JOURNALISM

JOURNALISM
By Ifeanyi Chijioke
(For Family Writers)

I must confess how much I love vanguard newspaper, the fairness I saw of recent and their passionate and balanced judgment. The fairness surfaced after radio Biafra director criticized their dormant journalism, where gossiping journalism was chosen over investigative journalism. I am not here to fight vanguard newspaper I am simply here to by means of constructive criticism and argument get the best out of vanguard which defines my love for vanguard. I will not dwell much on my preamble as I am ready to hit the hammer on the cap of the nail. I woke up in the morning to gladly visit vanguard online and saw an article headline by Mr. Ugoji Egbujo, as a lover of freedom when I saw Nnamdi Kanu on the headline I decided to read and cherish the article. I was first unable to cope with the vocabularies as I wondered if this article is really for the public, Nigeria with poor education or no standard school and numerous graduates that can't make a grammatical error free sentence, how will the entire public understand the message this attacker is conveying on his idea-deficiency and irrational article.

Writing to the public has a pattern, you must limit vocabularies and use simple and better English, you don't come and flaunt big English words because you have irrational article. This brings us close to what journalism is all about in Nigeria, they journalists fail to be constructive in their articles and chief editor approving such article sums it up that really it's all about brown envelope journalism. I could not finish reading the article because I have already known where his 5th hand bus will clash. So I will sum up Ugoji Egbujo's trash and lecture him as a Biafran who is not a product of the zoo's poor education. Let me start first by reminding him why I hold it firm that Nigeria is a zoo, zoo is a place where animals are kept and one feature of such place is lawlessness, a place without law is a zoo.

The zoological feature yet was evident when a competent court of law ordered the bail of Nnamdi Kanu and the lion king of the forest refused because he would rip other animals apart if he is questioned.
Ugoji Egbujo cited a lot of things that showed his anger at the attempt to restoring Biafra and poured down heavily on Radio Biafra. He forgot that Nigeria is uncivilized place where people don't reason but submit to hard or fierce approach  even though he Ugoji Egbujo felt pained at the words of Nnamdi Kanu, he cannot dispute the fact that Nnamdi kanu morally disciplined Biafrans and made them to be law abiding than he made his family. There is no usual kidnapping or gun shoot-out with Nigerian police force since Nnamdi Kanu started championing the restoration of Biafra.

This is a man that simply said if Nigeria fails to be civil by not resisting the peaceful restoration of Biafra then he would go to war with Nigeria. War is entirely a different thing he deems not yet ripe though he is prepared and warned of it should Nigeria fail to be civil like other countries. Ugoji Egbujo is so blind that he doesn't know Nnamdi Kanu is allergic to Nigerian politics that is symbol of corruption. It’s laughable that Nnamdi Kanu gave his likes opportunity to debate him live on air over his ideology but he Ugoji coiled in his shell and now Nnamdi Kanu is paying the price of freedom he left his shell to rant. Instead of fighting Donald Trump who for his type of character said Africans are lazy fools and only good in lovemaking, rather he chose to attack certified Biafran leader who fights a just course to end marginalization of Biafrans, killing, humiliation and disgraceful deportation of Biafrans. When Radio Biafra trends as number one on tune in it automatically means more people die to listen to the teaching of Nnamdi kanu than any radio station on earth. If he tries to tell us that Nnamdi Kanu lacks knowledge or taste, then he sets the world against himself.

Ugoji makes mockery of education in the contraption called Nigeria when in his article he said Biafrans now have a God. Chiukwuokikeabiama is the name of heavenly father in Igbo language which is the dominant language in Biafra land. To kill inferiority complex did we decide to call heavenly father by the name we know him and others may follow like they followed Britain via God. Finally, I will urge Ugoji to wait and debate the ideas contained in his article with Nnamdi Kanu as soon as he joins us. I respect his boldness to try antagonism but doing it when he is supposed to be fighting the lawlessness in Nigeria defines a polished baboon journalist called Nigerian journalist.