AHANONU KINGSLEY BLOG

 Dear Cummings,  How did you forget that the UK is not Nigeria, where different rules are made for different statuses and faces. In the UK, laws are made for everyone and to be respected by all regardless. In Nigeria, the law respects status and has boundary of effectiveness. If it were to be Nigeria, Cummings, you could travel way beyond the shores and into another country with the luxury of private and presidential jets- in the tightest lockdown restrictions. You may consider coming to Nigeria to enjoy such irresponsible privileges for being a government official. May you take this moment to reflect on your act and realize how you've goofed by not realizing firsthand that in a country where laws work, everyone responds to its bidding. Happy resignation! My people, ICYMI.... Dominic Cummings is a top advisor to PM Boris Johnson, who flouted the Covid-19 lockdown regulation in March by traveling from London to Durham. Cummings is to leave his position this Christmas after much...

  The Election Is Over, Concession Is Now! Donald Trump and every fanatical supporter of his, who sees absolutely nothing wrong but wholly good with him, must realize that power belongs to God and that he vests it on whomsoever he wills. The majority of the people of America have spoken as regards who they want to lead them from now on! And that person is the candidate of the Democratic Party, Joe Biden! Could Donald J Trump respect that wish with the decency that he yet has? Could his supporters help him do so if he, out of the probable trauma, fails to so do? POTUS isn't life neither is it the end of it! This is what President Trump must realize. As such, he must understand the emerging reality to make the needed concession to defeat rather than heating up the polity and smirching a long trusted system. But the truth be and which must be strictly stated is that the American system respects nobody more than the commitment to protect its institution. Hence, whether or not Donald Tr...

The United States 2020 presidential election has come and gone, even as the winner is yet to be known. The lingered process has continued to generate streams of reactions for and against the process itself and the contenders. Below are just some of my ripostes to some of these reactions, which are mostly Facebook posts. To Femi Fani-Kayode ,  Why do you always sound defeatist as evident in your pouring of tantrums when things seem not to work according to your prediction. You're human and your opinions are not sacred and certain. They are what they are, opinions. In 2016, you had predicted and supported a Trump win and it did happen so. You felt fly, maybe as a true prophet. We who supported Hillary and supported her emergence, took the result, shook our feet and moved on. It wasn't a life battle! Your coming now to pour invective and make mess of the opinions of people supporting the one you hate is ridiculous and smacks of a personality who's unidirectional, and who feels...

  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!