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Meanwhile the downfall of the US dollar remains work in progress. The US dollar is continuously facing backlash. Now Russia thinks that BRICS should do more. It has floated the idea of common currency. The first indication came in January when Russian foreign minister has issued the statement in which he says “Serious, self-respecting countries are well aware of what is at stake, and want to create their own mechanisms to ensure sustainable development. It is in this direction that have been voiced recently about the need to think about creating our own currencies within the framework of BRICS.” This…
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De-dollarization is currently a prominent topic of discussion across the globe. Many nations have stepped forward to reduce their reliance on the dollar and implement an alternative financial system. This initiative has been led by the BRICS nations, which are Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. It appears that other countries are supposedly going to support this action, and Saudi Arabia could be the first to do so. A professor from the University of Tehran who is also a representative of Iran’s Presidential Delegation to China reportedly stated that the dollar is “unreliable and dangerous.” In an interview with…
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Whenever a large-scale corruption scandal hits the Kiev regime, its Western supporters are suddenly “shocked” by the level of embezzlement and outright theft of state funds in the country they’re financing with hundreds of billions of their own taxpayers’ money. Prior to the start of Russia’s special military operation (SMO), this was essentially common knowledge in the political West, with even the mainstream propaganda machine acknowledging it on a virtually daily basis. However, after the SMO started, any news coverage about this effectively became “heresy” as various state-run networks were only allowed to report on the mythical “battlefield dominance” of the Neo-Nazi junta…
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Last month, Chimamanda Adichie, the globally-acclaimed Nigerian novelist, wrote a letter to Joe Biden, President of the United States of America, calling him out for his government’s seemingly tacit support to the electoral heist that took place in Nigeria between February and March 2023. Though the POTUS, was yet to make a personal call on the election, Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, had along with UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, congratulated both Nigeria and Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who was declared winner of the February 25 presidential election, a development, Adichie frowned at, saying the US, ought to know that the…
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In the aftermath of global financial exclusion, Russia has had to make some strategic adaptations. The West’s sanctions had crippling consequences, and the Kremlin scrambled to find alternatives. In light of these developments, China became an important ally, and the Yuan—its currency—has taken on a more prominent role. It is telling that in Russia, the yuan has surpassed the United States Dollar (USD) in trading volume, a feat achieved a year after the Ukraine conflict, which triggered a series of sanctions against Moscow. As Russia and China band together, one wonders what other shifts will take place and how they…
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In the Intelicor press briefings in October 2022, Ian Smith, the press secretary provided facts including display of Satellite Images showing flooded farmlands and cities in Nigeria to backup an earlier warning that, the Biotechonology companies and their main investor Billionaire Philanthropocapitalist Bill Gates were planning devastating floods in Nigeria. The plan commenced in 2021 with geoengineered earthquake tremors to destroy or weaken all riverside embankments along the Niger and Benue rivers. The episodes of earth tremors in Abuja and environs, Niger, Kaduna, Kwara, Saki in Oyo, and Ile Ife in Osun were meticulously planned and executed. The artificial seismic…
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Puzzling voter turnout numbers and process failures risk turning a frustrated population away from democratic expression. Nigeria’s February 25 general elections may have raised more questions than answers about the country’s trajectory, and particularly about the strength of its democracy. Important electoral reforms were enacted in 2022 to improve the integrity and transparency of Nigerian elections. But the process did not unfold as advertised. Voting went smoothly for some, but in far too many, delays in opening the polls and problems with transmitting results to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s Result Viewing Portal (IReV) put a damper on the proceedings.…
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Nigeria’s close-run presidential election was not about religion, until it was. When, last July, then standard bearer of the incumbent All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu put an end to weeks of speculation by picking former Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima as his running mate in February’s presidential election, he ignited a controversy whose shadow continues to loom over the country’s political landscape. The former Lagos State Governor’s choice was controversial for a reason—Tinubu and Shettima are both Muslims. From the standpoint of the Nigerian Christian community, the selection of a Northern Muslim running mate by a Southern Muslim presidential aspirant was not…
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In September 2022, President Biden released an Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology. Then, In March 2023, he released a document entitled Bold Goals for U.S. Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing, outlining specific areas of focus in this bioengineering manifesto. The goals in these documents sound very nice. They’re all about using new technology to fight climate change, increase the food supply, cure diseases, and strengthen national security by increasing domestic manufacturing. Is that really the goal? However, I believe that these goals will be used to grab land from existing farmers and ranchers. Farmers and ranchers need to turn a profit to pay taxes on their land;…
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“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex… Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.” Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), 34th President of the United States, (1953-1961), (in his ‘Farewell Address’, Jan. 17, 1961) “Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to remain, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented.…
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Author’s Introductory Note We bring to the attention of our readers the analysis of George F. Kennan (1948) which constitutes the foreign policy cornerstone of the “‘Truman doctrine.” These documents have set the groundwork. They have a direct bearing on US foreign policy and military doctrine under the Biden Administration, specifically with regard to Germany and the European Union which are currently the object of a U.S. sponsored Act of “Economic Warfare”. What is of significance is that the threats directed against Germany and the EU, emanating from the Biden White House, were formulated under the “Truman Doctrine” at the very outset of…
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At least 61 members of Congress submitted a letter to the US president expressing concern with his mental state. US President Joe Biden must pass a cognitive exam or abandon the 2024 presidential race, 61 Republican members of the House of Representatives demanded on Thursday in an open letter to the commander-in-chief. “The United States’ national security relies on a cognitively sound Commander in Chief, and it is evident that you do not fit that bill,” the letter stated, citing the concerns of the American public – 57% of voters don’t think Biden is “mentally fit” to lead the country,…
