If America were not America, the Capitol Rotunda would have turned into a flowing tunnel of blood. It is a testament to American democracy and its allied commitments that the vast lawns of G Street SE of Capitol Hill did not become a reenactment of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, or Nigeria’s 2020 Lekki toll slaughter. Don’t get me wrong, America has not always got it right, which may explain why its founding fathers set….
So, clearly, the first difference to note is that there were three candidates with Electoral College votes in 1969 unlike now when we have only two candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Trump and his brood of lying vipers and amplified by toadies in the Republican Party who have streamed it down to a section of the base.
To my greatest relief, they greeted me politely and announced their mission. “Our Oga is downstairs, and wants to see you”, the one who introduced himself as Suleiman announced, almost whispering.
It may seem unlikely that Trump will ever wind up in a criminal court. His entire life, after all, is one long testament to the power of getting away with things, a master class in criminality without consequences, even before he added presidentiality and all its privileges to his arsenal of defenses.
The Igbo and the Yoruba are good neighbors in Lagos. They have always been. The Igbo are the only people in Nigeria who speak more than one native Nigerian language.
Upholding the primacy of mercy in ecclesial life and canonical processes, the Church saw the need to remind herself that it is a church grounded in mercy. It derives its identity, mission, and purpose from God’s mercy in the world through and in her.
Everyone must be horrified by the assault on the senses as hack writers in the Nigerian Media and Government put out a false narrative on what the entire world saw happen at the Lekki Toll Gate on the 20th of October.
Greed is also a fitting theory here. It explains the thinking, as criminal as it is, of the politicians who have kept the palliatives from the intended starving public, waiting to rebag and repackage the relief items as campaign promotional gifts in the coming elections.
It has always been a fight. It didn’t start today. Nigerians have always struggled and stumbled when it has come to leadership for any pan-Nigerian groups.
