OJB Jezreel puts stop to donations

In a press conference that held yesterday, OJB said:

"Appreciate all those who stood by me one way or the other. I'm sincerely grateful and feel blessed that people could go miles just to make me well again. Now that I have gotten all the money needed for my medical bill, I want to officially put a stop to all forms of appeal or request in bid to save OJB. I want Nigerians to know that I have gotten the N16million needed for my treatment. Therefore, no donation should again be made to any source in respect of the said case. I will be going for my operation by mid August"

The Future Of Nigeria Media Industry

 

Two remarkable developments of the 1990s had immense implications for media ownership and control in Nigeria. These are the deregulation of the broadcast media by the Federal government in 1992 and the annulment of the 12 June 1993 presidential election. The deregulation of the broadcast media brought to an end government’s monopoly of the broadcast media and the emergence of independent broadcasting stations. The annulment led to greater political awareness and the presence of a committed courageous press. The following article examines the interaction of these events.

With the return to civil rule in 1979, after thirteen years of military rule, the few surviving privately owned newspapers in Nigeria were joined by a plethora of titles. The newcomers appeared, in part, to serve the electioneering role played by newspapers of the 1920s. Ignoble sectional parochial rivalry ensued with reawakened political partisanship. For instance, the Nigeria Tribune and the Daily Sketch were used to advance the political interest of Obafemi Awolowo, while the Concord Group of newspapers represented the interests of their owner, Moshood Abiola and his political National Party of Nigeria (NPN). The role of the newspapers in political party partisanship continued in the 1990s.

Similarly, as the nation prepared for the fourth republic in the early 1990s, a number of privately owned newspapers emerged. These newspapers and others that came into existence after the 12 June annulment have played significant roles in criticizing the military government. Since then, the country has seen a formidable opposition press, which in spite of all forms of intimidation has turned the people’s skirmishes into full battle.

When Our Oil Well Dries Up

We as loyal and proud citizens of Nigeria,  have every cause to thank God each passing day of our lives because we come from  a blessed country, we are a lucky country, we are country that should not lack anything.
We are God’s own country, a country endowed with everything, such that other countries are even jealous of us.  We are the children of the Most High whose land abounds with the richness of oil. The poet S.T. Coleridge writes of “water, water, everywhere but not enough to drink.”  But here in Nigeria, it is the case of oil, oil, everywhere, but not enough to take care of its people because wealth is in the hands of the rich, greedy, favored few.  This is the sermon on Nigeria, the oil-rich country where its people are suffering amidst plenty.  Plenty oil.  Yet plenty trouble.
Oil!  That precious liquid gold from the bowels of the earth.  Oil, that dark, precious, subterranean liquid that the world keeps wanting, that fuels the global economy and keeps everything moving, from cars to okadas to planes to even spaceships that fly on a mission to explore the heavens.
Oil, the wealth that sustains our economy such that Nigeria depends on oil for everything, from monthly federal allocations to state governments to stolen oil subsidy money to the money that politicians share in heavy bags of Ghana-must-go.  All of them are products of oil.  Oil money!
What will Nigeria be without oil?  Death of course.  Because oil has become our oxygen.  Oil provides us perpetually with the easy pocket money from God.  Without much sweat, we make billions of dollars from oil, such that we don’t even know what to do with it—to borrow from General Gowon who once ruled Nigeria and boasted to the world about our oil wealth surplus.

In Nigeria: Money Is Never Enough

Life isn’t really about getting to a destination. It’s about how we live along the way. It’s easy to become so goal-oriented and so focused on our dreams that we overlook the simple things we should be enjoying each day. Life is a journey. There is no such thing as the finish line. Once we accomplish this dream, God will give us another. When we overcome that challenge, there will be another. There is always another mountain to climb.
If you make the mistake of living just for the destination, you will look up one day and realize you have missed out on the biggest part of life. Most of life is routine. Most of us get up every morning, go to work, come home, eat dinner, go to bed, and then do it all again.There are very few mountain tops; you graduate from school, you get married, you have a child.The high times are few and far between.
But many people live only for the mountain tops.They’re so focused on earning promotions, they work night and day.They don’t really enjoy their families.They are so stressed raising the children,they don’t enjoy their children.They are so caught up in solving daily problems, they don’t enjoy the best moments of each day.

The Reflection On June 12 and What it means to The Westerners

 

 

 

 

As a Nigerian, I share the pains of other Nigerians all over the world who narrowly lost the June 12th presidential election to the Military junta under the self-imposed president, Ibrahim Babangida. Today is a reminder of the day we all thought the military took its last breathe in the country. If not for anything, we would have had democracy before 1999. One other painful aspect of the annulment was the eventual action of the then Military government that consequently led to the arrest and the detention of MKO Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the election.

How well do you know your country

How well do you know your country

Its so unfortunate how most Africans living in diaspora know little or nothing about there country...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bqqNLUmtvzM#!

KUBWA, A Town Where Every Car Owner Is A Transporter

First darkness and then light. That is the best way to savour the beauty of a town: to arrive in the thick of night and wake up the next morning to capture the scenery; like photography, where negative prints slowly turns to sharp-coloured photos, sights and sounds etch on your senses, filtered through mellowed rays of light from the rising sun. That way, the novelty lingers.

The dynamics applies to Kubwa, a satellite town located 13 kilometres from the Federal Capital City of Abuja when I found my way into the town less than an hour before midnight like a man groping his way in the dark.