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Indigenous Hausa people seek freedom from Fulani “bondage of mental slavery” A group, under the auspices of Indigenous Hausa People Movement for Self-Actualization (Tura Ta Kai Bango), has urged Hausa people to break free from what the regarded as Fulani “bondage of mental slavery”, saying that they are still contending with Fulani Colonialism after breaking free from British Colonialism. This was contained in an audio statement issued by one Baba Steve for and on behalf of the native indigenous Hausa people of Nigeria. In a translation of the audio message issued in Hausa language, the speaker went down memory lane…
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If you do a quick Google search for the most expensive element in the world, one of the results will be californium-252 stone. According to Hamza Al-Mustapha, a former Nigerian Army major and intelligence officer who served as General Sani Abacha’s Chief Security Officer, in an interview with the Brekete family, he said a Californium-252 Stone was discovered in Borno state and is worth $27 million per gram. In his other remarks in the viral video, he said that the element was the cause of insecurity and Boko Haram in Borno and other resource-rich northern territories. The 62-year-old Major, while…
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The Coronation of King Charles III will be remembered, if indeed it is remembered, for the pronouncement by the Archbishop of Canterbury a few days before the event, that people watching on television and on the streets should pay homage to the new King by shouting their pledge of support at the moment the King makes his Coronation Oath. The Archbishop’s recommendation, as published in the mainstream press, states: ‘All who so desire, in the Abbey, and elsewhere, say together: ‘I swear that I will pay true allegiance to Your Majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help…
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Our hope and belief was that “the Big Lie” would one day be crushed by the undeniable weight of the Truth. We still hold on to this hope. A witch-hunt is being waged against independent journalists, renowned academics, scientists and politicians who have the courage to confront the “narrative” imposed by powerful financial interests. The unspoken objective is to sustain government propaganda and “fake news” by the mainstream media while systematically curtailing freedom of expression and independent analysis. When the Lie becomes the Truth, there is no moving backwards. Censorship did not occur overnight. The September 11, 2001 has greatly influenced the way the…
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Washington is “in no position to point fingers” at Beijing, Foreign Ministry official Wang Wenbin has argued. The US has blatantly violated international law while imposing its own rules upon the world by force, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin has claimed. The comments followed reports that Washington and its allies are planning to use an upcoming G7 summit to demand that China “act responsibly.” During Wang’s regular press briefing on Thursday, a journalist with China’s Global Times mentioned speculation that G7 leaders will ask Beijing “to abide by international rules” when they meet in Japan later this month. Issuing…
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The corruption engaged in by the Democratic Party leadership appears to be never-ending and no one is ever held accountable. A recent report described how Michael Morell, the former acting Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director, colluded with Antony Blinken, who was then a senior official in the 2020 Joe Biden presidential campaign, to prepare and find signatories to a letter to discredit those seeking to exploit the emerging Hunter Biden laptop scandal, which was threatening to do real damage to the Biden electoral prospects. Following in the footsteps of the Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign, which sought to use fabricated information from the Steele dossier…
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The approval of President Joe Biden continues to plummet, mainly due to the economic crisis. According to a study published by the Washington Post—ABC News, only 36% of those surveyed indicated that they approved Biden, the lowest number since he began his term on January 20, 2021. However, this is not the only cause for concern in the current administration since the preliminary electoral preferences, with a view to the 2024 elections, show an increase in popular support for the Republican Donald Trump, who, despite his legal problems, continues to emerge as a possible candidate. Although Trump is experiencing a resurgence, Biden is also…
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Part V of a five-part series Thomas Jefferson opined of the Rothschild-led Eight Families central banking cartel which came to control the United States, “Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day, but a series of oppressions begun at a distinguished period, unalterable through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery”. Two centuries and a few decades later this same cabal of trillionaire money changers – mysteriously immune from their own calls for “broad sacrifice” – utilizes the debt lever to ring concessions from the…
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Part III of a five-part series According to former British intelligence agent John Coleman’s book, The Committee of 300, the Rothschilds exert political control through the secretive Business Roundtable, which they created in 1909 with the help of Lord Alfred Milner and South African industrialist Cecil Rhodes. The Rhodes Scholarship is granted by Oxford University, while oil industry propagandist Cambridge Energy Research Associates operates out of the Rhodes-supported Cambridge University. Rhodes founded De Beers and Standard Chartered Bank. According to Gary Allen’s expose, The Rockefeller Files, Milner financed the Russian Bolsheviks on Rothschild’s behalf, with help from Jacob Schiff and Max Warburg. In 1917 British Foreign…
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Outstanding historical analysis of relevance to an understanding of the so-called “Deep State” and today’s global financial establishment. First published on June 8, 2011 In 1789 Alexander Hamilton became the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Hamilton was one of many Founding Fathers who were Freemasons. He had close relations with the Rothschild family which owns the Bank of England and leads the European Freemason movement. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Ethan Allen, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Brown and Roger Sherman were all Masons. Roger Livingston helped Sherman and Franklin write the Declaration of Independence. He gave George Washington his…
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“Proof that the Pandemic was Planned with a Purpose” THE PLAN shows the official agenda of the World Health Organization to have ten years of ongoing pandemics, from 2020 to 2030. This is revealed by a WHO virologist, Marion Koopmans. You will also see shocking evidence that the first pandemic was planned and abundantly announced right before it happened. Make sure to watch, and share this everywhere. More information, and to see all the documents in THE PLAN, go to: https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/proof Video: The Plan https://rumble.com/embed/v10y8h2/?pub=4 A group of almost one thousand medical doctors in Germany called ‘Doctors for Information’, which is supported by more than 7,000…
