A new breakaway has emerged out of the National Association of Seadogs (NAS) recently and is known as the “Jibulaka Confraternity”. While the exact details of the Jibulaka Confraternity is yet to be released to the public, it is certain that the preponderance of ennui within NAS caused it. This ennui is generated in the way Seadogs are treated. There are expected to pay their dues like men, attend meetings like men, practice brotherhood like men, take on responsibilities like men and uphold the tenets they are oathed to uphold like men, however, it is also demanded they obey orders like little boys afraid of the cane. Zombiism of another kind. Many cannot stand it any longer. Read the rest of this entry »
The Jibulaka Confraternity is Now Floating; NAS Sinking by Ennui
Posted: June 21, 2017 in Corruption, Fraternity, Human Rights, LeadershipTags: cupidity, Ennui, Jibulaka Confraternity, National Association of Seadogs, wickedness, Zombiism
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Civil War, Colonisation and Taught History
Posted: June 20, 2017 in Governance, Government, Institutions, LeadershipTags: Biafra, Civil War, Colonisation, Grimot Nane, history, national curriculum, Nigeria, post-colonisation, shame, West Africa
One may wonder who within the Nigerian Ministry of Education removed History [of West Africa] as a subject from the national academic curriculum several years ago. Many have claimed that it was removed to hide the ‘darkness of the Civil War’ and to quell potential tensions. Has it worked for contemporary Nigeria? We know it has not. The Muslim-dominated North defeated Christian East in a very bloody and savage conflict and they want people to ‘forget’ by robbing people of a major component of their educational freedom? History is ultimately a reflection of the handwork of leaders and they know it. Read the rest of this entry »
Muslim Hegemony Through Education
Posted: June 19, 2017 in Government, Power, Social RelationsTags: Arabic, Christian Association of Nigeria, Christianity, Grimot Nane, Hegemony, Islamisation, Muslim, national curriculum, Nigeria, religious studies, schools
When I wrote the articles Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria? (http://wp.me/p1bOKH-BE) and The Complaints: Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria? (http://wp.me/p1bOKH-BT), it was taken by many as mischief with a keyboard or a pen. Muslims denied any attempts at an Islamisation of Nigeria and Christians compatriots said it was neither possible nor even thinkable. As I have said before the Islamisation of Nigeria will be ‘structural’ or ‘institutional’ not ‘martial’ as some unwittingly expect. Christian Religious Knowledge (CRK) is now being completely removed as a subject from the national academic curriculum while Islamic Religious Studies (IRS) and Arabic Studies (AS) remain. Why not ban Use of English Language from the curriculum too? History was taken out some time ago. Read the rest of this entry »
The Leadership of a Bad Brother – Level Seven
Posted: June 18, 2017 in Corruption, Fraternity, Governance, Institutions, Leadership, PowerTags: abuses, begging, Boiss, emergence, Eschatology, fawners, greed, Grimot Nane, impotence, Professional Bad Leaders, realm, wickedness, wretchedness
When the realm governed by the Bad Brother is hollowed out from the inside by the purposeful preponderance of evil, excesses and abuses to the point everything that held it together is so polluted and its rules irreparably unenforceable, a power vacuum is created. That is the art of negotiating oneself out of power by sloth. Folly. The high and mighty in society that once gave credibility and legitimacy to the realm turn their honourable backs and conveniently depart gradually if they were not expelled earlier; the least among men devoid of rectitude, creativity and intelligence then come into ascendance and potentially power by way of hunter-gather style ambition. The realm then gets hollowed out further till the skin breaks from the inside to the surface. Only the memories remain and the smell. Read the rest of this entry »
How Democracy Fails Nigeria
Posted: June 10, 2017 in Corruption, Elections, Governance, Government, Leadership, PowerTags: democracy, democratic particularism, democratic universalism, Grimot Nane, moral universalism, political elite, politics in Nigeria, responsibility
There has been too much optimism invested in what is widely touted in Nigeria as the ‘dividends of democracy’ i.e. the benign and enabling outcomes of democracy. After 18 years of a return to democracy in Nigeria, the dividends of democracy on offer has only meant the military are no longer in government. The dividends have neither been delivered in the form of better leadership nor better governance. Unsurprisingly, the crisis of leadership in Nigeria cannot be solved by democracy as a system all by itself. In fact, democracy can fail societies terribly. Read the rest of this entry »
