NIGERIA POLITICAL TRANSFER MARKET OPEN.

NIGERIAN POLITICAL SPORT NEWS:

Nigeria Senate's Transfer market is Open.... 15 Senators left their former clubs APC fc after a torrid 3 seasons at the top level.... Meanwhile, 2 strikers left APC fc for ADC in a bid to seek for playing times.... 8 defenders, 3 midfielders and 3 strikers also Left APC fc to PDP fc after they allegedly fell out with their newly signed Head coach, Adams Oshiomhole.... However, the no-nonsense newly signed coach has issued a stern warning to the misfiring left winger, Chris Ngige , warning him to watch his back. The captain of APC fc, Bukola Saraki is now sitting on the fence and hoping to force his move immediately the transfer window opens in September 23. Painfully, A prolific defender, Shehu Sani who played a key role in the APC's cup winning 3 years ago failed his medicals at his new Club and his contract was terminated..... Hopefully, they might loan him to SDP fc by next season. Finally the owner of APC fc, Buhari has refused to involve himself in any signing of new players especially after they won a local league in Ekiti state recently..

OSUN LABOUR PARTY CALL ON COMRADE ADEKUNLE SAMSON TO CONTEST FOR HOUSE OF REP IN OSUN WEST SENATORIAL CONSTITUENCY COME 2019.

On the 1st of June 2018, a message was sent to Comrade Adekunle Samson concerning the decision of Labour Party in Osun State to give him the ticket to contest for House of Representative in Osun west senatorial constituency. And up till date they are yet to recieve a yes i concur message from the comrade but he only told them to give him time to consult his people because he can not do anything outside their knowledge and moreover he is a reknown comrade and will not allow anything to dent his good image. Acoording to our source, he will get back to them at the right time. Comrade Adekunle Samson is an indigen of Ode-Omu in Osun west senatorial district of Osun state. He is a graduate of Electronics with Physics from The Polytechnich Ibadan. When he was in school at Ibadan, he was a promoter and one of the first film and music promoters at the time along with Wemimo Promotions and Marvin Giwa promotion. While Marvin Giwa produced Obesere record first albul, Famous pomotion of Comrade Samson was responsible for his promotion. He takes Obesere to schools and towns to perform then. After his youth service in 1995, he worked with a Telecom company in Ilorin, Femtronics co. Ltd. and later crossed to Adebest Telecoms and in December 1996, Bayola Computers secured his service on a one year contract as a consultant. November 1997 he started his own company ASTCOM & BISI TECHNOLOGIES. Today, Comrade Adekunle Samson is the Director of Astcom & Bisi technologies and Famous Promotion and Hotel Management Consultant. Famous Promotion and Hotel Management Consultant is really making waves in Kwara and Osun State. The State chairman of Labour party in Osun state is seriously working hard to get this comrade accept their offer because of his political antecedent in Kwara and Osun State. Comrade Adekunle Samson is also the brain behind The Professonals magazine.

PROGRESSIVE COMMUNICATION AND THE DEFENSE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE.

PROGRESSIVE COMMUNICATION AND THE DEFENSE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE.

