AHANONU KINGSLEY BLOG

 Dear President Buhari, Just recently, on the 27th of January, 2021, you signed the COVID-19 Health Protection Regulations 2021 policy into law. This was a re-enactment of Section 4 of the Quarantine Act, Cap. Q2 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2010, and therein you mandated every Nigerian to wear face mask and maintain social distance at all times between persons. And as a penalty for flouting the provisions of these regulations, you recommended some drastic measures, which include imprisonment for a period of 6 months or payment of fine or both.  The act you signed was applauded by many, who have value for life and safety, mostly by my humble self, going by the objective it sets to achieve in combating the scourge of the fast-spreading Covid-19 infection. It was a pro-life idea! But very troubling and worrisome is the fact that just some days after this landmark action by yours, it was observed that you, by yourself and ontop of yourself, flouted the very law you signed. T...

Sometimes, people ask me who my role model is and I often do not say what they probably would expect. For I know, as is always traditional, they would expect me to draw inspiration from one influential figure or another highly spoken person. But my unconventional drift seems to just defy the norm! Not as though there are no such people, who have made mark for themselves and have impacted on life in ways gloriously spoken of. There are many of them, and deeply I cherish them for who they've become and for what they've achieved! However, to be frank, none of them, in their sparks, fits to be described as my role model: the top bureaucrats, the business moguls, the high-valued political juggernauts, the influential religious leaders and erudite academicians. They do not form my models, as much as I cherish their ilks. Who are my role models? They are but just society's simple elements out there, who continue to inspire and motivate me through their simple  influences expressed...

News making round is on the abduction of some children in the Rachel's Home, an orphanage in the Naharati area of Abuja. That's very disturbing. More disturbing is the fact that the gunmen had gone ahead to demand for ransom for the release of these kids! It's been reported too how the kidnappers, on their demand, were asked if indeed they knew those kids were "orphans". As though they never knew. But to highlight their callousness, they affirmed of how they knew and how they do not care but the money or the kids are wasted. Such insensitivity is very disheartening! The government must do everything to ensure the release of these children and the other kidnapped couple, and prove how shameless this act of brigandage could be. The abductors, very senseless and irresponsible ones indeed, must be brought to book. #ThatsMySimpleDemand

The ongoing massacre in Orlu town of Imo state alleged to have been stocked by overzealous elements in the Nigerian army is shameful, barbaric, callous and a deeply insensitive act that's totally condemned. It's highly reprehensible, very disappointing that this ember of war, as alleged, is fanned by the highhandedness, total disregard and the bilious pride of our security men, who feel they are above their fellow citizens, who to them have become just ordinary and bloody civilians. It smacks of a national shame and militaristic embarrassment how a beer parlour fisticuff could spiral into a war that should involve the military body. It's said military personnel were mobilized from the Obinze barracks to unleash this now infamous #OrluUnrest in retaliation of civilian insubordination to a soldier's indiscretion! The question is, who gave the mandate to mobilize and deploy troops to a civilian community not at war? And was there any certification of the reason for this mo...

**Culled from The Nobel Prize** Shirin Ebadi was Iran's first female judge. However when the revolution broke out in 1979, Ebadi was dismissed from her position due to the new regime’s interpretation of Islam. Instead she was made a clerk in the court she had once preceded over.  Ebadi opened a legal practice and began defending people who were being persecuted by the authorities. But her struggle for human rights has been hard-fought. In 2000 she was imprisoned for having criticised her country's hierocracy. In 2008, the Iranian regime went after her family - she has been living in exile in London, UK, ever since. Ebadi has devoted her career to defending women, children and political prisoners in her homeland Iran. She was awarded the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to secure democracy and human rights, especially for women and children. Ebadi, the founder of Defenders  once said, "I believe in justice which is why I chose this field." 

Donald Trump thrashed an old-cherished ritual associated with transition in not been handy to welcome into and show the incoming president the oval office and the the White House. And I ask, does it matter if a bitter, senseless, selfish and unbecoming malevolent loser shows Joe the White House? After all, been a former vice president, Biden already knows (albeit a bit) what he should know about his new residence! Instead, what Donald Trump has done by his shameful, ignoble, and wacky break of tradition is to further expose his terrible weakness and how of a childish misdemeanor his act is. Just hours to his unceremonious exit, the man has been issuing statements and taking actions that are obviously hasty and exposes how I'll his intentions are towards the incoming Biden-Harris regime. Why lift a ban on covid-19 restrictions just hours to leave, when it's clear it's an effort in futility? Check the brief farewell appreciation video Melania, his wife did. How many times did...

It is highly preposterous and an attempt to make a cheap, vainly drift trying to say that there are Christians in the murderous, diabolic, senseless and fanatical zealots called the Boko Haram sect. Guv'nor Babagana Zulum should know much better and do the possible needful in calling and shaming the devil by its name than seeking the shadowy pursuit of the wind. If he can't do more, let him speak TRUTH at least! BOKO HARAM WAS AND STILL REMAINS AN EXPLOSION OF SOME FANATICALLY ILLBRED IDEOLOGUES OF MUSLIM EXTRACTION. His above claim is to say the least a distraction, which would not help ameliorate the cause of what has obviously become his headache. Let the likes of Prof Zulum and the Islamic intellectuals return to the drawing board and reinitiate the rudimentary process of reorienting their people, right from the mosques, their Quranic schools and homes on how best to practice true worship, religious freedom and ideological harmony! To rescue the many vulnerable and ste...

*15 - 01 - 2021* I learnt the pigeon, symbolic of peace, refused to fly even when set at liberty by Pres. Muhd Bihari at this year's Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration. More thought-provoking is the fact that even when the whole cage of pigeons was let open, the birds were more adamant, refusing to express the joy of freedom! Anyways, we must not lose sight of what  significantly portends by such deeply worrying drama. Today's for heroes, who loved their nation unto death. As much as it's disheartening to know of such signalling omen, our fallen heroes we celebrate still. We will extol their sacrifices as always, today and forever! #Peace

2020 was indeed a year of so many narratives that sprung different "new normals". New mode of greeting, of working and of living. Thankfully we witnessed its exit and are alive to welcome in the new year, 2021! Just as our hopes, and aspirations are high, it our believe that this year shall be far more better. In the #Year2021: May the Lord bless the works of our hands, and may He make us prosper! May the Lord make His loving face shine on us, and may He brighten our paths! May the Lord focus His goodwill upon us and grant us the winning of each day! May the Lord continue to think of us, never allowing the counsel of the wicked triumph! May the Lord cause the heavens and the earth to witness grace upon us and make lines continue to fall in pleasant places! May the Lord uphold us with His right hand and never allow us to falter or misstep! May the Lord cause His goodwill to wake us each morning and lead us into astonishing favours! May the Lord continue to prepare for us banqu...