DEAR AFRICAN LEADERS

DEAR AFRICAN LEADERS



From my 1897 album, this is a poignant musical letter to African Leaders to remind them of their forgotten responsibilities to the masses.



The entire album is loaded with tracks of consciousness. Buy and download this special edition of 1897 at www.agpnmusic.com to support the struggle to hold our leaders to accountability.



Bless up.



Monday Midnite.

DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY

The doctrine of Discovery is an international legal principle constructed by 
European Christian nations in the fifteenth century to justify their dominance of indigenous peoples and their lands, territories, and resources in the non-
Christian countries around the world. Its application continues today and sets 
the foundation of the laws in colonial states – the united states, Australia, New 
Zealand and Canada.

Examples of its contemporary application:

• The exploitations and human rights violations of indigenous peoples and their lands by Canadian mining, oil and gas corporations including Barrick Gold Corporation, Goldcorp Inc. Enbridge Inc. and TransCanada Corporation.
• The proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, Keystone XL pipeline, Pacific Trails Pipeline and Kinder Morgan pipeline project
• Plan Nord of the Quebec government
• Ring of Fire in northern Ontario.
• Cultural appropriations such as Olympic mascots and Hudson Bay Co. sweaters.

The doctrine of Discovery is also the theme of this year’s UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples concluded on Friday, May 18. In the permanent forum, the representatives of indigenous nations not only spoke about the ongoing impacts of this doctrine on their people but also recommendations on how to redress these impacts.

We felt that this important topic is worth our attention and understanding as it is a rationalization which underpins the colonization of Turtle Island (aka North America) and other parts of the world. It legitimizes the morally condemnable, socially unjust and racist policies against Indigenous peoples worldwide.

3 great resources on this Discovery Doctrine:

• The framework of Dominance: UN Preliminary Study on the Doctrine of Discovery
• The Doctrine of Discovery: its enduring impact on indigenous peoples and the right to redress for past conquests
• Steve Newcomb At Indigenous Peoples Forum On The Doctrine Of Discovery, Arizona

http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/doctrine-of-discovery/

• DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY « Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa – www.ipsmo.orghttp://ipsmo.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/doctrine-of-discovery/
  

Back in the day, the infrastructures of this high school in Edo State were as good as those of any high school anywhere in the world.

But due to utter neglect and deficiency in maintenance mentality that's all too common across the board in Africa, the school is now not even remotely a shadow of its glory days.

As a matter of fact, some dubious private citizens with connections has audaciously appropriated most of the school's land mass for their own money-making schemes. 

I'm hereby using this medium to call on the current Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, to quickly investigate the atrocities being perpetrated against the school and act expeditiously in getting the school fixed.

https://youtu.be/lDNyLsUVLbs

MONDAY MIDNITE--AZZHOLES ROCK

Folks, hopefully, and prayerfully, after the 29th of May this 

year, I won't have any reason to produce another anti-9ja-

bad government track or clip again for the rest of my life.

But for now, here's my latest explosive YouTube lyrical/musical 

clip. It's a no-holds-barred blast against ALL the 9ja "leaders" 

whoever governed from the highest seat of power in Abuja.

For the benefit of my FB pals across the globe who may 

not know, ASO ROCK is located in Abuja, Nigeria, and it is 

the country’s version of the WHITE HOUSE in Washington 

DC; NUMBER 10 DOWNING STREET in London; and the 

KREMLIN in Moscow.

Since its inception in 1991, all the so-called leaders who 

have occupied this Africa’s most populous nation’s Villa of 

Power till date, have been excessively corrupt, incompetent, 

negligent, and utterly worthless. In short, they’ve all been 

A$$HOLE$.

So, given the above indisputable fact, it is my honest and 

unapologetic opinion that until a worthy leader occupies  

the official seat of authority, ASO ROCK should be called 

AZZHOLES ROCK.

But I do sincerely believe that Nigeria's first worthy leader is 

just a few months away from the throne.

Enjoy the clip.

Boko Haram: 7,300 Nigerian refugees flee to Chad in less than 2 weeks – UN

January 10, 2015.

Some 7,300 Nigerian refugees had fled from Nigeria to Chad in the past 10 days, Farthan Haq, a United Nation spokesperson said on Saturday.

Mr. Haq said this when he spoke to newsmen in Abuja.

