President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan of Nigeria...a Commander-in-Chief who is not a Commander-in-Charge.
Ms Stella Oduah...the woman at the centre of the worst scandal in the history of Aviation industry in Nigeria...she must be suspended this week pending investigation
We will not call for worm Oduah’s sack when due processes have not been exhausted, but the President has just this week to suspend shameless Stella pending completion of all investigations – and the thoroughly comfused M.B .Abubakar has just this week to arrest Ms Stella Oduah as there is now enough evidence for him and his officers to so do.
No doubt when it comes to writing about our country Nigeria my fellow compatriots already know where I stand and they also do know where I stand on the issues of corruption and injustice and the lack of progress in our country, hence I feel I’m on a safe observatory to write the way and manner in which I intend to write today. By this piece I do not intend to join issues with tribal jingoists, religious bigots and the many talibans that have hijacked the beautiful country’s political space who often tribalise and politicise every issue of national concern to suit their very vested interest. Even journalists have become highly partisan as they now write to be called to go to Abuja and State Houses to chop with the nation’s political worms amongst whom one of them is on trial now.
I do not know Ms Stella Oduah in any least way, but as a fellow Nigerian, I consider her as my compatriot and I feel thourougly embarrassed and ashamed that even women who should be considered respectful as mothers of the nation are no better worms in their little corners - so I’m weeping today as I write that women of the caliber of Mrs Olufumilayo Ransome Kuti, Hajia Gambo Sawaba, Hilda Adefarasin, Mrs Margaret Ekpo, Grace Alele Williams, Mr Sarah Jubril, Mrs Mary Solomon Lar, Mrs O. A Alabi formerly Principal Aladura Comprehensive High School, Mrs Janet Akinyebo etc have become extinct in modern Nigeria, herein lies my lamentations for Nigeria.
I feel thoroughly embarassed that Nigerian women of today have commodified, commercialised, turned themselves into make-up dolls, fragranc cohorts and fetishised themselves in their inglorious haste to match the stupendous corrupt practices known to be pepertrated hitherto by Nigerian men. That since the the searchligh was beamed on this worm over the sacandal of N255 million bullet-proof amoured cars and she hasn’t the slightest honour and decency to resign is most embarassing to me personally and this goes to shpw the type of worm she and her backers in the Presidency and that higly desecrated law assembly, erroneously regarded as the National Assembly, whose worms and rogues stink to high heavens, are.
Nigerian jounalists looking to be appointed Media Assistants to these worms have adjudged worm Stella as one of the most poweful and untouchable in the Age of Jonathan – these was The Punch’s verdict... this certainly cannot be The Punch I had worked for in its ultra-radical days under Bola Bolawale. The current managers of the Punch and Tribune must hang their heads in shame, for these were the two very ultra-radical news papers that modern Nigeria had known, but today they have teamed up with the oppressors to chop with them and give these thieves awards as the best this and that. Once again, shame on their managements. As a jounalist working for the Punch, once I entered any office in that country every one would either sit up or disappear one after the other – this was how The Punch and its journalists were feared and dreaded in its ultra- radical days.
And Tibune as an Opposition paper in the days of the very much revered Papa Awolowo, held the nations politicians on their throats on daily basis. Ironically, some of those fearless jounrnalists working for the Tribune Group at the time have now sold out to the point that in today’s Nigeria, Awoism as well as Zikism – two indegous ideologies are now dead because both erstwhile Awoists and Zikists are now competing for amala in high places, playing Esau at every turn!
Why is it possible for Oduahism to thrive in Nigeria of today? The number one answer is the press in Nigeria is dead, but who killed it? As it concerns the press, it is a trebble tragedy as within this same constituent, the radical/ultra radical press and their journalists – the radical and ultra-radical journalists too are dead and not forgetting the culture of investigative journalism too, which also is now dead in Nigeria. When we were young and still in secondary school, there was general excitement in every sphere of the Nigerian life – Chief Rotimi Williams and the iconic Gani Fawehinmi were there to thrill the nation on the leagal sphere; Ray Ekpu and Dele Giwa were lighting the journalsitic sphere with their beautiful proses and their appearance sometimes in courts, Tai Solarin was using his State of the Nation in Tribune to philosophise – in our midst, Tai and Mokwugo Okoye were the John Ruskin and Betrand Russell of their days; in politics you had Zik, Awo, Aminu Kano the talakawa chief priest, Waziri Ibrahim of politics without bitternes fame, Chief K. O. Mbadiwe, the nation’s unparelleled Wordsmith was there to thrill us boys and we were using such words to bamboozle dem girls...Yo! You know what I mean?
