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With the primordial decision by the God of Aso rock to enthrone yet another sectional, unpr...Read the full article.

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My Dear Lawrence

I don't know about you but i strongly believe in a tommorrow in Nigeria. Why buy into other people's predictions of doom and calamity for Nigeria, are they God? Agreed we are not yet running on full throttle commensurate with our potentials as a nation but i don't see the emergence or rather annointing of Yar'Adua as being a threat to whatever destiny God has ordained for Nigerians. In our individual capacities, we can still make changes to our society. We don't all have to be in politics or government to make Nigeria great.

Every nation does go through their seasons, perhaps this is ours but as they say, there is always light at the end of the tunnel. I am in support of lambasting OBJ and co when they stray but to throw up our hands in the air and surrender may even be suicidal and detrimental to our collective desires for progress. We simply can not give up, not now my brother.

You know there are always two sides to a coin, you will be surprised that despite everything, there are many Nigerians who are not in any way connected to the government but who will tell you that the OBJ era was the best they have seen in their adult lives, they have seen their businesses boom, careers soar etc. There are also those that would crucify OBJ at the first sighting of a cross. it is different strokes for different folks but the bottom line is self belief. With all the predictions of doom, Nigeria still hold out hope and millions of opportunities for you and 1.

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...it definitely will not be wise to give up..instead we will remain resolute and fight until we get there....somehow there's this mytical feeling that nigerians are cowards who are never really bothered about their tomorrow and since these our leaders who has constituted amongst their ranks monsters and cabals, realise that basic fact...they keep getting away with several evils perpertrated on her citizens. Nigeria at this era does not in any way need a leader like Obj, whether directly or thru proxy.
quote me ...not until we stand up and say enough is enough.. there's no hope in sight.
elections are around the corner and people are clamouring for these old brigades...why are nigerians not talking about likes of Pat Utomi who we all know with all sincerity can do a good job as a president. Obj has detroyed every fabrics of national existent. Playing God as though without him this country will collapse. For the ist time I think Abacha was more humane than this man. He must leave on or before 29/05/2007. We will be better of.

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Chinedu, there is no denying the fact that Nigeria is in a free fall to disaster. We are all living witnesses to this gradual degeneration of our national polity and the blatant refusal of succeeding governments to address issues pertinent to our survival as a nation state.
Tell me, how can the superstructure hold when the foundation is very weak? How can we succeed as a nation when our very existence is predicated upon colonial lies, false hood and inter ethnic intrigues?
The Colonial adventurers have done their damage and left, it is up to us to revisit those premises upon which we were founded as a nation with truth justice and equality in mind. We may not succeed until we have a complete regeneration of our entire value system, with a view to changing our get rich quick mentality, enthronement of mediocrity amongst others.
Most of us are agreed on the type of leaders we need to see us out of our doldrums but are doing absolutely nothing about it. The heavens will not come to our aid if we sit back and watch the likes of Yar adua and co foisted on us. We have to be seen to be doing something. We have to fight for men and women of competence and integrity to lead us. We have to sensitize our folks in Nigeria and the diaspora of the need to vote in men and women of merit and unrivalled patriotism. If not , we might as well sit back and 'enjoy' our ride into chaos.

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In as much as this article is a mirror or reflection to the present state of the nation Nigeria, i believe that with the right attitude and everyone putting in his/her own quota, things will definatelly take a new shape.

We all know that Rome was not built in a day, and that no matter how the political arena seems now, our colloective votes for the right man will certainly make a differnce.

We will earn nothing if we all continue spoting out the ills in the nation when nothing is been done to better the common gain of us all, because directly or indirectly we all are affected by it.

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Uche,
Your words are as soothing as the morning dew...

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Hi all.
Check out the police under Obasanjo's Nigeria killing people at will.



