Straight Talk

The 2011 Presidential election in Nigeria has come and gone. It will go down in the country’s chequered history as one of the bloodiest election ever held in Nigeria. Despite the irregularities by some polling stations, the international observers who monitored the election scored Nigeria a pass mark for how the election was conducted compared to the previous elections that were held, at least there was an improvement. The election was marred with sectarian violence in the Northern part of the country, especially in states like Kaduna and Katsina where some houses and churches were burnt down to ashes.   Some people were killed which include; some members of the National Youths Service Corps who were drafted to help for the smooth conduct of the election and some were also left injured.   It is very regrettably that the country has not learnt its lessons from the previous mistakes, instead those who parade themselves as leaders and scavengers of peace are still ...

                                         Wind of Change. “A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.”...Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India.   Change is the only thing that is constant. The wind of change is sweeping across the Middle East region.   First it was Tunisia the next port of call was Egypt and who knows where the “Sword of Damocles” will fall next? Bahrain, Yemen and Syria are both sharing their own cake of revolution.   The ousted Tunisian leader Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in October 1987, and assumed the Presidency in November 1987 in a bloodless coup d'état, from the then President Habib Bourguiba, who was declared incompetent.   Ben Ali was in pow...