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How match commissioner dies in Kano after game
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he match commissioner for Sunday’s Nigeria league match between Kano Pillars and Ikorodu United, Tanko Nuhu, is dead. Nuhu from Nasarawa State, who lives in Abuja with his family, was found dead in his hotel room yesterday. Pillars spokesman Idris Malikawa confirmed the match official’s death. “He was found dead in his hotel room this morning (Monday) when all efforts for him to open his room door proved abortive,” said Malikawa. “It is really tragic because he was hail and hearty on Sunday night.” Malikawa further disclosed Dr Sani Zakari of the Murtala Muhammad Hospital in Kano confirmed the death as natural and drugs against hypertension were found in his room. Hosts Pillars beat Ikorodu United 2-1 in a Nigeria league Week 15 clash on Sunday.
Cameroon goalkeeper dies during warm-up session
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he goalkeeper of a Cameroonian women’s side has died after collapsing during a warm-up session, the Cameroon Football Federation has said. Jeanine Christelle Djomnang, 26, became ill before a Femina Stars Ebolowa match in southern Cameroon on Sunday, and died on her way to hospital. The federation says initial reports suggest she died of a heart attack but it is now awaiting a medical report. It comes days after Cameroon player Patrick Ekeng died in Romania. Djomnang complained of chest pains as she prepared to take on Louves MINPROFF Yaounde in the Cameroon elite league and was taken to hospital. Cameroon’s African Women Footballer of the Year Gaelle Enganamouit, who now plays in Sweden, was one of the first to react to the news.
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‘Still On The New Economy’ In the week President Buhari appointed his Cabinet, I wrote the title ‘The New Economy’. Theorising on the hope for a radical departure from PDP’s ‘conquer and despoil’ to a new evangel of economic probity under the righteous superintendence of a Buhari. This I serve you again this week. Happy reading. THE NEW ECONOMY By Mohammed Adamu
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ery soon, it may no longer be the economy that will be ‘defying all logic’. Apologies to IBB –whose once ‘logic-defying economy’ amazed its tactless managers for the bizarre reason, as he claimed, that it refused to collapse in spite of so much plundering. But I believe that soon, managers of our ‘new economy’ – the ‘Buhari economy’-will be the ones to defy the old ‘il-logic’ –or should I say that warped ‘logic’ that our economy is like the proverbial chamomile-grass which the more it is trodden upon, the faster it grows. Nothing can be more farcical; and nothing more ludicrous. This kind of economic fallacy -especially under the superintendence of the plagued despoiler himself, Jonathan, did make disciples even of the poor who naively believed in the possibility of ‘growth without development’, or wealth-creation in the midst of brazen extravagance. Under Jonathan the very poor who bore the brunt of economic mismanagement were the same gong-bearers who celebrated cooked figures from global financial institutions who unconscionably validated ravaged and despoiled economies using variables totally extraneous to the living conditions of the people. Ratings without regards to the human development index. This idea that the health of economies should fashionably be proved not by growth or human development but merely by the dubious certification of global financial institutions, in fact in our own case under Jonathan, engendered a false sense of ecstasy among the poor. And in fact the import of maverick musician Fela’s number ‘suffering and smiling’, was not only poignantly demonstrated in a people celebrating their impoverishment, Jonathan’s rebasing of the economy gave fillip to the mania of our insatiable economic philanderers to steal even more. The last time Jonathan caused our economy to be so-called ‘rebased’ to the tops of Africa, he did not even have a modicum of blush that people might say it was because
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dankande2@gmail.com elections were just by the corner. And we were expected to jump and scream to high heaven until South Africa which they said we had suddenly displaced, would turn deep green with envy! And then we were to troop to the polls to endorse the very marauders and bandits pillaging our economy! “Logical consequences” T. H. Huxley said “are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men”. The Jonathan economic logic had truly beaten our imagination silly! No economy has been as flatly prostrate for years run on the warped illogic that gross mismanagement will necessarily translate to economic prosperity; or that looting the coffers of state will ultimately lead to economic growth. Truth is every economy possesses the quality of ‘youth’, which as you know the more it is wasted the faster ‘youth’ wears. Our economy by the