INDIFFERENCE; THE WRONG CHOICE WE ARE ALWAYS QUICK TO CHOOSE

Today like every other day of my life; especially in this my times of self awakening. I woke up to a lot of hopes and strives for a better today because tomorrow never comes it is always keep moving forward and thus I will call it an infringement of our aloofness. Tomorrow just that day which will never come. This my strives are offshoots of my decisions and then as I lay on my sofa before the day begins I pondered and reminisced over my past life which was a total tale of indecisiveness and I could not help but laugh and hate at my former me for been enshrined in a such an indifferent filled past that have kept me in a state of stagnancy, aloofness, slavery, and self deceit, which led to the failure of others and my past life in irrelevance. I wonder how I could have lived in such an inglorious, indecisive and yet shameful past of indifference. Some tales of yore I remember and I just get happy I am no more that. 

I know I bored you already with my past, I deeply apologize because we are better preachers if we have experienced what we now fight against. It is a factual fact that I found recourse and strength in my past, especially in moments like this I backlash myself. That is actually a way I look up to a future I intend fulfilling and smile at a present laced with braveness, confidence, risks and full of decisions- sometimes wrong and other times right. These decision mine and I am elated I can for once be accountable and responsible for the life I now lead. 

I will urge you ride with me on this and take every of my paulinity, lol. I coined it paulinity is my state of writing gotten from been Pauline. Please do take my paulinity seriously it will serve as the footpath to the point I intend to hit as we go through this article of decisiveness.

So I urge you stay with me as I love to be with you. I know a lot of us that will be opportune to read this will wonder what I intend discussing or passing on, in this pale looking topic of discussion called INDIFFERENCE but I will urge we first consider defining the word Indifference.

Firstly, what is indifference? INDIFEFERENCE is etymologically defined as “NO DIFFERENCE” I know you wonder is this all I have to say after narrating my whole autobiography but I must disappoint us that words are sometimes not just what we think of them at the surface. Words sometimes are beyond just mere words with straight meanings but most times they are actions and inactions frequently controlling our daily living, ideologies that stand alone and that’s what INDIFFERENCE mean. According to Elie Wiesel, a world war 2 survivor of the Death camps of the Nazis, he said Indifference is a strange and most unnatural state in which the lines blur between; good and evil, peace and war, dusk and dawn, Light and darkness, crime and punishment, viciousness and compassion, love and hatred, and I will add being hero and being villain, bravery and cowardice. I will encompass all these into the ascertainable boundary that is invisible to all that is positive and their various negativities. Indifference lies in between this point.

A good instance that helps speak so much on the danger of indifference is the story of Rev. Martin Niemollar; a German protestant preacher, who was in support of the Hitler Reich(world war @) but was later punished by the same movement he once refused to speak against. Let me add that when you refuse to speak against evil, you are indirectly supporting it. I am so much sure he wrote this piece in agony and awful regret on how the Nazis took over Germany, mentally and territorially. He said and I quote;

“First they came for the socialist and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. 

Then they came for the tribal unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a tribal unionist.

Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.”

These words from the mouth of this famous German preacher explain indifference in the most simple language and that is that the indifferent person is an enemy of the victim and a friend of the oppressor without him knowing.

To buttress and expantiate more on this discourse, I'll like to classify humans into these three distinctive set; The oppressor, the oppressed and the bystanders - the indifferent person. The bystanders are the set of persons who sit on the fence and do not contribute anything whether good occurs or evil befalls people as far as it doesn't affect them. They're the set of persons who stay indecisive waiting on those who will turn up the winner in any fight, struggle or debate. The bystanders and the repercussion of been so is also explained in the biblical tale of the war between God and Lucifer. While the war went on some certain angels sat at side and watch on, hoping to move in with the winners but when God won, they were pushed off with the devil and definitely you know they won't be so welcomed in hell likewise because of their indecisiveness. Punishment will end up been unleashed on them just for not taken a stand. 

