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First and foremost, I need to make it clear to whom it may concern that my constitutional right cover me to express my own view on any issue as far as Nigeria is concern my topic on which I want to base my observation is: The Difference Between Politics and Good Governance . Oxford advanced learners dictionary defines politics as the activities involved in getting and using power in public life. And being able to influence decisions that affect a country or a society, while governance is defined as the activity of governing a country or controlling a company or an organization, or the way in which a country is governed or a company or institution is control. The point I am unveiling here is that the definitions of the two words differs, and so it is in real sense. To my surprise, many people do muddle things up by mis-understanding POLITICS and GOVERNANCE to be the same in meaning and this is not traced to the stack illiterates in our midst alone, professor also are found in this ...

Comrade Waheed Lawal, a human right activist and the National Deputy Chairman (South west) of National Conscience Party (NCP) in an interview with Gold Magazine explained why he prefers activism to politicking. Read the full interview below: Can we meet you sir? My name is Waheed Lawal, many peolpel call me Comrade Waheed Lawal, some call me Alhaji Waheed Lawal, others call me Chief Waheed Lawal and I do answer them but best of all I am Waheed Lawal. For how long have you being in politics?

Preventing a stroke is all about taking care of your heart and your blood.This means, keeping your good cholesterol high, and your bad cholesterol low with diet, exercise, and avoiding some specific bad habits. Here are some ways to lower your risk for stroke: Diet As cholesterol can directly impact your likelihood of having a stroke, keeping your cholesterol in check can help you fight off stroke and other cardiovascular problems. A diet rich in fiber, whole grains, fresh fruits and lots of vegetables can help reduce your risk. Avoiding foods that are processed, high in cholesterol, high in saturated fat, and loaded with sodium can also help you avoid a stroke, among other health problems. Exercise Thirty minutes of exercise a day can do wonders for your body. Raising your heart rate while exercising helps the body clear toxins and helps strengthen your heart, blood vessels, and brain. Consult your doctor before starting any exercise regiment to ensure you do ...

In recent times, the issue of celebrities in Nigeria parted way after months of marriage has become a thing of pride, most especially in the Nigeria movie industry, in Nigerian tradition marriage is refers to as everlasting journey between husband and wife, and nobody ever celebrate a broken home, but now, in the Nigerian movie industry separation in marriage is now a thing of pride. Among the celebrities in the Nigeria industry is Omotola Jolade, popularly called ‘omo sexy’ whom her marriage have lasted for more than a decade and up till this moment she is waxing stronger and stronger in her marriage. I believe that in the beginning, most young celebrities in the Nigerian movie will hope to achieve it in the entertainment industry, that thing would go well when their dreams and aspirations come true. But after making it in the industry they will find it difficult to get married. Recently, Eniola Badmus, a popular actress known as ‘Gbogbo Biz Girl’ in an interview said

Over the past centuries, education has been a means of transmitting our culture from one generation to another, it has been a medium through which newborns acquire a sense of belonging in a particular culture, it is the process of bringing about a relatively permanent change in human behavior. Indigenous education is the ability of a newborn to know the norms of the society which he was born into and the willingness to acquire such norms as away of life. As the oldest industry, it the instrument used by society to preserve, maintain and upgrade its social equilibrium. A society’s future depends largely on the quality of its citizen’s education. Education has been view to extent to which an individual can stretch his intellectual by learning the culture of his society. In all human societies, education is meant to pass on to the new generation the existing knowledge of their physical environment, to introduce individuals to the organization of the society, given t...

You want to know why you didn't get the job you applied for, after all you are perfect for the job and seemed to confused that your interviewer really enjoyed for answer during the interview, and you finally found out that the job is given to another person, now asking yourself why.? Below are the common reasons why you didn't get hired. You think that you were qualified but not as you thought: Sometime a lot of job seeker assess their performance in an interview in a poor way and it is purely because most job seeker don't understand what the employer is looking for and in some cases over estimated their own performance and skills. Someone are more qualified than you do: Truly, you might qualified during your interview but in job marketer, employer mostly get excited with the most qualified candidate, which means you weren't the only candidate that was rejected, a lot of qualified candidates were also rejected just like you.

After the death of Bob Marley, a recording company known as Island Company began looking for another third world artist to sign up since Arista Record has sign Fela Kuti into contract. The search prompted producer Martin Meissonier to introduce king Sunny Ade to Chris Blackwell, leading to the releasing of Juju music in 1982. After this, many music aficionados were quick to point out that Sunny Ade’s brand of juju music could not be ignored by anyone at that time. Today, this seminal recording is often acclaimed as oneof the most important records from Africa while King Sunny Adeniyi remains an undisputed king of juju music, the dance-inspiring hybrid of western pop and traditional African music with roots in the guitar tradition of Nigeria. Ade and his band (African beats) continue to weave an infections blend of electronic guitars, synthesizers and multi-layered percussion. In addition, he remains a force to recon with in   Nigeria the money made from his early albums ...

