Category: Opinion

  • Do We Vote For Development Or For Palliatives… BY AGBA JALINGO

    Do We Vote For Development Or For Palliatives… BY AGBA JALINGO

     

    Let me start by defining what palliative is.

    “A medicine or form of medical care that relieves symptoms without dealing with the cause of the condition.”

    If you are 30yrs today, and politically active, and commenting on social media, that means in 1999, when democracy returned to Nigeria and when Nigeria adopted the Constitution of the 4th Republic, you were barely 5 years old. You didn’t know anything politically yet. If you are 35years today, that means you were 10 years old. You will have little or nothing to say first hand, about the Obasanjo and Donald Duke years in office.

    Unfortunately for this demographic, for those who are active politically, they are more familiar with the word, “Palliatives” than the word “Development.” In fact, they confuse the latter for the former. For most of them, palliatives means the same thing with development. Anyone who dispenses palliatives is bringing development to the people. So when they vote, they don’t expect much. Once you can dispense some palliatives, the people will translate it to mean development, and they can even go to war for you.

    Consequently, instead of growing our generation and distribution of electricity to illuminate us, power businesses and factories, they are giving us palliatives, – supplying millions of solar street lights across the country. Yet electricity bills keep increasing amidst the darkness.

    Instead of building and equipping hospitals and insuring our health, they are giving us palliatives. They have reduced it to three-days health outreaches in our villages. Yet charges in government hospitals keep rising while they get their own healthcare abroad or in private hospitals.

    Instead of equipping schools, giving us years of expense paid and program scholarships, they are giving us palliatives. They have reduced it to parceling some few thousands in envelopes to distribute in open fields or wiring it to your account, and still call it scholarship, while sending their own children abroad or to private schools.

    Instead of deliberately building massive infrastructure, they are giving us transport palliatives. They are buying rickety foreign coaches, buses and refurbishing, buying keke and okada, to ride on aged roads and rails, while they are chauffeur driven in armored SUVs.

    Instead of building ‘water works’ to purify and distribute pipe born water to homes, they are giving us palliatives. They are counting the number of boreholes they have dug.

    Instead of building refineries to make fuel available, they are giving us palliatives. Sharing money and importing refined products and selling to us at whatever price they like.

    Instead of creating the enabling environment for jobs and earning a living, they are giving palliatives. Sharing wrappers, rice and meat and drinks and condiments to a pauparized population. It’s now all about palliatives, palliatives, palliatives, and nothing but palliatives.

    But it was not always like this. The aging infrastructure in Lagos did not emerge from the Atlantic Ocean. It was built. Abuja was built. The Federal Secretariat, National Assembly Complex, Supreme Court, Airports, 3rd mainland bridge, Carter Bridge, Eko Bridge, the now decrepit general hospitals across the country, the military barracks and facilities, the first generation universities, the hydro dams, the now failed East West road and several others, were started and completed.

    So why have we become so incapable of starting and completing so many things? Is our vote now for palliatives? Have we redefined the meaning of development or do we need to ask why our government has been reduced to palliatives instead of development? If you find the answer, you can share it with me.

    Yours sincerely,
    Citizen Agba Jalingo.

     

    Disclaimer: The opinion expressed in this article is strictly that of the author Agba Jalingo and does not represent TheLumineNews or its agent 

  • Surface Intelligence And The Limit Of Excellence BY JOHN GAUL

    Surface Intelligence And The Limit Of Excellence BY JOHN GAUL

     

    Surface intelligence includes a shallow appreciation and understanding of arguable issues, including a preliminary, pre emptive and flash impact of what a subject matter is all about .

    Surface intelligence generates from Surface understanding ,You can use it to describe a basic or cursory understanding of something, but not a thorough or deep understanding.

    Intelligence can be defined as the ability to solve complex problems or make decisions with outcomes benefiting the actor, and has evolved in lifeforms to adapt to diverse environments for their survival and reproduction.

    On the other hand Deep knowledge refers to a thorough and comprehensive understanding of a subject or topic. It involves not only being able to recall facts and information about the subject, but also being able to understand and apply this knowledge in a variety of contexts.

    Surface learning is the more factual information or surface knowledge that is often a prerequisite for deep learning. Deep learning involves things like extending ideas, detecting patterns, applying knowledge and skills in new contexts or in creative ways, and being critical of arguments and evidence.

