"...We can't keep feeding the philosphy of two Nigeria's and expect to make progress. Consider this-how can you make progress with your brother when he is pulling in one direction and you the opposite direction? If the old guard have chosen that destiny for themselves, the youth ought to chart a new course. You shouldn't be a Northerner or Southerner first. You must be a Nigerian first. That's how to build a country." -- Nasir El Rufai, Facebook, June 2010
Modern Ghana, September 6, 2010
by Femi Fani- Kayode.
Before reading my essay may I crave your indulgence and ask you to read through Chief Mathew Mbu's comments which are provided on this link: The Nation
This is why it is so important for us to learn about our history properly, to read as widely as possible and to do our own research before we just accept and believe whatever anyone may tell us about our past. Chief Matthew Mbu is a man that I have tremendous respect and affection for and he is undoubtedly one of our most eminent elder statesmen and nationalists. He is also a father to me so I do find it difficult to say what I am about to say. Yet the truth must be told no matter what and no matter whose ox is gored. And the truth is that the elder statesman's assertion that Sir Tafawa Balewa, the former Prime Minister of Nigeria, was not murdered by soldiers and that he in fact died of asthma is a sordid and shameful attempt at distorting history. It is nothing but historical revisionism.
Modern Ghana, May 29, 2010
Dayo J. Atofolaki
In view of the amount of disinformation and lies that is being peddled around about the facts of the case between the EFCC and Chief Femi Fani-Kayode which is presently being heard in the Federal High Court in Lagos I believe that it is important that a few clarifications are made about the facts of that case so that people are not misled.
In July 2008 the EFCC charged Chief Fani-Kayode with embezzeling 19.5 billion naira Aviation Intervention Fund and when it was clear that there was absolutely no evidence to sustain that charge and that in fact he not only left 7.2 billion Naira in the Aviation Intervention Fund account but that he was actually the one that investigated and exposed the fact that the 6.5 billion Naira Safe Tower Project money had gone missing from the Aviation
"AU leaders had an agreement that facilitated peace in Liberia. It's shameful how Obasanjo threw Charles Taylor under the bus after pressure from the Europeans and America (not a signatory to the so-called UN court). For four years Iraq went through a wave of brutal ethnic cleansing, I don't see the UN Court going after the Iraqi Cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr and Co. as well as those brutal Afghan tribal war lords; all of whom the US States Department and other foreign powers struck deals. I believe African leaders need to grow more "spine", there will be more ridiculous demands by western countries and the UN to change some part of our constitution in a few years."-- Yele Odofin-Belo.
A new form of government is slowly being introduced to the world by the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The test run for this new, innovative and unique system of government was introduced to the world from a sick bed in a Saudi Arabian hospital two months ago by Nigeria's ailing President Umaru Musa Yar'adua and he will soon establish it and make it fully operational when he returns back to Nigeria to his newly-built, designer and specialist ground floor hospital bed (with state of the art and modern life saving and sustaining machines et al) in the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja.
What ancient powers did the beautiful Cleopatra possess that made the most powerful world rulers of her age, Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, fall hopelessly in love with her one after the other. She was Queen of Egypt and the most precious gem of the meditarranean sea.
I have dedicated my life to Africa, I love Africa and I am very proud to be an African but the truth is this: that, generally speaking, Africans do not love themselves or love their own. Our continent, as beautiful and blessed with human and mineral resources as she is, is plagued with more bitterness, frustration, envy, hatred of self, hatred of others, backbiting, wickedness, deceit and evil than any other that I know.
I will never forget the land of the black star. The land of the watchers and of the early morning intercessors. The land that brought me so much joy. The land of the Kente cloth. The land of "Action Church." The land where joy abounds and where peace abides. The land where the people have a different spirit and where they bear an uncanny faith in the power of the Living God.
As times and seasons change, so do the thoughts of mortals and lesser men. Yesterday's heroes become today's villains and today's villains become tomorrow's heroes. Men worship the powerful and mighty and those that have been blessed with good fortune yet they despise and pour scorn and contempt on those that have fallen by the wayside and those that appear to have no future and no tomorrow. Yet the bible says "rejoice not my enemy that I have fallen, for I shall rise again".
Forty years on, I am missing the Hill. For our time there was a great time. Our days there were great days.
Julius Malema, the President of the Youth League of the South African ruling party, the African National Congress, has become a topic of heated discussion throughout the capitals of the world today mainly due to his deep hatred of the white South African Afrikaneer population and for his resurrection of an old ANC war song that was very popular amongst black South Africans during the days of the struggle against apartheid and white minority rule. The song openly calls for the mass murder of the white population in South Africa, and is indeed titled, "Kill The Boer".
PointBlank News, March 16, 2010
Born 16 days after Nigeria’s independence to Chief Remilekun Adetokunbo Fani-Kayode and Mrs. Adia Adunni Fani-Kayode, also a chief, Femi Fani-Kayode means different things to different people. In the early 1880s, when very Nigerians could boast of the ability to scribble A,B,C, Femi’s great-grandfather, The Reverend Emmanuel Adedapo Kayode had already acquired a Master of Arts Degree from Durham University. By 1920, his grandfather, Victor Adedapo Kayode had obtained a masters degree in law at the prestigious Cambridge University. By 1941, Femi’s father, Remilekun Fani- Kayode took after his father by enrolling in