In the academic sphere, the nation’s literary and cultural icon Wole Soyinka, Ayodele Awojobi, Bala Usman, Patrick Wilmot were all there causing “trouble” for the Government of the day; the Ife Collective were there teaching their students what they were not being paid to teach; Abami-eda, the strange one himself – Fela Anikulapo was giving politicians sleepless nights – it was in fact, the best time to be growing up as an aspiring boy in Nigeria. Alas, everywhere you look today is all dullness, everywhere you turn, money is the talk of the town – people don’t just care how you got it! No more excitement – the quest for knowlege and intellectual enterprise which men and women of the previous generations earnestly sought after have all now been traded for acquisitiveness. The nation’s universities were producing rebels and mad people as graduates, but today, they are churning out: I CONCUR, SIR! More blessings, Sir! Kilejeku Graduates, but in all generations and in all history it is these rebels and mad people who do bring about changes in any society.
The number two reason why Oduahism which should be seen for anything in modern Nigeria that is negative; spiritually polluting; everything that is counter-productive and everything with corrupt or leprous effects on the conscience of the nation is the death of Opposition in Nigerian polity.
Opposition in Nigerian politics died with the death of Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo. The level to which Awo took Opposition in the nation’s polity was such that as a boy in lower form at Aladura Comprehensive High School, Anthony Village, I had to ask our school Principal Mrs O. A. Alabi why Chief Awolowo seemed to be opposing everthing the then National Party of Nigeria under A.M.A Akinloye with Alhaji Shehu Shagari then as Executive President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was doing including most of their policies. Asking me to sit down in her office which we boys used to dread beyond measure, she began to lecture me on what the term was, giving copious examples across the globe of bicameralism using Britain as a case study.
I remember Mrs Alabi vividly telling me then that the role of Opposition was not to be seen as antagosnising the Government of the day. But as a boy that was exactly what I though Chief Obafemi Awolowo and his Unity Party of Nigeria were doing. She did emphasize that the role of the Opposition party was to keep their opponents, especially the Government of the day on its toes in order to stabilize and sanitise the entire polity and help to reduce to the barest minimum all the anomalies and abberrations of a given polity.
The death of Opposition politics in Nigeria is also attributable to the inclusivity in governance in our delusion of trying to give everybody a sense of beloging in our multi-cultural polity. In a military, this arrangement was perfect. But in civil politics, once people from other parties start to accept political appointments, especially in a non-coalition setting, it automatically spells the death of Opposition. The danger is, once the dominant party in a non-coalition setting begins to attempt to or gurudgingly dash power to their opponents, it has succeded in killing Opposition.
Another factor blameable on the death of Opposition politics in Nigeria is the National Cake Syndrome (NCS) where everyone wants to partake of the National cake and in the rush for such carnival, priciples and opposition were slaughtered on the altar of jeun-jeun (Chop-chop politics), in the craze for come chop politicking or Food is ready Politics, the nation’s politics was peopled with kilejeku(?) politicians, egunje politicians, ijekuje politicians, awon olojukokoro politicians – all these Yoruba words can be sumed up as meaning greed which begets the stupendous corruption and the offsprings that were born from this political lavatory are the worms such as Stella Oduah, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Patience Jonathan, Alechenu Mark, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal and all other worms in every least corner of the Federation.
The number three reason why Nigeria is a fertile soil for Oduahism is the death of trues gospel in Nigeria- what you have today in Nigeria is the gospel of the head rather than that of the heart which leads to repentance and eventually creates a new creature. The same can be said of Islam in Nigeria, where trues Islam has been replaced by Islamism or political Islam which promotes violence and purposeless malignity as being carried out by local and international terrorists that have infiltrated the nation’s socio-political landscape - and those who are promoting this brand of Islam in Nigeria are the talibans who now abound in all spheres of Nigerian life - politics, religion, the police, palaces, the news room, the military, para-military, the presidency, the civil service, State Houses, the banking sector, the universities, schools, colleges, the various madrassers that abound in Nigeria, etc, etc, etc.
