For a while there have been loads of buzzes about IBB and co (Atiku etc) return to the political scene, many have gone over the roof saying we don't want him, we don't need him and all that. People have gone as far as creating groups on Facebook, twitting and all that to form a campaign against his return. This is and are all good steps to showing our displeasure with his evil regime while in office. But I have always looked at this from a very different perspective.

The news broke last weekend in Abuja that one of the leading agents of Goodluck Jonathan campaign for president was kidnap and he was later rescued but one special news out of the kidnaped issue is the identity of the person that was kidnaped. There is controversy in Nigeria about the identity of a man linked to the president who was kidnapped and freed in the dramatic rescue. Jhalil Tafawa Balewa, a key political ally of President Goodluck Jonathan, was abducted from his home on Friday.

 
PDP candidate to emerge October 10, Yusuf Alli, Abuja - The Nation
THE presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will emerge on October 10, according to a tentative time table for the party’s primaries due for the approval of the National Executive Committee (NEC).
 
According to the timetable prepared by the National Working Committee (NWC), the PDP will adopt an indirect primary system to pick its presidential candidate. All the aspirants are billed to be screened on September 23.
 

Niger Delta: A man who claimed to be Pere Fiofori and who has been declared wanted by the police  in Rivers State yesterday called THISDAY to claim that he actually killed the leader of the outlaws, Mr. Soboma George, for threatening his life. Pere, who said he was talking to THISDAY to state his own side before the Commissioner of Police, Suleiman Abba, “kills me”.

It is no longer news that another set of far-reaching recommendations on the ethno-religious crisis in Jos has been submitted to the dust bin of government complacency. That is despite Mr. President’s assurance that he will “not dump (it) like any other one before, but will implement it”. Well said, sir. The jury of the Abisoye panel is still, however, out and might be overtaken by events not unrelated to the permutations of an eminent Goodluck Jonathan presidential candidacy that is progressively jettisoning any Yar’adua commitment perceived to have potholes along the road to the 2011 polls.

I am writing this partly as a rejoinder to Prof Okey Ndibe’s piece, Obasanjo As Babangida’s Best Issue (http://www.saharare porters.com/ column/obasanjo- babangida’s-best-issue- okey-ndibe ). I say “partly” because I am also using it as a springboard to propose what I think genuine patriots should be considering now that we have seen, writ large, the handwriting on the wall towards 2011. This is because I believe that Prof Okey Ndibe’s article has inadvertently exposed the helplessness of the Nigerian people in the face of the political farce that is likely to result from whatever they conjure up as election in 2011.

In the last 9 months, the shadowy world of Nigeria's politics has gone from a very dark grey to a shade of black that makes coal look like a dazzling white. From the time a comatose President Yar'Adua (PUYA) signed a supplementary budget in December 2009, it was obvious to any discerning observer that the hell-spawn politicians who are in charge of the country's finances had upped the ante on corruption. With this brazen move, the stakes, where power and looting are concerned in Nigeria, were forever altered.
 

Nafata Bamaguje: THE 9/11 MOSQUE PROVOCATION 

It is not a enough that Jihadists killed thousands of Americans on 11th September 2001. It’s not enough that Americans are regularly targeted by violent Islamists in their own country (Nidal Hassan, Faisal Shahzad, Abdulmutallab etc). It’s not enough that Americans bend over backwards to accommodate unreasonable demands by Muslims who refuse to integrate but instead indulge in stealth Jihad to creepingly impose Sharia. It’s also not enough that several American Muslim groups (CAIR, ISNA etc) are fronts for the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood that is sworn to destroy America from within.

To face PDP/other tyrants is obedience to God – So go on Governor Amaechi. There is a local proverb in my tongue saying ‘thrones are benches covered in velvet’. Like any political profiteering-merchants, these could lose the precious human affection for our money they itch to fleece, if true.

Governor Amaechi, my LGA is in Rivers State (RS) you govern from Oct 2007 to date. RS is a core of the Niger Delta (ND) – Nigeria ’s bakery of wealth. So make a difference. You are in best position for most RS Citizens to thank God for! A peck of justice desires us to renew all proximities.

Nigerians Have Met Enemies of Nigeria, Enemies Of Nigeria Are Nigerians! Written by Paul I. Adujie

Who are we as Nigerians? What exactly do we stand for these days?  Nothing perhaps? Nigerians are now fanatical about Arsenal , Liverpool and Manchester United etc; all clubs of the English Football Association, as if these teams are Nigerian teams! Our Super Eagles have no wins, and so, they are no longer attractive, our teams have lost their luster.