Nigerian Times

I am Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Publisher/Editor of Nigerian Times blog. Being a self-employed writer and human rights advocate fighting against corruption and violation of human has been challenging and often traumatic in Nigeria.  I am also known as the Champion of the education of the millions of underprivileged girls out of school in Nigeria and developing SaaS applications for wealth creation and distribution for th e reduction of poverty among the majority of Nigerians for the nation building of a New Nigeria in the leadership of Africa among the comity of nations. Fighting corruption in Nigeria is suicidal, because of the institutionalization of corruption in the society from the street to the corridors of power in the government. And majority of Nigerians don't fight or protest against corruption if the corrupt government shares the loot with them even when only the crumbs of the national cake are left for them in what they call "You Chop I Chop" government. M...

Nigerians protesting against corruption. Photo Credit: MSNBC Photo Blog Between Dogs and Idiots Nigerians are known as very religious people who are almost equally divided between Christianity and Islam, the two most popular religions in the world. Millions of the Christians love flocking to their different churches every Sunday and millions of the Muslims flock to their mosques every Friday and even cause traffic jams along their routes. But God knows that majority of them are UNFAITHFUL to their FAITH, because they don't even practice what their faith requires and which is a shame no matter how you twist it. To me the most popular religion in Nigeria is Hypocrisy, because majority of Nigerians are the devotees of this religion of conceit and deceit. And these hypocrites are proud of their religion from the street to the pulpit and from the bedroom to the boardroom. Those who are not like them are the endangered species among them. They don't read and when they even read, the...

Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) Eleganza Biro Plaza (5TH Floor), Plot 634, Adeyemo Alakija Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. The Oil Cartel, the Cabal and the Rest of Us in Nigeria Dear Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, I read your public information advert on SUBSIDY FACTS with a pinch of salt, because the information you provided is nothing new. The important issue you mentioned was the emergence of “briefcase” mafia of companies without any asset base and accountability in the Petroleum Support Fund (PSF) scheme. As you rightly noted the total cost of PMS imported into Nigeria as at December 6, 2011, was N141.38 Kobo. The regulated pump price is N65 and the subsidy claim was N76. 38 Kobo. Ignorance has done more harm to Nigerians than corruption. The anger of majority of Nigerians was provoked against the government when the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) announced the removal of the fuel subsidy on petrol on New Year’s Day January 1,...

President Goodluck Jonathan. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown . Nigerians Report is yet to verify the purported plot to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan, but was reported to have failed. The plot was hatched in the U.S. to impeach him before the approval of the 2012 Budget and to stop the removal of the fuel subsidy on petrol. Top oil marketers of the cabal and legislators conspired in the plot, including the richest black man on earth according to the Forbes magazine. The plot leaked to President Goodluck Jonathan and the evidence is all on tape. That was why he hurriedly announced the removal of the fuel subsidy on petrol ahead of the scheduled deregulation of the downstream sector later in the year. The plotters who have scammed the government for years are even major donors and sponsors of first Presidential Library in Nigeria and also sponsored the election of President Goodluck Jonathan. But can the President have the balls to prosecute the sacred cows who presently are...

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President Goodluck Jonathan plunged himself into a quagmire between the devil called "Boko Haram" and the deep blue sea of angry masses protesting the unpopular removal of the fuel subsidy on petrol since New Year's day to date. Mr. President, Public Offers and Sensitization about Oil Deregulation Came too late ~ By John Egbeazien Oshodi, Ph.D No one doubts that there could be a long-term benefits for all Nigerians from the massive oil price deregulation but the ill-timed manner by which executive decision was made showed poor management style. This leadership blunder has not only resulted in a state of economic and social confusion but it has equally received tensed response to split-minded way with which the government reached its decision. The ineffectiveness behind the fuel subsidy removal order remains clear as evidenced in the people’s painful reactions. Certainly, in an economy like Nigeria which is marked by severe economic gap and class division among the people,...

Being extracts from In the House of Dogs (Kindle Edition) by Michael Chima Ekenyerengozi; King of Kings Books International; 1 edition; November 2011. It’s not easy to state who started it or how many died. But the horror for those affected is clear . — Craig S. Keener, June 2010. Dear Karl Maier , This house has not yet fallen, but it is shaking. Our house is full of strange bed fellows of lunatic fringe elements of the black sheep of a dysfunctional family. One is turbaned and goes round the bend bowing to the crescent moon and star suffering from a very contagious Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease of his mad cows. The other one has gone loco from sniffing too much hydrocarbons in his littoral states at the bottom of the river Niger. Imagine living in the house of nightmares, cast between the devil and the deep blue sea and caught in the snares of the sirens. Our house is like a home full of Wole Soyinka’s “Madmen and Specialists”, swimming in the whirlpool of the vicious circle of the...

Why Nigerians Must Protest and Reject the Illegal Removal of Fuel Subsidy The sudden announcement of the removal of fuel subsidy on New Year’s Day shocked Nigerians who were still on holidays and they were outraged by the overnight change in the pump price of petrol by owners of filling stations across Nigeria without any authorized benchmark price by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA). It is brazenly corrupt and outrageously fraudulent for the filling stations to start selling fuel at exorbitant pump prices immediately the government announced the removal of fuel subsidy on January 1, 2012, without any notification to the citizens who are the primary consumers. The fuel being sold between N137 and N200 per litre was imported under the fuel subsidy regime; therefore it is daylight robbery of consumers by the corrupt and fraudulent government, oil marketers and their distributors with thousands of filling stations all over Nigeria. Millions of litres of fuel imp...

