EDITORIAL CARTOONS . POLITICAL COMIC STRIPS
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Friday, 17 June 2011
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Monday, 6 June 2011
Things Haven't Really Changed
I am compelled by a text message I received this morning from a colleague to comment on the above cartoon. His text reads: “Cracks (the appellation I sometimes go by), there must have been a mix-up in your cartoon today. I don’t know what US Ambassador Sanders has got to do with IGP.”
My answer is, a lot! While she was US Ambassador to Nigeria, Sanders attended every social and business gathering going because she understood our psyche, the way our government, politicians and business people conduct business.
The cartoon explains that she knew under what conditions and circumstances to meet our government officials if she were to obtain the kind of information she was seeking. Recent Wiki leaks attested to that, in the amount of “useful” info she forwarded to Washington in her cables.
Now, if you read the Vanguard story below, it beggars belief that paying a disgraced politician a social visit, solely for the purpose of apologising for not attending a social event would take priority over important state duties for an IGP on a Friday morning! The IGP’s action buttresses the fact that we socialise and fraternise more than we work!
I-G didn’t stop Bankole’s arrest – Police
VANGUARD JUNE 4, 2011
Abuja – The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Hafiz Ringim, did not stop the EFCC from arresting the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, police authorities said on Saturday in Abuja.
In a statement signed by the Force Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr Olusola Amore, the police said Ringim “did not direct, instruct or intervene’’ in the matter.
“The IGP is not aware of the presence of EFCC operatives at the former Speaker’s residence, nor did he speak or interact with the EFCC operatives,” Amore, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, said in the statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
The police spokesman explained that the EFCC was not under the command of the Inspector- General of the Police and would not have involved him in its activity.
He added that the anti-corruption organisation was even at liberty to invite the former Speaker or anybody, without any recourse to the IGP.
“It was a mere coincidence that it was when EFCC operatives went to the house of the former Speaker that the IGP paid him a social visit.
“His visit was to apologise for not attending a social event which the former Speaker had invited the IGP to,” Amore said.(NAN)
Sunday, 5 June 2011
Friday, 3 June 2011
Talking At Cross Purposes
Many States in
Nigeria don’t consider education a priority. Their citizens snub education and
embrace religion. These States demonstrate nonchalance to education by spending
their income, (derived largely from the oversized freebie allocations they
receive monthly from the Federal government), on religious activities, commerce
and white elephant projects.
However, a number of
States in Nigeria take education seriously. Sometimes, too fanatically! Their
citizens scrimp and save to educate their children and wards to the highest
possible levels with little or no help from their state governments or the
Federal government.
But at harvest time,
the Federal Government is first on the queue. They harvest fresh graduates and push
them straight into a post-tertiary scheme, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC),
for a compulsory one-year servitude. Now nicknamed “Corpers”, they are posted
to States other than theirs (particularly to States that give education the
middle finger) to work under unsafe conditions in government and private
establishments for a paltry monthly allowance (national minimum wage) paid by
the Federal government.
Sadly, a change is
NOT gonna come!
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