The Coming Talakawa Revolution
Whilst Aminu Kano had compassion and fought for them, making it his life’s mission, Amoda Ogunlere of Iragbiji, (a.k.a) Bola Ahmed Tinubu Gragra-Buhari treats them like pests, ‘spraying them with pesticides’ whenever they mill around him and sometimes, throwing mannalliatives at them. If dem die whilst picking his Gbamillathieves, o-o, wetin concern am? Na to assemble his campaign team for 2027 through endless political appointments be him priority.
And some people just dey siddon look like Lookman, no fit talk again. And common ordinary letter, they no fit write again, all because na dem tribesman dey inside the glass house. Country burn, somebody dey sell him shiken and mangoro… wetin concern Lagbaja with Jalagba?
Bros, wetin you expect from person wey go backyard university?
But can this moment kick-start our Golden Age of Enlightenment and Reformation?
KIND ATTENTION:
The sleeping Security Chiefs, members of the NEC and the newly constituted PECC + EMTETF (Presidential Economic Coordination Council and Economic Management Team Emergency Task Force are hereby encouraged to watch out for THE JOHN ODEY ADUMA TIPS FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY, GROWTH AND STRATEGIC DEFENCE
If you are in Abuja or live in Abuja or must be in Abuja, you are encouraged to wear a brooch having this our national crest/coat of arms or the nation’s flag as a demonstration of our national unity and a national call to positive action/s – national rebirth, renewal, redemption, rededication, and re-commitment, for the first revolution is the revolution of the mind!
“We shall be in danger of losing the political kingdom of Nigeria if we prefer at this time, the comfort of do-nothingness to the pains and sufferings of do-somethingness and direct national anger not at the government of the day, the men and women running the government of the day and the political officials, but at our nation.”
- JOHN ODEY ADUMA.
In a situation of national exigency, economic haemorrhage, compounded by the general lack of vision, creativity, imagination, innovation, inventiveness, manifesting in inordinate ambition of the ruining/ruling class, expressing itself in their love for banality, vanity, spectacularity and appearances which truly exposes their lack of deep governmental knowledge; governmental ineptitude, naivety and inexperience – a sort of lamentable and grievous rudderless and supra-cluelessness in conducting the affairs of state, eventuating in the present level of abysmal uncertainties in our country, especially as the ship of state buffets against the ocean current in the midst of the present Nigeriaclydon, what does Nigeria expect (from) all of us as one people, and severally as Nigerians?
Siddon look like Lukman, tanda like Atanda and dey their (there) like Dele, stand by and continue to watch the national roof and the building fall apart (as the edge of the national building has indeed, tilted and gone out of line) like the body parts of a modern jumbo Boeing, coming off the body of the plane in mid-air or do something by each of us playing their part in the redemption of our Nigeria, even though most Nigerians do not like this bandit and terror-infested government, having the sword of Damocles over the head of our nation; more so, its agberoic and emilokanistic method of grabbing power through Tinubuvelianism or BATvellianism?
Pray, what should be the governing concern and preoccupation of every Nigerian in the face of the ongoing BATopia and in this our perilous, chaotic, and highly militarised ‘democracy’ or whenever any government is in power boya (whether) now or in the future?
Therefore, as the trumpets blasts summon every Nigerian, home and in the diaspora to the (re)construction or (re)building site, it is pertinent to warn fellow Nigerians that we shall be in danger of losing the political kingdom of Nigeria if we prefer the comfort of do-nothingness to the pains and sufferings of do-somethingness and direct national anger at our country instead of the government of the day - the men and women running the government of the day and the political officials.
Kwenskwently (consequently), every Nigerian must learn to direct their anger at the government of the day rather than at the nation.
Also, we must learn to substitute national pessimism with national optimism; national hopelessness or despondency with national hope; national joylessness with national joyfulness; national sadness/unhappiness with national happiness, including replacing national greed or self-centredness with national generosity, liberality or open-handedness and human face policies, resolving from our every little corner to always talk up our country, no matter the frustrating circumstances and the hardships of the moment.
Above all else, we must re-entrust our country to God, re-dedicate and re-commit ourselves and pledge loyalty this one more time to our country, in addition to serving one another as one people without hoping for pecuniary compensation.
Viva, Nigeriyana! Viva, Nigerianus! Viva peace, viva!
ALL Nigeria, the members of the NEC and the newly constituted PECC + EMTETF (Presidential Economic Coordination Council and Economic Management Team Emergency Task Force are hereby encouraged to watch out for THE JOHN ODEY ADUMA TIPS FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY, GROWTH AND STRATEGIC DEFENCE.
John Odey Aduma is at the Doctoral School of SOAS, University of London.
ABOUT JOHN ODEY ADUMA
John Odey Aduma, British Chevening Scholar, Author of The Diamonds Are Here, 2001, Be A Beacon of Hope in the World: A Message to Young Britain and a renowned environmental journalist was born on December 13, 1963 at Okpoma, Yala in Ogoja, Cross River State of Nigeria.