In the face of this stiff opposition came the army of young minds who could see through the impact of the new initiatives and were up to defend it against the venom of those poised to frustrate them… there are different organisations of young men and women forming themselves into progressive communication pressure groups in other places, convinced now that their voices must be strident, amplifying and strong enough to drown the rantings of the opposition. As a postgraduate student some years back, I chose to do a thesis on ‘Politics and the New Media’. That decision was inspired by what I envisioned was going to be a boom in new communication with the burgeoning fortunes of telephony in Nigeria and the rest of Africa. With the advent of the Global System of Mobile Communication (GSM) and the growing availability of internet facilities across our continent, I had no doubt that the future of politics was going to be determined and shaped by a wider scope of communicative culture, where restrictions, controls and censorships, as they were known, would become tall orders. I knew certainly that with telephones and internet compatible devices in citizens’ hands, so many conventions and norms would changed, especially in political communications. I was also confident that public opinion would no longer be monopolised and manipulated by the few aristocratic and elitist media owners. I also knew that a time was coming when even campaign funds would be raised and spent through communications technology. Obviously, no time in history has communication been so democratised than now. Voices no longer exclusively belong to the affluent who can buy airtime, pay for ample spaces in the print media and possess massive resources to toss the minds of the masses; swinging them in whatever direction that suited their elite whim at each particular occasion. The people can now tell their own stories! A government that is not conscious of the people’s mandate runs the risks of instant judgment. And in equal terms and quantities, a government that is well at home with the people’s mandate could measure the backing of the people through the ceaseless communication that tells the stories of its successes and groundbreaking attainments. Researchers in political communication must by now be conscious of an emerging trend of the progressive culture and its communication strategies that is well rooted in Osun, South-West region of Nigeria. As a case study, the emergence of what was initially a ‘ragtag’ group of scattered, zealous, young men, who simply noticed that there was a clear departure from the old order in governance and democratic norms, began to morph into a concise army of an highly organised youth group in defence of good governance. Those who have followed the Osun political space since the inception of the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola administration would have no qualms coming to the conclusion that it is a government that prides itself as “unusual” readily and, willy-nilly, puts itself up against all the arrows. Many might not have taken cognisance of the import of the swearing-in-day declaration by Governor Rauf Aregbesola on November 27, 2010 when he paused to announce that he would not follow the norms; he would break ‘rules’; and definitely upset the apples cart to achieve human development, the reason for his political adventure to Osun in the first instance. In an environment where political gladiators are only known to be gifted with highfallutin, grandiose speeches full of promises, it could not have been a surprise that most people didn’t take Aregbesola too serious with his promises then. Beyond the allure of demagoguery, how many campaigners keep their words anyway? Aregbesola has kept his. By the middle of 2011, about seven months into his first term, it was becoming clearer to those who never took much notice of the November 27, 2010 ‘threat’ that the governor meant every word in his promise to run an unusual government. By that time, the stage was already set for a new direction in education in the State. Also, with the conviction that the State needed a fresh face to attract new fortunes, a new brand was to be built in line with the new desires for the state. From these two components of the “unusualness” alone, Aregbesola’s had stirred the hornet’s nest, causing ripples that were never known in the history of the State since its creation. But the ripples were for the good! The adoption of the sobriquet, ‘Ipinle Omoluabi’ (State of the Virtuous); dumping the toga of the ‘State of the Living Spring’; a new flag; a new crest, garnished with an anthem, were to bring the State to confront a huge deluge of criticisms, ranging from the allegations of a secession plot, to the raising and training of militia to confront Nigeria. While the fire of that was raging with ferocious fervour, the assault on the rot in the education sector began with the re-classification of schools into the Elementary, Middle and High Schools. That necessarily culminated in the movements of students from some schools to other,s with all the attendant logistic issues. But those who were in a haste to abort the pregnancy of these ideas did not have the patience to wait to see whether the delivery would bring blessings or curses. In addition to these reforms and many others that the Aregbesola administration determinedly brought forward, it was obvious that the state would be the centre of all attractions, especially given the eagerness of the opportunistic opposition to bring down the administration and return it to reckoning. This was further compounded by the existence of a populace that was tied to the old order and too rigid to explore new possibilities. In the face of this stiff opposition came the army of young minds who could see through the impact of the new initiatives and were up to defend it against the venom of those poised to frustrate them. As in many templates that have been adopted in other places and even by the federal government, I am of no doubt that there are different organisations of young men and women forming themselves into progressive communication pressure groups in other places, convinced now that their voices must be strident, amplifying and strong enough to drown the rantings of the opposition. In a way, the emergence of the Progressive E-Group in Osun further amplifies the strategic youth engagement of the Aregbesola administration in reforming the minds of young men and women and making them find fulfillment in befitting and gratifying ventures, rather than the destructive and demeaning engagements that the youth think are the last options in some other places. Had the environment under the Aregbesola administration not been conducive and encouraging, couldn’t these energetic men and women who have taken it upon themselves to defend good governance today be found as militants, kidnapers, fraudsters, prostitutes, armed robbers and other promoters social vices? But there is an established trend of progressive youth engagement in as illustrated by the creation of the Osun Youths Empowerment Scheme (OYES), Osun Rural Enterprises and Agriculture Programme (OREAP), the training of young farmers in Germany to acquire modern technologies in farming, the capacity building for young technicians in the repair and maintenance of communication devices such as laptops, telephone handsets, iPads, under the OYESTECH Scheme, etc. Members of the Progressive E-Group in Osun and other allies find their voices through the fresh capacities and power offered by the social media to say that these (the Aregbesola ways) are the ways to go. If anything, the Facebooking and tweeting generation in Osun has rescued the State from what could have been an invasion by the anti-progress elements and elites. Of course, it is a reality that these elites would always rise up against such people-oriented governance simply because it erodes their hitherto unchallenged monopoly and manipulation of the people to keep them down, while trampled upon. In clear terms, the communication technologies that the electorate live with every day of their lives also offer them the power, just as their votes do, to remove bad governments and support good ones. The power, from all indications now, lies with the people.

