Kano State trains its own Air Force personnel!

by Eze Eluchie

What really is Governor Kwakwanso (and the Kano State Government) up to?

Without doubt, Kano State and indeed all States in Nigeria require all the man-power they can muster and train, wheresoever, to assist in the march towards State, regional and or national development.

The need for man-power in the area of health, infrastructural development, education and the sciences can surely not be faulted.

If Kano State was expending its funds to train Medical Doctors, Nurses, Medical Lab. Scientists and other health-sector specialists, Engineers (Electrical, Mechanical or whosoever , Computer specialists, Teachers, and a plethora of other areas relevant to societal development, one would not really be worried.

In a State suffering from an abysmal lack of manpower, the State government chooses to train pilots - in of all places Jordan!!!

Kano State has no Airline! So the ruse of training Pilots for its airline is non-existent!

There are less than 5 airplanes registered to Kano State indegenes!

What in heaven’s name is Kano State planning to do with 100 pilots?

Is Kano State preparing its own Air-force? For which war?

The fact that Kano remains one of the hot-beds and strongholds of the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria ought to suffice to allow well meaning individuals pause to think.

Did authorities sufficiently vet the persons attending this training for fundamentalist views?

Is there probably something the Nigeria Ministry of Defense is not being told about the true intentions of the Kano State Government?

Is there something the world ought to know about Kano State funding the training of 'pilots'?

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news/kano-spends-over-n1b-to-sponsor-graduates-for-pilot-training/

Picture: Pilots in formation.

When the tail wags the dog.

by Eze Eluchie

No doubt, when Barack Obama drew an imaginary line of ‘use of chemical weapons’ as the point where Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria would venture beyond to attract greater United States involvement in the Syrian Civil War, the US President committed a political gaffe.

On the one hand, there was the possibility that any of a plethora of actors in the Syrian conflict could deliberately use chemical weapons so that the al-Assad regime will be blamed for it and thus attract US intervention; and on the other hand, the regime itself could use chemical weapons and blame same on the rebels, as a ploy by rebels to elicit US intervention – either way, a US reaction would be tele-guided, not by US interests, but by the manipulations of some smart alec in Syria or any of the several puppeteers using Syrian interests to propagate their own agenda.

Catch me if you dare!

by Eze Eluchie

Wonders, they say, will never cease.

I never thought the day will come when I will agree on anything with a major goon who has contributed immensely to the current nightmare living in Nigeria has become for all its citizens – Olusegun Obasanjo!

Obasanjo’s admonition to the Jonathan presidency to either hold him (Obasanjo) personally responsible for the mega corruption which occurred during the Nigeria’s ‘Reign of Evil’ (1999 – 2007) or forever shut up, receives my whole hearted support.

I hope someone will seize this opportunity to awaken the character presently collecting salary as Chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamurde, to get up from his slumber and proof to Nigerians that the funds remitted to cover the running costs of the EFCC from the Federation account is not a 100% waste!