I know deep down, at this point you have your own instances and stories on indifference and the very end of each story and dangers it actually pose to the society. I also know how much the Indifference of America during the world war 2 caused, the singular act of not intervening till the excesses of Hitler was going to wreck them, the callousness of turning back over a thousand Jews at the marine border of America back to Germany, which led to their untimely death. Just a single act of indifference led to the death of persons and the truncation of many dreams and brought bitterness to the faces of people even after eight decades. History still recognizes it as indifference. 

The height of indifference is mostly encountered in wars, the biafra war, the Rwanda(Hutu-tutsi) war and many other uncountable crises that a single act of concern could have brought to an abrupt end and saved quantum of lives, hopes and dreams.

Indifference is dangerous too, in a very cunningly subtle form. We engage in it subconsciously because we do it and our conscience doesn't pick it up. We become indifferent in the most ignoble manner. 

You become indifferent when you watch a guardian or master maltreat his ward without you intervening. 

You become indifferent when you watch people being bullied and mocked by people stronger than them, that's been indifferent if you do not try to stop them because it doesn't affect you. 

You become indifferent when you don't lend your voice no matter how small to the plight of the less privileged because you're above their means and standard.

You become indifferent when you snub the cry of others against the government, with their policies and agendas because it's not affecting you at all. You become indifferent and heartless when you do all these.

Indifference also, is a major cause of intellectual dwarfism amongst youths of today. They shy away from important discourses and topics because they're lazy to research and read and discover and contribute to issues. Indifference is a serious endemic that negates our total existence, it's better to become backward at times than to stay stagnant and irresponsive to issues. Indifference causes stagnancy and eventually the deterioration of our mind, till we become vegetables.

I would really like to keep preaching but I will tell you that to pick a stand is been brave than to stay indifferent, because indifference is the modern height of cowardice. Indifference like I said earlier does not help intellectually, it doesn't provoke us to learn by researching and also improving and add to a topic that instigated the research. Like I've said indifference is never an option, if you're kindly drop it. Be decisive, it's better to be the oppressor, which I crave your indulgence not to be but to rather be a champion to liberate the oppressed by speaking for them.

Do not ever be a bystander, be decisive!!!

Emmanuel Kelechi Ejionye writes from Abuja and he is a Writer, speaker, activist, grassroot leader, photographer, humanitarian and many more. He's also a graduate of Engineering from the prestigious University of Nigeria. He can be reached through 

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Polish Cargo Hijacked By Pirates Off Nigerian Coast

According to a report from Reuters, two boats filled with armed men boarded a Polish-owned cargo vessel on Friday. The ship was anchored 30 nautical miles off of the Nigerian coast, awaiting the arrival of a new crew. The kidnappers, who remain unidentified, have not yet made any demands.

In a press statement, Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowsk stated that the Polish Foreign Ministry is currently liaising with the Nigerian government.

The coast of Nigeria is considered by security experts to be among the most dangerous waters in the world. Pirates and other bandits often prowl the area for oil tankers. According to Reuters, this is the first documented attack in Nigerian waters since February.

In light of this event, the Polish maritime authorities are in the process of reviewing their security measures.

WAR AGAINST TERRORISM AND WHO SHOULD WE BE FIGTHING. 

The week has been a cascade of clashing opinions around the world and on Africa social media to be specific. There's been debate and counter debates on the logic of using the watermarked France flag over facebook profile profile. An issue I stood against and spoke on the offensive of and back to today, also on the newly but old agitation by our eastern brothers on Biafra and the clamor for arm struggle by Nnamdi kanu, the now supposed to be free but still jailed for not meeting up with bail conditions. 

I've sat down, pondered and reasoned over all the travails of the happenings of recent, all that has been transpiring of late in our modern society - the world, the one we all agreed is a global village and I keep wondering WHY all these happen in a village and some hamlets stand looking. I wonder WHY people don't ask WHY. WHY as we all know is the Ultimate philosophical question. A society who don't ask why are trapped in the grips of stagnancy. 

Like I've insinuated before, A lot of issues have risen and have fallen on the way forward to quench this problem(s) bedeviling us and I think the genesis of the situation has not yet been pinpointed. We need know to the cause of all these. We need know the actors, especially the one that acts our friends and are actually the real foes. We need know the tools, the demands, the instigators, the facts and above all the motive behind this callousness. 