    Surface intelligence comes from Surface learning, in Surface learning students focus on external goals such as getting a particular grade or award or pleasing or impressing someone else.

    These students tend to do only what is necessary and focus more on being able to regurgitate what they have learned rather than truly understanding and absorbing the material.

    One of the greatest challenge of our generation is that serious minded people who are bestowed with critical decision making process still groove with Surface intelligence.

    Unfortunately, their beneficiaries are also gifted with Surface understanding.
    Any society made up of surface thinkers is limited in excellence.

     

    The opinion expressed in this article is strictly that of the author, John Gaul and does not represent TheLumineNews or its agent 

  • Ganduje Cannot Not Find Justice In The Kanu Commission Of Inquiry BY JOHNSON BRISIBE

    Ganduje Cannot Not Find Justice In The Kanu Commission Of Inquiry BY JOHNSON BRISIBE

     

    What justice can the cockroach expect from a panel of inquiry set up and populated by chickens. The answer is none. No justice, no fairness, no equitable outcome, because the commission has only one secret charge: “Oga said you should find him guilty and commit him to jail.”

    All the motions being dramatized are aimed at confusing the ignorant public because the single minded mission is to bring Dr Ganduje to his knees on the charge of not having treated his former boss, Dr. Kwankwaso with respect for most of his reign as Governor. It is a clash of egos and a hubristic show of might.

    What Kwankwaso and his political son, Abba Yusuf are doing is to put to work, like the writer, Gustave Flaubert, the role of perception to create a multiplicity of truths and different versions of reality. For instance, it is their aim to create the perception that Dr. Ganduje, the immediate past governor is the most pressing problem of the state and that investigating him, not Kwankwaso, is the most brilliant thing to do.

    It is very likely that Ganduje has been shaken sore, breaking him however is going to take a long and protracted struggle especially since the two fellas pointing their second fingers at him also have the rest of their fingers pointing back at themselves. And Ganduje is in a position to know details of Kwankwaso’s shenanigans having worked with him for almost two decades..

    Already there is talk about local government funds ending up in Kwankwaso’s presidential campaign account. There is sure to be more pungent revelations from his two term governorship of Kano state and his work as federal Minister of Defense during which Ganduje was his deputy and Special Adviser respectively. The smelly air is surely not going to clear up soon.

    Or is it all about the battle for 2027? There has been talk about Kwankwaso considering to join the All Progressive Congress. Is the tactics aimed at getting Ganduje out of the way so that when Kwankwaso eventually joins the rulling party, he will be Lord over the whole of Kano state with no one left who is capable of struggling for a piece of the highly populated sub region?

    What is in this fight for the citizens of Kano, as hunger, deprivation, illiteracy and poverty continues to tear away at the people. How does distracting Ganduje put a morsel of food on the table of the people. As billionaires like Dangote and Rabiu continue to release palliative grains for the hungry millions of Kano, Abba Yusuf and his godfather are having fun playing high wire politics with the aim of crowning Kwankwaso political king in Kano. Is this what the multitudes voted for? Was this part of the bargain?

    Kano as a state and a people continues to lag behind in all the development indices apart from the startling hunger and poverty. As hundreds of thousands of young school age children throng the streets and invade restaurants for left over food, the only thing that borders the NNPP leaders is the battle for political superiority. There is no doubt that Abba Yusuf who is rumoured to have won his governorship in a board room trade-off is going to disappoint the people big time, having already lost focus from his campaign promises.

    A so-called populist ideology as the ‘Kwankwasia’ idea the NNPP trumpets should focus on improving the living conditions of the masses of its people in critical areas as healthcare, mass education, employment, food and nutrition among others. Yet the government in Kano prefers to orchestrate high drama as a substitute for genuine development ideas. Ganduje will certainly not find justice in the Kano kangaroo investigation commission. He is already vindicated by the sheer desperation and partiality of the governor of Kano state and his leg men.

    We call on the president, Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to step in with a clear statement on his stand in the matter so as to bring order to what has become an APC in Kano state that has been completely invaded by officials and machinations of the NNPP. It is now clear that the Kwankwaso group cannot be trusted even as he mulls political cooperation ahead of 2027. It’s leaders are self absolved in their own egos and are not people to trust or do business with. A word is enough for the wise.

    Johnson Brisibe writes from Abuja.

