Sunday 20 July 2008

Singer, Fekete Pákó Faces Libel Charge

By Hakeem Babalola
News Report

The Budapest Prosecutor’s Investigating Office has brought an action for libel against a Nigerian singer whose interview with Bombagyár On-line TV sparked controversy in Hungary early February click to read story

Saturday 12 July 2008

The Farida Waziri's EFCC: Expect the Expected

By Hakeem Babalola
Dealing with official thieves

In a society where Local Chairmen, Governors, Senators, Honourables and Presidents steal with impunity, nothing makes it a blessed time than the arrival of someone with courage and good intentions to prosecute all those who have abused the thrust of office click to read story

Saturday 5 July 2008

Heaven Awaits Nigerian Teachers

By Hakeem Babalola
Education

Nigerian teachers should know that their country is poor. It’s the reason their govt can’t afford to make them a human. Teaching is only for dedicated minds; a profession one must fall in love with as against on merely pragmatic grounds. Any teacher who thinks otherwise should quit and join politics, the police or even journalism where they can get Ghana-must-go or collect N20 from motorists or brown envelope as hack writers or crawlers click to read story

Friday 4 July 2008

Re: The Influential Thieves

By Dapo Morounkeji
Right to reply

Hi Hakeem,

Your piece, The Influential Thieves, makes an interesting reading.

Any sensible and well meaning Nigerian will agree with all the points you raised in your article. But what can we do? As a result of man's inhumanity to man being exhibited daily by our Leaders, Nigeria is moving to becoming HELL on Earth every day.

Looking at it from personal point of view, I graduated about 20 years ago from the Premier University with a Second Class Upper Division Honours Degree with nothing to show for it. I ran away from Nigeria six years ago at the slightest opportunity.Yet, I am an incurable optimist when it comes to Nigeria. I love Nigeria and my heart testifies to this.

People scream at me whenever I tell them that I am home sick and thinking of coming back.This
makes my heart to bleed the more. Contemporary Social Problems such as Prostitution, Cultism, Advanced Fee Fraud(419), Armed Robbery, Human Sacrifice For Money Making Rituals,
Human Trafficking e.t.c. are now the order of the day as a result of
heartlessness of our Leaders.

I learnt that fuel subsidy will be completely removed by January,2009. GOD help them.

In my own humble opinion, the solution lies in our collective decision to take our destiny in our own hands by rising up and engaging those wicked good-for-nothing leaders in civil disobedience of GOD knows what proportion.That is when things will start taking shape.
GOD BLESS NIGERIA.

Morounkeji, a fellow Nigerian lives in Oxford City, United Kingdom