As regards the unfortunate and sad events that took place in the core north immediately after the just concluded presidential elections, during the course of my research and consultations with various groups and stakeholders in the last few days, I have established the following facts which I would humbly like to share with you:
Modern Ghana, April 24, 2011
by Femi Fani-Kayode
You cannot have a message without first having a mess. You cannot have a testimony without first having a test. You cannot rise to the top of the mountain without first falling to the bottom of the valley. You cannot appreciate anything that is good without first suffering deprivation and want. After the pain of the cross, Jesus had to go down into the belly of the earth and deep into the bowels of hell for three long days before he conquered death, made a public showing of the devil and the forces of darkness, spoiled the principalities and powers and gloriously rose again.
Modern Ghana, April 24, 2011
by Femi Fani-Kayode
If I should die, cry not for me for angels beckon where I go. If I should die, weep not for me for it brings an end to pain afflicted. If I should die, mourn not for me for it ushers in peace eternal. If I should die hurt not for me but remember the good and dwell not on injuries past. If I should die, let tears run not but in their stead rejoice in the knowledge that believers don't die but only change address.
There is no love that is as powerful and as strong as the love of Mona. It breaks down walls and shatters the gates and barriers. It heals the wounds of broken hearts and takes away the pain of crushed and shattered emotions.
You cannot have a message without first having a mess. You cannot have a testimony without first having a test. You cannot rise to the top of the mountain without first falling to the bottom of the valley.
The Will Nigeria, April 7, 2011
By Femi Fani- Kayode.
I do not mean any offence to Nigerian women by asking the question that I am about to ask or by making the assertions that I am about to make in this note. However this is an important question that I have not been able to answer myself for a number of years even though I have tried my best to do so. And the question is as follows. What precisely is it about igbo women that has made them excel in public office,
The fever that is raging in Nigeria today is "wikileaks". Yet as entertaining as these secret communications are the truth is that if you believe everything that you read in Julian Assange's "leaks" then you will believe anything. I say this based on my own personal experiences. So far I have been fingered twice by them and in both cases I can assure you that the stories were fabrications. They simply never happened.
The Nigeria Voice, March 31, 2011
By Femi Fani-Kayode.
In his book titled ''Ile-Ife-The Source of Yoruba Civilisation'', Prince Adelegan Adegbola said that ''the yoruba are the progeny of great kingship, efficient kingdom-builders and astute rulers. They have been enjoyong for centuries a well-organized pattern of society, a pattern which persists basically in spite of all the changes resulting from modern contacts with the western world. Their kings have, from a very long past, worn costly beaded crowns and wielded royal scepters. No one remembers the time when the yoruba people have not worn clothes. Their character of dignity and integrity is an ancient one. In reality, the yoruba claim to be descendants of a great ancestor. There is no doubt at all that they have been a great race.
This Day, March 28, 2011
By Femi Fani-Kayode.
There has been so much speculation, misinformation and disinformation peddled around about President Olusegun Obasanjo's handling of the power sector between 1999 and 2007. This contribution is an attempt to set the record straight and to clear the air. The truth is that the numerous problems of the power sector could not be completely solved by President Obasanjo simply due to the sabotage that his government was facing in that sector on a daily basis. And I am glad that Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, who served the Obasanjo administration but who is now the
The Nation, March 19, 2011
by Femi Fani- Kayode.
A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has accused ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo of committing four grave blunders while in office between 1999 and 2007.
He singled out the choice of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua, in spite of protests, as the biggest mistake Obasanjo made.
According to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Mr. David Cameron, Nigeria is ''a dream waiting to happen''. How very gracious and kind of him it is to remind us of this but I cannot help believing that it was said tongue in cheek. It is rather like a wicked parent telling an abused child whose legs that same parent had broken and crippled a few months earlier that ''don't worry, one day your dream of walking will become a reality''. Worse still, whilst mouthing such patronising platitudes, the trucluent parent holds the child down and forcefully confines it to the cruel clutches of that wheelchair. History proves that this is what the British, the great race of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic warriors that David Cameron so proudly leads today, have effectively done to us as a nation and as a people.
Yesterday's killings in Norway are just unbelievable and horrific. 84 members of the Labour Youth Movement were shot to death in cold blood by a lone gunman on an island retreat and 7 people were killed by a bomb in Oslo. The perpetrator of both attacks is a right-wing 32 year-old christian fundamentalist conservative by the name of Anders Behring Breivek who has been described as being ''islamaphobic'' and who, in my view, is clearly insane.