tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50404925004241115282024-03-21T16:15:11.013-07:00Shehu SaniActivist | Playwright | AuthorShehu Sanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533045756723329987noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040492500424111528.post-54922136637283896962013-03-14T17:36:00.000-07:002013-03-14T17:37:34.885-07:00The Poems of Peace in the season of bloodshed <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Shehu Sanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533045756723329987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040492500424111528.post-12208954978089519872013-03-07T17:48:00.002-08:002013-03-07T17:50:44.980-08:00SHEHU SANI ANNUAL PRIZE (2013) FOR COMMUNITY PEACE ADVOCATE<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Nigeria was
created out of the major polar component at the turn of the 18<sup>th</sup>
century. The northern Nigeria is one of the components of the emerged nation.
The north is a large geographical entity with people of diverse background (in
religion, ethnicity and temperament).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Much from the
beginning, the people have been living in peace and harmony, until recently
when the issues of ethno religious crisis started rearing its head. Since then,
it has continues unabated. Ethno religious conflict has become one of the ugly
features of northern Nigeria and social issues that have been of utmost concern
to every stakeholder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Several factors
have been responsible for the increase in ethno religious conflict; poverty,
illiteracy, ignorance, bad governance and uneven distribution of resources and
so many other factors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Whatever the
cause may be, ethno religious conflicts </span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">have negatively impacted the nation,
especially the northern society beyond measure. It has destroyed the once
cordial relationships between communities and the people, breeding mutual
distrust and suspicion; led to under development, investment flight, death of
hundreds of thousands of people’s lives, leading to increase in orphans, widows
and its attendant’s social problems. Today, the serenity and innocence of many
communities have been shattered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Before the
advent of the sad incident of the ethno religious conflicts in some of the
northern Nigerian communities, most of these communities live in harmony and as
their brother’s keepers. Muslims and Christians celebrate sallah together in
mutual engagement, they live side by side, play side and do things in common,
but today, sadly such a good rapport have been undermined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Muslim and
Christian’s mobs finds it easier to snuff live out of each other at the slights
of any ethno religious conflict, with very little or no regards for the
sanctity of life or any hope for a future engagements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This sad
scenario apart from undermining the very essence of our humanity equally gives
us a very bad and unwholesome image in Nigeria and even beyond the shore of
this country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Despite all these
challenges and during some of the past ethno religious crisis in some of the
community in northern Nigeria, we discovered and observed that some individual,
groups, institution and community stood against every forms of violent
bloodletting, we have observed that some other demonstrate an unusual and
uncommon efforts in peace promotion, or in preventing the escalation of violent
or nipping violence in the bud and put a post violence confidence-building
initiative in place to ensure a sustainable peace in the community, so that
they serve as a role model or peace nations and heroes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Peace is no
doubt very important to the development of the community or a nation. It is
necessary for the growth, development, sustainability and transformation of the
community. It brings about socio-economic and political development of the
community and the nation. It has helped many of the nations who observed and
preaches peace to be progressive and prosperous. The importance and essence of
peace can therefore not be over emphasized.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">THE AWARD</span></b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The idea behind
the Shehu Sani Annual Peace Prize for Community Peace Advocates is informed by
his antecedent as an international peace advocate and human rights activist,
drawing from his previous practice of honoring groups and individual who had
helped to promote and sustain peace in the past cases of ethno religious
conflict in northern Nigeria, especially in Kaduna and Jos, Plateau State.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">THE AIMS/OBJECTIVES OF THE AWARD</span></b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE AWARD</span></b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Individual with
a record of peace promotion or conflict resolution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Groups with a
record of peace building.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Communities with
a record of peace buildings. They are the candidates whose nomination is
submitted by qualified nominators. No one can nominate himself or herself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">NOMINATION AND SELECTION FOR THE AWARD</span></b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Nomination for
the Shehu Sani prize may be submitted by individual and group especially (a
NGO, professional and group like lawyer, doctor, journalist, social workers)
within a minimum of three years with long experiences on issues of peace
building or conflict resolution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">EVERY MARCH – DEADLINE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF
NOMINATION</span></b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The nomination
must be post marked not later than April of each awarding year. Nomination
received after this date will not be considered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">JULY-AUGUST ADVISER REVIEW</span></b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The shortlisted
nominations are reviews by the reputable international peace scholars,
especially recruited/appointed for their knowledge on the relevance of the
impact of each of the peace initiative or project so nominated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">SEPTEMBER – THE BENEFICIARIES ARE CHOSEN</span></b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">At the beginning
of September of each year, the committee chooses the beneficiary through a
majority role.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">PRIZES AWARDED<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">NOVEMBER – THE BENEFICIARY REACHED THE PRIZES</span></b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Shehu Sani
prize/award ceremony takes place on November 28, every year at Abuja, where
each of the beneficiary receive their prizes, which consist of a $2000 cash, a
star medal and diploma and a document confirming the beneficiary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Every year, the
Shehu Sani prize will allocate the sum of $2000 to any community, institute or
group and individual that have demonstrated the promotion of peace harmony,
have saved lives, prevented violence, the defied attempt to cause frictions and
violence between Christians and Muslims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">ABOUT SHEHU SANI</span></b><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Shehu Sani is a
renowned and human rights activist and writer; he is the President of the Civil
Rights Congress (CRC).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">He was a leading
figure in the Nigerian Struggle against military and the establishment of
democracy rule in Nigeria. He had several times been arrested, detained and
charges for sedition, unlawful assembly and disturbance of public peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In 1995, while
serving as the Deputy Chairman of Campaign for Democracy (CD) – a Civil rights
group, he was arraigned before a secret military tribunal and sentenced to life
imprisonment for what the military authority referred to as “managing an
unlawful organization” he was released in 1998 on the return democracy to
Nigeria, having been behind bars for four years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">He has authored several
books, relating to peace and on contemporary issues such books include <b><i>the
Killing Field, Political Assassination in Nigeria, Thugs at the Helm, Phantom
Crescent, Scorpion under Pillow, Telling the True to Intolerance, the Children
of Kaduna, the Children of Jos.</i></b> He also published <b><i>THE PEACE NEWSPAPER A TABLOID ON
PEACE ADVOCACY IN THE NATION</i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Shehu Sanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533045756723329987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040492500424111528.post-53960989406614216052013-02-24T15:25:00.003-08:002013-02-24T15:28:43.364-08:0016 Commandments for APC<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.4pt;">
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<ol>
<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Thou shall embrace internal democracy.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Thou shall not impose a candidate.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Thou shall have an ideology or principles.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Thou shall avoid night meetings in the villa.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Thou shall not embrace agent provocateurs.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Thou shall avoid ethnic and religious
sentiments.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Thou shall not betray each other.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Thou shall stand by and for the people.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Thou shall keep aside ego.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Thou shall be weary of the corrupt needing a
shelter.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Thou shall practice what you preach.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Thou shall not embrace political merchants.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Thou shall be vigil on INEC.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Thou shall place national interest above
personal interest.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Thou shall be different from the ruling party.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt;">Thou shall avoid elitism</span></li>
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Shehu Sanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533045756723329987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040492500424111528.post-62148233635091751272012-11-05T05:22:00.001-08:002012-11-05T05:22:43.725-08:00US presidential election: who does the world want to win?<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Obama's election provoked euphoria in his ancestral village in Kenya,
as well as among African governments who scented a chance to move up
the US's list of priorities.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Four years later, there is largely a
sense of deflation and, judging by column inches in the press, somewhat
less enthusiasm for this year's presidential race. Sub-Saharan Africa
has barely been mentioned in the campaign and the feeling of apathy is
mostly mutual.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yet residual loyalty to Obama remains deep and, if
Africa's billion citizens got to vote, it seems likely he would win by a
landslide.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Four years ago there was so much hope in this
country," said Boniface Mwangi, a photographer and political activist
whose office in Nairobi, Kenya, is decorated with Obama's image in
life-size cardboard replica. "Now we're no longer that hopeful and
asking where did we go wrong. I thought <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/barack-obama" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>
would do well for Africa but I'm ashamed to say that George Bush did
more. Obama has done nothing for us. People are very mad, especially in
Kogelo, his family village: they're still expecting some kind of handout
from [him]. I hope his second term plans will include Africa; otherwise
he's a scumbag and a hoax."</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Kenya is preoccupied with its own
elections. Yet despite everything, Mwangi, who took out a bank loan to
be in America for Obama's historic 2008 win, hopes that he will repeat
the feat. "He's more progressive than Romney in every way. Romney will
be bad for America and the world. He's shallow and slimy, like a car
salesman selling junk."</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Obama, who once hailed the "blood of
Africa within me", has spent only 20 hours on sub-Saharan African soil
since becoming president (it was a stopover in Ghana in between summits
elsewhere).</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By contrast, the president of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/china" title="More from guardian.co.uk on China">China</a>,
Hu Jintao, has made seven trips to Africa, five as head of state, and
visited at least 17 countries, according to the Brookings Institution.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But
the Democrat remains way ahead of Romney in terms of brand recognition.
Shehu Sani, an author and human rights activist in Nigeria, said: </span></div>
<a name='more'></a>"Not
many people in Africa know who Romney is and what he stands for and what
he is capable of doing.<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Almost everyone knows who Obama is for
the very fact that he is partly an African and there is still hope he
will do something for Africa as far as peace, stability and economic
development is concerned. There is a saying, 'better the devil you
know'. If we haven't seen the actions, we have seen the intentions, so
we give him the benefit of the doubt. We hope the second term will be
better."</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Commentators note that Obama's principal African focus
has been security, for example in combating Islamist militancy in
Somalia, with pragmatism based on American self interest.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ousseynou
Bissichi, a guide at the African Renaissance Monument, in Dakar,
Senegal, who points out to tourists that his workplace is taller than
the Statue of Liberty, said: "A lot of people in Africa thought Obama
would be the president of Africa. Go to any centre in Africa four years
ago and people were celebrating.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Later we realised he's an
American president, not an African president. Even George Bush did more
for Africa and he's a white man. Bill Clinton did, too."</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yet
Bissichi also remains loyal to Obama. "In Africa, we like the Democrats
more than the Republicans. We think they have more humanity than the
Republicans. Mitt Romney is a very rich guy. Even in America, people
think he knows nothing about poverty and misery."</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some admit that
Africa's hopes for the president were impossibly high. Asked if he had
lived up to expectations, Michael Amankwa, an entrepreneur in Accra,
Ghana, said: "I think he has to a large extent, even though some might
have been a bit disappointed. He came in with too much star power, which
raised the bar very high for him. Some also understand that he
inherited a bad situation with the economy and so on."</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">South
Africa, the continent's "superpower", has hosted the US's first lady,
Michelle Obama, but still awaits the photo opportunity of America's
first black president meeting Nelson Mandela.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Karabo Kgoleng, a
radio presenter in Johannesburg, said: "I think it is disingenuous for
Africans to expect anything from any American president. He is not
African. He is American and his most important priority is the American
people not the Africans.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"I think Africans rejoicing at his making
it to office came from the need for a psychological boost as well as an
indication of Africans buying into the American dream – that one's
roots can be African and one can succeed in life, with those roots.