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First published on October 24, 2022 “Your people do not yet feel an impending sense of danger. That worries me. Can’t you see the world is being pulled in an irreversible direction? Meanwhile, people pretend that nothing is going on. I don’t know how to get through to you anymore.” Russian President Vladimir Putin, You Tube, 12 minute video “The Russians have put their nuclear weapons on high-alert.This is a really significant development.. They are….sending us a very powerful signal as to how seriously they take this crisis. So, if we start winning, and the Russians start losing, you need to understand that what…
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I could hear someone saying, ‘No Barrister, don’t be pessimistic.’ Hear me out. It’s only one who has lost touch with this country in the last thirty years or even more that will go to sleep over our petition in the court. Yeah, by law, we have a prima facie case and by the facts of the case, we can also say, ipsa loquitur. But the truth is that the case is beyond interpretation of law and the validation of facts. The case is a against a SYSTEM, an unconscionable diabolical system. We are up against the system that makes…
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In 1999, when democracy resurfaced in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo state held its Governorship election primary. Here, Orlu and Okigwe zones were far from victory. That primary election was won by a gentleman and great son of Owerri zone, Chief Humphrey Anumudu. But in the spirit of love, peace and unity, leaders from Owerri zone persuaded and prevailed on their son, Anumudu to relinquish the ticket to Achike Udenwa, an Orlu man that came third in the election. Having succeeded in relinquishing the ticket to Orlu zone, Ndi-Owerri zone became so open minded to join hands…
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Despite publicly cautioning Ukraine against striking within Russia, the US has given Kiev the weapons to do so The US “is not encouraging or enabling Ukraine to strike beyond its borders,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Wednesday. Jean-Pierre spoke after an attempted drone attack on the Kremlin, which Russian officials have pinned on Kiev. Two small unmanned aircraft were taken down over Vladimir Putin’s working residence using electronic warfare measures, the Russian president’s office announced on Wednesday morning. In a statement, the Kremlin described the attack as a “preplanned terrorist action” by Ukrainian forces and an attempt on Putin’s life.…
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The alert comes after an after Russia warned of “retaliation” for Ukrainian attack on Kremlin The US diplomatic mission in Ukraine’s capital has advised Americans not to ignore air alarms and shelter appropriately, warning that the security situation could deteriorate rapidly following an attempted drone attack on the Kremlin, which Russian officials have pinned on Kiev. The US Department of State issued a security alert about a “heightened threat of missile attacks” across Ukraine on Wednesday night, citing a “recent uptick in strikes across Ukraine and inflammatory rhetoric from Moscow.” Earlier in the day, Russian officials warned of “retaliation” for Ukrainian drone attack on the Kremlin.…
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Former Congressman Ron Paul says the dollar’s prominence has already started to wane as countries around the world tire of American interventionist policies. Speaking in a new YouTube update, Paul says it shouldn’t be surprising to anyone that other nations are finally trying to compete with the dollar. While the USD suffered a significant hit to its world reserve status in recent years, the former presidential candidate says things are just getting started. “We’re an interventionist government. We intervene in personal liberty, we intervene in economic liberty. We intervene in the internal affairs of all the other nations of the…
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Measuring a country’s financial strength involves assessing various economic indicators, one of which is its savings. Gross savings – including savings by households, businesses, and the government – are a reflection of a country’s economic stability and growth potential. According to data from the World Bank, the 28 African countries with available information had an average savings of 17.69 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. However, some countries surpassed this average by a significant margin, with Nigeria leading the way with 149.32 billion USD in savings. Here are the top 10 African countries with the highest savings in USD in 2021,…
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By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The U.S. corporate media’s first response to the leaking of secret documents about the war in Ukraine was to throw some mud in the water, declare “nothing to see here,” and cover it as a depoliticized crime story about a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman who published secret documents to impress his friends. President Biden dismissed the leaks as revealing nothing of “great consequence.” What these documents reveal, however, is that the war is going worse for Ukraine than our political leaders have admitted to us, while going badly for Russia too, so that neither side is…
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By Robert Parry Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland. Of relevance to the ongoing war in Ukraine, this incisive article was first written by the late Robert Parry on February 24, 2014, in the immediate wake of the US Sponsored Coup d’Etat. American neocons helped destabilize Ukraine and engineer the overthrow of its elected government, a “regime change” on Russia’s western border. But the coup – and the neo-Nazi militias at the forefront – also reveal divisions within the Obama administration. More than five years into his presidency, Barack Obama has failed to take full control over his foreign policy, allowing…
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3 February 2015 US Sticks to Tried and True Policy of Supporting Coups US President Barack Obama revealed the United States’ involvement in the Ukrainian crisis from its outset and admitted that the United States “had brokered a deal to transition power in Ukraine.” US President Barack Obama’s recent interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakiria reveals the United States’ involvement in the Ukrainian crisis from its outset and that the country worked directly with Ukrainian right-wing fascist groups, experts told Sputnik. On Sunday, in his interview with CNN, Obama admitted that the United States “had brokered a deal to transition power in Ukraine.” “Obama’s statement is reiterating something that…
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3 June 2020 By Eric Zuesse On May 19th, an implicit international political warning was issued, but it wasn’t issued between countries; it was issued between allied versus opposed factions within each of two countries: U.S. and Ukraine. In the United States, it’s a Republican Party warning to the Democratic Party: a warning by Trump, against Biden and against Obama. It’s saying: “We’ve got the goods on you, and we’re not releasing it yet. But here’s a sample. So, let’s deal.” It’s a warning that comes from the current President of Ukraine, Volodmyr Zelenskiy, and that places into an exceptionally bad light his…
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13 June 2014 Is he still working for his former masters in Washington, DC? By Michael Collins Two diplomatic messages from the WikiLeaks Public Library on U.S. Diplomacy indicate that newly elected President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko was an agent for US States State Department. A confidential message from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev on April 29, 2006 mentions the newly elected Ukraine president twice. “During an April 28 meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine (OU) insider Petro Poroshenko emphatically denied he was using his influence with the Prosecutor General to put pressure on Tymoshenko lieutenant Oleksandr.” ” During an April 28 meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine (OU)…
