Saturday, October 18, 2014

"GENERAL BUHARI'S HONESTY THREATENS THE POLITICAL STATUS QUO IN NIGERIA"

Some Nigerians will always amaze me on daily basis. They are so critical about the personal decision of General Muhammadu Buhari to approach his bank in Kaduna and borrowed N27 million to pay for his party's presidential nomination form. Firstly, General Buhari is honest and truthful with Nigerians about the source of this money. Secondly, General Buhari does not have this money personally as a former Head of State, ex-Chairman of the defunct Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), former federal commissioner of petroleum ministry, former Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), former state military governor of the North Eastern State and a retired Major-General of the Nigerian Army. 
Thirdly, General Buhari does not want this money to be paid by one of the richest Nigerians and then hijack his presidency for the expected returned favor. Fourthly, General Buhari by his status in Nigeria as a former Head of State with a regular monthly pension, a personal house in Kaduna and in Abuja plus a long-standing personal relationship with this bank can be trusted as a good creditor by this bank. Bank managers can use their personal discretion, the long-standing relationships and the credit history of their customers to make those financial decisions to borrow them money as loans, to increase their requests for line of credit or bank overdraft.
The manager of the Gambian Chase bank in Serrekunda borrowed me D10,000 ($1000) in 2001 as a long-standing and a reliable customer of this bank when I needed that money to travel for a professional conference in the United States. In conclusion, what General Buhari has done is what is called transparency and accountability from a leader in the public life. How many Nigerian public elected officials and those influential religious leaders including the sitting President Jonathan Goodluck have ever declared their personal assets and disclosed how they became the overnight super-rich Nigerians? In conclusion, Buhari's integrity, openness and honesty threaten his political rivals and their supporters by giving them those sleepless nights‪#‎BuhariForThePresidentOfNigeriaIn2015‬ 

Saturday, October 11, 2014

"LINDA IKEJI:THE PLAGIARIST-BLOGGER IS LUCK TO BE LIVING IN NIGERIA IN 2014"

Nigeria is a lawless country where the intellectual property rights and the copyright laws are never enforced in all reality. In the United States, many university and college professors have been demoted and dismissed over proven cases of plagiarism. America's universities have canceled students' college courses and revoked those awarded degrees over the established cases of academic fraud or dishonesty. Big businesses in America have been fined heavily by courts of law over their violation of those copyrights laws in their business practices and transactions. The international journalist and Time magazine editor-at-large as well as the CNN host of the program GPS 360, Fareed Zakaria was suspended in 2012 from both places for a month after admitting to lifting parts of a story from the New Yorker newspaper. A United States Senator John Walsh of Montana resigned recently from the senate over an allegation of plagiarism in his master's degree thesis and the U.S. Army War College has now officially revoked his master's degree after an investigation into plagiarism allegation was established. Linda Ikeji was reported to have attributed the taking down of her blog by Google as an act of envy and jealousy from her Nigerian rival bloggers and then went ahead to put the holy name of God in her dirty business of intellectual fraud and dishonesty that allow her to continue to profit and to make name for herself in the blogosphere on the ideas, sweat and handwork of others‪#‎PlaigarismIsAnIntellectualFraudAndDishonesty‬

Friday, October 10, 2014

"EBOLA IS A GLOBAL THREAT"

I am personally very worried for the future and the economies of the three West African nations of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea that are currently facing the Ebola virus disease epidemic. This disease that first started in the rural areas of these three African countries have now reached their capital cities where most of their populations live. The health care infrastructures of these countries are outdated, inadequate and are now fully overwhelmed.

The national economies of these nations are now rapidly collapsing. The international tourism to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea has now come to the final halt. The major international airlines have stopped flying to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone as well as the International shipping companies. The major hotels are now empty. The importation of goods and services are heavily down. The local farming and domestic food production are both speedily declining. International financial help is now needed in these countries more than before. 

The future of these countries depends on how they win this ongoing war against Ebola that has now officially claimed the life of 4,000 citizens of these countries at the moment and with more infections happening on daily basis. If this deadly Ebola disease is not defeated once and for all by the global efforts, it can spread quickly to the entire world like an ill wind that blows no nation any good at the end of the day‪#‎EbolaThreatensTheFutureOfTheWorld‬