way has not only suffered extreme ‘wear and tear’ for 16 years of PDP, it has in fact been brought to a standstill by the thieving talons of Jonathan. And now that Buhari is gradually unfastening and replacing worn and torn parts, enemies of progress have been waxing cynical about the meticulousness of a man whose good motives they have failed to assail. Now unlike the wasteful economic managers of old, there are positive signs that managers of the Buhari economy will be diligent respecters both of established orthodoxy and most importantly even, of quite newfangled other forms of the subject. We need ‘humanistic economics’, a brand of socio-economics with a leaning more to the theodicy of compassion for the masses than strictly to the textual theories of unconscionable capitalism -which attends to caprices of a few. Human development yardstick must be the veritable measure of economic development; and wealth should not be evidenced by the quantum of glorified, jet-owning nouveau riches undeservedly fattened from the fats of the land. It should be evidenced by the diversity of opportunities available to the people to eke a living. Managing the economy with the ‘milk of human kindness’ belongs not to the realm of economic theory
but to the estate of socio-economic morality which creates genuine foreboding for the rage and wrath of higher forces. We are a so-called believing nation, but we have always been too secularly motivated in the running of our socio-economic affairs that we fail to realize that ‘law and logic’ alone will not suffice to keep especially our politicians beholden to the oath of office they have sworn. The new economy –the Buhari economy- will need managers as much with the grit of academic theory as with the gumption of moral probity to tend to the vineyard that feedeth us all. Our Ivy leagued economic experts trained in, and fed from the doctrinaire fountain of fiscal and monetary policies, rather than get us out of the woods, have taken us deeper into denser forests. From the famed prodigy and the intellectual virtuosity of Finance Ministers and economic Advisers, it has been talk-shops of policies and counter policies, movements without motion and dynamism without activity! From Aboyade, Falae, Aluko to Okonjo Iweala, nothing but misery after misery! Our awful yesterday always better than the dreadful day after. IBB’s economy was reputed to be so inexplicably absorbent, it took so much filth but would not buckle. And because he could not explicate the enigma, Babangida thought the economy was in ‘defiance’ of the very ‘logic’ in which its doom was interlocked. But the truth was the IBB economy –before the historic ‘stepaside’, was headed as much for the cliff-end as Jonathan’s was for the precipice before Buhari took over! Economies, no matter how belligerent they seem, do not ‘defy’ the very ‘logic’ by which they are predestined to thrive or to fail. Nonetheless if the economy bequeathed by Jonathan is unprecedentedly terrible, it is met in like manner, by a man of unprecedentedly terrific character, Buhari. We have seen that in the search for the best managers, Buhari was circumspect to the realm of judiciousness; thorough to a methodical point and painstaking to the height of religiosity! Besides he has proved he has
neither patience for patronage nor a giddy head for vainglory. Buhari does what Buhari has to do not minding whose ox will be gored! He seems demure and languid but can be vivacious and effervescent; he appears stubborn yet he is without obstinacy, he is strict but without severity, rigid but not inflexible, prudent, not shrewd, and above all as Shakespeare would say, Buhari, although he is ’strange’ he is totally without ‘heresy’! Epilogue And now with a bit of irony, Buhari, a man unlettered in the rudiments of economics; trained only in the doctrines of warfare is about to be the Joseph of our long and tortuous economic odyssey. He is about to be both the Moses to take us out of austere Egypt and the Joseph to bring us to the lush Eden of the promised land. In essence this is what the new opposition loathes the most: that it is up against an incorrigibly righteous man; a man of absolute sobriety and clear-headedness; one unequaled in self-discipline; honest, sincere and modest to a blushing point. This is the problem of PDP. They fear that a novice will fix the economy. But the deed is already done: where those trained to manage the economy could not curb their greed and get their expertise on top of it, a man un-trained in the ways of economists, is riding on the chariot of righteousness to put his integrity on top of it. The ‘new economy’ when it begins to blossom, let it not be said that it is the product of the genius of ‘experts’ from the World Bank; but let it be said that it is a product of the prodigy of a sincere soldier, a novice to the arena of democracy, a freshman in the field of politics and yet a layman in the domain of economics! To him belongs the ‘new economy’!
DAN GAYE
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