COVER STORIES

Wife’s agony: For killing my hubby in such cruel manner, our future is ruined!
By Dayo Johnson, Akure
Posted to the Web: Saturday, February 03, 2007



*Kazeem Adeusi, father of three shot by a policeman


LAST year’s festive season would forever remain indelible in the minds of members of the family of Kazeem Adeusi, 40, who hailed from Idanre in Ondo State. It was the year their bread winner was murdered in cold blood by a trigger happy policeman in the state.
Adeusi, a Muslim had planned big for the last Eid festivities, not knowing that death was lurking at the corner. He had promised his wife and three children a big treat during the celebration, after buying clothes and other things needed to make the celebration a big bang.

His dream of making himself and his family members happy was however cut short by a mobile policeman on December 28, three days after Christmas and two days before the Moslem feast of Eid-el- Kabir at Owena junction, along Ondo-Akure road.

The deceased, a timber contractor left his home to visit a friend who it was said had just returned home from the United States for the New-Year celebration. Kazeem told his wife and children that Thursday that he would be back in a jiffy so as to continue with their preparations for the festivities, and out he stepped, to see the returnee friend.
After the normal throwing of banters that usually followed the reunion with a friend who had left the country for years for a foreign country, Adeusi, decided to return to Idanre to join his family. But his visiting friend was said to have offered to drop him at Idanre, which is about 15 minutes drive from Ondo, and he (Adeusi) accepted the offer.

Unknown to Adeusi and his friend, that trip was going to be his last. His sin, Saturday Vanguard learnt, was questioning the policeman’s rejection of the N200 bride offered him
On their way back to Idanre, they got to a stop-and-search spot mounted by the Police at Owena junction and they were ordered to stop. The BMW car in which they were traveling, carried a foreign number plate and the car was stopped.

Saturday Vanguard learnt that after some conversation with the occupants the policeman demanded for “settlement”, and was said to have been offered a N200 note which he (the policeman) rejected. However, irked by the policeman’s rejection of the money, the driver decided to move.

The car had driven barely 50 metres when the policeman reportedly opened fire on the vehicle. A bullet penetrated the back windscreen and blew off Kazeem Adeusi’s head, killing him instantly.

When news of Kazeem’s death was broken to his family, the excitement of the festive season gave way to anguish.Following the death of the breadwinner, the situation at the residence of the deceased was a pathetic one.
His wife, Solape, who was surrounded by family members sobbed uncontrollably and just managed to speak with Saturday Vanguard.

“My husband left home with a promise to return by 4.00p.m. He said he was going to visit a friend at Ondo but unfortunately he was killed at 4.00p.m, the time he promised to return.

“When I did not see him up till evening, I thought he had decided to stay with his friend. But by 11.a.m the following day people of the town had already known and it was around that time that they started searching for me.

“They now took me to my husband’s family house and told me that Kazeem was fighting with somebody, but I said it couldn’t be true because I know my husband cannot fight anybody. But when until I got here, they broke the news to me.”

Solape, a school teacher continued:

“He would not go out in the evenings. By 7.pm you’d meet my husband at home. In fact, the policeman has taken away our joy. I am helpless, I don’t know what I can do, I don’t know where to go and he was all I had. He was the one that cared for everything at home; I don’t know where to start from; he was my father, brother, and friend and he was everything to me.”

She calls for justice, saying that the person that murdered his husband should be brought to book.

“Government should ensure that justice prevails. The only thing I need is justice and nothing more”.

Saturday Vanguard learnt that the deceased left behind an 80-year old mother, three children, Kudirat 12, eight-year old Basiru, and five-year old Adedayo.
The family’s counsel, Mr. Gbenga Oke-Samuel told this reporter that the family has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police over the gruesome murder of Kazeem Adeusi.

The family in the petition wrote:

“Sir, the gruesome murder of citizen Kazeem Adeusi by the trigger happy policeman... is a violent violation of his right to life, which is clearly protected under the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, African Charter on Human and People’s Rights and other International Conventions on Human Rights which Nigeria as a state is a signatory to.

“While it is expected that the policeman will be made to face criminal trial, we want to demand for the following:

*That the Nigerian State (Federal Government) must take responsibility for this cold blooded murder of Citizen Kazeem Adeusi;
*That the said policeman should be tried for murder without any delay.”











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