So just where was President Jonathan when Pastors and politicians were buying jets; where also, were the legislators who are no better worms? Whilst they probe worm Stella and every other worm in Nigeria with their fore-fingers pointing to anyone they are probing at any given time – four fingers are pointing back at them. Pastor Enoch Adeboye, himself, proud owner of a jet said recently he had been given a vision by God to build a three- kilometre long church. Can someone tell this man of God, instead of using the money for such ego trip, he should use it to challenge Jonathan and shame all our past rulers, not leaders, of Nigeria by building comprehensive hospitals/farm clinics in the six geographical zones of Nigeria to stop the thieves in high places from going to hospitals overseas for treatment – in recent times – as far as I can recollect, our former President, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua died in a Saudi Arabia hospital; Mariam Babangida and Stella Obasanjo died in Overseas hopitals; Ojukwu, Solomon Lar, Mike Akhigbe all died in hospitals abroad; Patience Jonathan; Atiku Abubakar, Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Ibrahim Babangida, etc, etc do make endless trips abroad for medical trips – all these without exception, had little corners given them by our nation, the so-called men and women of God inclusive, who are extorting money from their gullible fellow compatriots to feed thir extravagant life styles by buying jets, exotic limousines and sending their children abroad with their wives called “Mummies” by their gullible flock who made endless trips abroad to buy fashion accessories.
In light of the above therefore, in as much as I do not set out and will never, ever set out to defend any of those rogues in high places, worm Stella Oduah inclusive, I will also not join the bunch of hypocrites, Femi Fani-Kayode inclusive who without his late father, Penkele Messi (Peculiar Mess), the famed Fani Power is a nobody in the Nigerian Federation, for I have personally watched him from here how this boy has been going about putting a sword on the things that bind the nation together causing bad blood, especially between the Yorubas and the Igbos of Nigeria, rather than attempt to mend fences and build bridges across the nation. As I do not want to come so low to join issues with him, I want to believe having lived in Ghana at least for some time, he probably had heard about the mythical bird in the Akan cosmos – Sakonfa (meaning, look back). And as Achebe said in Things Fall Apart, those whose palm kernels have been cracked for them by benevolent spirits should not forget to humble themselves. Let someone therfore, draw Femi’s ears and whisper the word SAKONFA into his ears thrice. A word is enough for the wise.
But who is Stella Oduah in the Nigerian Federation? Smiply put, Ms Oduah is one of the many worms in high and and low places doing detestable things desecrating the sacred altar or the holy ground of service in Nigeria. In today’s Nigeria, Stella Oduah is a type. Therefore, every Nigerian is Stella Oduah. By this I mean, there is Stella Oduah in all of us Nigerians. But just who are we in our various little corners when no one is looking? In a lecture I delivered at the Nigeria High Commission in London on August 31, 2004 under Mr Christopher Kolade, the then Nigeria High Commissioner to the United Kingdom I titled it: Hello, How is Your Little Corner? Therefore, in writing about the ant-infested faggots Ms Oduah had brought into the House of Nigeria from the Forest of Corruption, I again ask all Nigerians, home and abroad, including myself: “Hello, how is your little corner?” In going for integrity test before all my country men and women, I ‘d like to ask myself: Hello, John Odey Aduma, how is your little corner? Hello, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, how is your little corner? Hello, Patience Jonathan, how is your little corner? Hello, Ayo Oritsejafor, how is your little corner? Hello, W.F. Kumuyi, how is your little corner?