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28 May 2014 by Gregory Kolyada The outcome of the elections was known in advance – Petro Poroshenko, was declared the winner of the race. The result will further split the country. Many regions refuse to recognize as President this chocolate king who is notorious for pocketing government money. Poroshenko has no chance to stop the bloody conflict even scrupulously carrying out all the orders given by Joe Biden, Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt. Besides, the mission of putting an end to the bloodshed has never been set by his US bosses… Billionaire Poroshenko started his business by laundering the money of…
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This was originally published on February 19, 2019. It is of utmost relevance to Ukraine Crisis Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a constitutional amendment committing the country to becoming a member of NATO and the European Union. Addressing parliament on February 19, Poroshenko said he saw securing Ukraine’s membership in NATO and the EU as his “strategic mission.” Ukraine should “submit a request for EU membership and receive a NATO membership action plan no later than 2023,” the president told the Verkhovna Rada. However, he acknowledged that his country needs to come a “long way” to meet the criteria of joining both…
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History and Geopolitical Analysis Introductory Note by Michel Chossudovsky This interview with James Corbett on the history of the European Union was first published almost 7 years ago on July 16, 2016. The Washington Consensus in liaison with Wall Street and the Federal Reserve have imposed an IMF style neoliberal agenda (routinely imposed on Third World Countries) on all member states of the European Union. This process has been geared towards destroying the “European Project” as well eliminating the Welfare State. In turn, America’s hegemonic project has been to integrate the E.U. political structures and bureaucracy based in Brussels into those of the North Atlantic Treaty…
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Prof. Michel Chossudovsky and Dragan Vujicic: The sabotage took place with the knowledge of Berlin and Brussels By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Dragan Vujicic Michel Chossudovsky’s interview with Dragan Vujicic, Serbia’s National News. (Excerpts and Edits by Chossudovsky, Part I) The Nord Stream sabotage was announced at a press conference in Washington on February 7, 2022, by President Biden. and Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz. This announcement was tantamount to an Act of War by the United States against its European Allies. Interview with Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, economist, professor emeritus at the University of Ottawa and editor of the renowned anti-globalist Global Research website. According to Michel Chossudovsky: “The Nord Stream gas pipelines that were the subject of…
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The WEF cites AI as the singular key to the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” In their view, there can be no human progress without the influence of AI algorithms, making human input almost obsolete. It’s no secret that globalist institutions are obsessed with Artificial Intelligence as some kind of technological prophecy. They treat it as if it is almost supernatural in its potential and often argue that every meaningful industrial and social innovation in the near future will owe its existence to AI. The World Economic Forum cites AI as the singular key to the rise of what they call the “Fourth…
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Documents have reportedly shown that the sex offender held meetings with a future CIA chief, an Obama aide and a Rothschild banker Future CIA director William Burns, banker Ariane de Rothschild and an ex-aide to US President Barack Obama are among the noteworthy people who had meetings with financier Jeffrey Epstein after he was publicly registered as a child-sex offender, according to a newly unearthed trove of documents from the late financier. The previously unpublicized documents, including thousands of pages of emails and schedules from 2013 to 2017, reveal that Epstein booked multiple meetings with such prominent figures as US…
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Senator Ron Johnson has claimed that the secretary of state falsely testified about his dealings with the president’s son US Secretary of State Antony Blinken “lied bold-faced” in congressional testimony about his contacts with President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson has claimed. Then a campaign aide to President-elect Biden, Blinken agreed to testify voluntarily to a Senate committee investigating the Biden family’s business dealings in December 2020, Johnson said on Sunday in a Fox News interview. At the time, Joe Biden had picked Blinken to become America’s top diplomat, an appointment that would require Senate confirmation. “He wanted…
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Geoffrey Hinton says ‘bad actors’ could harness artificial intelligence for ‘bad things’ Turing Award-winning scientist Geoffrey Hinton resigned from Google last month, where he had spent much of the past decade developing generative artificial-intelligence (AI) programs, and warned of the risks that his life’s work may present to humanity. Hinton is credited with being a foundational figure in the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), but told the New York Times in a lengthy interview published on Monday that he took the decision to exit amid a de-facto arms race in Silicon Valley between Google and Microsoft. The controversial technology has…
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Kristalina Georgieva says there are no viable alternatives for a global reserve currency The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said the US dollar is gradually losing its status as the world’s main reserve currency. Speaking on Monday, Kristalina Georgieva noted that there is no viable alternative among global currencies to replace the greenback in the near future. “There has been gradual shift away from the dollar, it was 70% of reserves, now it is slightly under 60%,” Georgieva stated at the 2023 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California. According to the IMF chief, the euro…
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The total currency outside banks in Nigeria rose by a whopping N602.1 billion in the month of March 2023, the highest monthly gain since we started collating data in 2010. The information is according to data from the Central Bank of Nigeria which shows currency outside banks rose to N1.4 trillion in the month of March compared to N843.3 billion in the month of February 2023. Currency outside the bank closed at N2.569 trillion before dropping by a whopping N1.77 trillion to N792.1 billion the largest ever monthly drop and the lowest amount of money outside circulation. However, pushback from…
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A firm belonging to the son of Nigeria’s president-elect bought an $11 million London mansion that his predecessor’s government was seeking to confiscate as part of a probe into one of the biggest corruption scandals in the West African nation’s history, according to previously unreported UK company documents. There’s no suggestion that President-elect Bola Tinubu was personally involved in the acquisition of the UK property in 2017. Current President Muhammadu Buhari visited him there in August 2021, nearly four years after the purchase took place. Tinubu, who will take over as head of state this month, has long been questioned…
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A diplomat from one of the member countries in 2012 had once described the BRICS as “A forum of convergence, not a forum of negotiation”. However, several developments have occurred globally and within the constituent countries since then. In the face of the dynamic economic and financial shifts of the 2010s; the worldwide pandemic, and economic, social, and political disruptions caused by it; and most of all, the power rivalry amongst nations—including between some of the BRICS members, is there still room left for alignment of interests within the BRICS? Overview In the early 2000s, when the group was still…
