Selective Mass-Murder

by Eze Eluchie

With the continuing systemic and targeted killings of Christians and Igbos in the northern region of Nigeria under the pretext of the Boko Haram terrorist group;

With the continuing efforts of Nigerian government authorities to prevent international recognition of Boko Haram as a terrorist group (a categorization which will impact negatively on the finances and liberty of the promoters of the terror sect which Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan admits have infiltrated the highest echelons of his government and State institutions in Nigeria);

With Goodluck Jonathans continued retention of MD Abubakar, a man adjudged unfit and incompetent by a Judicial Panel of Inquiry into prior ethno-religious crisis to be a police officer in a multi-religious society on account of being a religious extremist as the Chief of the Nigeria Police Force;

Mercurial Finance Minister

by Eze Eluchie

Those who have wondered why I always refer to Nigeria’s Finance Minister and one time contestant to the Office of President of the World Bank as ‘mercurial’ only need to listen to Madam Minister reel out financial statistics and data with her sulkily refined command of the English Language.

One almost feels like throwing caution to the winds and dancing wildly in drunken stupor when the mercurial lady begins her usual swagger of: “Inflation is now down to single-digit at 9.0 per cent in January 2013, compared with 12.6 per cent in January 2012. The exchange rate has been relatively stable, and the fiscal deficit at just under 2 per cent of GDP is on a downward trajectory, and below our threshold of 3 per cent of GDP.

“Our national debt is at a sustainable level at about 19.4 per cent of GDP. Overall, GDP growth for 2012 was 6.5 per cent, and projected at 6.75 per cent for 2013, compared with the projected global growth of 3.5 per cent.”

By the time Madam is done and you realize that the lives of over 150 million Nigerians mirrors abject poverty at its worst and that all the econometric brouhaha arabadada was only  to confuse and manipulate a hapless population, and that the Naira in your pocket is worth far less than it was at the beginig of madams tenure, it becomes clear that, truly, we have a mercurial smooth operator heading our nations Finance Ministry.

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Picture: Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Fanning ethnocentrism as a National Policy

by Eze Eluchie

As I watched the cold grimace of calculating satisfaction which caressed the face of David Mark, the President of Nigeria Senate, as he presided over the rancorous, ethnocentric and divisive televised debates on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), I could not but shudder in astonishment as to the callousness and criminal-like ingenuity and perfidy of our ruling oligarchs.

Ever since the debates were televised, public discourse has once more shifted from the horrendous thievery visited upon Nigeria by the assemblage of characters ruling over our polity to the factors which continue to separate us – such where particular thieves hail from – portraying each Senator who contributed to the debates as an ethnic champion.