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Before Nigerians will be treated to the true account of President Bola Tinubu’s journey in the United States, following the decision by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation—FBI, to release information about him in its database, it will be very important for him to tender his resignation and apologize to Nigerians for presenting a
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Introduction In a world far from ideal, the choices we face in politics are sometimes stark and unenviable. Democracy demands that we, the people, make decisions that shape our collective destiny, and at times, we find ourselves at a crossroads, asked to choose between candidates with glaring flaws. Today, we delve into the thorny terrain
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Kiev is concerned it will not be able to pay its civil servants in November if the US stops sending money, the outlet has reported The Ukrainian government could face a shortage of money and be unable to pay salaries if the US Congress fails to approve another injection of funds into the Ukrainian economy,
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US officials have warned lawmakers that budget restrictions may hamper both the US and Ukrainian militaries The Pentagon has warned Congress that it does not have adequate funds to replace weapons sent to Ukraine, prompting concerns about Washington’s ability to adequately resupply its own troops, Associated Press reported on Monday. In a letter sent to
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The Republican is the first holder of the office to be voted out by his peers in the institution’s 234-year history The US House of Representatives voted 216 to 210 on Tuesday to oust California Republican Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker. Throughout his short tenure, McCarthy has faced persistent opposition from the right for compromising
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The first-of-a-kind dethroning of a US House speaker shows that Americans don’t want to write blank checks for Ukraine In a vote of 216-210, Republicans voted with 208 Democrats in the US House of Representatives to regime-change one of their own — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). McCarthy had tried appeasing the establishment over Ukraine
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Exactly 10 years ago today, early in the mornings of October 3rd 2013, the world woke to the gut wrenching news that a ship with over 500 migrants aboard, which had taken off from the Libyan coast city of Misrata, headed for Italian port city of Lampedusa, had capsized, with majority of the passengers feared drowned.
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With the release of his academic records by Chicago State University (CSU), the identity crisis that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has created for nearly three decades since he started his journey in public life and aspiring for political office is mercifully coming to an end. The papers that have been seen so far don’t look
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After all eyes on the Chicago judiciary, what next at the Supreme Court when fraud and forgery are reconfirmed? I awoke at 4am in Washington only to find that US District judge Maldonado had already uploaded her judgment ordering the release of Tinubu’s university records online. BVAS upload did not fail, she didn’t have to
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At the beginning, Maroko was a sub-city within Lagos. It was peaceful and very popular. The places now called Oniru Royal Estate, and some parts of Victoria Island and Lekki Phase 1 were formerly known as Maroko and it was inhabited by mainly low income earners. Over 300,000 people inhabited Maroko then. Maroko prided itself
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By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 23 November, 2020) The Fulani have many intriguing proverbs. ‘If a man says he will swallow an axe, hold the handle for him.’ That is one of the proverbs. If you want to understand the full import, then listen very well to Alhaji Buba Galadima
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First published on Facebook 9th November 2015 It is imperative that I begin by making my personal position clear on the issue of Biafra and the creation of a sovereign state for the Igbos. I must say that I am one of those who strongly believe that the long term strategic interest and wellbeing of
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Don’t follow this process below, it’s too cumbersome. It’s been done in even as little as 20 minutes before. However, you must be prepared to wake up and start the meeting by 5am – usual impeachment time that never failed. Constitutional Steps to Impeachment The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended
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The biggest conspiracy against the growth and dominance of Africa and Africans is not the work of Bill Gates, Monsanto, 5G, the Coronavirus or imperialists or colonialists. It is not a right wing conspiracy, or a left wing conspiracy, neither is it a grand plan of Israel or even the Middle East. Africa’s biggest problem
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Baroness PatriciaScotland QC,Commonwealth Secretary General,Marlborough House, Pall Mall,London SW1Y 5HY,United Kingdom October 1, 2023 RE: NIGERIA SHOULD BE SUSPENDED FROM THE COMMONWEALTH FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES & FOR EROSION OF DEMOCRATIC GAINS THROUGH A FRAUDULENT ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL. Dear Baroness Patricia Scotland QC Madam SG, I am a member of the Commonwealth. An Investigative journalist, a
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A flashback. Fellow Nigerians, the moment of truth is nigh. We are at a critical moment – another opportunity to seize back the country from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its merchants of anarchy and grotesque self-entitlement. Failure to get it right for the third time in a row will cause the entrenchment of wuruwuru anda stinking culture of