FOR POLITICAL LIBERATION, THERE MUST BE A POLITICAL REVOLUTION.

FOR POLITICAL LIBERATION, THERE MUST BE A POLITICAL REVOLUTION. By Adekunle Samson Olumide

After the party marger that produced APC, the clamour for change was the most popular song on the lips of every Nigerians both old and young irrespective of their tribe and religion. After the first political coup that produces the postponement of the election from February to march, many believed that the change might not come again. But on March 28th, Nigerians voted en mass for change although there were little hitches like killings in Rivers, overage voting in the North and many others but the most terrific of it all was the Orubebe saga which nearly blew up the nations unity but for the calmness of Prof. Attairu Jega. And come May 29th, the change came and Buhari sworn in as Nigeria President. During the national assembly election, there was another twist of change where leaders of parties were betrayed and personal political interest manifested. Since after the inauguration of the national assembly, there has been allegations and counter allegations while the opposition party were claiming victory . And up to date the real change Nigerians clamour has not come. there has been economic backdropping and lots of political killings. Rubbery, kidnapping and gruesome killing has increased. Yes, Buhari was sick for many months and when he came back things started getting worse. All we hear today is political war. And presently we have political transfer market where political party lobby politicians to join them in order to have a strong political team to fight the reigning champion. Looking at all these you realise that they all are not fighting the interest of the masses but fighting for political relevance. Taking a critical look at the whole saga of getting the change, you will agree with me that it is high time we have POLITICAL LIBERATION in Nigeria where money, power influence and god fatherism will not determine our choice of leadership. A Nigeria where there will be no treat or intimidation in the name of election. A Nigeria where money will not dictate who win in an election. A Nigeria where an independent candidate can contest and win election. A Nigeria where there will be no treat to lives and property. Nigerians, for all these to be achieved, we need a political revolution. A political revolution where Nigerians will shun money and vote for candidate of their choice. A political revolution where power will not play in our choice of candidate. A political revolution where political party full of lies and deceit will not have their way. A political revolution where women can contest freely without fear of intimidation and gender disparity. A political revolution where Nigerians will be free to make the choice of their own. A POLITICAL REVOLUTION, THAT'S WHAT WE NEED FOR A POLITICAL LIBERATION. God bless Nigeria. FOR POLITICAL LIBERATION, THERE MUST BE A POLITICAL REVOLUTION. By Adekunle Samson Olumide After the party marger that produced APC, the clamour for change was the most popular song on the lips of every Nigerians both old and young irrespective of their tribe and religion. After the first political coup that produces the postponement of the election from February to march, many believed that the change might not come again. But on March 28th, Nigerians voted en mass for change although there were little hitches like killings in Rivers, overage voting in the North and many others but the most terrific of it all was the Orubebe saga which nearly blew up the nations unity but for the calmness of Prof. Attairu Jega. And come May 29th, the change came and Buhari sworn in as Nigeria President. During the recently concluded national assembly election, there was another twist of change where leaders of parties were betrayed and personal political interest manifested. Since after the inauguration of the national assembly, there has been allegations and counter allegations while the opposition party were claiming victory . Taking a critical look at the whole saga of getting the change, you will agree with me that it is high time we have political liberation in Nigeria where money, power influence and god father ism will not determine our choice of leadership. A Nigeria where there will be no treat or intimidation in the name of election. A Nigeria where money will not dictate who win in an election. A Nigeria where an independent candidate can contest and win election. A Nigeria where there be no treat to lives and property. Nigerians, for all these to be achieved, we need a political revolution. A political revolution where nigerians will shun money and vote for candidate of their choice. A political revolution where power will not play in our choice of candidate. A political revolution where political party full of lies and deceit will not have their way. A political revolution where women can contest freely without fear of intimidation and gender disparity. A political revolution where Nigerians will be free to make the choice of their own. A POLITICAL REVOLUTION, THAT'S WHAT WE NEED FOR A POLITICAL LIBERATION. God bless Nigeria.