  • One Of The Greatest Lessons I Learnt This Holy Week And About Life In General Is That Some Of The People Who Hate, Betray And Oppose What You Stand For, Also End Up Leading You To Victory Without Meaning To Do So BY PETER OBELE ABUE

    One Of The Greatest Lessons I Learnt This Holy Week And About Life In General Is That Some Of The People Who Hate, Betray And Oppose What You Stand For, Also End Up Leading You To Victory Without Meaning To Do So BY PETER OBELE ABUE

    VICTORY

    One of the greatest lessons I learnt this Holy week and about life in general is that some of the people who hate you, betray you and oppose what you stand for, also end up leading you to Victory without meaning to do so. If you agree with me on this, then you are about to define the meaning of Victory in your life; you are about to redesign a new strategy of happiness. Victory happens when you stop expecting the world to affirm you as a person; because in this world, half of the people will like you and the other half will hate you, no matter what you say or do.

    Let’s take the story of Jesus Christ for example (as Peter recalls in Acts 10: 34, 37-43), who came into the world and went about doing good (v. 38). He recruited a few confidants, with the hope of using them to establish a kingdom of love, but some of them betrayed him, while others stuck with him till the end. He was consequently handed over to be crucified. They mocked, scourged and finally crucified the very man who had the power to give life (v.39). At last the cross he was crucified on became the symbol of Victory after he rose again on the third day (vs.40-41). That’s victory for you.

    Some have likened the story of Jesus to some leaders in the recent past. In 2015, the then Nigerian President Jonathan lost election to his opponent. He had the power to manipulate himself to win, but he did not. Rather he accepted the humiliation of his defeat and turned around to congratulate his opponent. That’s Victory. Nelson Mandela of South Africa spent 27 years in prison, came out to forgive his jailers and subsequently became President himself. That’s Victory.

    Lets focus again on Jesus and how his story effects our life. In the gospel we hear about a certain unnamed disciple who followed Jesus to Calvary and remained with him throughout his Passion while others like Judas betrayed him and Peter ran away. After the resurrection, this unnamed disciple ran faster than Peter, “saw and believed” whereas Peter though seeing the same thing did not believe. Confronted with the signs of death (the tomb, the linen cloths and the shroud) the unnamed disciple recognized the victory of life while Peter could not (John 20: 1-9).

    You are that unnamed disciple. You will see Victory if you endure the pain of whatever humiliation you have been through and will go through if you look ahead. Victory will be yours if you forgive those who betray you and focus your mind on something rather positive. Victory will be yours if you accept the fact that life is not all about you, but about the peace and happiness of the people you serve. Victory will be yours if you stop deceiving yourself that everyone must like you and agree with you and affirm you because that can never happen.

    Begin now to understand the meaning of the Cross and how it can lead you to your resurrection (Victory) as it did to Jesus. Happy Easter !

  • How Can You Fine-tune Your Operational Strategies As A Service-related Business? BY JUSTINA OVAT

    How Can You Fine-tune Your Operational Strategies As A Service-related Business? BY JUSTINA OVAT

     

    How can you identify the most influential factors affecting service efficiency and tailor your operations accordingly, leading to enhanced customer experiences and improved business outcomes?

    What methodologies can you apply to identify critical factors influencing your success?

    How can you make informed decisions?

    How can you develop strategies that improve performance and enhance your customer’s journey?

    Ultimately, how can you optimize service?

    One way is through Sensitivity Analysis.

    Sensitivity analysis isn’t just for numbers; it’s a valuable tool for businesses navigating the critical role of service delivery.

    Service optimization relies on sensitivity analysis to fine-tune operational strategies effectively. By adjusting one aspect of service delivery while maintaining others constant, you can assess impact on overall performance and customer satisfaction.

    For instance, a restaurant might experiment with different seating arrangements, staffing levels, or menu options to see how each change influences wait times, service quality, and customer feedback.

    A hospital might conduct sensitivity analysis to evaluate the impact of changes in staffing levels on patient wait times, treatment outcomes, and overall satisfaction. By adjusting the number of nurses or physicians on duty while keeping other factors constant, such as patient volume or resources, they can determine the staffing levels that maximize efficiency without compromising quality of care.

    This analysis can help hospitals identify staffing strategies that ensure patients receive timely and effective treatment while also managing operational costs efficiently.

    Sensitivity analysis in the service industry can be applied by systematically varying one factor at a time while keeping others constant to understand its impact on key performance indicators such as customer satisfaction, revenue, and operational efficiency.

    Try this and don’t forget to share your experience with us.