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Fellow Nigerians, let me tell you from the outset and without equivocation that I voted “against” the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the February 25th presidential election. And if the opportunity arises again, I will repeat the same thing, whether in the rain or in the scorching sun. It
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While countries around the world are increasing their military cooperation with Kenya due to its strategic location, the UK’s position is becoming precarious due to the crimes of its soldiers In August, the Kenyan government launched an inquiry into allegations of misconduct by the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK), whose soldiers have been accused
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Where witches contend and exchange punches, mere men do not stand by to watch. But part of the job of a journalist is to see and report; sometimes he runs commentaries on bouts – not minding if the pugilists are gods or principalities. There is an ongoing offshore Bola Tinubu versus Atiku Abubakar rumble-in-the-jungle, a
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Contentment is the grace to stand up from the dinning table and look away from the food tray when your belly is full. But the Nigerian public official, although filled and belching with excess, would still hide stolen meat within the corners of his mouth at a dinner, stuff fried rice into his socks, and
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Nigerians can make fun of anything. In Nigeria, there is a model of the Toyota Camry car that is derisively referred to as “BIG FOR NOTHING!” A reviewer stated that that brand of car is called “Big for Nothing” because “it is a Camry whose interior is considered unnecessarily spacious and filled with ‘nothing”. Nigeria,
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Introduction A lot has been happening in the most populous Black Country, Nigeria and the West African sub-region, even though the Covid-19 pandemic across the world seeks to hide it. A conflict started over three hundred and twenty years ago, and has continued, with occasional interregnum. During that era, the Ottoman Empire held sway large
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“Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials only our agents. We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek
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“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” — Abraham Lincoln Those who gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights believed that the government exists at the behest of its citizens. It is there to protect,
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Over the past 4 decades, there has been a major increase regarding wage inequality and unequal property ownership occurring mainly in the Western countries. This relates to the neoliberal era launched by US president Ronald Reagan (1981–89) and his ally in London, prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1979–90). Neoliberalism has in effect meant large-scale exploitation by Western elites of the
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Former president George W. Bush has returned to the spotlight to give moral guidance to America in these troubled times. In a statement released on Tuesday, Bush announced that he was “anguished” by the “brutal suffocation” of George Floyd and declared that “lasting peace in our communities requires truly equal justice. The rule of law ultimately depends on the fairness
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Initially published in 2005, posted on March 15, 2016 Author’s Note This essay is an updated version of my original piece, ‘Frauds-R-US‘, written for ‘Devastating Society’, edited by Bernd Hamm, Pluto Press, 2005. Unfortunately, due to space restrictions, I had cut down the size of this essay for the book version. WB INTRODUCTION That a
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Of relevance to an understanding of America’s insidious role in supporting Nazi Germany. This article was first published in March 2016. “A famous American family” made its fortune from the Nazis, according to John Loftus documented analysis. The Bush family links to Nazi Germany’s war economy were first brought to light at the Nuremberg trials in the
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First published on February 11, 2021. Among the Nazis’ first actions after taking power was to dismantle the German trade unions and labour power. By March 1933 the first concentration camp was erected at Dachau, soon to be followed by others, where numerous communists, socialists and other undesirables were interned. The German masses were thereafter
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US Investments in Nazi Germany. Rockefeller Financed Adolf Hitler’s Election Campaign First published in May 2016. Incisive historical analysis. Of relevance to an understanding of Nazism and the war in Ukraine From World War I to the Present: Dollar denominated debt has been the driving force behind all US led wars. Wall Street creditors are the main actors. They were firmly
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Profits über Alles! This carefully researched article by Canadian historian Dr. Jacques Pauwels was first published 19 years ago on 8 June 2004. Pauwels historical insight is of relevance to the ongoing war in Ukraine. It provides us with an understanding of the historical roots of Nazism as well as the emergence (in the wake of World War II) of contemporary forms
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The Congress has reached a compromise plan, averting a shutdown The US House of Representatives and the Senate both approved a stopgap spending bill on Saturday. The resolution keeps the government open for the next 45 days at the current spending level, and adds billions of dollars in funding for US disaster relief – but
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Nigeria is in the throes of a deep international image, domestic and regional crisis, bleeding profusely on both national and international stages. It is a nation held in disdain presently at the international stage; its economy in shambles, and its people hungry for change. Presently, a dollar is ano over a thousand naira. Even institutions