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In the aftermath of global financial exclusion, Russia has had to make some strategic adaptations. The West’s sanctions had crippling consequences, and the Kremlin scrambled to find alternatives. In light of these developments, China became an important ally, and the Yuan—its currency—has taken on a more prominent role. It is telling that in Russia, the yuan has surpassed the United States Dollar (USD) in trading volume, a feat achieved a year after the Ukraine conflict, which triggered a series of sanctions against Moscow. As Russia and China band together, one wonders what other shifts will take place and how they…
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“May Day” means International Workers’ Day which grew out of the 19th-century labour movement for worker’s rights and an eight-hour workday, while “Mayday” is a distress call that is used to signal a life-threatening emergency, usually on a ship or a plane. The history of the Nigerian working class has been that of continuous struggle between workers and the owners of capital who collude with political actors to form a formidable neoliberal force that keep workers out of the proceeds of the surplus value that they generate. When politicians work with owners of capital to conquer the political space, they…
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As with Saddam Hussein, Noriega enjoyed American support until he turned into a wayward ally who had to be overthrown Before Saddam Hussein there was Manuel Noriega. Like Saddam, Noriega enjoyed US support until he turned into a wayward ally, then an embarrassment, and finally an “imminent danger” who had to be overthrown. Noriega was recruited as a CIA informant while studying at a military academy in Peru. He received intelligence and counterintelligence training at the School of the Americas at Fort Gulick, Panama, in 1967, as well as a course in psychological operations at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He…
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COVID “vaccination” status was not considered a private medical matter at all during 2021 and 2022, yet mainstream media now want you to believe that your COVID jab status is protected by medical privacy laws Your medical data are not nearly as private as you think. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is rife with exemptions when it comes to your privacy. Federal agencies such as Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for example, are exempt from the privacy clauses and can access identifiable data — especially if there’s an outbreak…
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Following their “Open Letter to the Unvaccinated”, an expanding group of Canadian scholars has now written a letter addressing “the vaccinated”. The writers expose the divisiveness of vaccination status and denounce the resulting rift in society. Giving up civil liberties in exchange for a false sense of safety is futile. We must not accept a descent into medical apartheid in Canada and around the world. The letter appeals both to those who chose to take the vaccine and those who were coerced. It reflects on the broader implications of our actions in an effort to collaborate on a constructive path forward.…
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How did COVID-19 present itself? It was fatal car crashes and ensuing trauma-related deaths falsely coded as COVID, it was bacterial pneumonia, falsely named, it was hospitals getting more money for COVID diagnoses and COVID protocols, it was false pronouncements of PHEIC from the globalist WHO attached at the hip to the WEF. It was the cold, it was the flu, it was data manipulation writ large, where jabbed patients are listed as unvaccinated weeks after their hospital admittances. It was a perfect fabricated pretext for a global financial coup which continues to impoverish and kill us as the oligarchs…
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While US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin convenes the “Contact Group for the Defence of Ukraine” in Germany to supply more and more weapons to Kyiv and fuel the war in Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is visiting Brazil, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba. In Latin America – the USA considers Latin America its “backyard” – a project is emerging and its development would undermine the foundations of US economic power in the region. Brazil and Argentina have signed an agreement to create a new common currency to be used instead of the dollar in trade between the two countries and other Latin American countries.…
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There is a Peter Obi witch-hunt that is ongoing. Undoubtedly, certain forces are after him. You can call it Obidients-phobia or Obi-phobia. Both are equal in the eyes of the attackers. These sustained attacks on Obi, Datti, his running mate, as well as the Labour Party and the Obidient family, are simply because they have upended the system and are devoted to creating a new Nigeria that would be beneficial to all Nigerians. They hope to overthrow the corrupt system using the ballot and the law because Nigeria today solely benefits a small number of kidnappers of state power, and…
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The document criticizes Antonio Guterres for working with Russia on the Ukraine grain deal Classified documents allegedly leaked by Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira have revealed that the US is closely spying on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and is not happy with his engagement with Moscow. Several documents detail Guterres’ communications, including one that accuses him of “undermining” efforts to take action against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. The document addresses his communications with Moscow regarding the grain deal that unlocked Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. To broker the deal between Moscow and Kyiv, the UN agreed to help facilitate the export of Russian…
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The media obsession in vilifying Jack Texeira for “leaking” TOP SECRET and SECRET documents and judging him guilty without any benefit of doubt, is just another symptom of the authoritarian fever that grips many inhabitants of the United States. Forget the first amendment. Stay in the dark and trust the Government to tell you what you need to know. Before you join the mob eager to lynch the poor kid, let me share what some of my friends who are veterans of the CIA and the Air Force have said about this affair in the past few days. Both men say that…
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The U.S. corporate media’s first response to the leaking of secret documents about the war in Ukraine was to throw some mud in the water, declare “nothing to see here,” and cover it as a depoliticized crime story about a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman who published secret documents to impress his friends. President Biden dismissed the leaks as revealing nothing of “great consequence.” What these documents reveal, however, is that the war is going worse for Ukraine than our political leaders have admitted to us, while going badly for Russia too, so that neither side is likely to break the stalemate this year, and…
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The Supreme Court’s controversial judgment on Imo State governorship and it’s more recent decision on Senate President Lawan’s senate nomination bid has drawn the ire of one of the most senior retired Justices of the apex court – the Hon. Justice James Ogebe. Ogebe stated this at the US-based ATSJC’s Courts and Society Webinar Series alongside other distinguished speakers on the topic “The Courts’ Role in Nigeria’s Electoral Process” recently. The panel comprisedKeynote speaker: Honorable Justice James Ogebe, JSC, Rtd. (Retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria) Discussants: Honorable Justice Adam Onum, Rtd. (Retired Chief Judge/Former Election Tribunal Chairman);…