Anti Corruption Campaign Banner. Photo Credit: One Stone Advisors . 29 Dec 2011 20:50 Africa/Lagos FCPA Digest Cites Increased Prosecution of Individuals and Sharpened Focus On Judicial Opinions and Trials Shearman & Sterling report outlines business and legal implications of US, UK and other international anti-corruption activities NEW YORK, Dec. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Although the overall number of new FCPA enforcement actions fell somewhat in 2011 – just 16 corporate cases, compared with 20 in 2010 – US authorities have continued their aggressive and proactive enforcement of the statute and are now being joined by their foreign counterparts, according to global law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP. Shearman & Sterling's semi-annual "Recent Trends and Patterns in FCPA Enforcement" report, part of the firm's renowned FCPA Digest (http://fcpa.shearman.com), showed that, despite the claims of some commentators and legislators, FCPA penalties against corporat...

Journalists working for Al Jazeera English have uncovered corruption in the office of Sierra Leone’s Vice-President Samuel Sumana. The detailed undercover investigation features in the documentary Timber!, broadcast at 22h30 GMT on Wednesday 23 November 2011 as part of Al Jazeera’s Africa Investigates series. Illegal timber export is big business in Sierra Leone A 2006 European Union report identified logging as the leading cause of environmental degradation in Sierra Leone. According to the Sierra Leone Forestry Ministry, unless immediate action is taken against logging, all of the country’s forests – as well as the many endangered animal and plant species they support – could disappear by 2018. The President, His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma, has made no secret of his concern about logging and his desire that it should cease. The government of Sierra Leone has officially outlawed the practice several times. Emmy award-winning Sierra Leonean journalist Sorious Samura discovered il...

Three Reasons Why Nigeria is Corrupt and Poor 1. Majority of Nigerians do not fear God. 2. Selfishness and wickedness powered by greed have made majority of Nigerians to disobey and flout one of the most important laws of God which is to love your neighbour as yourself. But majority of Nigerians who confess and profess to be "Christians" and "Muslims" have chosen and preferred to CHEAT and COMPETE with their neighbours. The obedience of this fundamental law of charity is the golden gateway to prosperity. But the disobedience of this law is the rotten gateway to corruption and poverty. Every administration seems to be in competition for the celebration of corruption. The nation is plagued by rampant corruption at all levels, from the poorest to the richest Nigerians. The difference is the fact that the rich steal more than the poor. Then the intellectual illiteracy of the majority of the people fuels the intellectual hypocrisy of the elites of the shamelessly corrupt...

Nigeria, SWFs, and the Resource Curse? Two New Papers “Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) is not the magic wand that can turn around the economy and welfare of the majority of Nigerians, but true federalism­. If Nigeria can be run like a true federal democracy, the country would be transforme­d, but the rogues in power want to continue using public funds to play their games of Monopoly and Totopoly in and out of the corridors of power. What we need in Nigeria is not the SWF, but accountabi­lity and transparen­cy in public service and an end to the impunity of the corrupt ruling class. $3 billion was collected as bribes by public officers in a single year in Nigeria! Without accountabi­lity and transparen­cy in governance­, the SWF will be mismanaged and looted by the same kleptomani­acs in power..” Read the story: ...

Nigeria is at the Bottom of 2011 Global Prosperity Index Nigeria is ranked 104th out of 110 countries in the 2011 Global Prosperity Index, a worldwide assessment of wealth and quality of life. Nigeria’s best ranking is at the 54th position in social capital and the worst is her 108th position in governance. BOTTOM 10 101 Zambia 102 Kenya 103 Mozambique 104 Nigeria 105 Sudan 106 Yemen 107 Pakistan 108 Ethopia 109 Zimbabwe 110 Central African Republic The Legatum Prosperity Index(TM) [http://www.prosperity.com/_ ]) provides the world's only global assessment of national prosperity based on both wealth and well-being. The Index assesses 110 countries (accounting for over 93% of the world's population and 97% of the world's GDP) and ranks them based on their performance in eight sub-indices, including Economy, Governance, Personal Freedom, and Social Capital. "We want to assess the long term drivers of prosperity," said Jeffrey ...

Photo of Nigerian Pastor Chris Oyakhilome. The problem of the world of those who live and lie in falsehood in Christendom is the fact that majority of those who claim to be Christians have never met Jesus Christ and you can never be a Christian until you have met Jesus Christ. What we have in Nigeria and the rest of the world are millions of church goers calling themselves Christians when in reality they are not in truth and in spirit. You cannot be a Christian and behave like a pagan as most of you do. You only deceive yourself by making all sorts of excuses for your erroneous and ambiguous practices which expose the truth about you. We are what we do. As Jesus Christ said, by their fruits you shall know them. And not by words of mouth. Not by how many times you go to church. Not by how many times you give alms to the beggars and paupers. Not by the size of your Holy Bible. Not by how many times you pray, praise or worship HIM. Not by your hypocritical attempts to be pious. Not by whe...