Press Releases

On Saturday 14 July 2012, the 15th Annual Professor Wole Soyinka Lecture series took place at the London South Bank University.

As peoples all over the world of the Christian persuasion, celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ on the 25th of December 2011, Nigeria was once again subjected to a series of bomb explosions targeted at worship centres from Niger through Plateau, to Yobe States.

It has come to the attention of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SEADOGS a.k.a. PYRATES CONFRATERNITY (hereinafter called NAS) that certain mimic upstarts or pseudo groups in the Nigerian tertiary institutions and in some cases secondary institutions especially the Universities, Colleges of Technology, Colleges of Education etc have been parading themselves as members of NAS and initiating children and members of the public into their fold in the guise of initiating them into NAS.

IMPLICATIONS ON THE POLITY

The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) has observed with grave concern the current state of insecurity in the country. We are worried that this dangerous trend is gradually assuming a new dimension with the spate of bombings in some parts of the country including the Nation’s capital. We therefore call for urgent increased intervention by the government and relevant stakeholders.

In April 2011, Nigerians will return to the polls to elect a new set of leaders to pilot the affairs of the nation for another four years. Our politicians, always with a penchant for the spectacular, are already strutting the political landscape, trying to out-do one another with intimidating messages through various channels including posters, giant billboards, fanciful T-shirts and radio/TV jingles. One major political party has even thrown the retrogressive and anachronistic concept of zoning into the fray thus making the whole scenario quite interesting. The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) has on its part been watching these scenarios with keen interest and concern.

The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) unequivocally condemns the dastardly bomb blast that claimed the lives of several innocent Nigerians and friends of Nigeria in Abuja on Nigeria’s 50th Independence Anniversary on Friday the 1st of October,2010.

We express our profound condolences to the families of those who were killed in this unfortunate and ugly incident that occurred on an historic day when our nation was celebrating her Golden jubilee.

On 1st October 2010, Nigeria marks its 50th Anniversary as an independent and Sovereign Nation. A Golden Jubilee, is a milestone in the life of an individual or a nation, and typically calls for celebration. This therefore, explains the flush of enthusiasm in the build up to this year's Independence Day Anniversary. Our political leaders have rolled out drums across the Federation for an elaborate and lavish Celebration.

The National Association of Seadogs just like many concerned Nigerians is dismayed to note that despite the very trying economic circumstances the country is going through, the National Assembly could go ahead, without a hint of consideration for the plight of the ordinary citizen, to increase arbitrarily, the salaries of its members. The speed and dispatch deployed by both houses of the National Assembly in endorsing this anomaly goes to show how desperate and to what extent our politicians could go in a bid to amass wealth at the expense of taxpayers.