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Monday,Jul 26,2010
Why the Government May Be Wrong on The New ‘Minimum’ Wage
The recent 63.7 percent increase in the national minimum wage, from N11,000 to N17,000 (or is it N18,000?) has gene....
By Jideofor Adibe
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Saturday,Jul 17,2010
Between Octopus Paul And Nigerian Juju Men And Pastors
One of the celebrities thrown up by the just concluded World Cup tournament in South Africa is the German Octopus P....
By Jideofor Adibe
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Sunday,Jul 11,2010
Igboland: When Did Things Really Begin To Fall Apart?
That the level of insecurity in Igboland has reached unacceptable level is no longer news. In virtually all parts o....
By Jideofor Adibe
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Wednesday,Jun 30,2010
Jonathan, Babangida and the Sword of Damocles
In the Sword of Damocles, the Roman politician and philosopher Cicero tells the story of Dionysius II, a king who r....
By Jideofor Adibe
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Wednesday,Jun 30,2010
Letter To “Father No Shaking” On The September 2010 Festival Of Oath-taking In Umuagwu-Aro, Osuh-Owerre, Isi-ala Mbano Local Government Area (LGA), Imo State
Dear Rev. Father, Greetings! I have to address by the above name since it is the name you are commonly kn....
By Odimegwu Onwumere
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Wednesday,Jun 23,2010
Attahiru Jega and the Search for a Nigerian Hero
Nigerians seem to be in constant search for public heroes - competent little messiahs who will not hesitate to put ....
By Jideofor Adibe
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Thursday,Jun 17,2010
The Return of Mallam Ribadu
Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the one time strongman of the financial crime buster EFCC, who sneaked out of Nigeria into self....
By Jideofor Adibe
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Thursday,Jun 17,2010
Too Many Captains…
Two major attributes that have been quite easy to discern about President Goodluck Jonathan are: one, he seems to l....
By Ijeoma Nwogwugwu
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Thursday,Jun 10,2010
Should Suspects Be Paraded?
The above question is generating increasing furore among our intellectuals, and ‘beer parlour’ politica....
By Jideofor Adibe
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Thursday,Jun 10,2010
Nigeria: A Two Party System By Legislation?
Perhaps enamoured by the seeming ease with which two dominant political parties trod the political landscape of, at....
By Joel Nwokeoma
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Saro-Wiwas vs. SPDC: Effect Of Disinformation In Ogoniland
By:
Odimegwu Onwumere
apoet_25@yahoo.com
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The hallmark conception among many Nigerians, who want to be in a POSITION by magic or design, is to initiate subtle propagation of truth cleverly wrapped in lies. In response to the genuine desire of truth seekers, disinformation artists deliberately add fuel to the fires of conviction, sabotaging any leeway that honest seekers would ever uncover the truth. That is the problem in Ogoniland.
Fourteen years is gone since Ken Saro-Wiwa and his other Ogonis were killed by the Federal Government in alliance with the SPDC’s misconduct in Ogoni. Let us ask ourselves this: Do you kill a man when you enter his house and he realized that you do not deserve admittance and ask you to go? Do you enter a man’s house and begin to rearrange his decour after finding that you don’t like it? This is for us to judge the needs of the Ogonis from the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria PLC (SPDC) and the Federal Government of Nigeria (FG) that led to the death of the well revered Mr. Albert Badey and three other Ogoni reputable chiefs (otherwise called Ogoni-4) in the hands of recalcitrant mobs allegedly loyal to the much-touted Ken-Saro Wiwa.
The question today is: did the men deserve their death? They were killed like the Iraq’s Saddam Hussein whom George W. Bush Misinformation Ministry labeled he had gaseous substance worthy of destroying the human race. That was the same way the Ken-Saro Wiwa Misinformation Ministry brainwashed the Ogonis that Mr. Albert Badey and the other three that summed-up the Ogoni-4 were hatching ideas that were capable of setting the Ogoni people back; the misinformed or perhaps the illiterate youths swung on the four innocent men and killed them and took their lifeless bodies away since May 1994 till date.
No one can tell Nigerians that the LION was not wrong to devour the baby impala Mr. Albert Badey. No one will tell Nigerians that there was nothing wrong with the entrenched self-serving nature of the Heralded Ken-Saro Wiwa and his folks alike that saw to the death of a patriot, Mr. Albert Badey.
Like the SPDC, Saro-Wiwa became a fan of mischief and campaigns for elongation of his name to the West end, because as a writer and a media man, he never saw Mr. Albert Badey reasons why him (Saro-Wiwa) should not throw the entire Ogoni people into the wrath of the federal troops, which was what later happened after Saro-Wiwa’s misinformation ministry informed the Ogonis that Albert Badey was against their STRUGGLE and Albert Badey was killed by youths allegedly loyal to Saro-Wiwa.
Saro-Wiwa, from the sayings from many quarters, did not want anybody to challenge his beam of rising to the level where he could literally gridlock the political system or where he would specifically target at people like Mr. Albert Badey whose life needed not to be disrupted to make him (Saro-Wiwa) respond to popular will. Saro-Wiwa encouraged all of his subscribers and each one of the European visitors to his “web site” to join in his Ogoni unprecedented national effort and to devote whatever time or resources they can to making his miracle happen. His position was like: If we have to pulverize the wheels of government to a halt, let's do it, it is our oil, and Iwill make more money.
Except for one thing – self-aggrandizement – Saro-Wiwa’s service was like the Bush’s report to his surrogates when he embarked on the ultra-selfish war in Iraq, to capture Saddam Hussein; and Mr. Albert Badey was captured and killed with his body carried away by the Saro-Wiwa-led Ogoni ‘government’. But Nigerians are made to believe today that Sar-Wiwa’s ‘government' was a maleficent force of evil, taking advantage of the weak in its never-ending ‘war’ against the ‘infidels’ (like Mr. Albert Badey). But Saro-Wiwa perhaps didn’t know that yet, once Nigerians recall and take a closer look at his service to the Ogonis, a lot of things that happened under his 'government' will be more re-focused.
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