Manifesto for a New Nigeria

Follow @NewNigerian This picture puts a perspective on Nigeria that many books may fail to equal.  It describes the current state, while also revealing a previous reality that has been superimposed upon by a new anti-reality.  Let’s start with the white-ish house; rain washed and suffering from an invasion of moss.  In a previous life,…

After the storm there must be a calm Time has passed since the Obasanjo government launched out on its escapade of the third-term, a slippery route that has seen the likes of Yoweri Museveni and Robert Mugabe spending an eternity as sentinels on the road to the progress of their people.  The dust has since…

A Pax Americana Beginning Annum Domini 2003 At least that is what the Americans would like to have, anyway.  Having bulldozed Baghdad and liberated the oil-fields, the Yankees now straddle Iraqi society like an imperious Colossus.  Iraqi TV used to be dominated by images and eulogies to Mr Saddam, these days the “popular” fare is…

We should set our faces unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: and we should pray unto the LORD our God, and make our confessions, and say, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love you, and to them…