co-author of Naked Beauty, said to be the first Nigerian Screen play to be published and sold as book.

Dr. Chika Onu is a Director of over a hundred Nollywood movies many of which have won Awards and gained popular admiration and acclaim in America, South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria. Ten of these chart bursting movies include;

Living in Bondage 2 (1994)

Glamour Girls (1995)

True Confession (1996)

Evil Genius (1997)

Karishika (1997)

Ukwa (2002)

Fire on the Mountain (2002)

Peace Maker (2003)

Submission (2003)

My In-Law (2004)

Dogs’ Meeting (2005)

Rings of fire (2005)

Python King (2006)

Sweet Potato (2011)

Great Messenger (2011)

Evil Kingdom (2013)

African Tradition (2014)

My Peace o Mind (2015)

Dangerous King (2016)

To Love a Crippled Prince (2018).

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Thursday, February 11, 2021

Alhaji Lateef Jakande: The Best Governor of Lagos State Since 1967 To Date

 

Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande (23 July 1929 – 11 February 2021) achieved in four years as the Governor of Lagos State what other governors in Nigeria failed to achieve in eight years.

Alhaji Jakande was an outstanding trailblazer in the the making of modern Lagos and the unique landmarks of his indisputable achievements made him the best Governor of Lagos since the establishment of Lagos State by the Federal Government of Nigeria on May 27, 1967 by the Creation and Transitional Provisions Decree No. 14 of 1967.
 

See The Three Founding Fathers of Modern Lagos https://nigeriansreportng.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-three-founding-fathers-of-modern.html.

Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande was the  Governor of Lagos State from October 1979 – December 1983, during the Second Republic of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
He was a socialist state governor following the footsteps of his political godfather, the great Obafemi Awolowo, Patriarch of modern Yoruba nation. Jakande focused on free education from primary to secondary school levels and affordable housing for low income workers.

He introduced housing and educational programs targeting the poor, building new neighbourhood primary and secondary schools and providing free primary and secondary education. He established the Lagos State University. Jakande's government constructed over 30,000 housing units. The schools and housing units were built cheaply, but were of great value.
Some of the housing units include low cost estates in Amuwo-Odofin, Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry.
To fund some of the projects, Jakande increased the tenement rates and price of plots of land in affluent areas of Victoria Island and Lekki Peninsula and the processing fees for lottery, pools and gaming licenses. He also completed the construction of the General Hospital in Gbagada and Ikorodu and built about 20 health centres within the state. As a governor, he established 23 local government councils which were later disbanded by the military. He also started a metroline project to facilitate mass transit.


- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, producer and director of "Lagos in Motion" documentary film.

Friday, June 19, 2009

President Barack Obama is America's Most Respected Daddy



18 Jun 2009 12:49 Africa/Lagos


President Barack Obama and his happy Family.

President Obama Chosen as Dad Most Deserving Respect

For Father's Day, RESPECT! Campaign Celebrates Dads Who Help Kids Build Healthy Relationships

SAN FRANCISCO, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- This Father's Day the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF), Macy's, and Geoffrey Beene Gives Back(R) are proud to support the RESPECT! Campaign(SM), a multi-year initiative designed to inspire a new movement that will help prevent relationship violence by promoting respect as a fundamental building block for healthy relationships and stronger homes and communities. In celebration of dads everywhere the campaign announced results of a survey revealing America's picks for the best role model dads. The number one spot goes to President Barack Obama, voted as the man who most deserves to be honored on Father's Day for publicly demonstrating the greatest level of respect in his family relationships.[i] Runners up for the "dad who deserves to be honored and respected this Father's Day" were Will Smith, Brad Pitt, and Ben Affleck.


The RESPECT! Campaign is also proud to join with the Founding Fathers, a nationwide group of men who have come together to declare their support for programs that engage men - as fathers, coaches, teachers, and role models - to teach and model respect as a key strategy to help prevent relationship abuse. The Founding Fathers are standing with the FVPF on Father's Day to speak out about the important role of men in modeling healthy relationships and respect within families and beyond. The Founding Fathers - which include men such as Willie Mays, Joe Torre, and Russell Simmons - pledge their public support for the cause in a full page statement in the national edition of the New York Times on Father's Day.


"In an uncertain world where stress is high, setting a tone of mutual respect in the family and teaching young people about the importance of respect in relationships is critical to preventing relationship violence and promoting healthy problem solving. That's why we created the RESPECT! Campaign," says Esta Soler, founder and president of the FVPF. "It's a social action and awareness initiative created with national support from Macy's that uses a positive approach to give parents, teachers, coaches and other role models the tools they need to teach young people about healthy relationships early and often."