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The struggle is going to be tough and nerve wracking but at the end, the Obidients and Mr Obi will triumph Knowing that Azikiwe no longer posed any threat to Northern political agenda, Britain having rubbished him, and since opposition forces have coalesced under Awolowo, to bolster Southern opposition to Northern power, the destruction of Awolowo and the Action Group became a task that must be accomplished. From then, NPC’s political project centred on containment or destruction of Awolowo. Unfortunately, Awolowo’s deputy, Samuel Ladoke Akintola was not so enamoured of his leader’s uncompromising politics with the feudal principles and humongous…
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Mr Peter Gregory Obi, the Labour Party Presidential candidate and the leader of the ‘Obidient’ Movement may not know it, but from recent happenings after the February 25, 2023 Presidential election it should dawn on him that the Nigerian state and the caste of rulers feeding fat on the dysfunctional and decayed edifice called Nigeria consider him as a danger to their interest. Mr. Obi prior to June 2022 when he defected to the Labour Party and emerged the presidential candidate of the par- ty was, even though a member of the ruling caste but he was an outsider and…
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This Broadcast was made May 29, 2022. Those who wish to understand British Government’s Interest in Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Election and the Heathrow Airport Incident of April 7, 2023 involving Candidate Peter Obi, will do well to review this Video
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Nigeria is a strange item 1 Of the 16 republics in the world, only Nigeria uses empty landmass as federating units, instead of ethnic nationalities. 2 Nigeria is the only oil-producing country where oil blocks are allocated to individuals, instead of government. 3 Nigeria is the only country in the world whose Constitution maintains a conflicting dual ideology – democracy and sharia.As both cannot co-habit, one must give way. That is the war going on now under Buhari’s watch. Recall, the Sultan of Sokoto – who doubles as head of fulani oligarchy and nigerian monarchy – recently declared in USA…
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It wasn’t that long ago that Mitt Romney was threatening former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for suggesting the US was funding biolabs in Ukraine. Back in March, RINO Senator Mitt Romney accused former Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of spreading ‘treasonous lies’ for simply talking about the US-funded biolabs in Ukraine. “There are 25+ US-funded biolabs in Ukraine which if breached would release and spread deadly pathogens to US/world.” Gabbard said on Sunday. “We must take action now to prevent disaster. US/Russia/Ukraine/NATO/UN/EU must implement a ceasefire now around these labs until they’re secured and pathogens destroyed,” she added. Tulsi Gabbard made her statement based on testimony from…
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Finally, the Russian investigation about American biological activities on Ukrainian soil was completed. A special parliamentary committee had been formed to carefully analyze evidence of crimes such as the production of biological weapons in military biolabs found and neutralized by Russian armed forces. The parliamentary group worked in partnership with experts linked to Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops for over a year. The results indicate that in fact Washington maintains illegal bio-military activities. Investigators pointed out that the US would be working towards the creation of a kind of “universal biological weapon”, genetically modified to cause serious damage,…
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In the US Congress Senator Rand Paul proposed an amendment to drop the Emergency Measures provision that became law a week after the events of Sept. 11, 2001. 86 of the 100 Senators in the US Congress voted down Paul’s initiative to discontinue Public Law 107-40 22 years after it was invoked. The post-9/11 law “authorized the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.” The blank check given by Congress in 2001 to the US Armed Forces and its Commander-In-Chief helped push along the agenda that put in 2019 the Department of Defence in charge…
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News coming from Sudan has overwhelmed state and non-state actors alike in Africa. Diplomats, businesses and most importantly, the ordinary people of Sudan sit on tenterhooks as fighters loyal to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese military clash. Ports and planes have not been spared. The commander of the RSF—who is also the number 2 of the military government—has vowed to capture all military bases and be in control of the state. This is happening after an arrangement for the commencement of the integration of the RSF in the regular army failed earlier in the year. How did…
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Amid rampant corruption in Kiev and as US troops gather at the Ukrainian border, does the Biden administration have an endgame to the conflict? The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in its war with Russia. It is unknown how much the Zelensky government is paying per gallon for the fuel, but the Pentagon was paying as much as $400 per gallon to transport gasoline from a port in Pakistan, via truck or parachute, into Afghanistan during the…
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Outstanding and important analysis Judge Napolitano talks with Larry Johnson, former CIA Intelligence Officer, on the controversial leaked documents. The “controlled” leak is a coordinated media strategy. The purpose of the leak is to prepare the American public for the crash landing that’s going to take place with respect to US foreign policy. Watch the interview below. Copyright © Larry Johnson and Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, Judging Freedom, 2023
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The pseudo-WikiLeaks 2.0 has just been stepped up a notch as the FBI arrested the perpetrator who shared the “secret docs” through a Discord server. The 21-year-old Airman First Class Jack Douglas Teixeira of the Massachusetts Air National Guard was apprehended on April 13 for his involvement with the “top-secret leak”. The controversial “Pentagon docs” contain what the US mainstream propaganda machine claims is “an array of national security secrets, including the breadth of surveillance the United States is able to conduct on Russia”. Apparently, Teixeira posted the “classified documents” in an invitation-only Discord (mainly gaming-focused platform) chat group called “Thug Shaker Central”. According…
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Finland was not “suddenly” interested in NATO. Finland spent decades building its military to be compatible with NATO troops. It is about a process that already started in the nineties. Let me remind you, in 2014, Finland signed a memorandum of understanding with NATO. It gives the military alliance broad rights to act on Finnish soil, including “attack”. In Finland, they are jokingly asking where we are going to attack. Is it Sweden? This is how Mauno Saari, one of the most renowned Finnish journalists today, answers the question of the weekly “Pečat” – The presence of this author causes attention in the…