Africans need to hold their own leaders to account before pinning their
hopes on anyone else. Obama owes Africa nothing." <br /><strong>David Smith, Africa correspondent</strong></span></div>
Shehu Sanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533045756723329987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040492500424111528.post-20659791914195466302012-11-05T05:19:00.002-08:002012-11-05T05:19:47.670-08:00If Africa votes Obama <div class="articleinfo" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="createdby">
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Friday, 02 November 2012 - <a href="http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/shehu-sani-on-friday/50250-if-africa-votes-obama" target="_blank">Nigeria Tribune Online</a></span></span>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">THE forthcoming election in the United States of America, had taken
much of the global airwaves, and daily assuming a media glitz of
dizzying dimension.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the next few days, Americans would be
going to the poll again; to vote a president that will preside over
their nation for the next four years.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the present</span></div>
<a name='more'></a> scenario,
the main campaign and contention had been between the incumbent
President Barrack Obama (A Democrat) and Republican Presidential
candidate, Mitt Romney, with occasional mentioning of the independent
candidate. Thus, the campaigns and contest between them, have been very
keen, rancorous and exciting. Billions of dollars have been spent on
campaign advertisements in the media, with most American airways flooded
and saturated with market-tested slogans and cliché, all in a bid to
compete for and sway to their platforms and conviction, the attention of
decided and undecided voters in America.<br /><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The forthcoming
elections mirrored the keenly contested first term election of President
Obama. On February 10, 2007, Obama had announced his candidacy for
president of the United States in front of the old state capital
building in Springfield, Illinois, with strong emphasis on increasing
energy independence and providing universal health care, in a campaign
that projected themes of “hope” and “change”.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Although a large
number of candidates entered the Democratic Party presidential
primaries, the field was, however, narrowed for a duel between Obama and
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (the present Secretary of State). After
early contest, with the race remaining close, throughout the primary
process, but with Obama gaining a steady lead in pledged delegates, due
to better long range planning, superior funding, dominant organising in
state caucus and better exploitation of delegates’ allocation rules, on
June 7, 2008, Clinton ended her campaign and endorsed Obama.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> After
rigorous campaign, Obama later won the presidency with 365 electorate’s
votes to 173 recorded by McCain. Obama also won 52.9 per cent of the
popular votes to McCain 45.7 per cent. After the victory, Obama was
inaugurated as the 44th President and Joe Biden as Vice President, on
January 20, 2009.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With the renewed tempo of campaign between
Obama and Romney, the big question is, will Obama be able to give Romney
the “McCain treatment”? </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Unfolding responses and perceptions
of the American electorate, are signaling an affirmation, even as both
of them tried to resell the critical issues that are dear to the
electorate to extract their votes.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The critical issues along
with the strategic differences between Obama’s vision and that of
Romney’s, and the accomplishment of the incumbent in office, will
equally make a difference as to the direction which the voters’ intent
will sway to. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The critical issues to the ever fastidious
American voters include: economy, family values, defence, security,
race-relation, job creation, tax and foreign affairs vis-à-vis
relationship with Africa, China, Israel, war in Afghanistan, Pakistan,
and Syria.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The differences between the policies, temperament
will play a key role, and certainly the two candidates differ in views
of the world. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Obama remains modest and transparent in tax
agenda over Romney. Obama’s vision is compelling, while Romney latched
on an unarticulated vision. Romney personae and images are associated
with the war mongering of George Bush, that will take American foreign
policy back decades to the cold war era. Obama is seen and perceived to
be hair-touch sensitive enough to appreciate hurricanes and devastating
oil spillages. Obama is equally perceived and correctly so, as an
experienced Commander-in-Chief that may not be quickly replaced for an
inexperienced one in view of the global security instability.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The Americans will certainly prefer a tested and trusted hand at this very trying period of global war against terrorism.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No
doubt, the Obama’s administration, had done more for Americans
(including the African-Americans) to sustain their confidence in a
reassuring votes. It has equally impacted on the rest of the world and
African, to justify the sympathy of the minority in Africa in his
leadership and his re-election drive.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">His administration
created jobs and empowerment. In August 2012, the unemployment rate for
black came down to 14.1 per cent from a high 16.7 per cent. It was in
August 2011, when he signed new initiatives to improve educational
outcome for African Americans—to improve the educational outcomes of
Africa – Americans, increase their college completion rate, employment
rates and the number of African–American teachers—which will eventually
lead to more productive careers, improved economic mobility and
security, and greater social well being for all Americans.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Aside
from the above, Obama’s key accomplishment in the last four years, will
no doubt, stand him in good stead and give him a strategic edge over
Romney. Some of the accomplishments are outlined below:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He
passed health care reform. After five president over a century, failed
to create universal health insurance, Obama signed the Affordable Care
Act 2010, to cover 32 million uninsured American, beginning in 2014. He
signed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to
spur economic growth amid greatest recession, since the Great
Depression, to create employments.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He also increased supports
for veterans, executed multi-pronged strategy of positively engaging
China, while reasserting the United States leadership in the region by
increasing American military presence, and crafting new commercial,
diplomatic and military alliance with neighbouring countries, made
uncomfortable by recent china’s behaviour.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Other major
achievements recorded by the Obama administration include, a $4.35
billion programme of competitive grant given to encourage and reward
states for education reform. He coordinated international response to
financial crisis (recession in 2009 and 2010) by helping to secure from
G-20 nations more than $500 billion for the IMF, to provide lines of
credit and other support to emerging market countries, which kept them
liquid and avoided crises with their currency. It also passed
mini-stimuli, improved Americans’ image abroad, reversed former
President George Bush’s torture policies, recapitalised banks, turned
around U.S auto industry and passed Wall Street Reform.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With
this, no doubt, Obama is certain to secure a marginal victory. Equally,
his impressive campaign outreach will certainly blunt negative
projections of the republicans against his administration, just as the
presence of high profile Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, will prove
strategic and shore up his votes.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">President Obama’s impact is not limited to America, but global, especially as it relates to his administration’s foreign policy.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In
his foreign policy, he tried to reach out to the rest of the world. He
attempted and indeed reached out to Arab leaders by granting his first
interview to an Arab Cable TV Nation—Al Arabiya, in the bid to promote
peace in the Middle East.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In March 2010, Obama took a public
stance against plans by the government of Israeli Prime Minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu, to continue with the building of Jewish housing
project in predominant Arab neighbours of East Jerusalem. During the
same period, he reached an agreement with the administration of Russian
President Dmitry Medvadev to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction
Treaty with a new pact reducing the number of long range nuclear weapons
in the arsenals of both countries by about one-third.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The
New START treaty was signed by Obama and Medvadev, in April 2010, and
was ratified by the US Senate in December 2010. This initiative will
count in favour of Obama’s re-election.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">African influence will
also count strategic, in swaying the electorate towards Obama’s vision
for America’s reminiscence. Africa had responded with joy when Obama was
elected. There was dancing on the streets of Liberia, jubilation on the
streets of Nigeria and Kenya, and declared his inauguration a public
holiday. He thus, promised to strengthen democracy and encourage growth,
through trade and investment, irrespective of the challenges faced by
Africa.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hitherto, Africans had been inundated with series of
challenges that include brain drain, the Americans’ “war on terror”
(especially during the President Bush’s era), lacklustre leadership,
increasing conflicts and violence with attendant displacement of people,
and the limited capacity of Africans to prevent conflict. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There
are other challenges of sustained violation of human rights, the IMF
and the World Bank, and the violence of corporate – led globalisation
that subsumed Africa’s potential to the profiteering and manipulations
of the multi-national corporations. </span></div>
Shehu Sanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533045756723329987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040492500424111528.post-71156701192698235432012-10-19T04:45:00.001-07:002012-10-19T04:45:15.397-07:00The EU deserves the Nobel Peace Prize<div class="articleinfo" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
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Friday, 19 October 2012</span></span> - <a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/shehu-sani-on-friday/49490-the-eu-deserves-the-nobel-peace-prize" target="_blank">Nigeria Tribune Online</a>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">THE ultimate desire of every nation on earth is to excel and
massively developed to its full potentials and ultimately became an
object of emulation and envy. In line with this aspiration, many nations
put in place plans and developmental strategies which are short.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">While
nations make sustain efforts in this aspiration, </span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;">it has been clearly
shown that no nation can be truly independent and completely sufficient
on its own without relying on others or development partners.</span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Nigeria,
had partnered and benefited from the vision, benevolence and generosity
of several development partners which had been operating in the country
for quite some time. Different development partners abound in the
country. They include but not restricted to DFID, USAID, JICA, CIDA,
UNDP, and the EU. Every effort should therefore, be put in place to
sustain and maximize the contractual benefits inherent in their
partnership with the Nigerian government. The European Union (EU), is
one of the largest development partners of the nation.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">It is a
unique economic and political union of 27 member sovereign states which
are located in Europe, with a combined population of over 500 million
inhabitant or 7.3 per cent of the world’s population. The EU in 2011
generated the largest nominal world Gross Domestic Product (GDP), of
17.6 trillion US dollars, representing approximately 20 per cent of the
global GDP when measured in terms of purchasing power parity.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">These
realities only translate to the fact that the body may have some funds
which it can use for its interventionist policy agenda. This also
underlies its effectiveness in most areas where the body has helped and
still helping to address development issues in most of the countries of
the world where it operates, including Nigeria.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The presence and
the activities of the EU in Nigerian have no doubt made a great
difference in the life of the people and their desire to develop. It has
helped and continue to help Nigerian’s development in more ways that
can easily be counted in a partnership that started since 1976. It has
committed itself to support Nigeria’s efforts at promoting peace and
security and equally committed to Nigeria’s socioeconomic development.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">In
the recent years, the European Union, collaborated with Nigeria and the
Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS), in the fight against
terrorism. Recently, a memorandum of understanding was signed for a 35
million euros (approx N7.2 billion) financing agreement in support of
the government’s efforts in preventing and fighting corruption. It also
funded a N4.3 billion project to support Federal Government reform
efforts in the areas of justice, water supply and sanitation, electoral
cycle as well as fight against drugs and other related organized crimes.