Advisor to the RESPECT! Campaign and adult psychiatrist Dr. Janet Taylor offers these tips to help parents talk to their kids and break the cycle of violence:


-- Know that he/she is watching you - Financial and workplace worries can
easily be transferred to the home. Your child watches everything you
say and do - especially how you deal with stress and conflict and how
you treat others. Realizing that your child is like a sponge and that
s/he will learn from your example, Dr. Taylor suggests that parents
keep in mind their actions while in traffic, in restaurants and at the
dinner table - the more respectful behavior you model, the more your
child will learn from your example.
-- Be there - With so much stress in our lives now, Dr. Taylor says it's
important to spend time with your kids and to take advantage of
"teachable moments." Use relevant, real-life situations to teach
children about the importance of respect, positive role models and the
characteristics of healthy relationships.

-- Realize that we all make mistakes - The most important thing that
parents need to understand is that no one is perfect. The goal,
especially in hard and stressful times, is to gain strength through
the problems and learn from the past to make a better future.



The campaign honors role model dads and shares the endearing and memorable ways our fathers teach us love and respect every day. "By uniting in celebration of everyday role models - including the dads across America who are shaping a world free of relationship violence - we are advancing a nationwide movement for respect in relationships," said Martine Reardon, Macy's Executive Vice President of Marketing, "Macy's is proud to support the RESPECT! Campaign in delivering the powerful tools and resources needed to help parents, coaches, teachers and other role models teach the next generation how to live healthy relationships."


This Father's Day, the RESPECT! Campaign is offering several simple ways to thank the dads you know for the great example they set:


-- Give RESPECT! by sending a free Father's Day e-card. For every card
sent, Geoffrey Beene Gives Back(R) will make a $25 donation in the
recipients' name, up to $100,000.
-- Pass on RESPECT! by sending messages on Twitter, joining the RESPECT!
Campaign group on Facebook, adding an "I'm for RESPECT!" tag on your
blog, and sparking conversations with your friends.
-- Learn 10 tips every parent should know to teach children about healthy
relationships.
-- Make a donation to the FVPF in honor of a dad you respect.

-- Purchase and wear the RESPECT! wrist band, available exclusively at
Macy's for $5 in select jewelry departments and at www.macys.com. Half
of all proceeds go directly to the cause.


ABOUT THE FOUNDING FATHERS

On Father's Day 2003, 350 men from all walks of life joined in a historic public statement to call for an end to violence against women and children. This statement, which appeared as a full-page ad in the New York Times came to be known as the new Founding Fathers Declaration.


They call themselves the Founding Fathers because they intend to help build a new kind of society - where decency and respect require no special day on the calendar, where boys are taught that violence does not equal strength and where men stand with courage, lead with conviction and speak with one voice to say, "No More."


"We must teach our sons and daughters how to solve problems through conversation, not confrontation," adds Soler. "Dads have a critical role to play at home and throughout our society - demonstrating kindness, teaching compassion and keeping cool under pressure."


The Founding Fathers will voice their support in a full page New York Times statement running this Father's Day. Several thousand fathers and sons have joined the movement since its inception and several thousand more have been honored as Founding Fathers by women in their lives who make gifts in their name to the FVPF on Father's Day. The men aim to end relationship and domestic abuse by standing up and investing in prevention programs.


ABOUT THE RESPECT! CAMPAIGN


The RESPECT! Campaign is the Family Violence Prevention Fund's (FVPF) latest initiative to advance a national movement to promote healthy relationships and stop relationship violence through positive role modeling and respect education. Sponsored nationally by Macy's, with additional support from Geoffrey Beene Gives Back(R), the RESPECT! Campaign encourages individuals to help prevent and end domestic and dating violence, sexual assault, and other forms of relationship abuse by talking with young people early and often about respect, and modeling that behavior in their own relationships. Through conversation guides for parents, lesson plans for teachers, tools for coaches, and other instructional "Respect Tools," the campaign offers a variety of resources to support moms, dads, teachers, coaches, and other living, breathing role models who have critical roles to play in helping our sons and daughters shape a world that is free of relationship violence. To learn more, visit www.giverespect.org.


About the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF)


For nearly three decades, the Family Violence Prevention Fund has worked to end violence against women, children, and families around the world, because every person has the right to live free of violence. For more information, visit www.endabuse.org.


