Joshua King's Free Press

“If it isn’t broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms. Collin Powel, former U.S. Secretary of Defense. But why should anyone try to fix what isn’t broke? Anyone who does has noticed some bit of inefficiency with the current machine and wants an improvement or like one writer said, the person must be trying to louse things up. Whichever case, this system needs an urgent fixing and that fixing time is now. Just what is broke here that needs fixing? One needs not be a stargazer to see that the four year tenure has brought nothing but a system of perpetuating incompetent persons and parties in power and returning their cronies soon afterward, leaving the people worse off than they could ever hope for. Imagine a scenario where a governor gets elected and begins to receive felicitations for a period of no less than two months and then proceeds to read newspaper congratulatory messages for...

On the 16th of April last year, millions of Nigerians made a mistake. They voted Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan president of Africa’s most populous country Nigeria. It has become a mistake as each day his leadership has shown remarkable cluelessness and a lack of grasp of the issues. His handling of the controversial fuel price hike which began as a surprise on January 1, 2012 is a good example. Mistakes should not be without reasonable remedy however. One of the first lessons yours truly learnt in word processing is undoing. It simply means reverting to a previous state if the outcome of an action is undesired. Prudence requires one to make haste slowly but even very prudent people make mistakes by commission or omission hence the need for correction. We have spell checks for a reason. There is an outbreak of illness in a Banana community and the illness is Typhoid fever. A fever cause by bacteria: Salmonella Typhi inhabiting the intestines. The doctor in charge in Community Hospital...

Before this piece was written, I had previously subscribed in error to government's position on deregulation. I was of the view that to avoid subsidy (a government responsibility), refineries should be built (a task the govt refused). I was misled to believe that there was subsidy and that it arose because we do not refine enough to meet local demand. I have since found otherwise from authoritative experts who know and have have challenged our president to debates. “The government claims we are currently operating our refineries at 38.2% efficiency. When we refine a barrel of crude oil, we get more than just petrol. If we refine 1 barrel (42 gallons) of crude oil, we will get 45 gallons of petroleum products. The 45 gallons of petroleum products consist of 4 gallons of LPG, 19.5 gallons of Gasoline, 10 gallons of Diesel, 4 gallons of Jet Fuel/Kerosene, 2.5 gallons of Fuel Oil and 5 gallons of Bottoms. Thus, at 38.2% of refining capacity, we have about 170000 bbls of throughput r...