It spent N16 billion in water project around the country and earmarked
N6.5 billion for rural water projects in Nigerian and has pledged to
spend N138.4 billion for strategic project across Nigerian.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">No
doubt, any organization that sets out to combat terrorism, to fight or
prevent corruption, to support government reform so that justice and
equity will prevail and to support water provision, sanitation and
poverty reduction or elimination has largely contributed to promote
peace and that is what the EU has done and still doing in Nigerian and
other parts of the world, thus they are indeed a blessed peace maker per
excellence.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The announcement of the prestigious Peace Prize to
the EU was greeted with shock, applause also some criticism and cynicism
but it should be noted that the EU was awarded based on criteria or
standards the Nobel Committee found convenient. The award to the EU is
undoubtedly an appreciation of its role in the post war Europe and also
in post colonial third world nations in Africa, Latin America and Asia.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
Prize is one of the five bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and
inventor, Alfred Nobel. Others are in chemistry, physics, physiology or
medicine and literature. Since 1901, it has been awarded annually (with
some exemption) to those who have “done the most or the best work for
fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing
crimes and for the holding and promoting of peace congress”. Due to its
political nature, the Nobel Peace Prize has for most of its history been
the subject of controversies.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Past individual winners of the
Nobel peace prize include, ArchBishop Desmond Tutu, 14th Dalai Lama,
Barack Obama, Yitzak Rabin, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and Liu Xiabo.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
basis of awarding the prize to the EU is because the body has done much
to promote global fraternity and unity than others. The EU has promoted
and continues to promote unity at national and global level, one of the
concrete ways by which it promote unity and peace is through the
provision of humanitarian aids to many developing countries of the
world.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Aids in form of money for development flowed from the EU to
several of the developing countries since it began its partnership with
them. With this fund, many benefiting counties have been able to
address critical challenges militating against development in these
places.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Apart from its agenda for peace promotion in the
developing countries, the EU has also been a key in transforming Europe
“from a continent of war to a continent of peace”. It has contributed to
rebuild Europe after the second world war and played a key and
strategic role in spreading stability after the 1989 fall of the Berlin
Wall, thus the questions of whether it deserves the award or not does
not arise again in view of its obvious global peace initiatives. We may
justify the EU’s win by X-raying other peace–related development agenda
and initiative which the body had executed across the globe</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The European Union deserves and justifies the Nobel peace prize, because of the following reasons among several others.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">It’s
decade-long historical role in promoting, reconciliation and peace. The
EU had been a force for peace after the Second World War, binding
Germany and France together; it is spreading the values of the promotion
of democracy and human rights all over the world and helping to
transform Europe from a continent war to one of peace. It has helped
settle ethnic-based national conflicts in the Balkans. The award is
therefore timely, reassuring, reinvigorating and solemn.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">It will
serve as a tonic as well as a morale booster for the EU to know that
humanity appreciates their humanism, milk of human kindness and
brotherliness. It will also serve as a reinvigorating tonic to sustain
its ability to sustain fraternity between nations and at a lower level,
between individuals.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">It will also afford the EU to solemnly
reflect and take stock so as to renew their determination to make their
presence felt more than ever in most of the countries in which it
presently operates.</span></div>
Shehu Sanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533045756723329987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040492500424111528.post-70522235141593059602012-10-19T04:42:00.000-07:002012-10-19T04:42:12.484-07:00Adegbite: Exit of a bridge builder<div class="articleinfo" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
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Friday, 05 October 2012</span></span> - <a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/shehu-sani-on-friday/48720-adegbite-exit-of-a-bridge-builder" target="_blank">Nigeria Tribune Online</a>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">MELLIFLUOUS echoes of dirges, eulogies and encomiums flowed
in from different personalities, from across the length and breadth of
Nigeria and Africa to praise his numerous impacts on humanity, to
explore and appreciate his numerous roles as a peace maker, to eulogize
his influence as a positive change agent and to express their deep pains
on the unanticipated exit of Abdulateef Oladimeji Adegbite, the
Secretary General, Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic affairs (NSCIA)
the Baba Adini of Egba Muslim, the Seriki of Egbaland, a revered and
erudite constitutional lawyer, a vibrant motivator of youth and a strong
believer in one Nigeria.</span></div>
<a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Adegbite passed on 28th September at age 79, after a brief illness.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Since
the announcement of his death, Nigerians, nay Africans, have never
ceased to mourn one of its own illustrious sons, realizing the big
vacuum which the death has created. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">We can only realize the depth
of the loss of this great son of Africa if we can take time to revisit
some of the areas in which his peaceful disposition and moderating
influence has helped to assure Nigerians.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Nigeria, no doubt, is a
big and complex nation, earning it an appellation of the “Giant of
Africa”, yet such complexity is not without accompanying challenges
ranging from the political, social, religious to economic hiccups.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Security
is one area that the late Dr Adegbite had a glorious intervention.
Nigeria, since the past three decades has been experiencing series of
ethno- religious conflicts that tend to destabilize the country. Some of
these conflicts led to the loss of lives of hundreds of people and
destruction of properties.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">In some cases, the intervention of
prominent Nigerians have helped to nip in the bud, some of the
potentially devastating violence been helped to mitigate their
escalation. A nation that is blessed with men or women who can abruptly
end violence through their power of moral authority, integrity and
selflessness is indeed a blessed nation. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">If am to highlight all
the achievements of Dr Adegbite, especially in the area of peace
promotion, the space permitted will not do justice. I would therefore,
merely highlight some here. During the “Miss World riot” caused by a
journalist, Miss Isioma Daniel of ThisDay Newspaper, who reportedly
blasphemed the holy prophet of Islam, leading to massive demonstrations
and rioting in some places in the North, Dr Adegbite was one of the key
figures that intervened to calm frayed nerves.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">During the Kaduna
crisis of 2002, Dr Adegbite was among the prominent religious leaders in
Nigeria that proactively intervened to put an end to the orgy of
violence that enveloped Kaduna State and its environs.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">During the
protest arising from the Jyllan Posten (Danish newspaper) cartoons of
blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), he was at the fore front with
other stakeholders to ensure that the situation was put under control.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">When
some Muslims rose up and insisted that the position of the Sultan was
not hereditary and should be rotated between the Muslims in the North
and Muslims in the South, he intervened to ensure that the best interest
of the Nigerian Muslim Umma is protected.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">As the Boko Haram
insurgency continues to take its tolls on Nigerians, it was Dr Adegbite,
along with other concerned Nigerians, who cautioned the United States
of America not to label them as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">In
some cases of impending or outright confrontation between Muslims and
Christians in Nigeria, he was at the fore front to ensure that reason
prevails and logic rules to sustain a harmonious co-existence.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Even
in some political issues that had the tendency to polarise the North
and the Southern part of the country, he was at the forefront to
mitigate the friction and strengthen the bridge of understanding,
relationship and friendship.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">His wise (and at times
legally–inspired) counsels to the Federal Government during series of
national unrest and strikes have helped the nation at those critical
times. In his life time, he upheld and exemplified every priceless value
of a true and devoted Muslim. He practiced Islam with deep reverence
and obedience to Quranic injunctions and Hadith.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">He went further
to become a crusader and a mouth piece of Islam in Nigeria and beyond,
even at the risk of being labeled an “extremist” by those who did not
understand him or what he stood for. From the platform of Islam as
Secretary General of NSCIA, he consistently promoted inter-faith
understanding and built bridges across ethnic and religious divides to
promote peace, unity and national stability. He equally used the
platform to build bridges between the North and South, destroying
prejudice and suspicion. He also used the platform to speak against
societal ills such as corruption, immorality and crime.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">At the
Constituent Assembly, he argued in favor of the introduction of an
Islamic Court of Appeal to the southern states of Nigeria, arguing that
Muslims had the rights to have their lives judged according to Sharia.
He was later supported in that effort by late M.K.O Abiola to introduce
Sharia to the southern state as early as 1990s. Today, the voice of Dr
Adegbite is still and silent, and belongs to the ages. We are thus
deeply pained and saddened.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">In October 2003, while writing in a
newspaper, he had noted that “the US and their allies should be
persuaded to accept that the prevailing international terror would
reduce considerably if justice is entrenched in the Middle East. Give
the Palestine back their land, there will no longer (be) platforms for
the Osama Bin Ladens of this world to thrive. Without justice there can
be no peace”.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Born on 20 March 1933 into a strictly Moslem Egba
family in Abeokuta, Ogun State, late Dr Adegbite attended Methodist
School, Abeokuta and Saint Paul School, Igbore Abeokuta in 1942, He
obtained scholarship to attend Kings College Lagos where he was
co-founder and First National President of the Muslim Student Society of
Nigeria. He graduated in 1956.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">In 1959, the Western Region Premier
Chief Obafemi Awolowo awarded him scholarship to travel to England to
study for a law degree. He attended the University of Southampton,
graduating with a BA in law in July 1962. He then studied at the College
of Law, Lancaster Gate, in London and then at Grays Inn (1963-65). He
later won a commonwealth scholarship for post graduate studies in
England. He began his career teaching at the University of Lagos,
holding the post until retiring and going into private practice. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">In
1971, he was appointed Commissioner for Local Government and
Chieftaincy Matter in the old Western Region during the military
administration of Brigadier General Oluwole Rotimi. He was again
appointed Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of Western
Region in 1973. In October 1976, he formed the legal firm of Lateef
Adegbite and Co as the principal partner, specialising in commercial and
corporate law practice.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">We thank Almighty Allah for a life
well-spent in His obedience. To the entire Muslim Ummah, we must take
consolation in the fact that it is Almighty Allah that gives and takes.