At moments like this I ask myself, Are we sure we ain't been too forward to lay blames like wreath at the graveyard of the dead on the doorsteps of the innocent or maybe not too innocent? 

Are we sure we are not caught up in the abyss of pointing accusing fingers to those who are only playing to the tunes of the piper - the very hidden masters? These are pressing questions that needs urgent answers and I'm left in my world of thoughts I came up with more than just an answer. A little above things we can think of and work on to justify a means to an end to this menace.

I've asked are we been fooled by the west or do they have this premonition that the black man and all others with no long nose and curly hairs are imbeciles whose Intelligent quotient are on the ground level of the IQ hierarchy. 

To all these I say, the guns in our hands is also the same in the hands of our enemies - the terrorist, the thieves, the serial killer, the criminals,  and you're still wondering who are the real enemies.

The western world manufactures all these and it's no longer hidden truth that they're our real enemies. You watch Catalan and Quebec pursue an armless struggle but yet they watch south Sudan and north Sudan fight endlessly with guns and bombs and rockets. The whiteman won't let these weapons get into the hands of their rebellious brother in Quebec(Canada) and Catalona(Spain).

They profit on the bloods of humans especially if your skin ain't pale and hair ain't long, that's just why they speak speeches longer than Nile river and cry more than the rain in the rain forest but above all, all these are lies, gimmicks to fool those who they can fool.

They'll make wars linger for long because their artillery industries must sell and citizens must have a job and taxes must come in and for all these to happen, there have to be war in Africa or Asia or anywhere else the skins are not white and their language ain't sexy. Don't get me wrong I still don't see the reason or bravery behind you killing your fellow human, whether it's your race or not. It's the height of cowardice and so painful it happens and I see these killers as fools and weakling playing like pawns, like zombies whose mind is now encrypted with senseless. This is how I see the world from my very eyes. 

Be wise and Say no to western imperialism covered with hypocrisy called western empathy. 

Emmanuel Kelechi Ejionye writes from Abuja and he is a Writer, speaker, activist, grassroot leader, photographer, humanitarian and many more. He's also a graduate of Engineering from the prestigious University of Nigeria. He can be reached through 

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MY BIAFRAN STORY AND THE BIAFRA STRUGGLE; MORE THAN JUST A TALE WAR OF GUNS BUT OF IDEOLOGIES AND MEMORIES REJECTING A REPEAT. 

In the spirit of the moment, the state of the nation and the struggle for secession, I recount my own passed down stories of Biafra. 

As a little child, I had the luxury of my father telling me a lot of stories, you know the whole tortoise stories and his clichéd craftiness but as I headed for my first decade on earth things nosedive to an adventurous one, my father had exhausted all the tortoise story because I'll scream out, "daddy anu bu go m nka" (I've heard this before), the old man didn't have much to say anymore, and then he indulged into the sacreds of stories, the very thing I called history. He told me his personal account of the biafra civil war and how my grand dad, may his beautiful and brave soul rests in courtyard of my ancestors, left home and all that travailed becomes history and now my own personal stories about biafra. 

Frankly speaking, his own story could not account for the bulk of the whole war story but though it counted, at least to me. It counted more than enough to me because it's my first personal romance with the inglorious war tagged "Biafra civil war" and all that transpired from the very glass eye of Eugene Ndukaihe Ejionye, my good father.  

This biafra tale always had a touch of how much was lost when he speaks. Loss of lives and properties was just synonymous to all that happened in the war. It was a part he kept saying over years on different points this story that I've got to love and sparked my first interest into history in general. He told me of how everything was lost, close family ties and all. He was careful to say a lot because he wouldn't impact much hate into me, he didn't want to create a tribal chauvinist and hate and brutish machine what he called most of the young soldiers who lost their minds and thoughts in the cause of the war, so he would digress more and tell me more about the survival and not the bloodshed. Instances like how they went hunting for bush meat and when there was none anymore they succumbed to the lizards and frogs.

