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THE SMELL OF AMBITION : THE BEAT GOES ON!

THE SMELL OF AMBITION: THE BEAT GOES ON! BY AGADA IKECHUKWU After a careful anatomy of the smell of ambition, colour of rage and price of vengeance raining in our political space; the submission of Frank Albert, an American fiction writer, who said, “ Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities” became food for thought. The ingenious cross-pollination of ideas, re-engineering of the mechanics of leadership and digital studentship of the Nigerian mood triggered the ongoing endorsement crusade and wave of defections threatening calculations ahead of 2019 general elections. Like all man-made deities, the extraordinary image paraded by the ruling party in 2015 has faded out and its once intimidating massive goodwill is fast diminishing; no thanks to the general thumbs-down for the Buhari administration. With the message of repentance, mass- appealing slogan of “Change the Change” of the PDP and the unobtrusive yet, far-reaching way it has gone about doing ...

SAY " NO " TO THE EMERGENCE OF HAKIKA ISLAMIC MILITIA : LIKE BOKO HARAM( FULANI HERDSMEN) LIKE HAKIKA MILITIA(BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCKS TOGETHER)

SAY “NO” TO THE EMERGENCE OF HAKIKA ISLAMIC MILITIA : LIKE BOKO HARAM(FULANI HERDSMEN) LIKE HAKIKA MILITIA( BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCKS TOGETHER) BY AGADA IKECHUKWU The horrific emergence of Boko Haram(Fulani Herdsmen) cloned “Hakika Militia” in the face of deliberate and organised holocaust against Christians calls for immediate proactive emergency to save lives and our nascent democracy from the ticking time bomb. These Buccaneers would rather wade through a lake of boiling steel than stop killings as they have turned Nigeria to a theatre of bloodbath in recent times(My condolences to the bereaved). They have consistently steadied their activities with a heat that catches like wildfire on Nigerians especially Christians, forcing the relatives of the victims to make peace helplessly with their grief in a nation that boasts of security agencies. Nigeria’s history is obviously littered with the bloodletting activities of these Axemen. The fall of our once...