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MIXED BLESSINGS FOR STABILITY IN NIGERIA: VIGILANTE IN NIGERIA
There had been two effective security arrangements in most parts of Nigeria. The traditional local volunteer hunters and the salaried conventional government’s military and para-military systems (i.e. the Army, the police etc). The traditional local volunteer hunters were most effective as forest guards, intelligence gatherers and fighters during the native authority days. The system dissipated when they feel preferred and replaced by the salaried conventional government’s military and paramilitary that are trained in the use of modern superior weapons. Unfortunately, the system of salaried conventional government’s military and paramilitary staffing, managements and deployments soon gave way to indolence, arm twisting and bribery taking and almost totally lapsed into ineffectiveness. For…
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ADVANCING THE APC CHANGE AGENDA AND ROLE OF THE DIASPORA
INTRODUCTION Permit me to start by appreciating the leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC) who organise this APC-USA Second Annual Convention and who have kindly invited me to attend it as a Special Guest of Honour. I am excited and challenged by the theme of the convention, namely: “Advancing the APC Change Agenda, the Report Cards and the Role of the Diaspora”. In this address, I am merely restating the summary of the APC Change Agenda, which is clearly contained in the APC Manifesto launched in 2013 and which should have been well known to most members of this convention as leaders of APC in the USA. I am not…
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NIGERIA MUST BE SAVED
Agitations by various parties to the “Nigeria Project” to reappraise the terms of our union are not peculiar to Nigeria, neither are they bad or unexpected. The need for genuine and sincere constant discussions and negotiations towards improving the lots of every part and every citizen of Nigeria cannot be wished away; rather, it should be respected and supported by all and sundry. And the sooner the discussions and negotiations among friends and groups are done in all Nigerian places at all times, the better. We must not easily forget: i) that the people of different sections of what is today called Nigeria had perfected the arts of trading and…
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BRIEF REMARKS AT THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CONFERENCE OF THE ONDO STATE CATHOLIC DIOCESE
My Lord Bishop, members of the Ondo Catholic Diocese, the Catholic Archdiocese of New York, the guest lecturer, Professor Swan Thung, our other visitors and friends from the United States of America, distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen. Let me start by thanking the Catholic Diocese of Ondo state for congratulating my party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) for its unprecedented victory at the just concluded general elections in Nigeria and for organising this International Health Conference to which we are all presently assembled to praise the Glory of God on the works of the diocese. I feel most pleased but flattered for inviting me to the Health Conference as a special…
