Femi aribisala on fani kayode biography
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Sahara Reporters's Post
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Ordinarily religion should not be brought into politics but sadly the APC has done precisely that. They have introduced religion into politics in a very irresponsible, divisive and dangerous manner and they are using it as a political tool and as a means to capture power.
Those of you that are Christians and that are moderate Muslims that believe in a secular state and that are still in the APC need to think twice. It is like having black people as members of Ku Klux Klan. It is like having Jews as members of Hitlers Nazi party.
It is like having black South Africans as members of the apartheid-loving, white-supremacist Boer Nationalist Party. It is like having Christians and moderate Muslims as members of Al Qaeda, the Taliban and Al Shabab.
The difference between the APC and the PDP is that the former is a party that will only field a Muslim Presidential candidate at every point in time whilst the latter is quite capable of fielding either a Christian or la Muslim Presidential candidate at any point in time. The former is divisive whilst the latter is inclusive.
The former breeds and engenders a philosophy that is no different to that which was espoused by the Boers in apartheid South Africa: a philosophy that is established and enshrined on a platform of hate and div
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NDIGBO BATTLES FOR THE SOUL OF YORUBALAND (Part 1) by Francis Ojo
My determination to keep well away from insult from current conversations between Ndigbo and the Yoruba was so compelling until recent interventions from some Yoruba sons who appear to be playing political games or avenging old personal wrongs. I am angry and sad because I know that Yoruba families have taken their responsibility to succeeding generations more seriously than these tribe is the only one today in Africa that instinctively makes sacrifice towards the next generation without even thinking of the cost or pain.
I know of no family in Yoruba land where duty can be considered sufficient when the children in the household are not in school. On the contrary, many current Igbo parents send their promising generation to fetch money by all means from Lagos and the rest of this Country. A significant number of male Igbo population is substantially an illiterate one. Only the girl child is lucky because tradition finds them physically inadequate for the rigour of excruciating toil. The society is therefore an asymmetric one, with substantial female population too educated to relate long term with their illiterate male counterparts.
Finding no place in an unbalanced society, some behave with impunit