KWARA STATE @50 YEARS: A TIME FOR CELEBRATION OR A TIME TO PROTEST? SEASON 1

Good day to you all our esteemed viewers on the new media. Let us again thank Almighty God, for His goodness upon our lives. Inspite of the burning and biting effects of this recession, occasioned by the activities of the luciferous elements within and around the corridors of power, coupled with ineptitude on the part of those managing our economy, we still thank God for the gift of life!
We took time to as usual go over various news items on social media. While doing so, we came across a release credited to Dr. Muideen Olufemi Akorede, Senior Special Assistant on Media & Communications to Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State. In his release, he informed us about Kwara State Government preparation towards marking the 50th Anniversary of the creation of Kwara State. Infact, a 31 man committee has already started working, just to organise a befitting celebration. A celebration in which millions of our naira, will again be wasted on a meaningless charade by those whom providence has put in the seat of power. The annoying aspect is, there are so many people suffering and in serious pain as a result of unpaid salaries and entitlements. Yet, Kwara State Government would rather celebrate with their few friends and cronies than to put smiles on the faces of those ones who have being working for months without being paid.

EVERY NATION OR RACE HAS PRODUCED LIMITED NUMBER OF WORLD CLASS LEADERS - Ozodi Osuji’s Daily Journal

From Ozodi Osuji’s Daily Journal

Leadership does not come cheap; it is not every day that a world class leader emerges in a nation. Black Americans, for example, have been in the Americas (including the West Indies and Latin America) for five hundred years but you can count the number of real leaders they produced in your hands: Nat Turner, Frederick Douglas, Sourjouner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B Dubios, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael. (Barack Obama is not a leader so we shall not include him.)

In Africa we have the following leaders: Nnamdi Azikiwe (Zik is mediocre), Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko.

Dialogue Session with Students of Nigerian Universities - Dogara Address

Address by the Speaker, House of Representatives, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Rt. Hon. Dogara Yakubu at the Dialogue Session with Students of Nigerian Universities held at the House of Representatives, National Assembly on 9th May, 2016

Protocols:

Introduction

I would like to start by welcoming you all to the National Assembly, this great citadel of our democracy, for this important dialogue session with representatives of students of our universities in Nigeria.

Today's novel event presents a unique opportunity for students from Universities across Nigeria to visit the National Assembly as part of a special youth development program. This initiative is the first of its kind in Nigeria and it focuses on deepening students understanding of the democratic process with special emphasis on the legislature while attempting to bridge the prevalent disconnect students have with the system.

The core objectives of this event therefore, include: to expose students to legislative practice and procedure; improve public trust in the Legislature as an arm of government; and enable students to meet and interact with their elected representatives in the National Assembly.

Jonathan enlists Anyaoku to beg PMB not to probe his administration

I just heard with one ear that former President Goodluck Jonathan has enlisted the good offices of Elder Statesman, Emeka Anyaoku, to beg President Buhari not to probe his administration.

If - and this is a very big if - my employers at Sahara Reporters are right, that it is to say if this news is true, then President Jonathan has made an excellent and a commendable move at two levels.

Level 1 Commendable move: President Jonathan is a study in personal development after office. I like what I have been seeing in terms of his resumption of ordinary citizenship and humanhood. He has learnt to stop listening to the marionettes who deified and destroyed him. I keep saying this: no history of the Jonathan presidency would be complete without chapters written on the rise and evolution of the most irresponsible followership ever known to the African continent - especially his social media caterwauling hordes who are even still at it, claiming superhuman infallibility for their hero as I write.