I remember as a teen, a cousin bought ero(mushroom) to the house to make a soup with it. I've never eaten ero till today and prior to that incidence I did not know why we did not. As my cousin brought in the mushroom, we did not know what took dad to the kitchen and he saw th pieces of "taboo" as I've come to see it. The next altercation was horrific, I never saw that in such manner. He screamed, Onye weba talu ife arua ni ime be m(who brought this abomination into my house?). He was furious and all that was thrown away and in my normal ritual of lying on his pot bellied tummy, I asked daddy "ke, ife melu iji si na ife anwa bu alu?"(why did you call that an abomination) and I saw goose bumps all over him and he said nwa m, that piece of white beauties reminds me of the war. 

He'll say nwa m, agha adiro nma, ma ncha ma ncha (war is not good, at all, at all). There was so much emphasis on the ma ncha, ma ncha and I noticed he always stopped when he got to a particular point in our story and he'll say nna na kpuo ula, chi ejigo k'anyi bido kwa echi. This repeated. a lot of times and no matter how much I break him to speak, he'll say nothing but smile and pat me to bed. Years later he called me and told me how he lost his favourite cousin to hunger, not that he didn't lose others but there was a subtle jubilation that the dead cousin's share of the meal would go round after all and there was more to rejoice about than to wail for.

He lived with this pains for years, he passed it on to me and I felt war was right, until I asked him again, what if we start another war and he screamed Mba, mechie onu ghi, don't think of it again.

He said war is terrible, it turns good people into animals, it leaves you no strength in helping those you love when they need your help. It breaks family apart and turns meek men callous. He'll give a million reasons why peace is greater.

Biafra will not die because it's not a human, it's a spirit and spirit are indestructible but then it can't be achieved by force but by the strength and sincerity in our voice and heart. we can win the most brutal army and vicious forces armed with the most ferocious arms and weapons just by been together in peace and persistent in a struggle with great potentials and beautiful Ideologies.

My father speaks of his experience, he was brave and the civil war was a necessity but now he said there's no reason for a war of bloods but that of ideas is welcomed.

Emmanuel Kelechi Ejionye writes from Abuja and he is a Writer, speaker, activist, grassroot leader, photographer, humanitarian and many more. He's also a graduate of Engineering from the prestigious University of Nigeria. He can be reached through 

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Article from Woman. ng 

Lately, I have been giving a lot of

thought to the issue of marriage.

Perhaps it’s the fact that my brother

recently got married, or the fact that

this year is my 10th wedding

anniversary, either way, reflections on

the topic of marriage have taken up a

bit of space in my mind and I have

decided to do a few posts on it.

They say love is blind, but only a

young inexperienced person will

make the decision on whom to marry

solely on the basis of love. I like to

say that love wears glasses and

contact lenses.

One important ingredient for

increasing the likelihood of your

marriage success is marrying your

own kind. Gasp! In this day of inter

marriage where colour and tribe don’t

matter, only a closed minded person

will say that right? Wrong. It depends

on what your definition of your own

kind. By your own kind, I mean

someone from a similar kind of

background as yourself.

Two weeks ago while I was getting

my hair done in preparation for my

brother’s wedding, I got talking with

the lady doing my hair. She

mentioned that there was an African

restaurant in Frankfurt where you can

get authentic cuisine in an authentic

African atmosphere – you sit on the

ground and you eat with your hands

in that restaurant. So I said why the

sitting on the ground, she said it’s

just like in Africa, where we sit on the

ground.

So I told her wait a minute, did you

sit on the ground and eat in your

own home, to which she answered

yes now. “they would call us to eat

and we would go collect our food and

find some spot on the ground to eat.

Of course, she did not believe me

when I said that we always ate on

the dining table, and with cutlery,

except when eating “okele”. We even

used to eat at the dining table in my

grandparents’ home, and I have very

fond memories of my grandparents’

dining table.

