AHANONU KINGSLEY BLOG

This year's International Youth Day is centred on the need to focus on providing level playing field for the younger generation to unleash their potentials and effectively bring their values to bear in the ever changing world.  It's for this reason that the 2018 IYD celebration has this deep sinking theme of "Safe Spaces for Youths".           According to an expose on the United Nation's webpage, youth need safe spaces where they can come together, engage in activities related to their diverse needs and interests, participate in decision making processes and freely express themselves. The world's population increasingly is dominated by young people. These are people with young mind and young energy. Their young personal attributes are reinforced by the youthful visions they bear; and which coupled with the zest of their ambitions leaves just for the opportunity to be given to impress. The static value of the world, where things remain just ...

It has been more than three years since the insinuation by the federal government of the clean up of Ogoni without anything to suggest that. And people are beginning to react. There have been censures by some environmental promoters over the slow pace taken by the federal government in the clean up of the degradation caused the land of Ogoni in Rivers state.                           The President Muhammadu Buhari had, during the 2015 electioneering, had assured the people of Ogoni that the United Nations Environmental Protection (UNEP) report would be implemented when elected. The UNEP report proposed steps to be taken for the total cleaning up and restoration of the environmental safety of Ogoni land that had suffered degradation from years of oil exploration. But three years down the line, some environmental activists have condemned the dragging pace  ..the process has taken. In a press conference, the a...

It has been reported that Nigeria spends up to 4.5 billion US dollars every year in the importation of steel. And this is despite having a huge potential for steel smelting on ground.  The comatose stage that the Ajaokuta steel company has been along several years of many assurances leaves more concerns and much worry especially with the current reality.  Subsequent governments have given wordy assurances to reviving the Ajaokuta steel industry but it seems not enough just is been done in the genuine effort to see the institution back to functioning.  Generally referred to as a white elephant, the aluminium smelting company which has consumed so much billions of naira, just continued to be non-functional, leaving much of the steel needs to be sourced from outside. It's believed that if functional, this industry seemingly ignored would serve not only the Nigerian market needs but internationally. But as to why such huge prospect has been ignored leaves much to be ...

It was on Monday, 6th of August, that the Nigeria National Assembly witnessed another desecration where illegality took up muscle to assert its ugly strength. Times and times we've seen arguments, quarrels, fights and outright kicking and boxing happen here. But then, as it happened today, it was really indecorous to have seen security men taken over the vicinity of the NASS and preventing lawmakers from gaining entrance. The politics of defection that has seen senators and house of representatives members switching political party alliance and which seems to have culminated in the recent decamping of Senate President Bukola Saraki has, as expected, drifted to insinuations about the impeachment of Bukola Saraki. It is sad that, with the insinuations and the unfolding events that seem to give validity to it, what ought to be of national concern has been reduced to Saraki. The way the whole issue of defection and the NASS right to autonomy has been trivialised by the desperate...

Take a walk into the pace/  An August walk, I say/  Don't you get what I mean?/  Or August have you forgotten it is?/ continue... A Happy New Month dearie!/ Oh, you deserve much more baby/ For your heart of gold and your smile so real/ Nothing on me does than merry/ Continue... The belatedness wows me/ Oh, so sorry it came late/ But do me a favour, you may/ And this one has no frame/ That you be an august visitor, emm/ Bringing in bounty your own/ The light and sound and feel your carry/ It's the smiles and the joys within your pawns/ Yes, the lovely tides that you bear/

News filtering in is that Imo state deputy governor was today, the 30th of July, impeached by the House of Assembly. Though the impeachment of the deputy guvnor of Imo state was not unexpected, going by the fallout he had with his principal, Rochas Okorocha, the hastiness with which the act was orchestrated speaks more volume. It was just a week ago that the notice of impeachment was served the deputy governor on trumped up charges, which were mere strike to perfect the act. (For if they were reasons enough, they'd been all there this while). And only just two weeks earlier that the motion for his removal was moved. Meanwhile, what's my take on this? I would say that what's happening to Eze Madumere is a return of the wizardry that he watched sent to his predecessor, Jude Agbaso, and from which he benefited. It's, at that time his moment of excitement, when in a fast pace approach, Agbaso was axed out and he,  Madumere quickly brought in as replacement. The s...

First, we will have to distinguish between the two concepts of growth and maturity. This is very critical if we must understand the issue at hand; and not only that, but for the apparent conflict of meaning generally seen in the two. What then, is growing? Growth is a physical process of increasing in size, and shape . It's entirely a structural mechanism where the biological cleaving and differentiation of the cells and tissues cumulatively lead to the outward increase of the body. Growth thus, is an involuntary phenomenon which ordinarily responds to the natural process for which every life bearing substance is bound.    We have defined growth. But then, maturity. On the contrary, to mature is to consciously give in to the processes of developing the mind, and giving the self to values that are expected of an individual that has taken the natural growth. It's the gradual yet continuous and dedicated improvement of the mind to think and reason within the ambit of appro...