We pray to Almighty Allah to grant his soul Aljanar firdaus, to preserve
his family, to give them and their friends fortitude to bear this
irreparable loss as we bid him farewell with everlasting love and
reverence... Adieu, Baba Adini.</span></div>
Shehu Sanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533045756723329987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040492500424111528.post-2279832349015716272012-10-19T04:38:00.000-07:002012-10-19T04:38:24.528-07:00Revolution attempts in Nigeria<div class="articleinfo" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="createdby">
Shehu Sani </span><span class="createdate">
Friday, 28 September 2012 - <a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/shehu-sani-on-friday/48355-revolution-attempts-in-nigeria" target="_blank">Nigeria Tribune Online</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">EVERY rational being thrives well in an orderly society,
hence the necessity to ensure stability in the polity. Good governance
equally thrives in an orderly society, hence the necessity to sustain
orderliness. As orderliness thrives, leaders however continue to abuse
the system through corruption, intolerance, dictatorship and human right
abus</span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;">es. When corruption, maladministration, human rights abuses and
dictatorship prevail, they sometimes trigger revolts and resistance from
the greater percentage of the populace, hence, the series of
revolutions world wide.</span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Revolutions can be non-violent as in the
case of Philippines or violent as in the case of Russia or China. It can
be against a monarchy as in the case of France or against dictators as
in the case of Cuba or Nicaragua. It can be religion as in Iran or
secular as in Egypt. It can be a struggle for independence as in the
case of America against the British or Algeria against France or Guinea
Bissau against the Portuguese. Revolution can be by communists as in
China or Cuba.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Revolution can be by mass uprising, armed
insurrections, student actions, labour strikes or by coup d’états as
exemplified by Muammar Gadhafi and Thomas Sankara. There can also be
revolutions via democratic elections as in the case of Venezuela,
Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, which brought the emergence of radical
leaders like Hugo Chavez, Eva Morales and others. Revolutions can also
have such connotations as spring, red, velvet, orange, cider. In the
past century, revolutions have reared its head, underlying the important
fact that in each every man and women lies the critical levels to which
they can endure pain, oppression and repression. From many past cases,
what triggers revolutions are not always obvious but when it happens, it
can sometimes be sudden and decisive.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">There have been several
revolutions in world history. There was the Haitian revolution in 1791,
sparked by unpredicted slave revolts of Saint Dominguez who plunged the
colony into a civil war. The slaves killed 4,000 whites, burnt and
destroyed 180 sugar plantations and a hundred coffee plantation. There
was the Islamic revolution, which refers to events involving the
overthrow of Iran’s monarchy under Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, and its
replacement with an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Khomeini, the
leader of the revolution. The strikes and demonstrations in the process paralyzed the country and forced the Shah unto exile, resulting in power
vacuum which was filled by Khomeini two weeks later. The revolution was
unusual and it created a lot of surprises throughout the world, as it
overthrew a regime heavily protected by a lavishly financed army and
security service. There was the Cuban revolution of 1953 which led to
the overthrow of General Fulgencio Batista by the young Fidel Castro and
his comrades, Che Guevara, Raul Castro and others after a long and
bloody guerrilla insurgency.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">There was the Chinese revolution of
1949 which brought the communist party to power and ended the capitalist
and brutal regime of Chiange Kai Shek Kuomintang party. There was the
Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire, just as we read of the
Taiping Revolution of 1851 against the authority of the Quing Empire in
China. There was the October socialist revolution in Russia in 1917 by
an armed revolt which overthrew the Russian provisional government and
gave power to some socialist revolutionaries.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">There was also the
glorious revolution of 1688 in England under King James, and then, there
was the American, French and Indian revolutions.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The reality of
history and the ongoing Arab spring are a clear signal and warning that a
revolution is inevitable in a society with an entrenched social
injustice and inequality. The reality of a revolution and its
consequence may be too difficult for Nigeria to handle, considering the
fragile state of the polity arising from the passion of its diverse
regions and the religious and ethnic obsessions of some elements in
those enclaves.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Yet, prominent Nigerians have been warning that a revolution may be imminent in Nigeria. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">General
Alani Akinrinade, a veteran of Nigerian civil war had warned the nation
and its rudderless leadership back to a line of reasoning, trust and
service delivery to empower the people and give them hope and reason to
live; Alhaji Balarabe Musa, former Civilian Governor of the old Kaduna
state had severely warned that the polity may be heading for a
revolution unless drastic measures are taken to address it. General
Muhamadu Buhari, also a veteran of Nigerian civil war, recently said
that the revolution in Nigeria was a matter of time. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">We have
become a nation that neglects the aspiration of the majority populace
for the minority and exploitative elites, with their selfish and
unpatriotic interest.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">We have witnessed the regrettable dissent of
Nigeria to the lowest ebb of regional leadership in Africa, without any
effort to address the issue.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">There are sad and regrettable
scenarios that had sparked up or watered previous revolutions, without
showing any remorse to prevent its extension to our territory. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Oppression
remains high and demeaning between the rich and the poor. Human rights
violation is at all time high, fostering deeper hatred and resentment
between the security agents/agencies and victims, shortchanging of
rightful political candidates with unqualified favorites of political
god father had produced pools of thousands of aggrieved and disenchanted
Nigerians looking for slight outlets to vent their resentments against
the state and the system. Million of very bright Nigerian graduates roam
the labour market for elusive jobs and without the hope of securing
any. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The
frustration has become all time high because among these graduates, you
will find those whose parents sold all their valuables to ensure their
education. Amongst them are those whose parents sold their previous land
or borrowed money from village cooperative societies with the hope and
belief that the money will be paid back immediately when their wards
graduate and secured a better job.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> It is high time for a drastic
and selfless policy intervention to ensure the goodness of our land. The
race to acquire and amass wealth between the nation’s elites is
suffocating. We must change our values. We must be more conscious of the
hereafter than the present, so as to prevent the “real revolution” that
will certainly be unforgiving to many Nigerians perceived to have benefited from the system.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The future of Nigeria can only be
assured if the progressive forces would take to the path of revolution
by either seizing power through the democratic popular channel or by
consistently mobilizing the masses to stand up and challenge any policy
that undermines or that is detrimental to the interest of the masses of
our great country.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Young people have an important role to play in
freeing our country from the shackles of neo-colonial exploitations and
plunder. The masses in the Northern part of Nigeria, must stand up
against religious extremism and feudal bondage, the masses in southern
part of Nigeria, must free themselves from ethnic chauvinism and
ultra-nationalistic agenda. Nigerian ruling class is united in its
desire to divide and divert our attention in order to sustain the
existing socioeconomic system that enables it to plunder our natural
resources and share them within itself. We must collectively stand up to
free our country and to rapidly advance it to the level of emerging
nations like China, Brazil, and South Korea. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">We cannot afford to remain behind while the rest of humanity move forward.</span></div>
Shehu Sanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533045756723329987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040492500424111528.post-88367033273214613322012-09-22T10:23:00.001-07:002012-09-22T10:23:08.583-07:00 Technology and violence<div class="articleinfo" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="createdby">
Shehu Sani </span>
<span class="createdate">
Friday, 21 September 2012 - <a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/shehu-sani-on-friday/47982-technology-and-violence" target="_blank">Nigeria Tribune Online</a></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">INCREASINGLY, the world is desirous of peace and the people of the
world are feverishly working and cooperating to initiate, promote,
sustain and entrench global peace and harmony in whatever ways and forms
possible. Much as efforts to promote peace and harmony are sustained,
increasing violence continues to undermine such efforts as it manifests
itself in different forms and degrees.<br /><br />The violence </span></span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;">perpetrated
through the engagement (or non engagement) of technology, especially in
the contemporary times provides greater impetus of concern for me. The
violence perpetrated with the use of information communication
technology is much of an issue and concern. Information communication
technology, no doubt has positively impacted on lives and the world.
Yet, it has equally constituted its own nuisance to humanity, when
mishandled. <br /><br />Technology has long been used as tools for violence,
from clubs and swords to cluster bombs and precision guarded missiles.
It has equally produced products that are enormously beneficial to
humanity. Technology has helped and still helping to cure sicknesses and
diseases (through powerful drugs), prolonging lives in the process. It
helps ensure high farm yields and maximum food production to feed the
growing population. It helps to increase the speed at which we do
business and manufacturing. It helps and is still helping to enhance
closely knit families, provides means of speedy transportation and
communication. Of more concern is the perpetration of violence through
the use or misuse of Information Communication Technology. The extent of
such benefits can be appreciated in terms of trillions of dollars
invested in the sector globally. ICT has been very beneficial to the
human rights community, politicians, the military, researchers, etc and
to democratic governance.<br /><br />It has made communication easier,
brought people closer and open unimaginable windows of opportunities for
people in terms of business, acquisition of knowledge and relationship
with people of different races, religions and creed.<br /><br />Politicians
are speedily becoming ICT-compliant, because of the strategic electoral
advantages it can confer on their aspirations. Politicians use social
media networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, Ning to sell their
programmes and manifesto and to solicit support and votes from the
electorate. Information sharing and dissemination remains one of the
major engagements of ICT, long ago, people follow the news, but today,
it is the news that followed the people. Today, alternative news
websites have been used to provide information, to share more
information and to create collective knowledge; ICT has enhanced the
ability to disseminate information from and to vast and relatively
powerful and connected audience with ease.<br /><br />Despite all these
massive and immeasurable benefits of technology and ICT, its misuse in
the society has contributed to violate our cherished values of chaste
and purity. It undermines our sense of togetherness and brotherhood. It
breeds hatred, suspicion, impunity, immorality, crime, fraud, violence
and terrorism. They have used it to violate privacy and disrupt social
relationships.<br /><br />It has been used and is still used by maniacs, fraudsters, pedophiles assassins, criminals and terrorists.<br /><br />Mobile
phone contains text and other multimedia messages. Text messages have
been used to instigate violence in places like Jos, Kaduna and some
other states in northern Nigeria, yet, there is no concrete evidence to
legislate to control these dangerous trends. Rumours circulated through
the text contribute to escalate violence in several parts of these
states. Gory and lurid images of violence and sex are freely circulated
using Blackberry. Potential terrorists, bombers and their accomplices
use the Blackberry to identify and attack targets. Also, because of the
coded nature of the Blackberry, violent people and potential terrorist
may use it to communicate with each other without being tracked or
monitored.<br /><br />Also, internet forum groups have been used and are
still used as platforms for fanning the embers of discord, attacks and
on the sensibilities of others (from other faith groups) or for
propagating ethnic agenda.<br /><br />It is now easier for terror group to
search for their victims, and other specific targets and attack them and
even train others in the attack plans. Terrorists have engaged
information obtained from the internet to produce bombs and other
improvised explosive devices and other dangerous and poisonous chemicals
that can easily be deployed to cause deaths in hundreds of thousands.