Now, there is absolutely nothing

wrong with eating on the floor as

opposed to eating on the dining

table, but she was so sure her

experiences growing up were the

experiences of every other African, as

I was about my own experiences. We

are both Nigerians, but come from

different worlds. For me, I had never

really thought of a dining table as

anything special until that point, and

I just ended up keeping quiet having

learnt something new.

It’s the closed almost incestuous

world of the African middle class,

which makes us not really ‘see’ the

millions who are not living like us.

For me, it took moving to Europe to

start to really think about the plight of

those millions, even though I am not

from a rich family and my parents are

very compassionate people who

helped others where they could. It

could have something to do with the

fact that I moved abroad in my

teenage years, but anyway, that is

not the focus of this post.

Someone I know is married to a man

who has told her before that she

pretends to be someone she is not

putting on fancy airs. Tell me if the

lady above were to meet and date

someone from a background like my

brother, wouldn’t there be a sort of

disconnect? Wouldn’t she accuse

him of putting on airs at some point?

Or if her brother married a lady from

a different of background, wouldn’t

her in laws accuse her of being

proud and thinking she is better than

they are? By the way, I have seen

such scenarios play out.

Or a completely banal example from

my own life, growing up, and my

parents took us on picnics and to

zoos and parks. One of my fondest

childhood memories is a picnic with

friends at the zoo in Makurdi where

we lived at the time. My husband’s

parents didn’t really take him out like

that, so when 5 years into our

marriage we started having children

and I would expect him to go out on

the weekends with us, he was having

none of it and it was a bitter point for

me that I was the one going all about

with my kids alone, which was

completely different from how I grew

up.

One day, after I had managed to drag

him with us by fire and brimstone

and he enjoyed himself, he confessed

that he wasn’t really used to that

type of thing as his parents had lots

of obligations while he was growing

up that did not allow for that type of

family outing. Now, I understand

where that’s coming from and I don’t

take his reluctance personal any

longer, but it took a while for us to

get there.

So in saying marrying your kind, I am

not talking about race or tribe, but I

mean marry someone who is from a

similar sort of background as

yourself. I am not there if you as a

middle class Nigerian marries an

oyibo who is either from a

dysfunctional home or who places

Africans in a certain box, because

they will treat you that same way. Or

if you being Yoruba woman from a

monogamous harmonious home

decides to marry a Yoruba man from

a dysfunctional polygamous home, or

one with absent parents, or one

where the man is god. Or you being

from a strongly Christian or Muslim

home decides to marry someone who

comes from a family where their

religious beliefs are diluted with a bit

of voodoo etc etc.

It’s more efficient marrying someone

of a different culture or tribe who

shares a similar background than

someone from the same state who

could as well be from mars while you

are from Venus when it comes to

their values and how they think.

Those differences may seem trivial at

first, but the longer you stay together,

the more you will see circumstances

and situations pop up that were not

envisaged and where only having

similar outlooks or a strong ability to

compromise can get you through

easily.

Having met my brother’s wife and in

laws and seen the ease of interaction

between the two families, being that

the backgrounds are so similar made

me wish for the same for everyone

else that I know who is still

searching.

Anyway in conclusion, if you decide

to marry outside of your

“background” both social as well as

economic, make sure that you are

entering the marriage with a lot of

compromise, and if you are female,

with a double dose of compromise.

You might think you know everything

about your partner, but believe me,

10, 15, 20 years down the line, new

situations might arise, where you will

be shocked at your partners

approach. Don’t say I didn’t warn

you o!

AFRICANS AND SOCIAL MEDIA HYPOCRISY. 

I look at the semi blackmail, mark Zuckerberg and his facebook team has tried to drag us to empathize with Europe of the same thing that happens in Africa; Nigeria, Kenya and Somalia to be specific and they do nothing or show much zeal to wipe it off. I've been misquoted as been unsympathetic to this terrible blow on humanity but I know people don't like the truth and for the records I was one of the first Nigerians, yes First I said to write and sympathize with France on the wickedness that befell them but I'm bringing to the knowledge of us all that this same thing happen and nothing gets done or much sympathy is shown. And I'm left to make a little clarification. 

