Goodluck Jonathan Approach to Boko Haram Counterinsurgency;Proactive Vs Reactive

If...citizens believe they will not be protected from retributive violence, their willingness to participate with authorities will be understandably reduced….brian jackson

Nigerians and even non-Nigerians woke up to a startling and unpleasant Pre-independence package on the 23rd of september 2013.An unfortunate boat mishap which claimed over 100 lives with some still missing. while we were deeply engrossed in the emotional thrall of this sad occurrence, the sudden news of the students callously murdered in their sleep by Boko Haram terrorists beamed across the print and electronic media to worldwide indignation and grief.At the last count we had lost more than 50 students,i will neither go into further recorded and confirmed casualties of Boko Haram terrorist attacks both after this and before.

President Goodluck Jonathan's  media chat was intended as an avenue to mount a defence of his Government s scorecard in the 2 years plus he attained the

RETORT TO FFK'S SPEECH; MY STRUGGLE MY DREAMS

I had to undertake a fairly long journey today on account of work I really didn't feel like going but what to do when a means of livelihood is involved? Grit ones teeth and suck it up!

Retort to Mr Osuntokun ; Dangote For President

I read Mr Akin Osuntokun's  insightful piece on Dangote with scarcely disguised disbelief tinged with scorn masked by a totally befuddled mien and thinly veiled acerbity .while i acknowledge the stellar performance and how far Dangote has come and how he has been able to build his business conglomerate,i think Mr Osuntokun seems to be exhibiting selective amnesia mainly concerning Alhaji Dangote's business practises.He seemed to be doing a moral cherry picking of the man's positives while conveniently side stepping his untoward personality traits.

AN AMATEUR PERSPECTIVE ON APC MANIFESTO

A whole lot has been going in our political sphere,in fact it now seems something new crops up in a matter of hours and days.none however has garnered more coverage or drove the social media sphere into a temporal meltdown and social over drive at the same time than the recent APC registration and subsequent release of their manifesto.After this we have also been heralded with more recent happenstance like the registration of the PDM which was a former pressure group headed by the late Shehu Yar adua and then Atiku Abubakar.

ASUU STRIKE AND VESTED INTERESTS

So the ASUU strike has gone on for almost two months at the time of writing,hence by a simple process of deduction, Nigerian undergraduate and Postgraduates have had an abrupt interruption to their studies for that long with no conceivable end to the Mexican stand off in sight.

RETORT TO CHARLY BOY'S SANCTIMONIOUS TIRADE

Its one of these saturdays where i just feel like kicking back,laying under the duvet and pilling on the calories (saturdays and sunday are my days off from gym and calorie counting ) with this comes the predictable boredom which weekends portend.The only cure? Gossip blog surfing and spending time doing a little bit more twittering than usual. while doing my blog surf,i came across Area father (Charly boy's) letter to single ladies.Even though it was a long read,i managed to soldier through and read it to the end(dont forget its my day to lounge under my duvet) While reading it,i swiftly went through a whole host of emotions,i was aghast,irritated at a point laughing out loud before i decided such a farcial and inaccurate never mind negative perception of Nigerian men deserves some sort of  retort.

Politics of ethnicity and sundry issues

As ususal in these things,i was a bit slow on the uptake and it took me a while to get my head round what all the fuss was about.To my eternal shame i even allowed myself to be dragged into the recalcitrant fray,briefly allowing a misguided ethnocentric hue to colour my initial assessments and comments concerning the issue.Thank GOD i was able to step back before i went any deeper to re assess and critically look at the issues.I really didnt want to write about it,but all the frightening and insidious views i have read which seemed to be