Hello, Matthew Ashimolowo, how is your little corner? Hello, Chris Oyakhilome, how is your little corner? Hello, Enoch Adejare Adeboye, how is your little corner? Hello, Ado Bayero, how is your little corner? Hello, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III the Sultan of Sokoto, how is your little corner like, Hello, Alichenu Mark, how is your little corner, Hello, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, how is your little corner, Hello Femi Falana, how is your little corner; Hello, my colleagues in the news rooms across Nigeria, how is your little cornesr? Hello, Aviation Correspondents who could not detect the Oduahgate until a whistle blower had to help them out by letting them know the rot in Oduah’s cemetry called the Ministry of Aviation, how I ask , is your little corner? Hello, Atiku Abubakar, how is your little corner? Hello, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, how is your little corner? Hello, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, how is your little corner? Hello, Olusegun Obasanjo, how is your liitle corner; Hello, General Azubuike Ihejirika, how is your little corner? Hello M.B. Abubakar, how is your little corner? Hello, Omo n’Oba Uku Akpolokpolo Erediauwa, how is your little corner? Hello ASUU, how is your little corner? Hello, Abubakar Shekau, how is your little corner?
This is my integrity test for all Nigerians, home and in the Diaspora. Therefore, the list is by no means exhaustive! But when the children of the coming generations shall come, shall they find each person’s little corner in the Nigerian Federation, spotless and without blemish? Will they find each person faithful in their service to fatherland?
Fellow country men and women, a Nigerian recently who proposed a business meeting with me requested that when we met we should not discuss Nigeria, but I told him Nigeria and myself have come a v-e-r-y l-o-n-g way that I can’t afford not to discuss Nigeria, for she is the air that I breathe adding in my email to this my compatriot that after God, it is ALWAYS Nigeria! In case, anyone, I mean any compatriot of mine who goes by that noble appelation: CITIZEN OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA who also thinks I should not discuss Nigeria, I have just this words of wisdom for them from Martin Niemoller:
“First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—
and there was no one left to speak out for me.”
― Martin Niemöller
Fellow Nigerias, permit me to hasten to add as I told my compatriot who sought to gag me about discussing Nigeria that the fact that I talk about Nigeria as people say, so passionately, does not make me more Nigerian than any citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Therefore, if people like Femi Fani-Kayode does not see themselves as Nigerian citizens who like every other citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria can live in any part of the Federation, vote and be voted for in any elective capacity whatsoever, then shame on him and and all those Nigerians like him who on the slightest disagreement with their compatriots raise up ethnic banners. The Nigeria of my vision is where Femi Fani-Kayode, a Nigerian of Yoruba extraction will live in Kano or go to Kano and contest for any elective office even as Governor of Kano State. My other gospel is Nigerianism, this is the gospel my generation should be preaching. If after 53 years of Indepence and 100 years of the amalgamation, Nigerians who have lived in States other than their biological States can only vote, but not be voted for, where is progress and I bet this is not the hallmark of a mature democracy. As far as I’m concerned, a person in the Nigerian Federation whose parents lived in Kwara State, but are from Rivers State, while they themselves were born in Kwara State cannot claim Rivers State as their State of origin, but are both biologically/naturally Kwarans and not Riverians which is the roots of their parents and ancestors – this is what all Nigerians, including Femi should be aiming at and promoting. It is narrow mindedness and crass ignorance for any one in my generation to be promoting ethnicity such as Yalaness, Igboness, Yorubaness, Hausaness, Ijawness, etc, instead of Nigerianness.
In the line of my argument therefore, it is not just Ms Oduah who is standing trial – all Nigerians and Nigeria are on trial. In the first place if President Jonathan is truly in charge in running the affairs of Nigeria, a serving minister cannot embark on such unbriddled ostentatious enterprise that is thoroughly embarassing to the whole nation. As a journalist the first people I should summon to the universal tribunal are the Aviation Correspondents and their editors under whose watch Oduagate was possible. And were I to apportion any blame on the frequent crashes at Oduah’s Gravegate and all the flying coffins/morgues, it is yet my colleagues the Aviation Correspondents and their editors that I will first summon to the tribunal. On daily basis what my colleagues do at the various airports across the nation is to gather in one place chit-chatting, waiting to ambush politicians who have been wasting our money on endless globe-trotting spree on the so-called religious tourism or should I dain to say ‘religious pilgrimages’, medical tourism or should I dain to say ‘medical check-ups’/treatments’, business trips, going and returning from abroad where they have gone to see their ‘spare parts’ or should I dain to say concubines, or where they are going to arrange with their Wetstern and lately Eastern collaborators to stash the money they have stolen from all of us in their banks or going and returnig from Overseas, where they had gone to purchase their obscene mansions with the money they have stolen from all nof us – lest I forget, not only politicians and money miss-road busisness Nigerians or your so-called industrialists/tycoons, but jettors, I mean your men and women of Mammon, popularly called by their gullible bros and sis as ‘Daddies and Mummies’- the men and women in cassocks who are exploiting the loopholes in immigration in the West – they troop in and out on daily basis for such phoney conferences as ‘Gathering’ of this and that, international annointing services, doing what they want us to believe is the work of God, whilst they ship their entire family to live in mansions and castles they have used the tithes and offerings of their brethren to purchase! Whilst your men and women of God head toward the West and Israel for percuniary deals and lavish living, your imams, alfas, sheiks, clerics, Muslim scholars are East bound, sometimes times they both head both ways as they criss-cross the globe competing with politicians and your industrialists for obscene lifestyles. And on leaving the places where ther perch to ask politicians, first not scoops of any kind is: “Oga wetin you bring for your boys?” As they scratch their heads, thereafter, they return to the Aviation Public Relations Manager’s office to pick up press releases – and they return to the newsroom plotting how they will some day unseat the man that has just given them press releases with their editors asking them as soon as they get to the newsroom, “Eyin guys, kile mubo?” Yoruba - meaning, “Guys what have you brought?”