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The Russians took an immediate interest in the intelligence leak scandal in the USA because so many of the documents deal with the readiness of their own and Ukrainian military forces for the long awaited “counterattack” by Kiev which may be decisive in the outcome of the war. They were instantly asking whether there was not some intrigue here, an attempt to loll them into overconfidence given that the situation of the Ukrainian side was portrayed in these documents as unpromising to dire, especially as regards air defense and supply of munitions. However, on close examination, the intelligence experts who…
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On April 6th and 7th, The New York Times published articles addressing back-to-back leaks of more than 100 top secret Pentagon intelligence documents and photos suddenly appearing on Twitter, Telegram and other social media sites, including Russian. Right away I am suspicious of anything coming out of The New York Times, along with the Washington Post the biggest, overrated CIA-controlled propaganda newspaper that hires and pays money to robotic non-journalists to lie for the evil Deep State cabal. So, with The Times the source revealing this alleged plot breaching US national security, it’s already suspect. These supposed highly sensitive classified documents revealed current alleged US…
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Joseph Chukwuka Ulasi, hailed from Nnewi in Anambra state. Born in 1890 and died 1944.He was nicknamed “O ji ụkwụ eje Aba” because of his unflinching hustling spirit as a young Igbo boy determined to make it in life and of which he eventually did by becoming the most successful transporter from South East. He regularly traveled on foot from Nnewi to Aba in mid-1920’s in search of fortune (O ji ụkwụ eje Aba). At Aba he traded in textiles and produce, slowly and painstakingly building a solid asset base by setting up roadside stalls along the popular Aba Road.…
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The vast rain forest of the old Eastern Region of Nigeria captures an area where palm oil vegetation span into the banks of the River Niger and the Atlantic ocean. Then, the means of transportation was more of the water ways, as the area was not accessible to motor vehicles, so the sea of Palm Oil Mills in the East depended mainly on rivers and sea to move their produce to market outside of the region. These areas that later became the Bight of Biafra not only exported palm oil, but other produce such as yam, cassava, fish among others…
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*Hints of plan to open Lake Chad waterways *Partners South African firm on waterway security The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has disclosed that about 65 per cent of cargo berthing in Nigeria through the Lagos ports are meant for the South-east, especially Onitsha and Aba in Anambra and Abia States respectively.Its Managing Director, Dr. George Moghalu, who made this known at a news briefing at the State House, Abuja, said most of the consignments that berth in Lagos waters were actually meant for the south-east zone. His words: “A good number of the consignments come through the Lagos axis.…
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The documents revealed Washington DC had access to high-level internal conversations within Nigeria’s domestic intelligence agency. The United States Intelligence Community monitored Nigeria’s just-concluded national elections and tracked top-level talks within the Department of State Services (DSS), according to leaked files seen by HumAngle. The briefing slides were part of a cache of highly classified documents circulated online in recent weeks that revealed information about the U.S. spying on allies and adversaries. It included intelligence on South Korea, France, Israel, Ukraine, and Russia. Though the U.S. government has not confirmed the authenticity of the documents, it said it was “actively…
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The concept of the Deep State is at the forefront of today’s news. In this March 2014 article published by Asia Pacific Journal and Global Research, Professor Peter Dale Scott analyses the role of “Deep State”, namely the shadow government integrated by Wall Street, US intelligence, the military industrial complex, the Washington think tanks, etc. This secret government overshadows the official government, including the White House and the US Congress. In the last decade it has become more and more obvious that we have in America today what the journalists Dana Priest and William Arkin have called: two governments: the one its citizens were familiar with,…
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The Third in a Series of Interviews with Regis Tremblay By Edward Curtin and Regis Tremblay A totally riveting conversation with Ed Curtin about how Allen Dulles, his brother John Foster Dulles aided Hitler and Nazi Germany in WWII and master mined Operation Paper Clip which brought hundreds of Nazis to the US, Canada, Argentina and elsewhere and put them in high ranking position like Verner Von Braun, a Nazi, as the head of NASA. Allen Dulles masterminded the organization and structure of the CIA as a clandestine operating what now controls the US government and foreign policy. Dulles was behind the Bay…
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While we were being distracted by the ongoing Russia/Ukraine war – and Washington’s increasing involvement in the war – tremendous developments in the Middle East have all but ended decades of US meddling in the region. Peace is breaking out in the Middle East and Washington is not at all happy about it! Take, for example, the recent mending of relations between Saudi Arabia and formerly bitter adversaries Iran and Syria. A China-brokered deal between the Saudis and Iran has them re-establishing full diplomatic relations, with the foreign ministers of both countries meeting in Beijing last week. It is the…
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****N28.3tn illegal funds remain in Texas banks since firm’s discovery in 2019 ***Ex-NSA Azazi’s $9bn loot can be recovered within three months – US firm An American assets recovery firm, Forensic Assets Investigation and Recovery Services LLC, has traced $69bn (about N28.3tn) to different Texas bank accounts accrued from illegal oil deals by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. The money was believed to have been siphoned from undeclared crude oil sales under the Goodluck Jonathan administration allegedly by the NNPC officials and their collaborators in the Central Bank of Nigeria. Out of the stash, $9bn was traced to a Texas…
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An asset recovery firm, Forensic Assets Investigation and Recovery Services LLC (FAIR), says it has uncovered $69 billion (about N28.3tn) in illegal oil deals by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) stuck in American banks. According to the American firm, the funds are stuck in banks based in Texas. The firm said it could recover all the identified funds if Nigeria agreed to pay its expenses and compensation. FAIR disclosed this in a confidential memo forwarded to the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), The Punch reported Friday. According to the report, the funds were believed…
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No true freedom fighter can obfuscate voices of freedom and democracy and still claim to be one. Professor Wole Soyinka has pitched his tent with the oppressors and enemies of the people. If he has not, he must recant and retrace his steps, and that way regain perspective and realign with old Soyinka. This new Soyinka is rather strange, looking more like a product of uncanny incestuous intercourse. Wole Soyinka in his most iconic quote told us: “The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.” The quote is drawn from his prison memoir, The Man…
