Ordinary Name, Botanical Name By Pius Adesanmi

The 22-page 2017 State House Appropriation Bill (alias proposed Aso Rock budget for 2017) is a document that must be read only by the brave and the strong.

No lessons learnt from last year's debacle.
No lessons learnt from all the preceding years combined.

The preceding years are no excuse, no alibi. The rot is what President Buhari and his team are supposed to change.

If you are bold enough to read the document, you will be treated to more than a lifetime's worth of absurdities.

Breaking: Ministers take oath of office as Buhari assigns portfolios (Full List)

The Nigerian Cabinet members today take the oath of office as President Muhammadu Buhari charges them that they must proceed to work speedily to fulfill the confidence reposed in them.

President Buhari has sworn in all 37 ministers he appointed recently.

Former governors Babatunde Fashola, Rotimi Amaechi, Kayode Fayemi, and 34 others took the oath of office on Wednesday at the presidential villa.

Libel Publication Against Chief Femi Fani Kayode, his lawyer writes Lai Mohammed, demands apology

A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has fired the first salvo in a series of threats and counter-threats of legal action between the ex-minister and Lai Mohammed, the spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress, APC, giving Mr. Mohammed a seven-day ultimatum to apologize to him.

In a letter titled “Libel Publication Against Chief Femi Fani Kayode Published in Vanguard Newspaper of the 30th of June 2014”, addressed to Mr. Mohammed, Mr. Fani-Kayode’s lawyer demanded an immediate retraction of a publication by the APC spokesperson, in three national newspapers approved by the former minister himself.

The letter, dated 7th July, 2014, also demanded that the retraction contain “an unreserved apology” to Mr. Fani-Kayode, offer for damages, and a seven day ultimatum to carry out the demands. “It will amount to a serious gamble if you treat this letter with levity, but if you so decide to do, the gamble is clearly yours,” said the letter signed by Nnenna Makwe, on behalf of Ahmed Raji and Co.

Media Siege: Jonathan fighting a battle he can’t win — APC

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has condemned the siege on newspapers across the country by security agencies. The party warnend that the Jonathan Administration, by tampering with press freedom, had taken on a battle it cannot win.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party said the President failed to learn the lessons of history that the Nigerian media could neither be intimidated nor suppressed by anyone, and that all those who tried to do so in the past lived to regret their actions.

It wondered why a government that was having problems prosecuting war on terror was instead waging a war on the media and using the security agencies to interfere with the country’s democracy.

Grand Conspiracy And Complicit In Boko Haram Islamism

Ignorance is not always unforgivable. There is a strand of ignorance that makes a hesitant, timid public appearance, unsure of itself. You encounter it and you know that it is teachable, redeemable. That strand is forgivable. Confronted with superior logic, it revises its priors and you tell it to go and sin no more. However, there is a second strand which hits the public sphere with the confidence and self-assuredness of a garlanded owner of the domain. This sort of cocky, unteachable, irredeemable ignorance is not content with a humble public appearance. It insists on viewership, on an audience, on spectators. If you say you have no money to attend the show, it distributes free tickets.