Also, assassins don’t need to suffer in getting the images/or photos of
their victims/target as all they need do is to Google and browse the
Facebook page or Google images to get multiple results. Cyber crime is
on the increase without restraint. Hackers and stalkers are having a
field day online, sending dangerous viruses to compromise valuable data
of enemies or to detonate explosives and nuclear agents stored in strong
silos. Manipulation of the internet is used to steal coded passwords
and of credit cards and emails resulting in the loss of hundreds of
millions of dollars. Online victimisation of young people through sexual
harassment and messages with sexual undertones constitute violence
against young people.<br /><br />Publication of indecent information to
embarrass and degrade women constitutes violence through technology
against women. The ICT is being used to advance the rhetoric’s of war
and undermine national security. Terrorists are mastering the
manipulation faster and ahead of security agents that ought to be more
knowledgeable than these criminals. <br /><br />International organisations,
governments, policy leaders, civil society organisations and concerned
individuals need to cooperate and collaborate to find ways to reduce the
engagement of technology in an unethical manner. This should be done
through genuine, credible, proactive and forward looking legislations to
regulate ICT engagements. <br /><br />Campaigns to mitigate the impact of
abuse and misuse of ICT and other forms of technology should be topmost.
Individuals should pledge to work for the “clean” use of technology.
Strong legislation to discourage cyber crimes must be put in place.
Scientific ways must be put in place to restrict the production of arms
and ammunition especially through treaties, surveillance and direct
inspections. Capacity of those who can work to prevent cyber crime and
ICT abuse should be built and developed to enhance their effectiveness. <br /><br />The
more we work to promote the best attributes of men, the better they can
engage in ethical use of technology for peace and not violence.</span>Shehu Sanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533045756723329987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040492500424111528.post-57372710211103781242012-09-22T10:19:00.001-07:002012-09-22T10:19:38.173-07:00 Ethiopia after Meles Zenawi<div class="articleinfo" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="createdby">
Shehu Sani </span>
<span class="createdate">
Friday, 14 September 2012- <a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/shehu-sani-on-friday/47639-ethiopia-after-meles-zenawi" target="_blank">Nigeria Tribune Online</a></span></span></span>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">SINCE 2008, Africa has lost eight heads of state. Recent ones
include Malam Bacai Sanha of Guinea Bissau, Umaru Musa Yar’adua of
Nigeria, Muammar Ghaddafi of Libya, Bingu Wa Mutharika of Malawi, John
Atta Mills of Ghana and Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia who died in a Belgian
hospital at age 57. Some of them died as a </span></span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;">result of illness, while
others died as a product of imperialist expansionism, as in the case of
Libya. All these deaths prove that they were all human after all and
needed no pretense or otherwise.</span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Either they died at home or abroad, they were after all immortal and
the death of some of these leaders threw up very vital issues in
development, leadership, and succession, as it relates to
constitutionalism. Death of leaders in Africa is throwing up conflict of
succession and only a few countries have deliberately put these issues
into consideration in its constitution.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Millions of Ethiopians, foreign dignitaries, including Heads of State
from across Africa gathered in Ethiopia to pay their respect to prime
minister Meles Zenawi who led Ethiopia for more than twenty years and in
the process brought economic development and prosperity to its people.
As the world bade him bye, his painful exit finds a palliative
consolation in his vision and intellectualism that he used to better the
lots of his people.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Born as Legesse Zenawi Asres in Adwa, Tigray in Northern Ethiopian by
a father from Adwa and a mother from Adi Quala, Eritrea. He studied
medicine at Addis Ababa University (at the time it was known as Haile
Selassie University) for two years before interrupting his studies in
1975 to join the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and became
one of its founders.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Although he did not finish his study of medicine at Addis Ababa
University, he later went to acquire a Master of Business Administration
(MBA) degree from Open University of the United Kingdom in 1995 and
Master of Science in Economics from the Erasmus University of the
Netherlands in 2004.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His first name at birth was “Legesse”, he later adopted “Meles”. In
honour of university student and fellow – Tigracy Meles Tekle, who was
executed by Mengistu’s government in 1975. He later in life got married
to Azeb Meshin, a former rebel fighter in PTLF and currently a member of
parliament. They were blessed with three children.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the 2000 general election, he was re-elected prime minister and
his ruling EPRDF party shared parliament seat with the opposition party,
United Ethiopian Democratic Forces.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zenawi encountered his first real challenge in the 2005 election, his
party was declared winner and kept his prime minister seat for another
term with opposition gaining some seats in the parliament.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">These election were the most contested and most controversial in
Ethiopian short democratic history with some opposition party members
arguing that the election was rigged by the ruling party.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The aftermath of the election led to riots and demonstration against
the result. At the end of the demonstration, seven police officers, 193
citizens were killed, while 763 civilians were wounded and tens of
thousands of Ethiopians jailed as the government used too much force to
subdue the demonstration.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet his subsequent credible leadership later obliterated the negative
impacts and perceptions about him and his government. He continued to
provide a source of hope to the frustrated Ethiopians.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Before the coming of Zenawi, the situation in Ethiopia was
precarious. In the mid 1970s, soviet-aligned coup leaders were in charge
in fragile Somalia and in the multi ethnic Ethiopia. Ethiopia was torn
by widespread unrest, with major ethic groups wanting to pull away from
Addis Ababa and form their own mini states. It was a mess that was
becoming an eyesore to Africa and the rest of the world Zenawi’s
administration inherited one of the worst economies in the world, with
massive famine which led to the death of an estimated 1.5million
Ethiopians. With his pragmatic leadership, the economy grew steadily
after he took over. During the last 7 years, Ethiopian GDP showed a
steady growth rate of about 9% per annum and a brighter prospect.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Among the 54 African leaders, Zenawi, was widely considered by many as an achiever.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Under his leadership, Ethiopia created a modern system of land and
business ownership rights. Under his vision, Ethiopia built globally
standardized road network and hydroelectric project to bring power to
places that had never had it and he equally moved to end the cynical
famines in a region of perennial draught.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His government introduced a diverse but controversial policy of
decentralisation of the language system in Ethiopia. Ethiopians are
taught using their mother tongue in primary schools and they are
encouraged to develop their own language. Critics said the policy harmed
the unity and national identity of the country, while others supported
it. He built many schools and other educational institutions to make
education easily accessible to the Ethiopians. He promoted unrestricted
freedom of religion. All along, Muslims and orthodox christians lived
together in harmony for many centuries. However, complete religious
freedom was formalised only in 1991. He constructed many dams to make
water and water resources available and became the first Ethiopian
leader to develop a multiparty system, including, an opposition party in
federalism, which came under attacks from some Ethiopians.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He played an important role in developing the African Union’s
position on climate change. He ensured that Ethiopia’s foreign policy
remained vibrant and inward looking. He promoted gender equality and
advocated equal rights and opportunity leading to a steady growth of
several women organisations, women activists and empowerments, he
equally created a forum where women could meet and better their lots as
the evidence of the milestone of his visionary leadership.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Despite all these laudable vision– inspired developments and
leadership, he was also human and had his own low sides that drew the
ire and criticisms of observers in Ethiopia and even the west – in his
human rights and foreign policy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the area of human rights, he was very tight-fisted, closing down
political space, and strengthening his grip on power in the process,
while in other endeavors, his generous spirit lightened humanity. He
stifled and suppressed opposition, putting economic success ahead of
human rights issues, arresting and jailing opposition political elements
in the process.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet despite all these, he remained unperturbed as he developed the
economy of Ethiopia with a positive anger. He never took advantage of
his position to carve out a personal advantage for himself. Under his
rule, Ethiopia became the most stable country in the horn of Africa
triggering partnership from aspiring developing countries.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the death Zenawi, Africa has no doubt lost one of its best and ablest</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">DEATH came knocking on the door of her family house. It lurked in
the corner for a while until it threw its pang on the once vivacious
and vibrant Francisca Ngozi Okoli, snatching her in her prime and
puncturing to uselessness and eternity, all her lofty dream for a better
tomorrow.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some dare devil armed men had, in their dastardly operation and
satanic mission, visited the family house of Mr & Mrs Okoli in </span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the
Awka Etiti community in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra
State. After robbing the already impoverished family of their precious
belongings, they attempted to rob their precious daughter,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Francisca Ngozi Okoli, of her prized virtue through attempted rape.
They herded her into an isolated dilapidated building while her parents
were securely locked inside. She resisted their attempt with all the
feminine force in her and the gun men, out of annoyance, killed her with
a pestle. This sad event occurred in a morning raid on their premises
on Sunday, 29th July, 2012.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since the painful and untimely demise of beautiful and promising
Francisca, heavens have not ceased outpouring grief just as her mother,
parents and every Nigerian with conscience have been thrown into
mourning. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Francisca, no doubt, stood out as a shining star and model for her
display of such an uncommon and exemplary courage even in the face of
imminent and unwarranted death. She stood firm despite having an option
to succumb to their lustful wishes and thereafter lick her wounds while
suffering in silence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At this juncture, we ask ourselves some salient questions: What has
gone wrong with our moral values. Why is our conscience and ability to
choose what is right so dead that nothing good comes out of us? It is
sad that such an evil could be visited on such innocent and defenseless
girls, women and mothers in our society. Francisca, our hearts are
pained and our souls soured. We share in the grief of your parents and
we take solace in the fact that the law of karma would take its rightful
effects, when the perpetrators of this dastardly act may have forgotten
their evil deed. We shall continue to salute your uncommon courage
while we bid you farewell as you rightfully join the martyrs and heroes
of courage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Courage is an attribute that is not common today. It is a quality possessed and applied by very few people like Francisca.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So many other women around the world have equally displayed such
courage in the face of imminent rape and after such a horrible
experience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Meerwala, Pakistan, 32-year-old school teacher, Mukhtar Mai, was
gang-raped by four men in connivance with two other accomplices.