2019 GENERAL ELECTION IN VIEW

The Professionals Published by Adekunle Samson Olumide · July 22 at 11:28 AM · PROGRESSIVE COMMUNICATION AND THE DEFENSE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE. In the face of this stiff opposition came the army of young minds who could see through the impact of the new initiatives and were up to defend it against the venom of those poised to frustrate them… there are different organisations of young men and women forming themselves into progressive communication pressure groups in other places, convinced now that their voices must be strident, amplifying and strong enough to drown the rantings of the opposition. As a postgraduate student some years back, I chose to do a thesis on ‘Politics and the New Media’. That decision was inspired by what I envisioned was going to be a boom in new communication with the burgeoning fortunes of telephony in Nigeria and the rest of Africa. With the advent of the Global System of Mobile Communication (GSM) and the growing availability of internet facilities across our continent, I had no doubt that the future of politics was going to be determined and shaped by a wider scope of communicative culture, where restrictions, controls and censorships, as they were known, would become tall orders. I knew certainly that with telephones and internet compatible devices in citizens’ hands, so many conventions and norms would changed, especially in political communications. I was also confident that public opinion would no longer be monopolised and manipulated by the few aristocratic and elitist media owners. I also knew that a time was coming when even campaign funds would be raised and spent through communications technology. Obviously, no time in history has communication been so democratised than now. Voices no longer exclusively belong to the affluent who can buy airtime, pay for ample spaces in the print media and possess massive resources to toss the minds of the masses; swinging them in whatever direction that suited their elite whim at each particular occasion. The people can now tell their own stories! A government that is not conscious of the people’s mandate runs the risks of instant judgment. And in equal terms and quantities, a government that is well at home with the people’s mandate could measure the backing of the people through the ceaseless communication that tells the stories of its successes and groundbreaking attainments. Researchers in political communication must by now be conscious of an emerging trend of the progressive culture and its communication strategies that is well rooted in Osun, South-West region of Nigeria. As a case study, the emergence of what was initially a ‘ragtag’ group of scattered, zealous, young men, who simply noticed that there was a clear departure from the old order in governance and democratic norms, began to morph into a concise army of an highly organised youth group in defence of good governance. Those who have followed the Osun political space since the inception of the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola administration would have no qualms coming to the conclusion that it is a government that prides itself as “unusual” readily and, willy-nilly, puts itself up against all the arrows. Many might not have taken cognisance of the import of the swearing-in-day declaration by Governor Rauf Aregbesola on November 27, 2010 when he paused to announce that he would not follow the norms; he would break ‘rules’; and definitely upset the apples cart to achieve human development, the reason for his political adventure to Osun in the first instance. In an environment where political gladiators are only known to be gifted with highfallutin, grandiose speeches full of promises, it could not have been a surprise that most people didn’t take Aregbesola too serious with his promises then. Beyond the allure of demagoguery, how many campaigners keep their words anyway? Aregbesola has kept his. By the middle of 2011, about seven months into his first term, it was becoming clearer to those who never took much notice of the November 27, 2010 ‘threat’ that the governor meant every word in his promise to run an unusual government. By that time, the stage was already set for a new