  • You Think PhD Has Lost “Its Dignity” Because So Many People Are Now Getting It? Are You Kidding Me? BY FIRST BABA ISA

    You Think PhD Has Lost “Its Dignity” Because So Many People Are Now Getting It? Are You Kidding Me? BY FIRST BABA ISA

    I really think this is a joke sha.

    You think PhD has lost “its dignity” because so many people are now getting it? Are you kidding me?

    In a country of over 200 million people, how many persons have PhD? Wait first, don’t answer that one. Answer this one: trace your family tree – father and mother side- from 26th May, 1672 to date, how many persons have PhD? How many people are in your village, ward, Local Government and State… then how many have PhD?

    The truth is only a very small number of persons have been able to study up to PhD level. Very small number. Stop lying that PhD holders are everywhere just because you want to make the feat look ordinary.

    Everyone mustn’t get a PhD. No. It is not even an indispensable ingredient to succeed in life, but it is demonic to trivialise it because you don’t have it, can’t get it or not even interested in getting it. Stop that category of witchcraft, it is not good for your legacy.

    Getting a PhD is a massive achievement and those who have gotten it should be celebrated to the high heavens and inspire others to do same. There is a place to challenge them to improve society with their academic credentials but to talk down on the achievement, is a no-no.

    Please, I’m not talking about those who got “awarded” “PhD’s” in their dingy offices or rat infested houses or some rickety pictures-only conferences by phoney characters from criminal contraptions called institutions.

    Out of the blues you will just see them with a dirty looking gown smiling like retards and the next minute they are addressing themselves as “Dr” and everyone will just join the imbecilic charade instead of reporting “Dr” to the police. These ones should be rightfully denigrated.

    Finally, I want to congratulate all PhD holders, especially those who will be having their convocation tomorrow at the University of Calabar; and most especially Dr Mrs Onne Ikwen (see picture) my friend, a fine police officer, fantastic mum, kingdom lover and dear wife to my friend Eno Beké Ikwen. I’m super proud of you, Ma.

    This is what marriage or partnership should be: find her, marry her and improve her (vice versa). Don’t follow a partner who cannot improve your life.

    – F. Baba Isa (FBI).

    Disclaimer: The opinion expressed in this article is strictly that of the author, First Baba Isa and does not represent TheLumineNews or its agent.

  • Rumpus Over Payroll Padding In Cross River State BY DOMINIC KIDZU

    Rumpus Over Payroll Padding In Cross River State BY DOMINIC KIDZU

     

    A rash of accusations, counter accusations, and bush-shaking grandstanding about who did and did not pad the Cross River payroll have headlined premium news coming out of the state for two weeks without end. Take a front seat, folks, and watch the rollercoaster from the edge of your seats. Hollywood is knocking at the door.

    Hydra headed John Odey fired the first shot, which was suitably responded to by his ubiquitous targets, Uko Inaku, Ogbang Akwaji and Joseph Adie, all very senior state officials and close associates of former governor Ben Ayade, having been Chairman Civil Service Commission, Head of the Civil Service and Accountant General respectively.

    John Odey himself was no less awesome during the dark ages, bestriding the three-fold world like a giant collosus, having corralled the three critical offices of SA-Salaries, Auditor-General, and wait for it, Chairman IRS to himself alone, all at the same time! But sudden greatness comes along with a goatskin bag of hubris. As Brutus soliloquised about his friend Caesar, “the abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.” He has sang the swan song (?) and everyone else in the room is taking the bath of the hornbill.

    Iwara Iwara of Hit FM broke the water pot, Beatrice Akpala tried to pick up the broken shards, leaving everyone else in perplexity about who the real heroes and villains are in this tragic tale. And as the intriguing narratives unfolds, what is no longer in doubt is the unconventional template and blatant impunity with which our poor state was run in the last eight years. And the sickening haemorage the public patrimony endured.

    The governor has been looking for a plug on the leakage like a needle in a haystack, trying to put a disheveled state together like a feather pillow bust asunder in a gale. I hope to God that John Odey is right and forthright with his bold accusations so that he does not become like the saying among my Irruan people “Olom ntseh ji Okpor, Okpor oji Olom” which translates to something like “The devil went to kill Okpor, but now Okpor has killed the devil.”