Unfortunately, factors of social stigma, culture, taboo, discriminating
law and victimisation threw a spanner in her attempts to seek redress in
the court. She persisted, despite doing it alone, and won the court
case, leading to their being sentenced to death on June 22, 2002.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In South Kivu’s provincial capital of Bakavu, Congo, Jeanetta Nbaragu
Manana was raped by four soldiers under the leadership of Shelala
Tamasieme in November 2008. Despite the social stigma, she pursued her
case at the Bakavu’s Military Tribunal and the main culprit, Shelala
Tamasieme, was finally sentenced to 20 years in prison, ending
Jeanette’s sustained struggles to convict these rapists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rape has, no doubt, become a recurring decimal in our country today
and even beyond. Men and women are victims altogether. While boys are
sodomised, girls are violated. No one is secure anymore. Worse still,
rape has no class barrier; kings and celebrities are involved in it,
just as the poor are also enmeshed in the act. Celebrities had at one
time or the other been linked to rape, just as many unidentified poor
people have also been involved in it. Not too long, some young men
reportedly raped old women in Enugu State. The state government
intervened, tried to rehabilitate them, and gave them succor. But these
rapists went back to the recovering women and raped them repeatedly,
until many of them ran out of the state.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All these indicate that rapists are on the prowl and we must be more proactive enough to contain this ugly crime.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rape is defined as a sexual intercourse with a woman or man without
her/his consent and chiefly by force or deception. Rape is a crime of
felony, regardless of the offender’s relationship with the victim. Rape
is an internationally recognised human rights violation and a crime of
violence, rage and hate that demonstrate an extreme disrespect for the
wishes and feelings of the raped. The committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination Against Women (EDAW) stated in its general recommendation
number 19, that gender-based violence was a form of discrimination
which the convention required its state parties to eliminate in all its
ramification. Nigeria ratified the convention on June 13, 1985.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Though it is enshrined in different acts of all the states in
Nigeria, the federal law for rape prosecution is found under section 138
(1) Evidence Act, Cap 112, laws of the federation 1990. Despite the
existence of the law, most rape victims do not seek redress due to
social stigma. They prefer to suffer in silence. Even when they try to
go to court to press their case, the nation’s judicial process becomes
so frustrating and harrowing for them and thus a successful prosecution
of rape cases becomes a mirage. The burden of proving the incident
solely rests on the victims. The complainant must prove beyond
reasonable doubts that in the unlawful sex, which is not between husband
and wife, complete penetration of the woman occurred without her
consent. She must also prove that the suspect had the prior intention to
have intercourse with her without her consent or was reckless, with or
without her consent. The evidence can be corroborated but this condition
is optional.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Despite all the stringent legislations, rape incidents are on the
increase and many more women are keeping such violations to their minds,
suffering alone in the process. Rape saga is not peculiar to Nigeria
alone; it is a global phenomenon. But unlike Nigeria, other countries
are trying to be active in its control.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Though the offence is a crime in Nigeria, it is not listed in the
police crime statistic reports. Perhaps this is so due to the extremely
low frequency of occurrence or unwillingness by victims to report the
crime to the police. In cases where there are statistical evidences,
these are at times disputed by authorities and regarded as
exaggerations, arguing that the official crime statistics fail to give
the full pictures of the incident.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Several factors predispose people to rape. These include hatred of
the opposite sex due to unresolved and problematic childhood incident,
sexual cleansing and ritual practices. Rapes are committed everywhere
and anywhere for instance, on highways, pathways, in refugee camps,
night buses and prisons.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The impacts of rape have been high and devastating, causing feelings
of hopelessness and trauma that may lead to suicide, sexually
transmitted diseases, insomnia and madness, or sudden aggressive
behaviours.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rape should be prevented with extra vigilance, provision of adequate
security and shunning of provocative dresses. As a society, we need to
do more to prevent rape cases in our midst. It is so sad that the young
Francisca had to die this pathetic way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Insecurity of lives and property in Nigeria is on the increase and
government must do everything possible to address the problem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The pain of losing her is too much for us to bear, but we must bear
its pain and take solace in the fact that it is God who gives and it is
God, who takes away. The robbers have done their worst, but they cannot
live in peace. If they have children, they should know that nemeses will
catch up with them, no matter how long.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We should have the courage to say no to things that are demeaning to
our soul and spirit. We should have the courage of the heroines like
Francisca, who will continue to live in our hearts and serve as a
positive reference point.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">THE Northern governors have only succeeded in organising series of
jamborees called summits, without concrete follow ups and feed back
mechanism. At the last count, the governors have organised summits on
peace, agriculture, power generation, health, education and MDG, and the
Northern governors forum has not done much to address issues of
dilapidating legacies of Late Sir. Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto.
Professor Mike Kwanashi had noted that the North has not developed
because the governors “were more outward looking tow</span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;">ards the centre than
they were inward looking towards their society.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The North has neglected and continues its opposition to education,
despite its obvious advantage in global competition and despite 60 years
gap between it and Southern Nigeria. There is an increasing disunity in
the North. Nothing demonstrates the lack of unity and vision in the
North as the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Its inability to produce and promote a credible and acceptable
presidential candidate as it used to; its inability to have an
identifiable and credible voice to speak for the realisation of the
rejuvenation of its moribund textile industries and other related
industries, despite the promised N100 billion textile fund; the way and
manner the zoning of presidency was speedily set aside to favour another
zone; its failure to work or cooperate to prosecute those who stole
money meant to develop power in the North; in its inability to truly
assimilate the Northern minority who are feeling unwanted in the core
Northern states.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It is so bad that the United States Assistant Secretary of state,
Johnie Carson suggested the creation of ministry of Northern Affairs or a
development commission to deal with insurgency in the North
East–similar to what was done in response to the Niger Delta issues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The North is poor because of the aforementioned reasons, and it may
continue to be if drastic action is not taken to address or reverse
those sad trends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The North is rich but refuses to be rich. The North is industrious,
but refuses to be industrious. The North is great but refuses to be
great. The North remain a sleeping giant continuously trampled upon by
smaller regions. The North is thus being isolated from the rest of the
country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The North is not poor because it has agricultural potentials. It
equally has other bargaining products such as solid minerals, natural
resources, tourism (Argungu). It equally has a strategic and active
working population. The North is rich because it has agriculture,
tourism and even crude oil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The North has gum Arabic, cotton, groundnut, sesame seed, jatropha, sugar cane, shea butter, fishery, and livestock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If the North can wake up to tap these enormous potentials, it will
put to rest the erroneous impression that the Northern people are lazy,
and are parasites and it will also go further to enhance national
economy and stability, enhance standard of living, stave off militancy,
sustain industrialization and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). It will
also promote regional integration in the neighboring Chad, Cameroun, and
Niger Republic. It may also reduce the agitation for the call for
sovereign National Conference to ordinary National Conference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Agriculture provides the major sources of employment for the vast
majority of Northerners and present the quickest ways of reducing
poverty in the region. The north does not have any business with
importation of food. Yet attempts at embarking on commercial agriculture
is threatened by access to low cost finance, land tenure system and low
productivity. It is on record that Nigeria imports food with N1.7
billion every year, despite having 79 million hectares of arable land
out of which only about 40 million hectares are being cultivated. Also,
35-40% of the meat consumed in Nigeria comes from neighboring African
countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If the North has a widely acceptable and credible leadership, it
would have hastened the regions-road to economic recovery and
development, yet no one speaks for the North well enough to be
acceptable by the entire region.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The question then is: who speaks for the North? There are many
organisations and pressure groups springing up—now, just as they were in
the past. We have the UDF, NEF, APC, NU, ACF, G-20, GAMA, Turaki
committee, the Northern Christian Elders Forum, The Coalition Of
Concerned Northerners, The Area Citizen Actions For Change, and The
Arewa Transformation and Empowerment Initiatives. Yet it is high time
that the North repositioned its leadership to be truly representative
and credible so as to work to move the North forward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The bottom line is that we must all work to bring out the best of what the north has to offer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If tourism yields Kenya and Egypt billions of dollars, then the north can be richer by developing its tourism sector</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Today, Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia are agricultural superpowers, so also is Tanzania and Mozambique trailing behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If Botswana can earn 2 billion pounds per annum from exporting beef; Northern Nigeria can do better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If Malaysia can earn 28 billion dollars from the exportation of palm
oil, then with determination and vision, the North can do better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If Brazil can be self sufficient in food and becomes one of the world
largest exporters of beef, sugar cane, coffee, and frozen chicken, the
North can do better with a renewed determination and selfless sacrifice.
The world market is looking for N50 billion worth of Moringa Olifera
(Zogale), a food and medicinal plant, that grows on the wild in Nigeria
(especially, Northern Nigeria), Northerners must therefore not be left
behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The North needs to be honest with itself and face the reality on ground and find ways out of the problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The North is not poor in resources, but in leadership<br />The North is not poor in manpower but in skill and vision<br />The North is not poor in friendliness but in aloofness<br />The North is not poor in agriculture but in dependency syndrome<br />The North is not poor in religion but in virtues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We must all be proactive in helping the North to be the North it
ought to be. As a way out, the North must set up both short and long
term master plan that will not be based on oil and managed by a team of
economists and technocrats. The region must mobilise capital for the
general development of its infrastructure, agriculture, education and
health. The land use act must be reviewed while the NNDC, an investment
arm of the North must be reorganised.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Access to justice must be vigorously enforced. Its states should work
to improve their revenue base through internally generated revenue. It
must partner and benefit from international donor agencies like OK, IBD,
AFBA, UNDP, USPF, DFID, USAID, and local institutions and banks such as
NEXIM, Central Bank of Nigeria, Bank of Industry etc. The North has all
the potentials needed for greatness, consistent government policy to
translate these into reality will ultimately determine how rich or poor
the North will be in a few years to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A meeting of minds usually involves using ideas to fight ideas until superior ideas gain prominence.<br /><br />The
meeting of minds in Nigeria may atimes end up in X-raying issues that
affect us as a nation most especially, the topical issues.<br /><br />There
are many issues of importance to address in Nigeria today, but one
bothering on its economy and security seems to be of utmost priority.