If you have bad skin, it can be a warning sign that your body and organs are not performing at their normal or optimal level. Therefore, you should take the necessary actions to care for your body and skin. Soon, you will not have only clear, radiant, beautiful skin but a healthy body as well.                                    Below I will share with you 10 beautiful skin tips and secrets that celebrities use to have clear, radiant and beautiful skin. Follow these tips and you will look and feel younger. Try to avoid anger: It is the most important and very effective beauty tip for ever young skin that is at any kind of critical situation you must ignore your anger and never lose your temper. This is not only the best way to be friendly, but also gives you more regarding to your best skin and make your...

The Osun Osogbo festival is held in Osogbo, Osun state, southwest Nigeria, it is to celebrate a river goddess, Osun. The groove covers 75 hectares of ring- fence forest, alongside the Osun river in the outskirts of Osogbo town, western Nigeria. The groove in Yoruba cosmology is the domicile of   oosun, the goddess of fertility. Osun is the Yoruba personification of the ‘water of life’ and the spiritual mother of Osogbo Township. It is a scared forest. Said to be and believed by some of its worshipers as the residence of the fertility goddess. Osun, the forest itself is full of shrines, works of art, sanctuaries and sculptures. The bulk of these offering are devoted to Osun, but many exist in reverence of other deities within the Yoruba pantheon as well. Within osun it is the sacred groove, an area of immense spiritual importance. The goddess is said to give properity and protection to her people if they built a shrine to her and respected the spirit of the forest. ...

Final year student of the University of Lagos gained admission into the institution with only a primary six certificate; it was gather in Lagos yesterday. Police described him as a student of Mass communications at the university’s school of social studies. Top police source said yesterday that detectives discovered that the student had ‘consistently passed” his sessional examination over the years despite his remarkable low education background. The allege scandal was unearthed by detectives from Alagbon close, ikoyi, Lagos, who conducted another round of probe into the entrance qualifications of students at the university. The latest swoop was necessitated by disclosure of “sophisticated scheme’ by which some students in Nigeria universities falsified their entrance educations.

Want to know how to get that promotion? Contrary to popular belief, it‘s not when you sleep or sneak your way to his bed that makes you stand out and look like a real star. Face it, whether you like it or not, you’re in charge of your relationship with your boss. No one will ever share as much concern as you do that the quality of the relationship helps you achieve your goals. At the same time, every boss wants employees who do their job well. But even among highly competent employees, there are distinctions. But, if you have just secured a new job, one obvious question that crop into your mind is how to make your boss like you? Frankly, as a fresh entrant into a new environment, making your boss like you isn’t difficult. It just takes a little common sense. Thus, looking for a way to score high points without any sexual violation, you can practice the habits listed below and you will be well on your way to getting that promotion! While the habits will also help you de...

Insecurity in Nigeria has posed a national questions in which up till this moment no formidable answer has been provided. If Britain had failed to proffer solution to insecurity challenges in the country before independence and Nigeria rulers failed to do this after almost 53 years of independence (1960-2013), something is definitely wrong with the approach so far. Does it not occur to the president that we should get back to the drawing board? Safeguarding the sovereign, independence and territorial integrity of the state was the central pillar of Nigeria national security policy. Other guiding principles were Africa unity and independence, non-intervention in internal affairs of other states, and regional economic development and security cooperation. Subordinate goals included military self-sufficiency and regional leadership. In pursuing these goals, Nigeria was diplomatic and flexible, but it employed coercive method or measured force when necessary. Nigeria , was ...

Sometimes, women are always afraid of strangers but does it occur to them that their husband, lover, boyfriend are likely to hurt them the most. Presently, two-thirds of violent attacks against housewives are committed by husbands and one of the most dangerous places for women is her own home. Approximately 1,500 women are killed each year by husbands or boyfriends. To some experts, there is no good profile for men who batter their women. They believe that men who batter are seeking a sense of power and control over their partners or their own lives, or because they are tremendously dependent on the women and are threatened by any moves on her part toward independence, some batter because that’s the only way they know how to be close to or relate to a partner, some grew up in violent households, where they watched their mother being abused by their fathers and where they themselves were abused, while some become violent under the influence of drugs or alcohol, although the ...

As we age our sight change, and some people need glasses, but to help protect and improve your eye sight I will tell you the fruits and vegetables that you would need to eat. Eyes are very important for everybody, therefore it is most important to take care and do everything in your hand to keep them in good condition. The urge to improve your eyesight with fruits and veggies is growing fast among many parents who are concerned with their children eyesight. Most of the moms have now started pushing their kids to eat veggies like carrots to help improve their eyesight. Also, Maintaining healthy varies diet is in the core of protecting your natural eyesight and lowering the risk of various eye disorders. A healthy diet should not only provide     you with the basic nutrients essential for your body, but with sufficient quantities of some essential eyesight nutrients. Fruits and vegetable are the best natural source of some of the micronutrients important for y...