President Jonathan likes to deceive himself that he is the Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Armed Forces of Nigeria, but while no one begrudges him of this title, truth is, he’s a Commander-in-Chief who is really not in charge, hence the whole country under him is in disarray. The nation fought the civil war for thirty months, but the war on terror has been on for over four years without anyone knowing when his boy Ihejirika who has displaced MB and his officers will get the job done. Therefore, can someone ask Oga Jonathan if in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, he is fighting a civil war without exit time or he is truly fighting the band of half-starved ragamuffins of the desert?
We will not call for worm Oduah’s sack when due processes have not been exhausted, but the President has just this week to suspend shameless Stella pending completion of all investigations – and the thoroughly comfused M.B .Abubakar has just this week to arrest Ms Stella Oduah as there is now enough evidence for him and his officers to so do.
Regarding corruption in Nigeria, there are no saints or angels. The worms that fill the so-called National Assembly earn more than any nation’s legislators on earth in an environment that over 110 million people live on less than a dollar per day. What about their jets, Toyota Camry and Toyota Prado whose costs had been put at $9 million and £16 million, respectively? What about the talibans amongst them who have hijacked the nation’s political space collecting money from the Arab nations to sponsor terrorists who kill, maim and destroy their compatriots for their own and the Muslim world’s pleasure, heating up the polity at will, especially when things don’t go their way? What really was the motive behind the formation of the New Poverty Distribution Party (n-PDP) whose members up to 99% of them are talibans? What about the highly adulterated Alabukun, Panadol and Codeine (APC) which equally is full of talibans and jihadists aiming to create for the pleasure of the Arab world the Arab Republic of Nigeria? What about President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and his intensely ambitious housewife who has continued to disrupt economic activities each time she and her fragrance cohorts are on Nigerian roads – these are the worst worms ever known in the history of Nigeria!
Jonathan should count the number of jets in his presidential fleet – 10 or 13? For a house wife who has no constitutional role to be going about the country in such daily vanity fair merely to show off her carricatured image, perfumery and all sorts of make-ups so hungry Nigerians can see who of the band of these erstwhile hungry-stricken house wives has the most reddish lips is tantamount to economic sabotage - and in all nations of the world, economic saboteurs are criminals. Will Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola and other Governors that vanity-seeking Patience and her other empty-headed commodified cohorts have disrupted economic activities in their States get ready with their lawyers and sue these strumpet fools together with their husbands and the Inspector General of Police and any other good-for-nothing security personnel who often accompany them for want of nothing to do at a time when terrorists are threatening national security, and also, at a time when there are shortages of frontline staff within the police?
What about the pastors and their jets together with their thouroughly bleached and morally bankrupt wives who think the gospel is all about make-ups as they hop from Dubai to Hon Kong shopping for the latest clothing, fragrance and other beauty accesories? What about the contract-chasing kakhi boys? Just why has it been so difficult for the war on terror to make any head way in Nigeria with the combined team of all the security personnel in the country jumping aimlessly about when the half-staverd ragamuffins and international terrorists overrun some parts of Nigeria? Ever since the 1990s, having traversed the country and discovered the porosity of Nigerian borders, I have never ceased to warn the Nigerian authorities about this porosity and vulnerability, which even now is worse than in the 90s – it is such that you can steal an elephant and walk pass the security check-points unchallenged by the security personnel on both sides who are merely there to collect their ‘tolls’ from border crossers with contraband goods and weapons even aided by them!
