AHANONU KINGSLEY BLOG

Biafra: Ozoemena: Memory: Heroes How can I forget today, the 30th of May? This is a day which hindsight is filled with nostalgic feelings. For today birthed the promising child-country that was cut short at infancy. But the future is bright, a truism emphasized by the successes of the present. The resilience and the energetic spirit of the remnants of its martyrs continue to prove this. Indeed, there was a country. The blood of those killed for its course shall continue to reflect its reality. The victims of the pogroms, and the casualties of the war shall forever speak! These are the heroes I remember this day. There deaths were not in vain, for daily the realities of our today Nigeria give credence to their struggles. But it is my prayer that the vision of the hope I hold of this miscarried country shall not be of further bloodshed and bloodletting, but it shall be a victory won by the consistency of faith and resolve. Yes, we remember the slaughtered men and women, we remember ...

President of the Africa Development Bank, Akinwunmi Adesina, is in the eyes of the storm again, this time for the same reason for which he had been shortly ago. The factor that made this second issue emphatic however is the interest of the powerful United States government. The Board of Directors of the bank had caved in to the demand for another probe of Adesina strongly coming from the United States Secretary of the Treasury, Mnuchin. But what is the fear behind the rescheduling of this probe? It is also worthy to understand the concerns and probable fears of Akinwunmi Adesina to have become subjected to another round of investigation on the same issue, especially when a panel of internal investigators have just cleared him. What do they want that they've failed to see in the initial  report? It is also understandable, looking from the perspective of those who may feel that the internal body of investigators acted with a possible submissive influence and hence could have had thei...

It was baffling to hear about TC Okere resurfacing in the news for a long time, after been away from the media. And this time with the bad reason. The former boss of the state-owned IMO Broadcasting Corporation was alleged to have stabbed his wife and absconded. This occurred in Ngor-Okpala if IMO state. This is an 80 year old man, whose late wife was 77, and they've been married for 50 years! The big question is what could have happened to have caused this rift that suddenly made a couple of that age fight dirty? It is unfortunate and very shocking that this sad incident had to happen. Nothing could have explained this drastic action by Okere than anger, upset at whatever it was the old woman did. But however was the wrong, indeed it was not justified to kill, and worse, stabbing your heartthrob.

Something happened in Umuosochie which was very disheartening. Umuosochie is a community in the Obowo local council in IMO State. This disheartening incident is the killing by three brothers of one of them due to disagreement that arose over the proceeds from their mother's burial. The three brothers are identified as Chinonso, Emeka and Patrick- all from Obieshieke family. But it is pathetic beyond the fact that such incident is disheartening that such ugly thing will happen st a time when grief should have brought these brothers together, at least to get over the lacuna created.  Or was the tear already there all the while with the woman being the pacifying joint? And now that she's gone, it is a reinforcement of brouhaha? Indeed, whatever be the case, it is bad to have taken own blood.

Just days after an online broadcast by the MD/CEO to members of staff on the bank's future pathway as it relates to the global coronavirus pandemic, Access Bank began the drastic intimation of the anticipated dismissal by issuing sack letters to affected workers. These affected workers, numbering over hundred are mostly outsourced staff and constitute over 75% of the entire bank's workforce. Understandably, and as deduced from the content of that online chat, the economic downturn faced by many businesses/institutions around the world and orchestrated by the deadly viral pandemic has not provided the needed ground for business sustainability, and from which very well, Access Bank is not inured. World over, the presence of Covid-19 and the pulled up restrictions in social interactions it has caused has had biting effects on everything business and everything economy. Livelihoods are been stalled and lives badly affected. Patronage are on a standstill and businesses are closing s...

Workers Day: An Everyday Affair. Today, like every other first of May, is celebrated universally as Workers Day.  The ritual has come to be; that every dawn of May, it is marked as Workers Day. Some might call it May Day even as some religious enthusiasts would prefer it to be addressed as St Joseph's Day. But one thing very significant and undeniable in all the nomenclaturization is the fact that they all represent a day to celebrate the dignity and value of the worker. Int'l Workers' Day otherwise known as Labour Day was adopted by the Second International to commemorate the Haymarket affair which occurred in Chicago on 4th May 1886. Practically, it was set aside to celebrate the working class and laborers and to promote their rights. The very reflection of workers' day is not to assert that it's only on that day that work is done or that workers themselves are appreciated; this is but a literal deduction, which falls short of the deep-seated meaning the day repre...