The two words that are the bane of Nigeria are Docility and impunity. The two bodies whose criminal and unpatriotic silence on electricity the manufactures Association of Nigeria (M.A.N) the Nigeria labour congress (N.L.C) is it a lie, that the PHCN are inefficient?, is it a lie, that it is assure of payment, even when they can’t generate power? The primary duty of a government is to save us from ourselves, failure to do this is anarchy, but the pure indulgence of the PHCN is what we are grappling with today--- pure incompetence , the arrogant extortion of the masses for services not rendered, the endorsement of pure corruption at the close of every family meeting of the federal republic of Nigeria, it is always loud laughter, and red chamber slapping, simply because we have gone in there to deceive out selves. Will the two gavels of the green and red chambers slam the table and give it to Nigeria ?

Many bloggers believe that apart from the main page viewers in the blog dashboard that there is no need to have any tracking site to track their page visitors, or some find it difficult to install. Therefore, they leave the site without visitor tracker.  In blogger the disadvantage of blog dashboard page viewers is that, the owner of the site alone has privilege to track the visitor that visit the site, but by installing site meter apart from the owner of the site visitor as well can track the number of visitor that visit the site.  Site meter always provide the answers, the comprehensive real time website tracking give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience. With site meter detailed reporting a blogger 'll have a clear picture of who is visiting your site, how they found you, where they came from, what interests them and much more. In this article I ma going to discus in detail how to register and install site meter on your blog. Once...

The Imperative for a Political Platform of Nigeria’s Working People (1)   From (1). It has also turned out that both the ethno-nationalist, geopolitical and confessional divides in Nigeria had become veritable instrument in the hand of global imperialism and especially in respect of USA’s alleged “war on terror” By 2009, US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, was already insisting that Boko-Haram had links with Al-Qaeda thus providing a template for mainstreaming: Boko Haram into US ‘s war on terror and providing excuses for US’s intelligent and military organization to openly take control of Nigeria’s police and related security outfits barking orders at them and issuing self-serving security alerts to Nigeria people. Although it is common knowledge that USA has been taking to the Taliban since 2005 or so and seeking diplomatic and political solutions to the crisis in Afghanistan, US and EU officials periodically ask their Nigerian clones not to dialogue with Boko Haram....

For about three decades now, Nigeria had been in a deepening crisis for neo-colonialism on one hand and parasitism of the indigenous ruling class on the other. The neo-colonial aspect of it had entailed the continued dominance of foreign interest led by western capitalist forces and their international financial institution (the IMF and the World Bank) control from the metropolises of the trades” (USA, Europe and Japan). The triad had, of course, pound new centers arising from the so called globalization, now known as the BRICS (Brazil, Russian, Indian, China and South Africa) our indigenous ruling class in the said crisis is composed of various ethnics and conventional factions united by their primary pre- occupation with primitive accumulation.

Forward To A Permanent Revolution In Osun In the two years of Aregbesola administration, much has been achieved in respect of restoration of order, high moral values and responsible governance. The positive impact of probity and democratic accounting is being felt by the electorates who were hitherto victims of the corrupt and greedy administrators,. The revolutionary mission of the government is enunciated in the six-point programs of banishing poverty, hunger, and unemployement, restoring quality life, promoting functional education and communal peace. The prudent management of public resources is exemplified in the three fold increase in internal generated revenue from about N200m to N600m in two years.

The Role Of Change Agents From the forgoing summary (1) (2) , it is clear that the Nigerian political environment has always been hostile to radical, revolutionary change. The situation has been compounded by the three decade of fascist military rules which as liquidated the ranks of forces of change in favor of the oppressed and exploited majority. The core issue is the economic system which is capitalist, neocolonial and hopelessly dependent on foreign interest. The economic survives primarily on the export of crude oil without any value added. It is a pipeline economic in which the oil and gas are mined and transported via pipelines to export terminals to support industrial prosperity of foreign nations.

Who Is Afraid Of Change? In social science thought the concept of change is employed to designate a significant alteration in social structures, rules of conduct, values, cultural products, and symbols. In the intellectual context, change also refers to development and transformation of human society from a lower to a higher or more advanced level. The use of the term connotes progress, growth, qualitative leap and even revolution. In Nigeria’s political experience, almost all electoral parties subscribe to or proclaim the goals of change. Quite often, many politicians interpret change to mean no more that the replacement of one set of administrators or office holders by another. In this discussion, we hope to examine the idea of change that relates to significant alteration in social structure, rules of conduct, and values.

The restoration of elected democratic rule in Nigeria since 1999 has thrown up a fresh debate about the nature of change in the country’s political process. Understandably, the termination of military dictatorship generated high expectation on the part of the masses of the people who were the main victims of the tyranny under the military. However, the process of the transition to elected democratic rule influenced the quality and direction of change that followed. First, the momentum of the anti-military uprising was determined by the June 12, 1993, presidential polls. That election involved two political parties founded and funded by the dictatorial military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. They were the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and National Republican Convention (NRC). The SDP candidate, Chief M.K.O. Abiola was heading for victory when the military junta cancelled or annulled the results.