He said that the newly arrived refugees in Chad are staying 

with local communities in villages some 450 kilometers 

northwest of the Chadian capital, Ndjamena.

“The UN refugee agency teams in Chad are at the border and seeking more information on the new arrivals and their needs,” Haq said.

He said the number of refugees from Nigeria in Chad had reached more than 10,000.

Mr. Haq said the Chadian government had requested the assistance of aid agencies to help the refugees.

Citing the United Nation Refugee Agency, he said that the 

conflict in northeastern Nigeria has led to the exodus of some 135,000 people, with at least 850, 000 people displaced within Nigeria.

(NAN)

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/174601-boko-haram-7300-nigerian-refugees-flee-chad-less-2-weeks-un.html

JONATHAN, BERLUSCONI And The Politics Of Sweet Talk--Rufus Kayode Oteniya.

Published on Monday, 27 June 2011 12:21

Written by Rufus Kayode Oteniya

Reading an article recently in The Economist entitled ‘Berlusconi: The man who screwed an entire country’, I couldn’t but draw a striking similarity between President Goodluck Jonathan and Italian Prime Minister, Mr. Silvio Berlusconi.

The two leaders are very popular in their respective countries and have enjoyed immense goodwill among their countrymen now or in the immediate past. Their popularity is not borne out of their achievements but for what they say. They are both gifted at knowing what their people like to hear and exactly, that is what they tell them.

In Berlusconi early days in government, he would always remind the people how he had been able to build a business empire from nothing; a feat that has made him one of the richest men in the world and at various times, Italy’s richest though now, the 3^rd richest according to Forbe’s latest ranking. He would always also remind them of how he planned to use his Midas touch to transform Italy; a transformation that never was. And since the global crises began, Berlusconi would often remind his countrymen how they are better off than the other Europeans because they are the least hit by the global crisis.

Berlusconi has governed Italy longer than anyone since the end of the Second World War. He has held the position of the prime minister on three separate occasions: from 1994 to 1995, from 2001 to 2006 and currently since 2008 and in all these years, Italy has witnessed a consistently declining economy. Despite his failed reforms, he has remained very popular until lately simply because he had mastered the art of knowing the sweet things to tell the people and always keeping them hoping for a brighter future while doing very little to bring it to reality.

 Thanks to his numerous escapades with young girls - some of them minors and some financial recklessness involving him and his numerous businesses, Italians have woken up to know that at best, Berlusconi does not mean good for their country and they are now saying NO to him and his party, though a little too late. He had already screwed an entire country! The economy has been battered! It’s now dawn on the people that Berlusconi is in politics to protect himself from going to jail for his numerous financial scandals and also protect his business empire. Now, it is clear that the saying is true that a good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

In the last local election, Berlusconi and his party were rejected by the people and they even lost in Milan. According to Dr. Anthony A Kila in his article entitled The Italian Festa, “Silvio Berlusconi was biologically, commercially and politically born in Milan, the city considered by all to be his stronghold…” He lost it! And he woefully lost the battle in his power base. Italians completely rejected him again in a recent referendum!

President Goodluck Jonathan has just won the election (fair or unfair). Most of his strong supporters would likely tell you tales like he’s humble, his one of us, he’s sincere, he’s got good plans for Nigeria, he relates directly to us on Facebook, he’s a lucky man, he’s a South South man and they hardly speak of his track records despites his being in politics for over 12 years.

On his part also, he has told us many times his story of not having shoes while growing up; he often reminds the people how he never thought he would get to where he is today; he routinely reminds his followers on Facebook his policy of saying little and doing much while always ending that he would always fight for our interests and never disappoint us. No week goes by without telling us his plan to fight corruption. Before the elections, he would often tell us how he planned to deliver free and fair election. All these sweet talks have endeared the president to the hearts of not a few Nigerians.

Even though his slogan is saying little and doing much, President Jonathan never said little, he was always saying much and more often than not, what Nigerians love to hear.

His electioneering campaigns were full of promises as detailed by the veteran journalist, Sonala Olumhense in his article ‘Non-governing Governance: A Mountain Of Promises.’ The campaign promises were so many such that if the president can fulfil only 20% of them, posterity will judge him as one of the best presidents of our time.

