Nigerian Voters Still Reflect

Our panel of Nigerian voters reflect on their country's official election results, which claim the ruling party's candidate Umaru Yar'Adua won by a landslide.

Yar' D Declares His Net Worth

The new president of Nigeria, Umaru Yar'Adua, has publicly declared his assets, in an effort to combat official corruption, his spokesman says.
Correspondents say it is the first time in Nigeria's history that a sitting president has done this.

A Popular Tale Of A Shortened Exodus Via Spain

Sad to see that we have a story of an exodus that really started a while back. A tale of a young man just starting his life's worldly journey, a very Nigerian Characteristic. He some how managed to make it to spain for a better opportunity. Then Aikpitanhi Osamuyia was some how killed in a sort of spanish custody. Killed in custody with the spanish police? Was he struggling? Did he injure himself? I have checked out a series of news outlets on the web, and it baffles me that no concrete answers have been put on the table, or maybe this story es no tres importante!! The spanish government needs to come correct. They take advantage of immigrants in so many ways un-explainable, and they know they need that labor-force to build their infranstructures at a favourable cost. I have been hearing some horror stories about the boats, canoes, and vessels capsizing, but this immigrant-containment-issue needs to be properly looked at. Finally, this young man may have dreaded going back to nigia, and felt circumvented in a complex & matriculated scheme to slow down the exodus process. Na wah ohh!!

The police in spain said he may have died after swallowing a gag taped over his mouth to prevent him biting extradition officers. After his death was reported, the police in Spain releasead a statement saying Osamuyia was wanted in Nigeria for rape & murder and that he had a string of violence charges in Spain. It is clamed he was punched and kicked and left tied while on the plane. This claim is backed by passengers who were on the Iberia flight. An eyewitness, a passenger on the flight to Lagos said Osamuyia was beaten and left bound till the flight landed in Alicante. He told a Nigerian website how Osamuyia had defecated on himself as of the the time he died. This account of events shows he was in great discomfort before he passed away.

Yar' Adua's Positive Meter Scale

Had to surf last week to the NVS to keep up with my old dialogue buddies. It seems that peoples faith in our new President may be dimming. I would like to be more optimistic about the current subject matter at hand. A few articles had suggested that; He is an OBJ stooge. Another article said; He has no option but to cater to the North. One article was even going quite far to say that; Yar' D will be more corrupt than the OBJ administration. I had to quickly lash back, and beckoned to give this Gentleman-Of-A-President a chance first. Now alot of people feel that the road to the elections may have been bumpy, but the PDP transition from OBJ to Yar'D was smooth. We are all waiting.

Forgetting The Homeland

Regarding my gracious respect for the standing pioneers of the post-colonial era. We are running out of who to blame. A rural child's dirty-tummy, hunger, mosquito-bites and diarrhea; are all cries from the past that echo today. Forgetting our homeland, isn't our fault. Feeding our kids and properly educating them, is a strain by itself. Mama is getting old, and needs us to babysit her. They are beginning to have ailing health. It is time I mind my business and worry about my own home first. Nigeria's stealthy youths; cutting-corners, 419, condoms, and breast-milk. Not to forget their father's SUV and his house to shack. God Bless if they remembered their popsee alive. I forgot my homeland, because they are there, and they don't care. The politics there, is intricate; a maze of packed-hand-shakes, promises, kick-backs, and fruitless-lies. Everyone seems to be a master at trickery. High-tech lynching, and slavery that is mental, of the expansive level of sorts! Resources disappear, with subsequent sclerosis of the national-infranstructure. I shall forget you so I may survive. Where is: saddam, sergent doe, tafawa, sadat, cacescu, gandhi, rabin & others.... didn't they care? Shakespeare said: "a light heart lives long"