Ahmed Dodo

“Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.” -Agar, Herbert Kudos Nigerians, thanks for that patriotic and nationalistic resilient fuel subsidy protest against the forces of human oppression, especially on your bold stand against all the physical, mental and economic suppression from these forces who hitherto underestimated your capability to collectively enforce a change irrespective of tribe, religion or class, in the hope that all those who stood up to enforce their fundamental rights as Nigerians when it mattered most would triumphantly hold their heads high and console their fighting spirits with the words of Reggae Icon Bob Nester Marley :   He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day. And to those who lost their lives in these historical record breaking mass protests, ma...

" The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public. " -Robert F. Kennedy When the present president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria now known as President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan,a hitherto unpopular national politician came out to vie for the exhausted office of the president of Africa’s most populous and prosperous nation, his quiet unassuming and patient looking character easily endeared him to the frustrated Nigerian masses. Most of them thought they had finally found a God-fearing listening leader who would savage them from the social, economic and political wahala that had bedeviled this rich ill managed country. But alas – their dreams and positive expectations have been cut short less than one year into the administration of the man they thought they could rely on to take them to the promised land. Nigerians were made to come out...