About Macy's


Macy's, the largest retail brand of Macy's, Inc., delivers fashion and affordable luxury to customers at more than 800 locations in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam. Macy's stores and macys.com offer distinctive assortments including the most desired family of exclusive and fashion brands for him, her and home. Macy's is known for such epic events as Macy's 4th of July Fireworks(R) and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade(R), as well as spectacular fashion shows, culinary events, flower shows and celebrity appearances. Building on a 150-year tradition, Macy's helps strengthen communities by supporting local and national charities that make a difference in the lives of our customers. For Macy's media materials, images and contacts, please visit us online.


About Geoffrey Beene Gives Back(R)


Geoffrey Beene Gives Back(R) represents a unique model for charitable giving in the fashion industry: 100% of net profits from Geoffrey Beene, LLC, are donated to philanthropic causes. The Foundation that bears the designer's name has made over $145 million in charitable commitments since 2006. To date, Geoffrey Beene Gives Back (R) has donated more than $600,000 to the RESPECT! Campaign.


[i] Online survey conducted April 2009 by Impulse Research for Family Violence Prevention Fund with a random sample of 1,011 men and women, 18+. Overall sampling error rate is +/-3% at the 95% level of confidence.


Source: Family Violence Prevention Fund

CONTACT: Lisa Brogan, +1-310-854-8278, LBrogan@currentlm.com, for Family
Violence Prevention Fund


Monday, March 2, 2009

The Way To Self-Run

THE WAY TO SELF-RUIN

By Aderoy
South West England, UK

I wake up every morning with the thoughts and prayers of the potential greatness of my beloved in my heart. The thoughts ran in my heart through the day hoping that the decadence in my beloved will be uprooted with systematic equanimity. How did I allow my beloved to get so enmeshed in the evil of national prostitution laden with evil vice that were uncommon among her founding fathers. These were the thoughts from a caring and yearning heart.

Just 3 days ago I read that Merrill Lynch ranked Nigeria as the World's Safest Economy. Although this did not come as a surprise to me given the sustained improvement in the Nigeria's fiscal management for the past 3-4 years. The statistical calculation in Merrill Lynch's results does not however take into account other factors (or economic variables as others may refer to it) such as social unrest, prevailing poverty level, infrastruture, GDP, etc. (Source 1: http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/2008/11/nigeria_the_safest_place_to_in.php), (Source 2:. http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=128275). I so much proud my self in the self-belief that that singular report coming from one of the world's leading financial management and advisory companies has boosted Nigeria's image positively in no smal terms. It's no small means that Nigeria's horn in financial revolution- Prof. Soludo, along with other world renowned economists and financial analysts was recently appointed to a United Nation's high-level task force reform global financial system.

"Safest Economy" declaration is a huge image laundering for Nigeria, and rightly so given the "brutal revolution" (albeit with a positive mindset and positive results) of the banking sector introduced by the CBN management headed by Prof. Chukwuemeka Soludo. We must not rest on our oars but must extend this "brutal revolution" to all sphere of the economy. Need I reiterate that the political terrain in the country still leaves a lot to be desired although with signs of improvement given the latest democratic proceedings as in the case of the new Edo State Government elect-Comrade Oshiomole. My assertion is based on realistic facts emanating from the EFCC that the management has suspended its Director of National Finance Intelligence Unit (NFIU) over "alleged" complicity in illegal transfers of millions of illegal funds from Nigeria's coffers with his full knowledge (Source 1: http://www.efccnigeria.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=475&Itemid=34), (Source 2: http://allafrica.com/stories/200811200872.html). What on earth is going on? Can't we get our acts together and do the right thing as a nation? I was ruminating so hard on this thoughts when I stumbled on a piece of article "Only The Best Is Good Enough For Us" on nairaland (Source: http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-195700.0.html ) then I mumbled under my breath (Oro pesi je)?

That article touched my bone marrow to say the least and I retorted "if only we have ears and the minds of a wilful change as a people". But come to think of it what is stopping my bride to dig deep into her conscience to rejuvinate those cultural and morale values taught in the early days. The morale values of my beloved bride have gone to the dogs and we now celebrate superfluous mediocrity in the name of celebrity and overnight get-rich affluence. I am quick to say here that I am not a cynic but a realist and I am one of those to stand up and offer foreigners explanation of the true situation in Nigeria and of most Nigerians in the face of the fact that most foreigners have been fed with news that all Nigerians are "potential" (in the strongest of terms) scammers. I have had to provide non-professional explanation and advice via e-mails and phone to foreigners (mostly Europeans) after posting an article http://www.saharareporters.com/www/letters/detail/?id=349 and another comment on http://www.africanloft.com/can-the-nigerian-mobile-phone-companies-handle-the-46-million-subscribers/