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The Buhari administration planned to set up 40 parboiled rice processing plants at the cost of $326 million, but the project was not executed because China’s Exim Bank did not release the loan for it. Each time Clever Amada, a rice farmer in Bayelsa State, needs to use the mill, he travels to neighbouring Delta
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Nigeria gained pseudo independence from British colonial rule on October 1, 1960. In 1963, it supposedly became a republic. Since then, it has been assumedly a sovereign nation with its own government with limited ability to make progress due to very bad leadership. Nigeria has faced various avoidable challenges and issues over the years, not
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I speak as a Nigerian. That it took the courageous activism of HE. Abubakar Atiku to force the discovery of information concerning the President of Nigeria is a disgrace to our national institutions. As a nation, we have a full retinue of staff at the Department of the State Security, the National Intelligence Agency, the
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Where are the heroes? Who were they? When did we grow heroes? How did we grow them? At what point in our historicity did we grow men and women who were ready to give their all for the good of all? Did we ever have such men and women in the saddle? Were those we
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Dear Chief Tinubu, The back page of your The Nation of Tuesday 12 March where one of your Rottweilers under the forged name “Segun Ibirogba” wrote “Odumakin’s anxiety over vanishing feeding-bottles” has un-paused the button on this serial. I have always wondered why these intellectual almajiris around you always attack me under fake names. It
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Tech companies are developing and deploying artificial intelligence (A.I.) systems that deceptively mimic human behavior to aggressively sell their products and services, dispense dubious medical and mental health advice, and trap people in psychologically dependent, potentially toxic relationships with machines, according to a new report from Public Citizen released today. A.I. that mimics human behavior poses a
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Forming a stable government is always a long and drawn-out process, and periods of extreme upheaval are to be expected. In Africa, there have been countless coup d’état, or government overthrows — many in recent history. The following represent 10 of the most recent and influential coups d’états in recent African history, and allows us further
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When it comes to investing in foreign countries, political instability is considered one of the leading indicators of risk. Some of the following leaders were democratically elected. Others took power in coups, only to die in subsequent coups. Dozens of countries across the globe have presidential assassinations in their histories. Countries of the African continent are no exception. The following
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Africa is renowned for having some of the longest serving presidents in the world. Some rose to power through coups while others took over from their fathers in monarchies such as Swaziland. There are also those who hold the distinction of ruling for the shortest time. Most of them ousted from power through coups, while some
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U.S. government has for years tried to steer politics in Africa. In some cases, this meddling has led to the assassinations of African leaders with the help of U.S. or Western intelligence support. Some of the stories of the assassination of African leaders by the U.S. and European powers before completing their goal for liberation
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The diploma of Nigerian President Bola A. Tinubu is now the subject of judicial proceedings here in the United States. Tinubu’s opponent, Atiku Abubakar has filed suit in the U.S. seeking clarification on its authenticity and is attempting to have the results of the election that was held in February overturned. I gotta admit. This
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It just seems like a National emergency everywhere you look. The despondency seems matched only by the desperate sense of helplessness. The curiosity about this pall of disquiet led me to put my ears to the ground. I have been navigating Whatsapp groups. Saying little but feeling the temperature and letting the Barometer gauge. Despair
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s legal team has been putting up a valiant fight to keep him from disclosing his true status and identity at Chicago State University (CSU). People are typically proud to show off their diplomas and degrees as evidence of their academic accomplishments. However, in this case, the president and his legal advisors
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Beijing has dismissed similar claims in the past Tens of thousands of messages were stolen from the US State Department in a major cyber attack earlier this summer, a Senate staffer told Politico. The hack was said to have targeted the US commerce chief and Washington’s top diplomat in China, Ambassador Nicholas Burns. State Department
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We have sold forward crude contracts so our crude is encumbered as some of the crude we haven’t produced doesn’t belong to us. We have sold forward FX contracts so some of our future FX earnings are encumbered. Essentially, some of the FX we are yet to earn does not belong to us. Under the
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“You are not Alone”: Worldwide Resistance against the mRNA “Vaccine” and Covid Fraud Yet, for most people the implications are not visible. What is the Infamous Agenda ID2020? Behind its development is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – with support of the Rockefeller Foundation – and others belonging to the sinister all-digitization, depopulation and eugenics
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Directed Energy is being weaponized. Individuals’ brains can be targeted by microwaves Incisive article by Peter Koenig first published by Global Research on June 14, 2023 DARPA Neurologist and Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program at Georgetown University, Washington DC, Dr. James Giordano, who is also a weapons expert, started his presentation at West Point NY Military