Trust Nigerians, they address issues with all the components of their
being-verve, voices and </span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;">vision.<br /><br />In addressing the issues of
economy and factors that brought us to where we are today, some here
find it appropriate to heap a large portion of the blame on northerners,
(domiciled in northern Nigeria) for their contribution to slowing down
the desired uniform growth expected in the South-South, South-West or
South-East—if at all there had been any encouraging growth in these
zones.<br /><br />Every time issues of poverty are mentioned in several fora
in Nigeria, critics are quick to point to or sheepishly grin in the
directions of northerners present. This realization has prompted me to
ask a pertinent question—is Northern Nigeria really poor? Nigeria is no
doubt a blessed country. Blessed in both human and natural resources,
yet its people remain poor due to bad governance, bad leadership,
corrosive and docile followership.<br /><br />With a population of about 160
million people and as the 6th largest producer of crude oil in the
world, coupled with a viable agrarian base, one does not expect the
spectre of misery and poverty as evidenced today, if such endowments
have been fully tapped and prudently utilized for the betterment of its
people. While the poor economy/poverty status of the nation remain
worrisome, at least to patriotic Nigerians, it actually gives more cause
for concern when one x-rays the situation in Northern Nigeria vis-a-vis
the rest of the country.<br /><br /> While I agree that the north certainly
has the highest number of poor people in the country, I do not agree
that the north is poor.<br /><br />The north is one of the vibrant regions
of the country. It has approximately half the percentage population of
the country. It occupies 70% of the country’s land mass of 923.713
square kilometer, a large part of the land mass is arable and can
support all year round agricultural production.<br /><br />Out of 360 House
of Representatives members, the North has more than 200 legislators, yet
continues to make less political impact in the nation.<br /><br />The north
has few men whose wealth are in the range of billions, it equally has
the richest man in Africa, yet the same region produces the worst of
poverty-stricken people on the African continent. It has 19 out of the
36 states on the nation.<br /><br />It has the largest deposit of solid
minerals of highest grades and quality, yet it remains the region whose
women spend hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase gold, silver,
and other products of solid minerals outside the country.<br /><br />Despite
all these endowments and potentials, it is undeservedly poor,
underdeveloped and crises-prone, thus drawing disdain, slight, blame,
and criticisms from other sections of the country with higher efforts at
development.<br /><br />The South-South (Niger-Delta) supports the Federation with crude oil which benefits the entire nation.<br /><br />The
South East supports the federation with its industrialisation and
commercial activities jointly shared by the entire federation. The same
applies to the South West but not the North which seems not to have any
thing to bring to the centre (despite its endowment) yet willing to
share the resources of others.<br /><br />One can truly understand why
Comrade Joseph Evah, National Coordinator of Ijaw monitoring Group
remarks that “it is the North that is benefiting from the wealth and
unity of this country”.<br /><br />One can truly see why the sustained
agitation of MASSOB leader, Ralph Uwazuruke and Major Gideon Orkar’s
coup’s speech attempted to cut off a section of the North from the rest
of the country. Senator Kennedy Waku in one of his interviews with some
national dailies said that ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo was all out to
destroy the North. Obasanjo, he said promised to make every Northerner a
beggar. Whether he said it or not, nobody can make the North or
Northerner a beggar without the cooperation and permission of the
northern. Yet poverty continues its steady encroachment into every home
in the region just as desertification is knocking on every door as it
eats into the North.<br /><br />Whatever parameter is used to measure
poverty and standard of living, the North is certainly at its worst
grading. The fact is that the North remains one of the least developed
parts of the world. In2007, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s poverty index
asserted that the prevalence rate of poverty in the North was 70%.
Today, the north still has the highest poverty incidence of 64.8%
compared to the South which is 42.8%.<br /><br />Several factors and issues
contributed to where the North is today. They include but not limited to
communal carnage (ethno religious conflicts), fair weather politicians,
collapsed infrastructure, almajiri and child destitution syndrome, weak
industrial base, reduced inter-state cooperation, poverty, cultural
inhibition and intolerance, land tenure system, increasing disunity,
neglect of agriculture and education, dependence or reliance on monthly
statutory allocations and insecurity.<br /><br />Insecurity more than any
other factor has greatly undermined and has continued to undermine the
ability of the North to grow and developed. The region is losing
precious human lives and money and properties due to the Boko Harm
insurgency. It is estimated that the region is losing around N25 billion
daily as a result of the Boko Harm insurgency. It was calculated that
the Boko Haram insurgency has set Borno State backward for another 12
years, just as the present civil war in Syria has set the hand of
development back for another 25 years.<br /><br />The Boko Haram insurgency
is a product of bad leadership and fair weather politician, who lack
vision, foresight and purposeful ideology to mobilize and make any
positive impact on the lives of the common Northerner. No wonder today,
the North is discredited politically and continues to suffer political
decline. It lacks effective political succession platform and strategies
and its democratic skills remain shallow.</span></div>
Shehu Sanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533045756723329987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040492500424111528.post-16396527117550722892012-08-25T13:15:00.002-07:002012-08-25T13:15:56.659-07:00Does the Olympics benefit the poor?<div class="articleinfo" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
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Shehu Sani </span>
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Thursday, 02 August 2012 - <a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/shehu-sani-on-friday/45310-does-the-olympics-benefit-the-poor" target="_blank">Nigeria Tribune Online</a></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">IT is yet another Olympics meet and its feverish tempo and
celebrations. The Olympics is a huge major international event-socially,
politically, and economically—featuring summer and winter sports and
held every four years, where thousands of the best of athletes from
around the world come together to compete in a variety of sports. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The London 2012 Olympics is </span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;">no doubt comprehensive and well organized. Right from the time Britain won the hosting rights, to the
staging of the events proper, the preparation for the events has no
doubt been elaborate, meticulous, but resource—gulping. Billions of
pounds sterling have been expended and more funds will certainly be
needed for the maintenance of some of the structures and facilities at
the end of the events.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We as a people can easily appreciate the extent of the anticipation
of the people towards the staging of the events, if one relates such
anticipation to the background of similar (but on a lesser scale) events
hosted in Nigeria. The Commonwealth Games and the World cup fiesta that
was staged in Nigeria. In those events, which lasted less than three
weeks, billions of naira was reportedly expended by its organizers,
prompting criticisms and justifications or the economic benefits against
other pressing and competing national needs or demands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the case of the London 2012, the sum of 14.8 billion US dollars
was reportedly spent in staging the events making it to be the most
expensive of all Olympics in history. Such huge expenditure is trailed
behind by those of Barcelona 1992 (USD 11.4 billion) and Montreal 1976
(USD 6.0billion). China’s Olympics was reported to be in the same league
of expense with those mentioned above, but the Chinese authorities
refused to officially disclose the amount spent to organize theirs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Whatever amount of money was spent to stage these glamorous global
sporting fiesta, its organizers seems to view and appreciate such, a
huge investment from rather a peculiar aspect of the numerous benefits
and values derivable from the staging of the events and the values are
no doubt obviously enormous, ranging from physical, economic, political
and spiritual.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Physically, exercises involved in the games make us good and are good
for our bodies, its effects on our well being may be very difficult to
quantify, yet playing games make us good, especially if we are on the
winning sides.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Politically, the events have been used and still being used as a
platform to promote political ideology, as seen by the Nazis in the late
forties. The coming together of different races of humanity in the name
of sports can go a long way to address the issue of racism and
xenophobia. The hosting of the events is tied to national prestige and
status and means by which nations can prove themselves and show off
their ability to compete on world stage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The economic benefits are also enormous and in most cases always forms the basis of criticism of its benefits or otherwise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Critics have argued that for staging the events, the United Kingdom
will get a temporary boost but no lasting benefits and would run the
Olympics at a loss as Athens did in 2004. Whatever the diversity of
opinion, the hosting of the events will provide the host cities
benefits that can influence the overall economy of the
host-London-Business owners will benefit, the host cities will benefit,
airliners will benefit and the food industry will also benefit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Organizing the Olympics has not been without its own controversies
and crisis. This has, however, not affected the zeal with which the
events are competed to be hosted. Attempts to host some previous
Olympics had been greeted with protests and boycotts. In the past, there
was a boycott to protest the Palestinian causes, there was a protest
relating to gender discrimination, racism and the Suez crisis and of
recent there was a protest to drop Dow chemical as one of the London
Olympics sponsor. The criticism that arose from the hosting of the event
is derivable from the exorbitant cost and the concerns about turning
Britain to a police state on the account of the massive mobilization of
security forces and deployment of missiles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Whatever the cases, the justification of the hosting of the Olympics
therefore depends or rests on where we perceive it, either for or
against.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The main issues is whether or not the Olympics benefit the poor.<br />Certainly everything about the Olympics is elitist. The poor may not really benefit as such. Most of those who we may refer to as poor certainly are not found in the developed
countries but in the developing countries like African and Asian
countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So the question as to whether the Olympics benefit the poor will be
largely directed to these continents and its people and examined.
Whether the hosting of the game is of benefits to its largely
impoverished people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Several Olympics had been hosted and I doubt if any of such had
specifically addressed issues that are of importance to the poor in
these continents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Both the African and Asian continents are inundated with series of
challenges that include but not limited to the following; poverty,
hunger (famine) diseases (malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS), drought,
high maternal and infant mortality insecurity, conflicts, (child
soldiers), poor infrastructure, increasing economic isolation, fragile
political transition, desertification, other environmental challenges
among several others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The consequences of these are the increasing cases of conflicts,
insecurity, terrorism and migration that also have impacts on the
developed countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Concerned about this precarious situation, several international
donor agencies and foundations have cooperated and contributed to ensure
unrestricted aids to most of the developing countries, yet these good
gestures seems not to be enough. The reality is that funds spent in
hosting Olympics can be prudently managed to pave the way for due
assistance towards helping developing countries.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Tony Blair’s African commission as well as the UN millennium funds
stated that Africa needs about 50 billion dollars per year in aid by
year 2010. We are in 2012, yet these projections have not been realized.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A report on sanitation and hygiene by the world bank states that
“every day, 6,000 children die from diseases associated with adequate
sanitation, poor hygiene, and unsafe water. Diarrhea alone killed one
child every 20 seconds”, yet the organisers of sports events remain
unconcerned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As much as the problem continues, the Olympics will certainly not be for the poor.</span></div>
Shehu Sanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533045756723329987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040492500424111528.post-36245559095095557022012-08-25T13:09:00.000-07:002012-08-25T13:09:03.601-07:00Patrice Lumumba and leadership<div class="articleinfo" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="createdby">
Shehu Sani </span>
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Friday, 13 July 2012 - <a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/shehu-sani-on-friday/44159-patrice-lumumba-and-leadership-1" target="_blank">Nigeria Tribune Online</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">ONE of the recurring issues of concern that is reflective of growth
and development in Nigeria nay Africa is the issue of leadership. The
issue of leadership and governance has assumed a critical perspective in
the present day Nigeria, because an effective and visionary leadership
is a prerequisite for societal growth and social advancement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Leadership is a multidimensional concept that can</span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;"> hardly be fully
comprehended in a restricted contextual milieu that an analyst cannot
but be constrained to operate within.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Leadership is about effective and prudent management of men and
materials with a view to ensuring the accomplishment of organisational /
or national goals at minimum cost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Chinua Achebe, Nigeria’s foremost novelist, had noted that the
trouble with Nigeria (his home country) was leadership. Although he was
country – specific in his analysis, his views can be replicated in many
parts of Africa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bad leadership is responsible for the stunted growth in Africa, which
has bred disappointed and disillusioned citizens. With vast resources;
both human and material, the belief is that the continent should have
exceeded its current status, but several undesirable factors continue to
conspire to undermine its growth. Such factors include; prolonged
conflicts and deepening humanitarian crisis, poverty, spread of
infection and re-emerging diseases, (including HIV/AID), polio, child
malnutrition, high child mortality, food shortages, lack of clean water
and good education, starvation, desertification, deforestation and
environmental pollution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is further complicated by indecent and uncivilized behaviors of
its so called “leaders”. African leaders are seen as and derogatorily
comport themselves as the alpha and omega. Corrupt in morals, mien and
manners. Leaders, who ought to have been fathers of nations, are sadly
in office, to feathers their nest from the nation’s treasury. They are
not accountable to anybody and are intolerant of critical views passed
on their forms of administration, and in no time soon become tyrannical,
authoritarian and dictatorial. Nigeria has had its share of such
leadership and I pray we will never witness such again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">God is no doubt a Nigerian, his attributes of abundance is reflected
in the blessedness of Nigeria in both human and material resources that
can make it survive with little or no help from the outside world. Yet,
it remains a giant that has been tied up by internal weakness,
leadership, and leaders whose petty ambitions and inhuman greed continue
to undermine our collective existence. Plagued by sectarian violence,
deepening corruption in both public and private realm, and palpable
alienation of huge majority of the populations (usually the youth) from
governance. In noting the emergence of leadership in Nigeria, Dr.
