It doesn’t mean it’s somehow gone away or forgotten.
SW Governors need to take confidence building measures to avoid tension & possible public disaffection, leading to break down of order.
A few suggestions:
• Commence massive registration & licensing of all Okada riders & fit their bikes with tracking devices.
• Each riding license must be attached to a specific bike & rider.
• Regulate Okada trade to include training & certification.
• Medium term, explore incentive based/assisted return of migrant IDPs who constitute most Okada riders, to their home states.
• Commence drone monitoring of forests, especially along major highways.
There must be international tech companies willing to provide the service free for some time, as a proof of concept.
• Burst bandit’s terror forest camps along lagos/Ibadan, Ilesha/Akure, Owo/Ipele, Ijebu/Ondo and other major highways, in league with the army.
• Medium term, explore legal & political means of engaging international military contractors to clear out deeper forests. Law is made for man & not the other way round. It is doable.
• Create a professionally well trained unit of Amotekun corp, in modern anti-terror response.
• Update relevant laws to stipulate strong punishment for errant Amotekun & make illegal duties difficult.
• Strengthen existing partnerships btw the corp & other security agencies.
• Embark on massive public enlightenment campaign to put people on heightened state of alert.
• Enlightenment campaign to include awareness of the security implication of IDPs working as mai-guards, armed with daggers & other weapons in many estates and neighborhoods.
The people too have tasks:
• Make amendment of constitution to allow state police an election issue.
• Also, addressing of relevant constitutional issues.
• We need to accept the new reality that terror is on our doorstep & each neighborhood steel itself with individual response plans.
These are the minimum that should be done immediately.
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Members of the Old Grammarians Society of CMS Grammar School Lagos, in Ibadan, came to church today, for the 163rd anniversary of their school, founded June 6, 1859.
This means secondary education is only just 163 years old; as this is Nigeria’s oldest secondary school.
It was founded by Rev. Thomas Babington Macaulay, the father of Herbert Macaulay.
The school took off with 6 boys in a house on Broad Street and Rev. T. B. Macaulay ran it as principal for 19 years, till he passed on in 1878.
The school fund was community raised. Capt. James Labulo Davies gave £150 in 2 instalments. Conrad Taiwo Olowo, gave £50, with many others contributing smaller sums.
This point needs to be made, as people talk glibly as if education was a benevolent colonial or missionary gift.
An announcement that Pope Francis would be visiting the Italian city of L’Aquila & pray at the tomb of Pope Celestine V, has sparked strong rumours of his imminent resignation.
Celestine V was the 1st pope in history to have resigned voluntarily, in 1294.
What lends credence to this, is that Pope Benedict XVI had made a trip to the same pope’s tomb some times before resigning.
But in reality, he’d gone to the city to visit victims of an earthquake.
Like a medieval court, such reading of ‘signs’ are not uncommon at the Vatican.
Benedict had laid his Palium, the white ‘scarf’ that signifies the authority of the pope as archbishop, on Celestine’s tomb as a form of reverence; but this was with hindsight interpreted as him symbolically giving up his authority!
With the tension generated by the unacceptable recent event in the country, it is pertinent to draw attention to the common origins of the Christian & Islamic religions.
It would seem we’ve forgotten similarities between them pointing to a common Abrahamic origin & antecedent.
This common origin, confers not only theological similarities, there are traditions and practices that are common to both.
The most obvious is belief in the same One God; the Almighty.
Allah simply means God and it is so for Arabic speaking Christians.
A most jarring experiences was attending an Arabic Christian worship & hearing the word Allah very often. The general ambience was so ‘Islamic’.
Video: A reeding from the Gospel of Luke, chanted in Arabic in an Eastern Orthodox Church.
Basically, everybody is just tired on Nigeria’s avoidable & needless wahala.
Even bishop sef don taya!
Reminds me of the uneasy mood in the country, (at least in the SW) in 1983, post that abject election and the serial abuse of the economy in the years leading up to it.