direction in education in the State. Also, with the conviction that the State needed a fresh face to attract new fortunes, a new brand was to be built in line with the new desires for the state. From these two components of the “unusualness” alone, Aregbesola’s had stirred the hornet’s nest, causing ripples that were never known in the history of the State since its creation. But the ripples were for the good! The adoption of the sobriquet, ‘Ipinle Omoluabi’ (State of the Virtuous); dumping the toga of the ‘State of the Living Spring’; a new flag; a new crest, garnished with an anthem, were to bring the State to confront a huge deluge of criticisms, ranging from the allegations of a secession plot, to the raising and training of militia to confront Nigeria. While the fire of that was raging with ferocious fervour, the assault on the rot in the education sector began with the re-classification of schools into the Elementary, Middle and High Schools. That necessarily culminated in the movements of students from some schools to other,s with all the attendant logistic issues. But those who were in a haste to abort the pregnancy of these ideas did not have the patience to wait to see whether the delivery would bring blessings or curses. In addition to these reforms and many others that the Aregbesola administration determinedly brought forward, it was obvious that the state would be the centre of all attractions, especially given the eagerness of the opportunistic opposition to bring down the administration and return it to reckoning. This was further compounded by the existence of a populace that was tied to the old order and too rigid to explore new possibilities. In the face of this stiff opposition came the army of young minds who could see through the impact of the new initiatives and were up to defend it against the venom of those poised to frustrate them. As in many templates that have been adopted in other places and even by the federal government, I am of no doubt that there are different organisations of young men and women forming themselves into progressive communication pressure groups in other places, convinced now that their voices must be strident, amplifying and strong enough to drown the rantings of the opposition. In a way, the emergence of the Progressive E-Group in Osun further amplifies the strategic youth engagement of the Aregbesola administration in reforming the minds of young men and women and making them find fulfillment in befitting and gratifying ventures, rather than the destructive and demeaning engagements that the youth think are the last options in some other places. Had the environment under the Aregbesola administration not been conducive and encouraging, couldn’t these energetic men and women who have taken it upon themselves to defend good governance today be found as militants, kidnapers, fraudsters, prostitutes, armed robbers and other promoters social vices? But there is an established trend of progressive youth engagement in as illustrated by the creation of the Osun Youths Empowerment Scheme (OYES), Osun Rural Enterprises and Agriculture Programme (OREAP), the training of young farmers in Germany to acquire modern technologies in farming, the capacity building for young technicians in the repair and maintenance of communication devices such as laptops, telephone handsets, iPads, under the OYESTECH Scheme, etc. Members of the Progressive E-Group in Osun and other allies find their voices through the fresh capacities and power offered by the social media to say that these (the Aregbesola ways) are the ways to go. If anything, the Facebooking and tweeting generation in Osun has rescued the State from what could have been an invasion by the anti-progress elements and elites. Of course, it is a reality that these elites would always rise up against such people-oriented governance simply because it erodes their hitherto unchallenged monopoly and manipulation of the people to keep them down, while trampled upon. In clear terms, the communication technologies that the electorate live with every day of their lives also offer them the power, just as their votes do, to remove bad governments and support good ones. The power, from all indications now, lies with the people.