He was educated variously at Christ the King’s School, Okpoma, 1969-1970; St. Mel’s Primary School, Woleche-Ebo, 1971; St. Gabriel’s Primary School, Ebo-Ipuole, 1972-1974; Christian Vocational Commercial School, Okuku, Ogoja, 1975; Faith Institute of Stenography, Shogunle, Lagos, 1976; Aladura Comprehensive High School, Anthony Village, Lagos, 1977-1982; University of Ibadan, Department of Adult Education, 1983-1984; Obafemi Awolowo University, 1985-1989, where he graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in English Studies; University of Lagos, 1991-1992, where he worked for and obtained an M.A. in English; and at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, 1994, where he took a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism; City University, London, United Kingdom, 2003 - 2004, where he was a British Chevening Scholar and studied for his M.A. in International Journalism with specialism in Environment; City Business College, London, 2005-2006 for a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies, but completed only the taught course; Voice Coaching, CSV Media, London, 2006; Radio Production, CSV Media, London, 2006 and the City and Guilds Certificate in Conflict Management, 2006.
Besides, he has attended many training courses in Planning, Writing and Production Skills on Communicating for the Environment.
He was the winner of the Nigerian Media Merit Award for Investigative Reporter of the Year and the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence, Reporter of the Year, both in 1992.
He also received a Community Service Award in 1997 and the Outstanding Staff Award of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc in the year 2001.
In 1994, he edited Lord Rumens, a book on a prominent Nigerian business tycoon and Lawn Tennis icon, Chief Ajisomo Alabi.
He was a member of the Green Environment Movement, and the Nigerian Field Society; he was on the Core Committee of the National Technology Summit and was the Summit’s Publicity Chairman, and Products & Exhibition sub-committee, 1998.
Other national and important committees on which Aduma has also served or headed included the National Planning Committee, Youth Development, Federal Ministry of Education and Youth Development, 1993; Core Committee, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF)/Ford Foundation, Kano Eastern Bypass Roadside Tree Planting Exercise, 1997; Chairman, Planning and Organising Committee, Alhaji Babatunde Jose’s 75th Birth Day, 2000, (Dr. Jose was a doyen of Nigerian journalism and was the first African Editor, Managing Director and Chairman of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc); Chairman, Planning Committee of the 7th and 8th General Murtala Muhammed’s Memorial Lecture (the late Nigerian Head of State, July 30, 1975 – February 13, 1976), 2001 and 2002; Chairman, Planning Committee of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc’s 75th Anniversary, 2001 including sitting on many national techno-industrial committees (too numerous to mention here) in his capacity then as Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria. In that capacity, he represented FAN on the National Steel Committee of the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Aduma, Communications/Environmental Consultant, Critic, Poet, Essayist, and Columnist, was formerly Staff Reporter, The Guardian (flagship of the Nigerian media) 1990-1993; Consultant/Chairman, Media, Green Environment Movement, Nigeria, 1990-2003; Senior Correspondent, The Independent Weekly, (1993-1994); Head, Environment and Property Desk, The Punch (1994-1997); Editorial Consultant and Contributing Editor, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation’s Tortoise Magazine, 1995; Contributing Editor, Pole Star Magazine (1998); Member, Editorial Board of The Nigerian Conservationist Magazine (1995-2000); Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria, (1997-2000); National Coordinator and Public Affairs Manager of President Muhammadu Buhari’s The Pastoral Resolve, 2000 - Major General Muhammadu Buhari was formerly Nigeria’s Head of State from December 31, 1983-27 August, 1985 and was the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2015-2023); Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc (2000-2003) and Director, Media, Pronaco, UK/Europe (the Diaspora arm of the Pro-national Conference, Nigeria, which canvassed the return from military rule to democracy in Nigeria), 2005 -2007.
Mr. Aduma was one of the twelve eminent persons appointed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo (GCFR) of Nigeria into the Administrative Panel of Inquiry, also known variously as Presidential Panel, Commission of Inquiry, respectively to investigate the illegal trade in and smuggling of Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna into and out of Nigeria in 2003.
In year 2003, he attended the Chevening Leadership Programme, (sponsored by the British Council and Shell) at the elite Lagos Business School (the Pan-African University) in Nigeria and thereafter, proceeded to the United Kingdom as a British Chevening Scholar to study International Journalism at City University, London, where he worked for and obtained an M.A. in International Journalism, with specialism in Environment.
In addition to his array of degrees and extensive experience in international journalism, environment, development, international diplomacy and international security; international relations; international economy and politics, Mr Aduma who obtained the AET (Award in Education and Training), Level 3 in 2018 from CONEL, a Further Education College and member of the Capital City College Group (CCCG), London, also has a Higher Education Certificate in Education and Training – the CET (Certificate in Education and Training) Level 4, 2018 and the Specialist Diploma in Teaching English: ESOL & Literacy, Level 5 from the same Further Education College in 2018.
He is currently the publisher of VIGILANCE-THE WORLD’S LEADING SECURITY MAGAZINE (www.vigilance-securitymagazine.com) and SCORPION NEWS CORP (www.scorpionnewscorp.com).
PUBLICATIONS
- Be a Beacon of Hope in the World: A Message to Young Britain, 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMaK3EfE99Q,
- The Diamonds Are Here, 2001.
- Lord Lumens (ed.), 1995.
