AHANONU KINGSLEY BLOG

Humility is the substance of what makes us flesh and blood; for to be humble is to be human and to be human is to be humble. Ultimately, it is to say that we cannot make a distinction between the two. But what essentially is humility? Humility is staying within the ambit of the human corridor. It's realizing that as humans we have limitations and having to work with that reality. Humility does not equate to timidness, it doesn't amount to abdication of your dignity in pretentious submission. Humility is holding your onion and yet realizing that you're human. To live outside of this context is to in a way seemingly disown the fact of our humanness or at best to live in pretence. Our nature as human is created in a staple imperfection, that even as much as we try to pursue perfection, we are forever deluded of it, just making the circuitious effort to attain it. God in his infinite wisdom has decided to make us human, substance of imperfection for the very reason that ...

Indeed, in the human cycle of life, a person of 59 years old is generally considered as mature and is expected to have reached a certain standard in what's overall assessment. The years of childhood with the parental support and of the exposure that comes along with puberty and growing into adulthood are all committed to making him a true, responsible adult. And at 59, so many expectations should have been met. This is ordinarily the expected. Today, Nigeria marks 59 good years of nationhood, of a nation independent and sovereign under God. It's been a long time since our political independence was birthed in the morning of October 1st, 1960, and our journey all along the years is something that, regardless of how we differently perceive it, ought to be a narrative of remarkable essence. The beauty of the processes that would eventually evolve into what was to be described as an independent Nigeria is worth reminiscing, at least if for the reason that it will get u...

Many complaints of police unpermitted search have continued to increase. And slowly, again, it appears we are forced to re-echo the need to have the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian Police scrapped. Just like what instigated the earlier call, with a massively trending hashtag of #EndSARS , to which then Acting president Yemi Osinbajo intervened and it quickly became as if the notoriety settled down, the selfsame insensitivity has begun to rear its head. We still hear of instances of police arbitrarily stopping young men and rashly searching their private properties such as wallets and mobile devices. We hear of contrived imposition on these young men by the same police to part with their money- on grounds of perceived fraud. Many, out of understandable fear have fallen cheaply and victims. But the responsibility of the SARS unit of the Nigerian Police and its duties are clearly spelt out; they must adhere to them. It doesn't encompass molesting and co...

The 74th United Nations General Assembly has just come and gone, without leaving many traces especially as it regards Nigeria. Presided over by Nigeria-born Muhammed Bande, the meeting which was focused on climate change and the need to protect the natural environment from the effect of climate change. It was indeed a gathering of world leaders from over 200 countries. And when it came to conversation about the mainstream issue at stake and for the world leaders in attendance to speak of what is and would be their contributions towards safeguarding the natural environment against the depleting effects of climate change, Nigeria's president, Muhammad Buhari had the fifth slot, just behind that of Turkey, USA, Egypt. Beyond the contents of the speech of President Buhari at the main session of the UNGA, focus would be made as regards the interactive segment of the meeting on the central discourse, which happened to be a sideline of the whole engagement. During an interactive ...

The conspiracies, which have been thrown up by the recent revelation as regards the P & ID (is it Nigeria Ltd or British Island Ltd? An issue, per se that would be looked into separately) botched gas deal, just revealed the rather frightening situation of how Nigeria was practically sold, in somewhat scurrilous means. The case in question brings to view how the nation, at present and in future, was mortgaged in a continuous graduality to outside forces by those that have access and control to our commonwealth through a highly sophisticated collaborations by both internal and external money mongers. The saboteurs have answered to their names and the unsuspecting Nigerian population have begun to know who they are by the indictment that has has quietly to expose their gran conspiracy. What sabotage could be more deleterious than one orchestrated with the support of internal mechanism that knows deeply the tendons that holds the joining of the internal structures, and how weakl...

To the few people that are astonished at yesterday's judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, I'd say please do not. The preview for this outcome has already been there: the deficiencies of our electoral laws. While advanced and developing democracies have realized how important the wishes of the people are in choosing their leaders and how sacrosanct it is to provide them with a free and untrammeled ground to exercise this inalienable right, through adopting policies and framework that would aid in this, the Nigerian system rolls in archaic modulation that stifles true popular expression. The verdict, yesterday of the five-member panel of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal is just a reflection of how our laws, especially as regards to elections are backward and lacking in contemporary innovation. It would be prepostoreous to accuse the panel members of insensibility as the case may be. They'd based their judgement on the ill-fated ground...

In true democracies, the dictates of the greater majority of the people prevail. Through a rather more crystallized and well regulated process of elections organised and supervised by an electoral commission- the umpire of the process, people are availed the opportunity to exercise their franchise to choose leaders of their choice. But, if by any chances of error committed in the process of elections (whether by the electorates, the umpire or the contesting candidates) that would be seen to have jeopardized the process, the judiciary is given the leeway of intervention to reshape and straighten what has become the crooked outcome. The place of the judiciary as the last hope of the common man is, in practice and in a more general term, emphasized through its interventions in the correction of shammed electoral process or, in the alternative, to maintain established valid general mandate of the populace. Today, the political space in Nigeria is charged, beaming with excitin...