I recall an ensuing discussion with a young Belgian chap after reading one of my articles on scamming and had supposedly been "hypnotised" into thinking he's got a cute Nigerian lady online he intends to marry within months. The lady by the name Stella Gibson (allegedly a "guy") claims to be a Nigerian-American raised in Ashebury in North Caolina and had come to Nigeria to take care of her ill mum. I have had to ping pong e-mail and telephone conversation with the Belgian by arranging a private investigation on the identity, address and location of Stella Gibson. She (allegedly) provided the Belgian with her home address somewhere on Opebi Road Ikeja and I called for a search party of friends and family members in Lagos to verify the identity of this suspect. It will be a disservice to Jean (the Belgian) to outline results of the investigation here in this context. However the taking from these is that there a large number of Nigerians (especially young Nigerians) who engage in nefarious activities in a get-rich quick scam such that there activites tarnish the image of Nigerians at home and abroad.

The yahoo yahoo business has so much grown in the belly of my beloved country and unfortunately among teenagers - the fruit and future of her womb. I am sick to my stomach to see young boys and girls of tender age who can't even make a complete statement in their indigenous language let alone in English spending time in cyber cafes to send scam e-mails. And Oh "yahoo yahoo don pay oo" that is the sort of response you get from these confused teenagers bred by the societal norms they found themselves. If you take time to discuss with any one of them (at least i have on numerous occasion), the general belief among these young chaps is, to put it in their own words, "the are trying to get back all the money the white man has stolen from Africa" (sic). It baffles my imagination that sycophants in the name of popular musicians are now glorifying such nefarious activities in Nigeria as though its a thing of joy. Else how can one explain songs like "yahoozee" by Olu Maintain and "maga don pay" by Kelly Handsome. (Source 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ1YLL9mvBU ), (Source 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7iJzgxoFiM )

Basking in the euphoria of my seeming success with a few of those I have advised on the issue of scam, I took a trip to Paris to meet with a friend (I wouldn't want to use the word 'client' as I do not do it for profit) to whom I have been introduced few months back and was subjected to ridicule at the UK airport on the return leg of my trip. My offense (I should have known better) is I carry a green passport. I must quickly add here that I wasn't referring to the "American Green passport" but an official Nigerian passport. I was subjected to "special guest" treatment to put it positively while other passengers walked past giving a deep thorough gaze towards me as if asking rhetorically "what have you done?" To say the least, I was filled with bile but I took the under control, asking another Immigration Officer pertinent questions as to how enjoyable she finds her job (as if I was "toasting" her in my Nigerian parlance), while her colleagues carry out thorough primary and secondary searches on my hand luggage. I played the cool as though I was in the dark as to the motive of the search.

A few days later I read through some Nigerian and International online newspapers as usual to learn of how a renowned Nigerian Pastor was subjected to outright ridicule at an airport abroad (Source: http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2008/oct/15/national-15-10-2008-003.htm). Going by the revelation I just had to rest my case that if a man of his status could be suspected a fraudster (until proven otherwise) who am I to complain of my harrowing experience in the hands of those O' level holding Immigration Officers.

Is my bride on the way to creating a healthy and wealthy nation or she is head-rolling down the hill to self ruin, I wonder. Nigeria can be and will be great, my heart resounds, but the question that beats my guts out is WHEN? We have all collectively in one way or the other seek untenable alibi as a nation in letting our beloved nation stoop so low into a state of despondency. Someone once retorted, "Starve the people of information and you'll be able to take them captive" I stand to be corrected on my next statement and unapologetically so (at least at the time of writing this article from a hurtful heart); the Nigerian system has systematically withdrew valuable information from its citizens in order to impoverish her 150 million population. Nigerians have been starved of quality education and the void has been replaced with the belief that one can only get rich by cheating the system.

Few years back, I learnt among other things the famous Karl Marx's statement that "religion is the opium of the masses". Having been born and bred in Nigeria before striving hard to top my education with a Masters studies in the UK, I began to carry out societal and cultural comparison between Nigeria and other countries. The religious clout on the psyche of Nigerians is so powerful that we all (annoyingly so) attribute our collective failures to the will of God. While engaging in a discussion with a friend recently, I mentioned that wouldn't it be good for Nigeria to assess the level of poverty vis-a-vis the population and promulgate a law to limit the number of birth per family to, say x-number of children. True to my pessimism in asking the question, I got varied answers, a lot of which has religious intonnation from both christians and muslims alike. I began to question my sanity at that moment - Do I think differently from these chaps and if in the affirmative, WHY? Why can't we look at facts and figures of the population vis-avis the poverty level and take a positive approach (although may seem radical) to stem the skyrocketing population growth, which should benefit every Nigerian in the next 20 - 50 years, for example. We are so enmeshed in our religious clout and fail to take hard-decisions as a nation to better future generations. We (both christians and muslims) are culprits in this crime - Do we continue to quote religious verses in support of "staying glued to old norms, bearing children like guinea pigs without adequate plan for those children?"