Are they any members of the armed forces and the police and their civilian counterparts who are giving 100% services for the salaries they get from taxpayers? My answer is No! They are the ones who own transport services in Nigerian cities, hence their drivers violate traffic laws with impunity; they are the landlords in cities of Nigeria; they are the ones that own the private security outfits in the country; they own hotels and restaurants from the money they extorted from their fellow compatriots, contracts in ministries, salaries of their officers and men/women they had arranged with Alhajis and Deacons the bankers so they can receive interests up front to pay their favoured boys leaving others and their family members to suffer with some who cannot endure hunger committing suicide – these illegalities equally go on in the para-militry agencies such as the custom and excise, immigration services, civil defence, etc. How about the traditional rulers who themselves are behaving like kids these days – they too are contract chasers with some of them surreptitiously backing terrorists even financing them – some of them as well as the police know where the members of Nigeria’s most thriving industry are –kidnapping - in fact, they are the ones solidly behind them using all sorts of cunning methods to extort money from the Governments through the kidnapping deals and victims’ relatives in the name of partaking in the sharing of the national cake – the business of kidnapping has been taken to a ridiculous level where people now arrange to be kidnapped with the knowledge of some traditional rulers, police and their relatives in governments and high places, so once kidnapped, they arm twist the government(s) or their agencies to cough out millions they all share together at the end of the day – the question is, once this ransome is paid, which bank do they arrange with to save the money? The police know these bankers, but when will they go for them?
The self-serving and highly vindictive EFCC is steeped in corruption and it is my candid opinion that it MUST be scrapped. James Onanefe Ibori is in prison in Britain today ONLY because he stood in the way of Jonathan’s vault to the presidency as Executive President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as he too was intensely gunning to be Vice President and any arrangement without him he was then ready to rock the boat, so when Jonathan realised his ambition, he had no choice, but to sand-pepper him in the manner of popular Ijaw expression. But is Onanefe the only corrupt Governor of that generation? Nigerians and the Presidency under Jonathan must search their consciences.
The other very useless institutions that MUST be scrapped are the Federal Character Commission and the Code of Conduct Bureau – the Nigerian Civil Service Commission needs to be purged...the Judicial Service Commission and the Police Service Commission are no better worms.
What about the press? The news rooms in Nigeria stink to high heavens – to this I ‘d like to ask, are there any stories from the front pages to the back pages of all Nigerian newspaperrs that are not paid for? And those in broadcasting – is there any news item that is also not paid for?
What of those senior journalists who go for the rubbish and so-called Media Chat collecting browns to ask yeye, nyamayanma, pepper soup and keske questions prepared for them by the President’s aides in the manner of the rigidified civil service questionaire which does not accommodate follow-ups? I’m therefore, using this platform to call on the Nigerian Guild of Editors, Nigerian Union of Journalsists and the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria to scrap this crap called MEDIA CHAT meant to massage the ego of the sitting President, fool the nation and insult journalists’ sensibilities.
Holding the President and his gang to account is a daily enterprise – the President of Nigeria is from amongst Nigerians, presenters, interviewers and other journalsits should have access to him at all times, not just foreign journalists. He should be approached to comment on the policies of his administration, the behaviour of his ministers, senior aides and anything that happens to any citizen anywhere in Nigeria. It is to his detriment if he does not make himself available first to Nigerian journalists, African journalsists and then any other, from any corner of the globe.
So just where were the Aviation Correspondents when all the events leading to Oduahgate were happening – all the Aviation Correspondents who were covering the sector when the seed of this dubaiety was being planted MUST be relieved of their jobs this week – they and their editors are a disgrace to the practice of journalism in Nigeria.
Since the list is by no means exhaustive, it is my candid recommendation that all Nigerians, not just Ms Oduah MUST go for integrity test. And now is the time!
God bless Nigeria.