AHANONU KINGSLEY BLOG

  Nigerian youths finally have decided it's time they took the bull by the horns in giving direction to the future they desire. With the launch of the endsars movement which was focused as an onslaught against long tales of incidences of police brutality, the demand has serenaded to an emphatic demand for good governance, good economic programs and extensive national rebirth. The #EndSARS protest which commenced on the 7th of October within the major cities of Lagos and Abuja, was specifically meant to send a message to the government that the SARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad) unit of the Nigeria police have shown to not be only irresponsible but wicked, having totally strayed from their responsibility to protect the people and maintain law and  order and has instead turned to be inhuman, barbaric and monsters against the same people they're meant to protect. They had at such in expressing their bulging anger of many years taken to the streets, having boldly as their immediate...

On the 20th of October, 2020, the ongoing #EndSARS protest took a new turn as the Nigerian Army became part of it. And my heart bleeds for the loss of lives that became the outcome. I reek of deep pain knowing that these young fighters didn't die in a warfare but were hacked to death in a process that was peaceful, and by the very people who are meant to protect them and for whom they fight! Permit to say that I stand in solidarity of the fallen youths, who died in the course of their demand for a Nigerian rebirth that meets modern global standards of nationhood. I stand with them in death as much as i identified with them when they stood with the vim of life pushing for end to institutional impunity. Also, I wish to use this medium to reiterate my stand against inept and inefficient leadership that has again proved to be callous, insensitive and shameful with the largely detested and totally horrible #LekkiTollGateMassacre of peaceful, unarmed protestors on Tuesday, 20th of Octobe...

 Let the Conversation for a #NationalOverhaul commence.. May this explosive nationwide protest be a precipice for this all important discourse! Beyond the motive of the current sprawling agitation, let this national awareness reignite the process for far-reaching economic and sociopolitical reforms. Nigeria nay Nigerians have long been suffocated by institutional inefficiencies that have been prodded by inept leadership for a very long time. It is time to get off and get on. Let this protest fan that necessity to action! #EndPoliceBrutality #ReformNigeria

Why are our national processes so mundane and riddled with archaism? What could explain the situation that INEC staff on national assignment of conducting elections in Ondo state are ferried with just supporrless boats? The resultant effect is that these individuals on national assignment ended up risking their lives as the boat carrying them has reportedly capsized. May God save this country from the way we do things!

The 2020 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE chose to celebrate the effort to ensuring peace through the fight against hunger the 2020 Committee of the Nobel Prize found it worthy to award this year's Nobel Peace prize to the World Food Program (WFP)! I am not in the least elated for this recognition and honour, for they're well deserving and very highly appropriate, especially in the very reality that has been unraveled by the global pandemic of the corona virus. The WFP, an institution of the United Nations, has been committed to fighting hunger and through the efforts of food distribution, reaching out to the vulnerable and those exposed to hunger and starvation especially in war-torn countries of the world. It is worrisome to know that millions of people affected by one way or the other in crisis-ridden areas are subjected to the pangs of hunger in our present world. The story coming out from Yemen, Syria, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria, of people displayed, fighting for their lives and ho...

Reports have it that the United States President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania are down with the Coronavirus. Both have been quarantined and receiving treatments.  It's unfortunate, but a really sordid prove of his foolhardiness! Consistently defying Covid-19 safety protocols and flagrantly refusing to wear face mask even against professional medical advice, thereby setting a bad precedence to his countrymen, Donald Trump has contracted the coronavirus. Donald Trump, who initially in the early wave of the pandemic, downplayed the seriousness of the disease has been forced to swallow his ignorance that consistently fanned his rather weak gusto of the denial of reality. The delayed management of the disease caused the deaths of dozens of thousands of Americans. And while the virus rampaged along, bringing down millions of Americans down and as the death toll rose, Donald Trump fiddled along, dancing amidst the confusion of denial and engaging the people in openly crowded campaig...

The moment, when the Union Jack was lowered and the Green and White pulled up to a visible hoisting, ushered in a euphoric excitation from a people ready to take that journey precipitated by their common view of a robustly greater destination. That was in 1960, 1st October, and my dad told me the joy was egregious and an expectation that took sleep away from their eyes. Personally taking a peer into history and watching the white-and-black snippets of the moment, I really did sense the exhilaration visibly strewn around the faces of both old and young citizens of the new nation as they filed out and stood without compulsion cheering the good news of that emancipation- of a peaceful political emancipation. All through the breadth of the land, from Zungeru to Oji River and from Nembe to Akoko-Ado, the feeling was same. But today, we look back with huge nostalgia at that moment, the joyful expectation and what that journey has so far become. I am not one focused on the negative perspectiv...