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In recent developments, Zelensky is on on official visit to the US and Canada. The nature of the Kiev regime and its links to Nazism are casually denied. At the House of Commons, Zelensky is given a standing ovation. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recognize Yaroslav Hunka, who was in
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VICTORIA ASCERTA Atiku Abubakar’s Lawyers in the United States of America prevailed at last and Justice was done. It wasn’t an easy road and the masters of Oluwole and technicalities tried to employ their full arsenal of technicalities but failed under the light of TRUE JUSTICE. The following facts are relevant to the Victory of
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• Says govt under ruling party has set Nigeria 40 years backwards Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Muhammadu Sanusi, has said the All Progressives Congress-led government has set Nigeria 40 years backwards economically. In a trailer for an interview the former Emir of Kano had with Rufai Oseni of Arise TV,
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When Ogbonnaya Ukeje died in Lagos two days after Christmas Day in 1981, Bode Rhodes-Vivour was a 30 year-old lawyer making his way up the rungs of public service in the Ministry of Justice in Lagos State. Mr. Rhodes-Vivour had been called to the Nigerian Bar a mere six years earlier, in 1975. In 1989,
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The US Navy ran into similar problems. The development of its fleet from the 1940s to the present day has also been cyclical. In the first stage – from the Korean War to the early 1970s – it was oriented towards fighting an enemy on the coast since it did not have any major rivals
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The downsizing of the US Army was accompanied by a massive reduction in weapons and equipment stocks. In America itself, the situation was not as radical as in Europe, where in some cases entire categories of military equipment disappeared. But in absolute terms, given the scale of the military, the reductions were huge – thousands
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30 years after achieving total dominance, has the Ukraine conflict exposed the limits of American power? The failure of Ukraine’s much-hyped counteroffensive – which began in June of this year and has stuttered for over three months – has by now become a universally recognized fact. It has been acknowledged not only by Russian officials,
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After Germany and Japan were vanquished in 1945, the development of the US military may be clearly divided into several cycles. The first started with the Cold War in the second half of the that decade. Up until the mid to late 1960s, it was characterized by preparations for World War III. This was imagined
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President Bola Tinubu gave our country’s Minister of Defence and Minister of State, Defence to the North; he gave the North Minister of Police Affairs and Minister of State, Police Affairs; he gave the North Minister of Education and Minister of State, Education; he gave the North Minister of Agriculture and Food Security and Minister
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The authors of the iconic book “Why Nations Fail,” Daren Acemoglu and James Robinson, stated that it is the parasitic political and economic classes that are the primary cause of why nations fail. What counts to them is what they get out of the system, not what they put into it. Nigeria has not only
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I know you will wondering who is Eddie Quansa, especially if you are among the indomie generation. He’s a legend who survived and became successful at all cost . I will like you to grab your chair and popcorn, if possible and let’s go for a sweet and smooth drive. There was a time when
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When Chief Obafemi Awolowo died in 1987, amid a deluge of musical tributes in his honour, a line among those offerings stood out, evergreen. Sang by Fuji music lord, Kollington Ayinla, while extolling Awolowo’s panegyrics, he sang: “ookan ile l’osa gbe, Baba Yinka//eyin t’o funfun kii gbe koro enu.” This line profoundly articulated the open
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Other States in the South-East have to the best of their abilities, addressed the issue of equity and social justice in the governance of their states. It is noteworthy to acknowledge that Enugu State has an honourable zoning arrangement for the office of the Governor. Yes, the four governors that have presided over Enugu State
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This week President Zelensky will be in the U.S. and Canada on an official visit. While Russians entering America are the object of restrictions, the President of Ukraine who is an ethnic Russian of Jewish descent, representing a full fledged Neo-Nazi government will be welcomed at the White House and across America. Absolutely stunning, An Astute Intelligence
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Failures to Confront the Unspeakable, and The Way Ahead. Part I At a time of crisis marked by racism and impoverishment, let us recall our history. First published by GR on November 15, 2013 coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963). April 4, 2020 is the 52nd Anniversary
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Advice from Elon Musk on being a leader, taking risks, charting your own course, and boiling complicated things down to their essence. Like Elon Musk or not — the answer probably depends on how you feel about Twitter/X — it’s hard not to respect his work ethic. His willingness to think differently. His ability to achieve huge goals. So while you
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A source has told the veteran reporter that Kiev and Washington are deceiving the public about the situation on the ground. US intelligence analysts believe that Ukraine has given up on its counteroffensive against Russia and the only thing prolonging the conflict is the unwillingness of Washington and Kiev to acknowledge its failure, a source
