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Operation “Throw My Shoe at Nigerian Looters”The Nigerian socio-political space is now a socio-pathological “Absurdistan”; an iniquitous amphitheatre, dedicated to the atrocious eroticization of political stupidity. This arena has degenerated into an essential arena where hopeless ignorance meets primeval greed. The leadership is not only intellectually challenged, irredeemably myopic and

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Mr. Bob Herbert writing in the New York Times of 16th January 2009, submitted an opinion article titled “Zimbabwe is Dying” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/opinion/17herbert.html . That article was a brilliant enterprise. It was very brilliant in the way it repackaged the unexamined narrative presently making waves in the metropolitan conceptual schemes, as the truth of the Zimbabwean situation

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At the dawn of the year 2009, one would not be withdrawing from the bank of ignorance, if one asserts that the actions, comportment and allegiance of Nigerian police is still rooted in the colonial metaphysic. As reiterated in one of my essays, (The ontology of Police dysfunctionality in Nigeria) the Nigerian Police was formed to fight against the enemies and opponents of the colonial

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In George Orwell’s classic satire, Animal Farm; Napoleon crowned his usurpation of absolute power by deploying the “armed forces” of the dogs, whose allegiance he conscripted and deployed to the service of his impious ends. The Orwellian satirical mimicry of the extravagant falsehood, which communism perpetrates; hiding under revolutionary robes may not be exclusively resident in communism as an

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We have seen the theoretical promises of democracy. But to confront African problems with alien conceptual schemes has not availed much in terms of concrete, actionable results. The conclusions have long approved themselves that vivisecting Nigerian problems with theories is really a blind approach. The safest path has always remained viewing the problem without prefabricated prejudices or

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In a democracies liberty blossoms! Liberty constitutes the richest humus for the nobility, creativity, industry and enterprise of the human person to gain pre-eminence. To this end, social progress and economic empowerment have greeted the democratic enterprise of many nations. Most other systems of government entertain ontological proclivities to tyranny; and readily repulse the human spirit.

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A failed state hatches violence. It breeds warlords and warmongers. It tolerates jingoes and empowers them. It looses its authority to command a monopoly of violence. Its laws and statutes are objects of scorn and derision. To this end, warlords and bandits are availed the rich humus to germinate and assume control of pockets of as much territory and armed jurisdiction as they can grab. In this

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The security of a society is directly proportional to the level and quality of freedom the constituents of that society enjoy. Freedom here is not the license, which obtains in a predatory economics of a jungle. To this end, a society becomes secure in direct proportion to the level of freedom it enjoys. The freer a society is, the more secure it is. Where freedom reigns, people are freed from

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African power corridors entertain characters who are anachronistic museum pieces. Most of them who should have been buried in irrelevance are still calling the shots in our firmament. This explains why Africa crawls on the racetracks of development. Mugabe is a symbol of this dinosauria. These crop of leaders and their milieu were identified by Ayittey, as the Hippo-generation (whom I prefer to

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Africa as a concept and a continent must be renegotiated. Africa can no longer abide the definitions of historical blackmail. The continent can longer afford the luxury of being a perfect ontology of what failed enterprises represent. Africa should no more be allowed to be a conqueror’s paradise and a clement environment for every kind of knavery. The poverty of the continent is a scandal, which

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Politics must be for the common good. That is its supreme end. Any vitiation from this goal is a dangerous luxury, which no society can afford or should tolerate. Any society that countenances the corruption of the political process in service to ends quite alien to the common good, is heading to anomie.Politics is the art and process of selecting the aristocracy empowered to regulate individual

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Religion is a system propounding absolutes, constructed out of human primeval apprehensions; and deployed in the never ending attempt to explain reality, or allay primeval and ultimate fears bordering on the scandalous finitude of the human situation and congenital search for meaning. Religion has variously been described as the opium of the timid and the narcotic for cowards, who being afraid of

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Today we are compelled by the hopelessness of the Nigerian situation to question what governance is and its essence. This is because governance has been the greatest culprit responsible for Nigeria’s crises of allegiance. What the essence of government is in Nigeria, has been subject to practical interpretations that seem to support the crises by successive Nigerian governments. This would

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That Nigeria has been in the competition to become a failed state, could be explained by the hypothesis that she was never designed to function. The 1914 conglomeration, and yoking together of over 250 different nations under one country, by British imperialistic fiat, is to all intents and purposes, designed to be an impossible project. How a huge boiling pot of invariables, and polarized

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History is replete with the fact that development is not a miracle. It has forever remained a rational decision of a people, to make their common interest transcend parochial insularities, as to enable them work together for the attainment of goals common to them, which conduce to their welfare and felicity. Where parochial micro-loyalties, with their baggage of narrowness and insularity are

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Democracy is an essential arena where freedom meets responsibility. It is where potential scaffolds of tyranny are configured to serve as custodians of political integrity. In some political philosophies; the best example being the one championed by Mao Tse Tung; power is seen to flow from the barrel of guns. This happens to be the operative metaphysic of police states historically personified in

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