We will fight for JUSTICE!
We will fight for all Nigerians to have access to POWER!
We will fight for qualitative and competitive EDUCATION!
We will fight for HEALTH CARE REFORMS!
We will fight to create jobs, for all Nigerians!
We will fight corruption!
We will fight to protect all Citizens!
We will fight for your rights!
——President Goodluck Jonathan
Wow! I never knew President Goodluck Jonathan could talk like that or churn out charismatic words. His life history of living in penury is encouraging to the masses but why did he wait so 'long' to speak like that? Ah! The president was talking as if he had been deaf and dumb and cured miraculously by a pastor. Hey! No offence to the disabled but the president now ‘bubbles’ and ‘squeaks’, not just speak.
Mr President did not have shoes to wear to school. He did not have a school bag and had to carry books on his head. Yet, he made it all the way through university and earned a doctorate degree. He declared his interest in the 2011 presidential election with pomp and pageantry but he should tackle his weaknesses.
He may not be the best presidential candidate but he seems to be the best among the PDP presidential aspirants. His oratory has improved since his declaration speech. He needs to get his act together and decide if he wants to remain a ‘contractor’ or become an ‘administrator’. On the other hand, a ‘contractor’ can become a good president, as long as the right people are appointed to head specific ministries without sentiments and tribal concessions.
He needs to be politically active because it is his major weakness. It is important for him to grant more interviews and roll out a ‘catchy’ manifesto a la Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s chorus on lack of water, light (electricity), food and houses in Original Sufferhead – Lyrics and Translation:[/I]
E-no dey (chorus) It is not there!
E-no dey e dey? It is not there, is it?
E-no dey (chorus) No, it is not!
Police Rejects ‘Old’ Applicant 
Some Policemen in Nigeria
Mrs Bolaji Obe wept profusely after she was disqualified from the compulsory ‘screening exercise’ for police applicants in Ondo State, Nigeria. According to NEXT, Obe is in her late thirties and the age limit for recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force is 18 to 25. Obe said she needed the job badly in order to look after her family.
Was Obe looking forward to the monthly salary or was she really passionate to become a police constable? The poverty rate in Nigeria is too much for the masses to bear. At least Obe did not take to crime or prostitution. Should 25 be the cut off point for police screening exercise in Nigeria? In the UK, the Metropolitan Police Force age limit varies and it could be 18 ½ to 55 (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) or 18 ½ to 40 (Scotland).
Higher education and job requirements are different in the UK and Nigeria. In the Nigerian education sector, mature applicants are expected to go back to school as if they were young applicants. In the UK, mature applicants enjoy requirement waivers to study a lot of courses but not all. Years of work experience could count towards some degrees in British universities but most unlikely in Nigerian universities.
How to throw out a police commissioner?
I knew some Nigerian policemen from the rank of Inspector General of Police to Police Constable but the most memorable policeman was a Commissioner of Police. The police commissioner came to England on holiday and stayed with his relative. They had a minor argument and his relative threw him out of his house.
The commissioner knocked our door and left his heavy suitcase with me, when I was a kid. He told me to tell my parents, who were not in, that his relative threw him out. He said he would find somewhere to spend the night and come back to collect his suitcase the following day because he would be travelling back to Nigeria.
He had some money left but was unlucky that his ambassador friend was no longer Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the UK at the time; otherwise he would have spent the night with the former High Commissioner. He refused to stay with us because his relative was his tormentor and our neighbour.
Some years later, I coincidentally met him in Nigeria and was highly embarrassed when he told whoever cared to listen about the way he was booted out in England. He said he could never forget that day because it was one of the worst days in his life.
He was humiliated because if he had the same argument with his relative in Nigeria, his relative would think twice before throwing a police commissioner out. A police constable in Nigeria could easily get someone *locked up, so you can imagine how powerful a police commissioner could be. Would you throw your guest out after an argument, just like that?
*As per wetin you carry?
