Iyabo Arinola Ifeoma Awokoya's Blog

GANI FAWEHINMI'S OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO ON THE BELLVIEW AIR CRASH AND THE DEATH OF THE FIRST LADY,  STELLA OBASANJO,   NOVEMBER 21, 2005 "We must examine what happened in both events and proffer advice on how to prevent future occurrence in each case. We have heard mountains of hyperbolic rhetoric in the last one week and tons of sentiments and emotions had been shed. The time to take an analytical and sober look at the two events has come. Sentiment must not be allowed to replace reality and emotion must not be a substitute for the truth. Otherwise, we will go back to groping in the dark and repeating the same act of commission or omission in both tragic events. I do not know what the post-mortem report reads, but as the husband, you told the whole world in a broadcast on Tuesday, 25th October, 2005 that your wife went to Spain on a holiday without a visible sign of illness. However, reports nationally and internationally have revealed the followi...

Nigeria’s Season of Absurdities In my opinion, a virus has taken root in Nigeria and its target is the brain of the people, old and young.  The old seem to be battling senility with brain function regressing into default setting of the babe-in arms. The young people, having deliberately eschewed self-education, not bothering to build on even the “low” quality education everyone who criticises Nigerian education system believe they received from the State lack the ability of rational thinking and speak inanities often. Wisdom has gone far away from the land and the few wise men and women remaining (those born circa 1960s to 1970s when in my opinion, most systems in Nigeria had institutional credibility) are left wondering if they are actually sane. The absurdities that continually assail the remnant wise ones make them aliens in a land where rationality is absent. For my readers to be able to understand the conclusion as espoused by me, in I am going to illustrate my piece with t...