In reality, President Jonathan has done little while saying much. He has spoken and broken too many promises. For the sake of space, I would like to look at only two of his unfulfilled promises in the power sector here:

As the Vice President to the late President Umaru Yar’Adua who was as at that time AWOL, and while directly supervising the energy sector then, Dr. Jonathan, while Speaking on 23 November 2009 in Kaduna at the inauguration of a production line for Peugeot 306 Sedan reiterated that Federal Government was putting necessary machinery in place to meet all its targets in the power sector, beginning with the generation and distribution of 6,000MW scheduled for December 2009 and that Nigerians would no longer need to use generators for their industrial and private power from January 2010.

About a year later, then as the substantial president following the death of Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua, his predecessor, Dr. Jonathan on 17 November 2010 while speaking in Abuja at a meeting with former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and the chief executive officer of JP Morgan Bank of the USA, Jamie Dimon announced to the nation that if his administration’s plans for the power sector are fully implemented, Nigeria should be generating enough power for use in homes, offices, and commercial enterprises by April 2011.

Nineteen months since he made the first promise and seven months after the second one and two months after the last set time for stable electricity, nothing is stable about our electricity other than stable black-outs.

While the former promise was an unconditional, the president applied a caution in the latter. He gave a condition that if his administration’s plans for the power sector were fully implemented.

I am quite sure that Nigerians would like to know if his administration’s plans for the power sector were fully implemented. If yes, why do we not have steady electricity supply as he had promised? And if no, why did he not implement his plans?

Since there was no change in the administration and the president was also directly in charge of the Ministry of Power, then, he must be totally responsible for this failure. On assuming office, first as the acting president and later as the president, Jonathan took over the Ministry of Power so that he could directly supervise his policy regarding power and as a result he had no excuse for policy implementation.

Jonathan has a history of saying something and acting another thinking Nigerians will always be gullible and support him regardless of his inadequacies or just banking on his name, Goodluck.

Before you start asking me to give him time to settle down for his new term, kindly know that these promises were not premised on his new term. He knew elections would be held in April, 2011 before making his promise; he knew a new term would begin on 29 May 2011.

I know you’d say Jonathan didn’t start Nigeria’s power problems. Yes! He didn’t. He campaigned and promised to solve the problems, he made ‘unforced’ promises to solve them and we elected him to solve the problems.

Let the president capitalize on the goodwill that he is enjoying while it lasts. Let him walk his talk on electricity so that his name will be engraved in gold when the true history of Nigeria is written.

We are not asking for too much. Just gives us light and we’ll take it up from there. Nigerians are creative, hardworking and ingenious people but without light, little can be achieved. If he fails to do this, he might be causing some who had had shoes while growing up to lose them as adults and by that time Nigerians will have no choice but to treat him the way Italians treat Mr. Silvio Berlusconi.

God Bless Nigeria!

Rufus Kayode Oteniya Writes! – oteniyark@hotmail.com

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2015: MEND Endorses Buhari.

 
General Mohammadu Buhari

By Segun James in Yenagoa.

Dreaded militia group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has endorsed the candidature of the All Progressive Congress (APC), General Mohammadu Buhari as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

MEND insisted that Buhari is the right man for the job to revamp the failing state of the country.

The MEND,in a statement issued on Tuesday via e-mail and signed by its spokesman, Gbomo Jomo, said the decision to throw the full support of the group behind General Mohammadu Buhari stems from the pathetic state in which the country has been put by the government of Goodluck Jonathan.

"President Jonathan, since assuming his office, has set up countless number of “committees”, none of which their report has ever been implemented. From the Nuhu Ribadu report to the KPMG and Fuel Subsidy reports, just to mention a few.
How can Nigerians expect a highly corrupt person like Goodluck Jonathan to fight corruption when he believes that “stealing is not corruption”, as he shamelessly told the nation? He has proven beyond all reasonable doubt, his inability to tackle corruption or prosecute a single government official in his six (6) years in office.

"MEND finds it laughable the recent statement by Goodluck Jonathan on his governments plan to fight corruption. This statement not only smacks of ignorance to the highest order, but also shows just how stupid he thinks Nigerians are. A president that had six years to tackle the problem but chose to shield corrupt government officials, joined in the looting of our resources and now has the temerity to say his government “has a plan” to fight corruption. This is a big slap in the face of every single Nigerian!"

www.thisdaylive.com/articles/2015-mend-endorses-buhari-/198522/