Matthew Hassan Kukah, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto diocese observed that
Nigeria has produced through difficult processes, men and woman who came
to power and office largely by accident, stressing that “none of these
great men came to office without any degree of preparation or experience
in governance”. Sadly, the nation’s political system is designed to
produce political office holders and not leaders and an instituted
political governance structure that undermines rather than promotes.
This can only be corrected by patriotic constitutional purity, (realised
through collective input purification) effective and visionary
leadership as exemplified by the likes of Thomas Sankara of Burkina
Faso, Festus Mogae of Botswana, Joaqim Chissano of Mozambique, Thabo
Mbeki of South Africa and John Agyekum Kufor in our neighboring Ghana.
The desire to promote excellence and vision in leadership prompted the
institution of Mo Ibrahim award for good Governance and Excellence in
African leadership. The US $5 million prize was instituted by Dr Mo
Ibrahim, a billionaire Sudanese – British founder of Celtel. The award
no doubt has increased the sensitivities of the African towards desiring
qualitative leadership, but it might have achieved much impact it such
an award had been designed to promote leadership and good governance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We need pragmatic and visionary leaders to move Nigeria forward.
Nigeria and Africa need leaders like Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln and
Martin Luther King Jr. Nigeria needs a visionary leader. A leader that
is committed to the core values and that embodies a sense of personal
integrity and radiates a sense of vitality and will. A leader that is
more self aware and reflective than others. A leader that follows an
inner sense of direction like Mahatma Ghandi. Rather being corrupt by
powers, visionary leaders are elevated by power and exercise moral
leadership in the process. They hold to and communicate positive vision
which they engage to move to higher level of realization. They inspire
people to be better than they already are. They often have the ability
to see higher spiritual forces and work behind the scene of events and
align with the vision of these redemptive forces. With a good leadership
in place, there will be social justice, equity, fairness, transparency,
accountability and efficient use of resources. There will be goodness
and prosperity on the land and the people will rejoice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The life and legacies of Patrice Lumumba provides a lesson of
emulation in leadership and vision for every one. Patrice Emery Lumumba
(2 July 1925 –17 January 1961) was born in Onalua in the Kata Koruba
region of the Kasai province of the Belgian Congo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lumumba started his working career as a Post office Clerk, which was
in 1956. Four years later; he was elected as Prime Minister. In between
that period, he also worked as traveling beer salesman and imprisoned
twice for embezzlement, (though he claimed his motivation was political)
and once for his political activities and inciting unrest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">His brief imprisonment radicalised him irreversibly. By 1958, he co
founded a political party, the National Congolese Movement, the MNC, a
distinctly pan African political party, where he served as its
President. The party promotes national unity and economic sovereignty
and was deeply influenced by pan African ideals of Ghana’s Kwame
Nkrumah. It was as president of MNC that Lumumba was elected as the
first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in June
1960.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">For 126 years, the United States and Belgium played key roles in
shaping Congo’s destiny. The United States was the first country in the
world to recognise the claims of King Leopold II of Belgium to the
territories of the Congo basin. The economic exploitation of its rich
mineral resources led to fatalities as a result of brutal confrontations
between the Belgium forces and the natives. The US strengthened Belgian
colonisation and even went ahead to acquire a strategic stake in the
enormous natural wealth of the Congo. The uranium from Congolese mines
was more strategic to the US than any other mineral, because it was used
to manufacture the first atomic bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
With the outbreak of the cold war between the Soviet Union and the US
along with its allies, the US was prepared not to let Congo have
effective control over the uranium deposit, yet Lumumba was very
determined to achieve genuine independence and have full control over
Congo’s resources in order to use it to advance the welfare of
Congolese’s people. From that moment, he became an enemy of the US and
its collaborating Belgians, who used all sorts of tools (including
poisoned tooth paste) and resources to support his rivals so as to
eliminate him in international intrigues and betrayals</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">They buy choice properties in Abuja, Lagos and other places.</span></li>
<li>They buy choice properties in Dubai, London, U.S, Singapore or Malaysia.</li>
<li>They buy shares in the name of family members or proxies.</li>
<li>They use fronts to run legitimate businesses.</li>
<li>They set up private Newspapers.</li>
<li>They startup airlines.</li>
<li>They build private University in Nigeria or Abroad.</li>
<li>They build Hotels in South Africa or other tourist spots around the world.</li>
<li>They build elite multi million naira primary and secondary schools in Nigeria and give a foreigner or his wife to manage.<a name='more'></a></li>
<li>They build churches.</li>
<li>They build mosques.</li>
<li>They sponsor pilgrims to Saudia or Jerusalem.</li>
<li>They establish a mechanized farm that produces nothing.</li>
<li>They buy traditional titles.</li>
<li>They buy a university honorary degree.</li>
<li>They sponsor cronies for political offices.</li>
<li>They stash up cash in Swiss accounts.</li>
<li>They now choose Dubai banks or Asian banks where money laundering is not a crime.</li>
<li>They send their children to study in elite schools abroad.</li>
<li>They invest in telecommunications.</li>
<li>They invest in banking.</li>
<li>They invest in oil and gas.</li>
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Shehu Sanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533045756723329987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040492500424111528.post-11667405090658181572012-04-11T12:06:00.004-07:002012-08-25T12:24:04.931-07:00A Road Map for Northern Nigeria<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> 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<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Restore inter-religious peace between Muslims and Christians</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">End sources of and all acts of terror</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Abolishing the Almajiri system and enact laws to penalize same</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Revive and recapitalize the joint Northern Company the NNDC and upgrade it to a Multinational company</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">An Agricultural master plan for <a name='more'></a>exports of cash crops such as cotton</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Right sizing and restructuring of educational institution to emphasize on sciences and tech</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Investment in Solid minerals exploration and exportation</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Massive reforestation program in the border states</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">A tourism master plan and massive investment in hospitality industry</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Investment in solar Energy and hydroelectric power</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Abolishing or reforming the Emirate system to adapt it to the realities of the 21st century</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Investment in sports academies</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Abolishing unnecessary religious censorship on film industry and massive investment on Kano film industry or Kannywood</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Reaching out to China, Brazil, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia on reviving Kano, Kaduna and Jos moribund industries</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Resettling the Fulani cattle rearing and modernizing and streamlining the meat and leather Industry for domestic consumption and export</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Internal revenue generation drive</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Fiscal autonomy of state assemblies and local Government councils</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">A Dubai style international markets in the states bordering Abuja</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">State Governors must end pilfering public funds</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Massive and free ICT education for pupils, Students and Youths</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Reviving Lake Chad for fishing and oil exploration</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Massive international media campaign to restore the good image of the region and to attract investment</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Proactive civil society groups to challenge Bad governance, extremism and rights violations</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Establishing six university of Medicine and free education for eligible students</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Use of Mosques and Churches for Micro credit scheme</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Setting up of a Northern Investment Bank</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Ten year energy independence program by investing in and developing Bio fuels</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 100%;">Setting up of Northern Investment Forum offices in Dubai, China, India, Brazil and South Korea.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shehu Sani</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">President</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria</span></span>Shehu Sanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533045756723329987noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040492500424111528.post-26513296976529121362012-01-16T11:31:00.001-08:002012-08-25T12:56:05.822-07:00Shehu Sani addressing crowd<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl1R8zK-vn9dgOJdBixkeV9PRiWTZXUvmECZDicF210iL2z5JAehK9oEFrVqRvdOxC9wSd2amF_bKA-Ktlm16w7cyan_kP0CNevbhdcu24WuHi2EcFtr_hKzzowzwReTNlWSj9qG8IrsRc/s1600/Shehu+Sani+addressing+Crowd+%252810%2529.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698316458022912690" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl1R8zK-vn9dgOJdBixkeV9PRiWTZXUvmECZDicF210iL2z5JAehK9oEFrVqRvdOxC9wSd2amF_bKA-Ktlm16w7cyan_kP0CNevbhdcu24WuHi2EcFtr_hKzzowzwReTNlWSj9qG8IrsRc/s320/Shehu+Sani+addressing+Crowd+%252810%2529.JPG" style="display: block; height: 213px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">1-it will subjugate voters to an interminable fate in the hands of non performing leaders<br />2-it will deny voters the ability to limit the harm of a corrupt leader<br />3-it will promote predatory and unaccountable leadership<br />4-it will limit the choice of voters<br />5-it will stifle the development of electoral process</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><br />6-it will promote dictatorship at state and Federal level<br />7-it will terminally muzzle opposition parties and entrench one party rule<br />8-it will promote the philosophy of loot and go<br />9-it will entrench sectional and ethnic politics<br />10-it will entrench political arrogance<br />11-it will shorten the political life Span of a typical Nigerian<br />12-it will suffocate generational shift<br />13-it will spark off a constitutional crisis<br />14-it will overheat the polity and waste valuable time that should be devoted for development<br />15-it will entrench nepotism<br />16-it will entrench an absolute power syndrome<br />17-it will render the legislature at state level docile<br />18-it will further encourage violence as a means of ejecting bad leaders<br />19-it will formally induct the do or die ideology Into our electoral politics<br />20-it will bury fairness, justice and equity in governance.<br /><br />Shehu Sani<br />President<br />Civil Rights Congress of <span class="yshortcuts">Nigeria</span>.</span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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