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No challenge to the outcome of a presidential election has been successful in Nigeria since 1999 for obvious reasons. Elsewhere on the continent, the top courts in Kenya and Malawi nullified presidential elections in 2017 and 2020. But Nigeria’s Supreme Court has never overturned a presidential result. The lead justice in the 06/09/2023 PEPT appeal
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I write as a professional in politics and the views expressed herein are personal and advisory. In the countdown to the 2023 general elections, parties were upbeat and candidates were sure of victory. The unusual rave of the moment ferociously driven by the social media and the youths was about the Labour Party and her
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A push-back against Western influence is reportedly prompting countries to reject the pro-Ukraine agenda Western officials have overestimated the willingness of neutral nations to join anti-Russia policies in support of Ukraine, according to The Wall Street Journal. “It’s clear that the West overall has been surprised by the pretty widespread reluctance by many of the
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Leaders in developing countries feel ignored as Ukraine takes center stage, said James Cleverly Leaders of the Global South are growing irritated by what they perceive as lecturing by the West, the UK’s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly told The Guardian on the sidelines of the UN general assembly. The official warned that “the West will be
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The destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, long held as a symbol of energy security for Europe’s economic powerhouse, became the catalyst for a massive crisis Russian Market, project by financial blogger, Swiss journalist and political commentator based in Zurich For years, the Nord Stream pipelines have epitomized energy stability for Europe’s largest economy. Germany’s
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A Judgment Founded on the Abuse of the Principles of Electoral Franchise and the Constitutionality of By-Laws According to John Marshall, the iconic fourth Chief Justice of the United States of America: The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to
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Firms from ‘unfriendly’ countries reportedly cannot withdraw their profits Multinational companies from ‘unfriendly’ countries made large profits in Russia last year despite sanctions that their home countries placed on Moscow, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing calculations by the Kiev School of Economics (KSE). The KSE calculations are based on sources such as the
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On a Friday in July 2005, Bayo Ojo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, quietly absconded from work in an office in Victoria Island, Lagos, from where he functioned then as the president of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. The next working day, a Monday, he turned up in Abuja as President Olusegun Obasanjo’s fourth Attorney-General
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Narrated by: Arnon Barak (and by edited by African Herald Express) This is the full story of the covert Biafra Air Rescue operation of 1969 – 1970 by a few heroic foreigners – mostly Jewish pilots and humanists that flew ill-maintained aircrafts by night, in bad weather and across enemy fire – and landed with
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THE COUP D’ETAT IN NIGER REPUBLIC IS A SAVING GRACE TO NIGERIA: A REVELATION BY THE NATIVE INDIGENOUS HAUSA PEOPLE OF NIGERIA. We as Hausa People of Hausaland in Nigeria love Democracy but only to the extent it administers Justice, Fairness and Equity to all people wherever it is practiced. Recall that the eight years
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This is a freedom manifesto for the captured people of Nigeria offered in autobiographical form… I invoke the Spirit of Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jnr, and Nelson Mandela in calling for isolation of the captured State in Nigeria with sanctions as we called for under Abacha… I shall commit to a non-violence resistance to
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Owerri and Asaba are two Igbo cities notable today for a booming hospitality industry and the high surge of real estate development. Both cities have histories of being centres of Administration during the colonial days. While Owerri is situated at the Southern part of the Igbo geographical centre, Asaba is situated at the West Bank
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The word Amadiọha is principally made up of two words, amadi and ọha. Amadi, used for the freeborn; but also connotes nobility and princely disposition. So, an amadi is a prince; as in nobility, status and rank not monarchy. Ọha, on the other hand, means the people. So, Amadiọha would mean the Noble or Prince
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(Igbo: Ògụ́àfọ̀ )is the traditional calendar system of the Igbos.The calendar has 13 months in a year (afo), 7 weeks in a month (onwa), and 4 days of Igbo market days (afor, nkwo, eke, and orie) in a week (izu) plus an extra day at the end of the year, in the last month. The
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The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi recently opened a longstanding debate about the relationship between the Igbo and the Yoruba, and did affirm that the Igbo were ancient inhabitants of Ife. The Ooni’s asserts that the ancient Igbo connections to Ife is still evident in the traditions preserved in the oral narratives of Ife
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“Amanyanabo” is the title for the traditional leader in the Kalabari, Opubo-ama and Okrika kingdoms of the Eastern Delta. These three kingdoms have a long period of relationship with the Igbo people, especially in trade. There were also huge Igbo migration to these areas, even as many Igbo women were married to their men and
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Perhaps Wole Soyinka’s most iconic quote is: “The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.” The quote is drawn from his prison memoir The Man Died. Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, the Nigerian renowned playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist needs no introduction. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature,