    The simple enigma is that the more people retire from service, the more the wage bill grows, like a thing of magic. Are mssrs John Odey, Uko Inaku, Ogbang Akwaji and Joseph Adie responsible for the mutant growth of the payroll, or is there a more sinister, well oiled criminal conspiracy under the rocks in the seabed? Are the four ‘accused’ and ‘accusers’ mere puns on a grander chessboard of power, money, more money and greed? As Mahatma Gandhi said “The Earth has enough for everyone’s needs but not for everyone’s greed”.

    Where are the fifty-two or fifty-four thousand civil and public servants in Cross River State? Where do they stay, where do they work? This racket appears rather massive to me. Have we even scratched the surface yet, I cannot say. What is certain is that the boat has already been rocked. Heads are inevitably going to roll as well. Even entrenched denizens and crocodiles may have to swim in shallow waters because one cannot make omelettes without breaking eggs.

    The other day I heard that the Cross River House of Assembly is recovering heavy duty construction equipment belonging to the state from private persons. Then yesterday, the House upended the lease of our 100-room facility in Abuja for N6m per annum. Who knows what bizzare repossession is next. To create a new narrative, Governor Bassey Otu, it seems, has his work cut out for him. It’s already one day, one story now, and the beat goes on and on and on.. … …

    (Dominic Kidzu writes from Calabar)

    Disclaimer: The opinion expressed in this article is strictly that of the author, Dominic Kidzu and does not represent TheLumineNews or its agent.

  • It Takes More Than Courage To Challenge Institutions…BY AGBA JALINGO

    It Takes More Than Courage To Challenge Institutions…BY AGBA JALINGO

     

    Courage may be simply explained as the ability to go ahead and do something that frightens you or the capacity to maintain strength in the face of pain and grief. There are quite a number of people out there who have no qualms taking such risks. The world has seen very many of such in different spheres and more are on their way to astound us all with their incredible adrenaline. After all, we have seen people jumping free fall from outer space back to our planet Earth.

    But it requires more than courage to take on institutions that were created ab initio, to control society. Namely: Government institutions, Religious cum Spiritual institutions, Traditional institutions, Professional associations, and Social affiliations. You require something more than courage. Courage alone will not last you the whole hug. Courage can be spontaneous and prompt. Courage can be a stunt in the face of imminent danger. Courage can also be deceptive. Therefore, when challenging institutional inanities, courage can only be one amongst several ingredients that are required for accurate shots.

    1. I don’t need to belabor myself to let you know the possible consequences of challenging or scrutinizing government. The whole organs of government and her apparatchik, from the military to the civic, from the visible to the non visible, will be deployed against you in the manner that courage alone will not suffice. Yours sincerely is a living witness of such deployment. In summary, I was so haunted that I actually became the first ever person since Nigeria was amalgamated in 1914, that a masquerade came to court to testify against me after a federal judge granted leave for my secret trial. I need a producer to even turn that into a movie.

    2. Religious and Spiritual Institutions, are one of the major control centers of society. Not a few businesses and even empires survive today only because of their affiliation with this axis. Apart from the personal satisfaction that we think we derive from those places, we must not be ignorant of their control buttons. So powerful are these centers that once they isolate or label you, even the most wicked of the society who hasn’t suffered your fate, will become more righteous before his or her brethren, while you are villainized. Everyone that is powerful in government, from the police to the military, to the para military, to the courts, to the parliament to the bureaucracy, belongs to one or the other places of worship and spirituality. Once the religious or spiritual caste is able to tag you, all their pressure buttons in government and elsewhere are activated to drain you in a manner that courage alone cannot rehydrate.

    3. It is the same case with traditional institutions. These institutions were hitherto, infallible and subjects were barred from ever scrutinizing them. They are inherently regarded as unquestionable. They control our lives and society. Taking on them requires much more than just courage and the audacity to swim in tempest tossed waters.

    4. Professional associations have been described by some scholars as intellectual prison yards. Not so much for the good they avail, but so much for the strings of control that they pull. They are conundrums curated by the most brilliant amongst us, for peer review and societal control. For instance, even after training and gaining qualifications as a lawyer, the bar association can stop you from practicing if they so collectively wish, under any guise. Challenging these elitist associations of like minds, really requires much more than courage.

    5. Then talk about social affiliations. The human being is gregarious by nature. We are sociable and fond of company. We practically cannot exist without associating with our kind. We want to belong to age grades, clubs, unions, gender groups, etc. Civil society has been able to calibrate these rungs also for societal cohesion and control. There are some of these social clubs that are even more powerful than political parties and government institutions. They wield so much power and control that courage alone will fail you if you choose to turn your barrel on their shenanigans.

