Dangata Emmanuel's blog

So after years of procastination, i've finally started blogging. This blog will contain my opinions, thoughts and views on a wide range of things, from politics to science and tech to music.

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...just 'Du' it: Jang and the Era of Nepotism

I have absolutely no intent to spend the words of this post talking about the 'Du Covenant' as it, to me, bears no credence. I will also not talk about the videos on the internet, showing an alleged initiation of Gov. Jang and his wife, nor will I talk about his apparent imposition of GNS as the PDP flag-bearer in the state - these are tales for another day. What I want to talk about is the era of nepotism that is ever-proudly represented by Gov. Jang. When Jang contested in 2007, he appealed to our sense of morals. I remember vividly, though i was just about 15 then, how he so proudly flaunted his principle of integrity and contentment. He told the voters tales of how he had only one old house despite being governor in the military era that preceded our democracy. There was no doubt that this was an entirely selfless servant who represented service, morality and discipline. Or so we thought. The recent acts of nepotism carried out by the government is a testament of ...

Libraries and Alcohol

Being liked is not the same thing as being useful. Take this for-instance. Two men go to the village for Christmas with N200k. One spends the money buying bottles and calabashes of alcohol for random strangers, and 'dropping' for any and every A'nimo that 'taxes' him... Maybe throws a party here and there. The next man walks into the community secondary school and donates 200k worth of books to the school Library. Note:BOTH MEN THINK THEY HAVE DONE SOMETHING FOR THEIR PEOPLE. Word of the first man's 'philanthropy' reverberates through the village like thunder claps on a wildly stormy August morning... but each bottle of alcohol he buys is only as useful as a few hours of pseudo-merry, and urine the morning after. Noone hears of the second man, and those that do probably think "Na book we go chop?" ...but somewhere in that library is a boy who will grow up to be an artist, or doctor, or engineer, or astronaut; a girl who will grow up to b...

We borrow-borrow country

Nigeria needs to learn that borrowing is not the way out... LGs are borrowing, states are borrowing, FG is borrowing… Borrowing from commercial banks, borrowing from Paris club, borrowing from the World Bank, borrowing everywhere. Borrowing to build roads, borrowing to drill boreholes, borrowing to build schools, borrowing to steal. Unfortunately, this yeye habit is going to be here for a while. I remember when Simon Bako Lalong criticized the immediate past administration for the debt it accumulated. I had to admit that he had a point. “Finally the elephant in the room flees!” I thought. Here was someone one who was willing to talk hard on all this borrowing. Fast forward a few weeks… the story had changed. Shortly after being elected, Lalong mentioned that he was willing to pay salaries even before being sworn in, provided the banks will offer him loans. I was confused, I didn’t know if to join the civil servants in celebrating the end of their plight [after all, the en...

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