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While the President and Commander in Chief of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama “celebrates” the first anniversary of the alleged death of bin Laden, the substantive issue as to WHO WAS OSAMA BIN LADEN remains unheralded. (Remarks by President Obama in Address to the Nation from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, see video at foot of
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This incisive article by Pierre-Henri Bunel, a former member of France’s Military Intelligence, sheds light on the nature of Al Qaeda, an intelligence construct used by Washington to destabilize and destroy sovereign countries, while sustaining the illusion of an outside enemy, which threatens the security of America and the Western World. The state sponsor of Al Qaeda goes after
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Understanding the Crusades The pope was the tutor of European civilization during the central Middle Ages. At the end of the eleventh century, he inculcated to the ruling caste one revolutionary idea: the Crusade. It brought the best and the worst out of the warrior class, it was embraced by the masses, and it gave
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By the time the Battle of Arginusae trials purged the best generals, and Socrates drank the hemlock, and Plato wrote his “Republic,” Athenian democracy had metastasized into a corrupt sham. A sizable number of US citizens currently view the American republic (now empire) with the same disgust that Plato viewed Athens’ failed democracy. In what
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Which superpower is more threatened by its “extractive elites”? The rise of China surely ranks among the most important world developments of the last 100 years. With America still trapped in its fifth year of economic hardship, and the Chinese economy poised to surpass our own before the end of this decade, China looms very
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The Igbo term for apprenticeship is ‘Igba Boi.’ It involves learning a trade or craft under someone who is already well-established in the field and is now a master in his own right aka ‘Oga’ in local parlance. Though Igbo apprenticeship had been around for a while before the Biafra war, its significance resonated in
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During the last year or more, nearly all our mainstream media outlets have regularly ridiculed and denounced China for its stubborn adherence to a “Zero Covid” policy. Whereas most of the West has chosen to “live with Covid,” China has worked to immediately stamp out any pinprick viral outbreaks through an increasingly burdensome regime of
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Our political landscape is completely flooded by a massive tide of official propaganda. Therefore, it’s hardly surprising that the few visible points of surviving dissent are often found among those individuals who had previously represented the highest peaks of journalism and academic scholarship. Seymour Hersh falls into that category. With a Pulitzer Prize and five George
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For Americans such as myself who came of age during the 1970s or early 1980s, the Soviet Union always carried the whiff of a decaying ideological empire, ruled by a decrepit political leadership class that had long since lost the trust of its own people. Such was my opinion at the time, and nothing I
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The war can only end when it helps Biden reelection I am surely not the only one who has noticed that the defensive propaganda lines that are flowing out the Democratic Administration have become more than ordinarily ridiculous of late. One is astonished at the melding of fact and fiction to create narratives that depict
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Question 1: Hitler In the West, we’re taught that Hitler is the embodiment of all evil, but it’s more complicated than that, isn’t it? The more I read about Hitler, the more convinced I am that his views about the Versailles Treaty were fairly commonplace among Germans living at the time. It seems to me that
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Question 6: Operation Pike Did England and France plan to attack Russia prior to Hitler’s invasion of that country? Ron Unz—For more than eighty years, one of the single most crucial turning points of World War II has been omitted from nearly every Western history written about that conflict and as a result, virtually no
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“Much of the current political legitimacy of today’s American government and its various European vassal-states is founded upon a particular narrative history of World War II, and challenging that account might have dire political consequences.”—Ron Unz Question 1: Hitler Let’s start with Hitler. In the West it is universally accepted that: Hitler started WW2 Hitler’s
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Mike Whitney Interview with Paul Craig Roberts Question 1– To what extent has the war in Ukraine accelerated the move to a new global realignment? Paul Craig Roberts– It was Washington’s economic sanctions against Russia, the theft of Russia’s central bank reserves, and the theft of Venezuela’s gold, not the conflict in Ukraine, that weaponized the US
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(The Devil’s Trick) As we’ve approached the twenty-second anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, more than enough evidence exists to draw reasonable conclusions about what happened that day and who was responsible. Most of the basic facts have been known for years, though unfortunately have not been readily available to the general public. Way
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“Speaking on the selfishness of politicians, he asked them to learn from Gowon’s case, he said, “Please, compare this to the case of former military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon. His nine-year regime was toppled in a military coup on July 29, 1975, while he was attending the Organization of African Unity (OAU) meeting
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