I do not say you shouldn't pray for France but i'm asking if any of you have prayed for Nigerians dying in number uncountable by Boko haram or the massacre and quick ends of dreams in the most vicious manner in Somali and Kenya by Al Shabab. If you are you're excused from my mouth lash.

I do not say you shouldn't change your facebook profile pictures in solidarity to the fight against terrorism but I'm just asking is facebook disconnected from the reality that this same thing happen in Syria, Nigeria, Iran, Kenya and many other places. Or are all these places in hell and not on earth or are they undeserving of a little support like that always given to European countries. If they have I'm sorry for trying to flex my paulinity - ability to write. You know I can't know everything. I do not say you shouldn't quote me bible verses but I just want to be sure if the death of one european is greater than that of a million blacks. If it is then I'm sorry, I guess they have more than one brain, a million kidney per white and probably more than two balls in their scrotal sacs.

I can ask several others but it pains me that people will tell me that they stood with us in # BBOG . Which BBOG the one that APC blew out of proportion like they were ever the only school girls dying in the north. Why has the fight and agitation by the propagandists ended as soon as Buhari came to power and the western world look else where? Where's Ezekwesili with her team of shameful liars?

I won't seize to question the stupidity of my co-blacks and ask why must Europe get all the sympathies and empathies and condolences, whereas same happens all over the world, especially in Africa and Asia and they sit and discuss it like two women haggling over a piece of fish at my village Ezinifite, Abanator market square.

Why haven't they have a great walk like that done in Paris during the Charlie Hebdo attack done in Nairobi for the death of those killed in a shopping mall or are these lives of less significance to that of the europeans?

Please don't get me wrong, I hate making points when bloods are in question but if I don't speak out at the inequality in the balancing of racial issues then I become like Americans who turned back thousands of Jews at the marine borders of America back to Germany during the Hitler Reich. I can't be indifferent to such nepotism. If many blacks are stupid, I beg to count myself out I'm not a part of such insensitive lot.

Emmanuel Kelechi Ejionye writes from Abuja and he is a Writer, speaker, activist, grassroot leader, photographer, humanitarian and many more. He's also a graduate of Engineering from the prestigious University of Nigeria. He can be reached through 

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BUHARI; A HUGE JOKE, A FAILED MAGICIAN OR IS HE PROBABLY MORE CLUELESS THAN GOODLUCK JONATHAN 

In the Nigeria Internet world, a little party occured, everyone dropped his alliances and affiliation to celebrate one of the greatest Nigerian in Nigerian history; both in the yore and modern and this person was no one but Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan; the immediate past President of the Federal republic of Nigeria, the father of modern Nigeria, the face of true federalism and undiluted patriotism to nationalistic cause, The mascot of true sportsmanship and the new identity for good democracy in Africa and third world democracies at large and I was awed at all the acolades that he got the appraisals and commendations and I once again was happy for the nights I kept to see that this man came back to governance, even though I was an unapologetic critic of his administration, which I tagged a Lesser evil to that of Buhari and the Lying(Lai Mohammed) mouths of the APC. These led me to put down this piece not just to celebrate our Ex-president but to awaken others to the scam we've all been forced to partake in.

These days I write about Buhari and it's wanton cluelessness and how it has surpassed that of Goodluck Ebeke Jonathan and I get little verbal attack from APC e-mad dogs and I wouldn't mind on the no counters from these myopic lots who dotted my social media cyberspace prior to the election, shouting and screaming with hopeless optimism and fire raging tongues, speaking magics like we're in a pre-medieval times when magic and wonders reign supreme.

I look up at my calendar and I see it's over six months, I also engaged again in the ritual of uplooking and I see none of them talk about issues in governance, they're now motivational speakers, relationship experts, enterprenuerial consultants, even comedians and many more. I just laugh at the way they've all gone on sabbatical like a typical unintelligent Nigerian professor who is looking for an excuse to run from his crimes of sorting and flirting but unlike the Nigerian professor They're on sabbatical leave from lies and mischief and myopism - which was their number one problem.

