Böcker av Daminabo Sonny Briggs

How to fight Corruption in Nigeria is a special gift to Nigeria on her 50th Independence Anniversary from a very concerned patriot. Undoubtedly, corruption is the bane of our socio-economic development. It has become a cancer that has eaten deep into the very fabric of our society with the attendant dislocation of our values, contributing to our gross underdevelopment, excruciating poverty, insecurity and 'do or die' politics. It is ironic that a country that is world's eight producer of crude oil, with an average production rate of 2 million barrels of Oil per day, is one of the poorest countries in the world. Therefore any attempt to find genuine solution to the pervading corruption in Nigeria is highly commendable. This is what this book is set out to achieve: to reduce corruption to the barest minimum, change our mindset for good and re-gain our lost glory in the comity of nations!

This book makes a bold attempt at highlighting the societal ills prevalent in the third world countries. It also attempts to proffer solutions to the numerous problems confronting the masses: massive corruption, armed robbery, cultism, suppression and oppression, marginalization, ethnic cleansing, abuse of human rights and man's inhumanity to man. Above all, the book advocates dialogue as a strategy to achieving lasting peace and justice.

This book is a critical reflection of the nature of God.We often say God is awesome, God is wonderful. True, but the full extent of awesomeness and wonderfulness of God cannot be completely comprehended by the human mind. The best we can achieve in this regard is to observe snippets of such through His diverse manifestations.Basically, we can achieve this through the routes: looking inwards and outwards. We do not need to go far, looking inwards. We just turn the searchlight on ourselves, applying the maxim 'KNOW THYSELF'. The human body is composed of trillions of cells, just like the stars, grouped into tissues and organs. The organizational harmony that culminates in a functional whole (man), with input of the soul, is part of the manifestations of God.Looking outward, the extent of the observable Universe, which is a subset of the whole Universe, gives insight to the manifold manifestations of God as presented in this book.

King Sibikuro devises a stratagem for siphoning his country's treasury to enrich his Kingmakers and himself. Soon they become multi-millionaires, in contrast to the citizenry who Wallow in abject penury. Worse hit is the Oil-rich Ofirima Region, one of the six Regions of Nameria, which is grossly underdeveloped. The people can no longer bear the hardship. They react violently. King Sibikuro responds by systematically eliminating his perceived opponents, including some members of his cabinet. In the ensuing revolt, Minabo, one of the dissenting Kingmakers emerges champion of the struggle for the birth of a new Nameria Republic. But the victory goes to King Sibikuro in a heavily doctored election. But the people say they've had enough of Sibikuro...

A Potpourri of poems is an omni-gatherum of varied poetic thoughts traversing the mundane and the philosophical. Its rich thematic spread, couched in deceptive prosaic simplicity, though not pedestrian, soars through the terrestrial and the extra-terrestrial in imagery and allusions, both classical and contemporary...