EDITORIAL CARTOONS . POLITICAL COMIC STRIPS
We buy
into the social convention that obligates us to speak well of the dead, no
matter how imperfect they were in life.
We even go beyond that, in our part of the world. We not only speak well of the dead, but we also spare no expense to give them a “befitting” burial, even when we’d starved them in life!
We buy
into the social convention that obligates us to speak well of the dead, no
matter how imperfect they were in life.
We even go beyond that, in our part of the world. We not only speak well of the dead, but we also spare no expense to give them a “befitting” burial, even when we’d starved them in life!
Happy Democracy Day, Nigeria!
The people had known all along that June 12 is their preferred democracy day, but President Jonathan (6 May 2010 – 29 May 2015) and all the Presidents before him insisted on ramming May 29 down their throats.
And then President Buhari came along (29 May 2015 – 29 May 2023) to do our bidding. According to President Tinubu, it took the dauntless courage of President Buhari in 2018 to reach “back into history to rectify a national misdeed by making June 12 Democracy Day.”
The Democracy and
Transformation We Mean
THISDAY 11 June 2013 By Anyim Pius Anyim
It is now two weeks since we all celebrated Democracy Day. Within the intervening period, Nigerians have had time to digest and react to the Mid-Term Review Report, through which the government of President Goodluck Jonathan gave us an update on policy and governance issues under the Transformation Agenda. We recall that on May 29, the president said: “Democracy is as much a result as it is a process and today’s event invites us to reflect on both the processes and results of our thriving democracy. There is evidence of stronger democratic institutions. There is even stronger evidence of an evolving culture of better consultation, better stakeholder input and better mass buy-in on all major issues of national development.”
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History has it that Emperor Nero fiddled
while Rome burned. We’re told the great fire consumed 70% of the city, rendering
over half of the inhabitants dispossessed.
Can you imagine what could have happened
if the inhabitants had joined Nero in his frivolous preoccupation? Rome could
have burned to a cinder!
That’s exactly where we are headed. Our own Emperor (government) is playing the fiddle while the country burns and we are providing backing, instead of booing. We are playing second fiddle to our government, so to speak! We are wallowing in frivolities while our country is enmeshed in crisis…. What a pity!
‘Tis the season of cross carpeting, when politicians migrate from the opposition PDP party to the ruling APC party.
The
average Nigerian politician is an embodiment of these two major political
parties. He has long asserted his right to move freely between the two. Thus,
he feels at home in either; and his motives are beyond reproach.
It all started with this innocuous Easter Message…
“As we join Christians in the celebration of Easter, may we truly reflect on the quintessential modus vivendi of Master Jesus; The Christ, who peregrinated this incarnation as an exempli gratia of self abnegation, puritanical excrescence, spartan discipline, mental magnitude, hierophantic candour and altruistic effusions, qualities which have become a desiderata for national resurgimento.
“Beyond the
fugacious razzmatazz of the moment, I seriously call attention to the rutilanting
and coruscating modus vivendi of Master Jesus the Christ and I dare pontificate
that save and until we viscerally emblematize the virtues of self-immolation,
quintessential abnegation, eulogizeable simplicity, Christ-like humility and
immerse ourselves in a platonic emotionalism of agape love and communalistic service,
we would have woefully failed in learning and imbibing the true meaning of
EASTER.
We must elevate this moment from a proscenium of joie de vivre into one of meditative transcendentalism”. HAPPY EASTER.
- Patrick Obahiagbon
Looking back at that day seven months ago
when a guilt-ridden ex-governor went to knock on the door of an anti-corruption
agency to induce his own arrest…