Nevertheless a few of them are still strong enough to argue but then these few are the unintelligent ones and there reasoning tainted with crass shortsightedness. I can't watch me descend to the lows, valleys and gullies of mediocrity and engage them in debates by partying alongside them in a carnival of facts and truths.

These few tell me how I've become impatient and I wonder are these people my fellow Nigerians? I wonder again, have Ghanians infiltrated Nigerians from birth like ISIS infiltrated Europe? Patience is not a word that's synonymous with the Nigerian atmosphere. How can you exercise patience in Lagos, when every seconds counts for up to 10 minutes for anyone around the world and I'm been sold the Patience pill. Mba nu, I don't need patience to see what is already happening and speak and see that it changes, I mean real positive change not these quantum changes in promises and double mouth of men who were harbingers of a total movement of progessiveness as they tagged it that has been shown to be regressive by all standards.

When you as an APC man tell me about patience and it's values and I wonder if you're aware you never gave Goodluck Jonathan one breathing space even when he went as far as marrying Patience and making it your first lady. An attribute you and I rejected and have come to haunt us repeatedly.

My dear hypo-brained myopic friend, there's no way I'll be dashing patience to a government that sounded like professor peller(foremost Nigerian magician and showbiz man) in all the stadia and conference centers in Nigeria. Buhari sounded like a magician, like he could just turn harmattan to winter and make our cars run on water.

He spoke with so much promises and this is the perfect time to blow up smoke into the holes of these rodents that have forgotten that they need feed their children. We or rather I will not keep quiet, we'll speak till we see what we were promised. You can't promise Nigerians lies like we're the proverbial harlots on an igbo man's bade(bed). Ima nkwa elu bed

Buhari will have no peace till his promises are fulfilled. We have it all in our political todo list and each one achieved. I'll come here and praise him for it and tick it off and berate him the more till he sits up and stop acting like a Fulani herdsman who will walk for years herding cattles like a man with no focus and in no rush at how much value time possess. Woah, I forget he's even one.

Like I've always screamed, Nigeria under the APC government is the only unfunny huge joke and Muhammudu Buhari is the biggest and probably most highly coordinated scam orchestrated by a few mad people who call themselves elites in modern history.

Nigerians must wake up and demand for the promises given to them during electioneering. There's no longer room for negligence and wanton insensiveness to the plight of the common Nigerian. 

Emmanuel Kelechi Ejionye writes from Abuja and he is a Writer, speaker, activist, grassroot leader, photographer, humanitarian and many more. He's also a graduate of Engineering from the prestigious University of Nigeria. He can be reached through 

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Troops arrest Boko Haram kingpin, recover various weapons.  

Troops of the Nigerian Army on Monday said it had made a remarkable progress in its quest to flush terrorism out of the country after the arrest of a Boko Haram kingpin identified as Mr John Trankil, at Kasuwar Shanu in Maiduguri metropolis.

According to a report released by the Army through its official twitter handle @defenceinfong the terrorists were said to have sneaked into maiduguri armed with AK 47 assault rifles and a Hilux vehicle laden with 20 Improvised Explosive Devices meant to be detonated at some selected targets in the city.

Also, another division of the nigerian under the 21 Brigade, while on offensive operations on Boko Haram terrorists location, with the support from the Nigerian Airforce discovered and destroyed the terrorists’ Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and Rocket making factory along Bama-Gonin Kurmi within the outskirts of Bama town, Borno State.

Several items were recovered durinng both operations which includes; gas cylinders, welding machine, pipes and poles. Others include locally made rocket shells, large quantity of assorted chemicals, unprimed IEDs and various technical and laboratory equipment suspected to be stolen from schools’ laboratories around Bama before they were dislodged from the area.

The Theatre Commander operation Lafiya Dole (peace by force), Major General Yusha’u Mahmood Abubakar, seized the opportunity to commend the efforts of the troops and implored them to be more vigilant and focused on the job at hand. He also enjoined the general public to remain security conscious particularly at all check points, markets, worship centres, motor parks and schools.

Recall that President Muahhmadu Buhari, had given the Nigerian army a dember deadline to totally eradicate terrorism from within the country by the end of December 2015.