    So in the face of these towering axis of societal control, courage is the junior brother to long suffering, forbearance, perseverance and a determined end goal. While courage may be spontaneous, the others are not. While courage is crucial, the others are indispensable. When courage will evaporate along the road, you will require the deliberate desire for long suffering, patience and the capacity to persevere and forbear, to cross the lonely road where courage is scarce or unavailable. But all of these can only be possible, if you have been to the mountain top and seen the promised land. If you have perceived the end goal. If you have a clear destination in mind. If that is missing, all others will have clay feet.

    Good morning!

    Yours sincerely,
    Citizen Agba Jalingo.

     

    Disclaimer:  The opinion expressed in this article is strictly that of the author Agba Jalingo and does not represent TheLumineNews or its agent.

  • Familiar Feel-Good Rhymes You Will Hear This Year… BY AGBA JALINGO 

    Familiar Feel-Good Rhymes You Will Hear This Year… BY AGBA JALINGO 

     

    You cannot go to bed a blunder and wake up a wonder.

    Jesus is the reason for the season.

    Your attitude will determine your altitude.

    Your offering will wipe out your suffering.

    What you drop on the altar determines what you get from the altar.

    Your network will determine your net worth.

    Your ancestral baggage predicts your futuristic luggage.

    If you don’t pay your tithe, things will be tight for you.

    If you do not work in God’s courtyard, God will not work in your vineyard.

    Without a life of holiness, you will live a life of hollowness.

    If you release generously, you will receive bountifully.

    If you remain dedicated, you will be elevated.

    Though some of the rhymes appear logical, most of the people who yell them at you from the podiums know these hackneyed rhymes will not work until you get to work.

    Yours sincerely,
    Citizen Agba Jalingo.

    Disclaimer: The opinion expressed in this article is strictly that of the author, Agba Jalingo and does not represent TheLumineNews or its agent

     

  • Armed Forces Remembrance Day: Honoring The Sacrifices of Fallen Heroes BY CYNTHIA MADUEKWE

    Armed Forces Remembrance Day: Honoring The Sacrifices of Fallen Heroes BY CYNTHIA MADUEKWE

     

    Armed Forces Remembrance Day is an annual event observed in Nigeria on January 15th to honor the sacrifices and gallantry of the Nigerian Armed Forces. This day serves as a poignant reminder of the nation’s commitment to recognizing and appreciating the efforts of military personnel who have dedicated their lives to the service of the country.

    Significance;
    The day holds great significance as it commemorates the end of the Nigerian Civil War on January 15, 1970, a conflict that tested the unity of the nation. It is a time to reflect on the sacrifices made by members of the armed forces in defending the territorial integrity of Nigeria and maintaining peace both within the country and during international peacekeeping missions.

    Ceremonies and Activities:
    Armed Forces Remembrance Day is marked by various ceremonies across the country. The day typically begins with a national church service, followed by solemn parades, wreath-laying ceremonies, and the symbolic release of pigeons to signify peace. These events bring together military personnel, government officials, and the general public in a collective expression of gratitude and remembrance.

    Support for Veterans:
    One of the key aspects of Armed Forces Remembrance Day is the focus on the welfare of veterans and the families of fallen heroes. The Nigerian government, at both federal and state levels, undertakes initiatives to support the well-being of retired military personnel and the dependents of those who lost their lives in service. This includes providing financial assistance, healthcare support, and other essential services.

    Poppy Appeal:
    The red poppy flower is a symbol associated with remembrance, inspired by the famous war poem “In Flanders Fields.” In Nigeria, the sale of poppies is organized as part of the Poppy Appeal, with the funds raised going towards supporting the welfare of veterans and their families.

    National Unity and Patriotism:
    Armed Forces Remembrance Day is a time for Nigerians to come together in unity, irrespective of ethnic, religious, or regional differences. It fosters a sense of patriotism and pride in the nation, acknowledging the sacrifices made by the armed forces to preserve the peace and stability of the country.

    As the nation observes Armed Forces Remembrance Day, it is an opportunity for citizens to express gratitude, honor the memory of fallen heroes, and recommit to upholding the values of unity, peace, and prosperity that our armed forces defend.

     

    Disclaimer: The opinion expressed in this article is strictly that of the author, Cynthia Maduekwe, and does not represent TheLumineNews or its agent.