Nigerian Times

The current scandal rocking the judiciary caused by the face-off between Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysious Kastina- Alu and President, Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami is only exposing the political pettiness of the ruling class in Nigeria. The judicial fiasco has pitched the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) against the main opposition party the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) over their political stakes in the dispute. The excuse given by President Goodluck Jonathan on his appointment of Justice Dalhatu Adamu as Acting President for the Court of Appeal following the suspension of Isa Ayo Salami by the National Judicial Commission (NJC) is dumb. "What the President has done is to prevent a vacuum and the law provided for that," said Dr. Reuben Abati, President Goodluck Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity. What a dumb excuse. The President should have waited for the resumption of the National Assembly before appointing Justice Dalh...

I have read Reuben Abati's "Disasters, Crocodile Tears And The Next Tragedy" and I wish that every literate person in Nigeria will sit down and read it and meditate on it. Then look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself the question of how much your life is worth as a Nigerian. How much are you worth to Nigeria? How much have you done to separate yourself from the dogs and pigs in Nigeria? Who Are the Dogs and Who Are the Pigs? The dogs and pigs are those who have no scruples and would careless to do anything to belong to the Joneses. They have no dignity and no integrity. They will say anything and do anything to ape the Joneses. Only Nigerian fools will boast of living in mansions while they cannot boast of good and safe roads. Only Nigerian fools will boast of going to Nigerian universities when they cannot boast of any Nigerian university among the top 30 universities in Africa! Only Nigerian fools will boast of the Nigerian parodies of American TV reality shows...

The Mandate of MKO Abiola By Adeleke O. Adeyemi, with the remarks of Reuben Abati The Mandate: Audio Drama Suffused with score after score of original, lilting music that resonates with its power and purpose The Mandate, Audio Drama tracks along a ponderous part of Nigeria’s story as it totters on a way forward, past a crossroads onto a path leading past her present – into an impending future. It is here presented for education and entertainment in a way that is gratifying to the soul. This is Drama to experience – over and over again! Following in the chequered tradition of the groundbreaking radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds (by American actor and director Orson Welles, written by the British H.G. Wells, a generation earlier) that captured the imagination of a whole nation an eon of a generation ago, another playwright has given us–startling as gripping–another War. It centres on the calling and career of one whose essence has been aptly captured as: …Truly the first national...