I sometimes laugh my head off when Nigerians (in our show of undeserved pride) refer to ourselves as the giant of Africa. I would gladly support the notion that we are potentially a great African nation but not the empty, undeserved and unsubstantiated claim of being the supposedly "Power House of Africa". Are we a happy nation? Yes. Do we have a military power house to be reckoned with in Africa and the world? Yes of course, we do and I pay my respect to the men and women in the Forces who put their lives on the line for the good course of stabilising other nation in Africa. Oh the Nigerian military? No, no, no, that is a monstrous national cult and a law unto itself. I will leave the Nigerian military to another article premise. I must not however fail to give a hint of some nefarious activities of the men in "kaki" uniform. Some senior army officers wilfully deduct from the salaries of junior officers right before the monthly salary payment, or is it the usual "take this money to buy plantain in the market, take it to my house to cook" statement from male senior officers to junior female soldiers in the rank and file of the Force - the Army being a major culprit.

Can someone answer a painstaking question: Is it in the Armed Forces Decree for senior officers to treat junior officers like a piece of trash? Is it in the Forces decree for a male officer to issue command (sic) to a female officer to go and cook in his house or that she should be remanded by a "red neck" (those in Nigerian military circuit will understand this term) in a guardroom for disobeying that order. My heart bleeds for a structured, institutionalised, corrupt and morally bankrupt Nigerian military. The canker of corruption has eaten deep into the fabric of the military to an extent they parade themselves as gods. For those who may be seeking for evidence of my allegation, I must state clearly that I am a son of a retired officer and was partly raised in the barracks. I have friends, some of whom have served and are still serving in the Force - both the military and the Police. Ah The Nigeria Police keh!! "That one na another case". Just a hint here on the extent of canibalism of this monstrous institution called the Nigerian Police: It is on record that NPF is the least paid Force in West Africa let alone comparing with other Forces in the whole of Africa. Again this is not surprising to me given the extent of canibalism in the Force to such an extent retiring Police Officers cannot and will never get their gratuity and pension claims unless they pay "egunje" and guess who they have to make such payments to? Colleagues in various Departments of the Police Force of course (Source 1: Close confidants whose parents have served Nigeria only to be trapped in the cabal called the Police), (Source 2: http://www.thenationonlineng.com/dynamicpage.asp?id=70001 )

"Giant of Africa we are", someone retorted in order to bring out a serial dose of venom in me. Right to his thinking I snapped - Yes we are giant of Africa when it comes to epileptic roads and electricity, non-functional education and health care system and institutionalised corruption, Giant of Africa when it comes to looting public coffers in broad day light and using same proceed to oppress the same people that elected (sorry, selected) politicians into offices. We are giant of Africa when it comes to putting perfection to silencing journalists for raising the power of their pen against the power that be. I think I should allow Sahara Reporters to put flesh on this bone (http://www.saharareporters.com). What a show of shame to be called "The Gaint of Africa".

We are, as a nation, going the way of self-ruin either as result of blatant denial of the complexity of our problem or in submission to the same religious creed we have always retorted to in the phrase "one day, one day e go better by the grace of God". Do not get me wrong, I do not in anyway suggest religion to be taken out of the equation. Far from it, the clime is we have bastardised religious belief in Nigeria to such an unprecedented scale that we now attribute everything that we ought to sort out by careful and purposeful planning to God. We seize every opportunity to add religious undertone to common sense issues we ought to sort out as any sane being. Pastors and Imams in churches and mosques have not helped matters as well. So many have led their followers to debacle of misguided religious ideologies, withdrawing vital information to set them free while feeding them with radical and obsessive religious doctrines that "keep them (the followers) coming for more" while they surfer in penury at the expense of affluent "bigmanism" lifestyle of the Pastors/Imam.

Let's take a critical long-overdue assessment the "Bride (or is it the Giant) of Africa" and let each one of us ask him/herself "Are my actions or inaction putting my beloved Nigeria on the way to self-ruin?" As my mum will always say, he who has ears let him take heed.


Roy
aderoy01@yahoo.co.uk