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Olisa Agbakoba, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has said that Nigerians were held down by powers that had made it difficult for them to extricate themselves. He described Nigerians as being in a cage and unable to free themselves. Agbakoba, who spoke with BusinessDay in an exclusive interview, likened the condition of Nigerians to a situation where a lion is holding its prey. “If a lion is holding you down, you are not likely to go anywhere. So, we are held down by a weight that we can’t shake off, and that is the problem,” he said. According to…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has again disclosed how much he looks forward to retiring to Daura, his hometown, next month. Speaking to Catriona Laing, the outgoing…President Muhammadu Buhari has again disclosed how much he looks forward to retiring to Daura, his hometown, next month. Speaking to Catriona Laing, the outgoing British High Commissioner to Nigeria who visited him at the presidential palace, he said, “I will be as far away from Abuja as possible.” That is plain wishful dreaming. He may conveniently wish to be ‘far away from Abuja’—a euphemism for bliss and peace—but his poor tenure in the power he…
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The period between a general election and the swearing in of a successor administration ought to be filled with excited anticipation. It is usually a time of pleasant speculations on the new faces that will soon grace television screens and newspaper front pages. For the masses in a polity in virtual captivity, it is time to begin getting used to new overlords and masters. For the elite, this ought to be time to debate policy perspectives and options for the new administration. There is so much in the present atmosphere that defies the tradition of a civilized political transition season.…
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The United Kingdom has placed Nigeria on the red list of countries that should not be actively targeted for recruitment by health and social care employers. This is coming one month after the World Health Organisation listed 55 countries, including Nigeria facing the most pressing health workforce challenges related to Universal Health Coverage. The United Kingdom Government said Nigeria and other countries on the red list should not be actively targeted for recruitment by health and social care employers unless there was a government-to-government agreement. According to the information obtained from the website of the UK government titled ‘Code of…
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It is the height of political irresponsibility to use ethnicity, religion or spirituality in politcs as seen with Tinubus APC. It started with Muslim-Muslim ticket to exclude the Middlebelt peoples. Then advanced to fake Bishops to fool Christians. The ultimate sacrifice was the sacrifice of Lagosians to Oro. Yoruba culture is deep with dual ramifications in the physical as well as spiritual realms. On the physical realm, the Oro rites were to scare away Igbos and other immigrants, a voter suppression act to be challenged in courts, however it was invoked to have far reaching devastating spiritual effects. One that…
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As the presidential campaign threw into full gear, Atiku obliged and kept his end of the bargain against the wishes of many PDP top shots who were privy to the details of the gentlemanly agreement with the President. Other political associates close to Atiku were also uncomfortable with the arrangement and expressed misgivings. But Atiku was steadfast, he ensured the failures of the Buhari administration were not made the talking points of the Atiku campaign. The focus was placed on Tinubu insteadCabals around Buhari deceived Atiku, promised to deliver the presidency to him Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, a former vice president…
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Culturally, we are wired to seek the best at all times and in all circumstances! But being Igbo would not earn you an advantage with the Igbo over a more competent non-Igbo that ticks the desired boxes… …we admire hardwork …honesty is a desirable virtue among my people …competence is a character trait one must have to become a leader …justice is a given and we even have deities charged with dispensing justice! Being Igbo is a gift of birth……it doesn’t make you better than others …you must earn your place in life as any …you ain’t better than a…
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Says Democracy Is About Free Choices And Not Coercion Says Acts Of Thuggery, Voter Manipulation By Politicians Amount To Treason. A Senior Lawyer, Jibrin Samuel Okutepa, SAN, has stated in an article he shared on 6th of April that there is no doubt that the Nigerian Constitution 1999 (as Amended) is supreme. That is why the Constitution itself proclaims its supremacy under Section 1(1) which read thus: This Constitution is supreme and its provisions shall have binding force on all authorities and persons throughout the Federal Republic of Nigeria. No one is exempted from the binding force of the Constitution.…
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The notion that professor Wole Soyinka’s pedigree should exempt him from criticism is a very silly notion. Puerile, even! While the playwright’s records as a human right crusader and social justice activist are not in doubt, some of his actions, inactions and utterances especially in recent years and now, are beginning to paint an entirely different picture. Looking at his most recent media outing on the 2023 polls, the comparative literature professor exhibited all the characteristics of a man whose mouth is filled with hot agbado. And we must not shy away from saying this. He sounded quite dishonest, hypocritical…
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Why is America congratulating the winner of this disastrous election? By Chimamanda Adichie Dear president biden, Something remarkable happened on the morning of February 25, the day of the Nigerian presidential election. Many Nigerians went out to vote holding in their hearts a new sense of trust. Cautious trust, but still trust. Since the end of military rule in 1999, Nigerians have had little confidence in elections. To vote in a presidential election was to brace yourself for the inevitable aftermath: fraud. Elections would be rigged because elections were always rigged; the question was how badly. Sometimes voting felt like an…
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Dear Igbo Muslim/Muslim presidency proponents and Senate presidency and speakership aspirants, The South East is not yet ripe for the office of the senate president or the speakership – let’s keep building bridges and flyovers across Nigeria so by 2040, we might be ripe for those offices By then, the bridge will be long enough. You all supported a Muslim/Muslim presidential ticket, you sold your birthright for a bowl of porridge to pave the way for your ambitions. Therefore, in our opinion, nothing should be wrong with a muslim senate president and Muslim speaker if we can have a Muslim…
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There is a certain anomaly that exists in Africa that is often not talked about. A narrative that attempts to cast African nations as needy beggars and the Western world as generous donors. Not only is this narrative wrong, but it has also continued to form clogs in the wheels of Africa’s journey to development and an intentional opportunity to own its destiny. It is without a doubt that African people have been subjected to the very worst kinds of difficulties, slights, deprivation, and violence over the years. It is so much such that except for Asia in geophysical terms and the…
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Ahead of the November gubernatorial elections in Imo State, political activities seem to be taking the centre stage once again in the eastern heartland. The election, which is supposed to be a referendum on the administration of Governor Hope Uzodinma, may not turn out to be what pundits expect it to be given recent happenings in the state. Over the last three and half years, Uzodinma has bastardised governance in Imo State to the point that Imolites can no longer recognise good governance even if it hits them in the face. Transparency, accountability, integrity and a sense of direction which are…
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In the past decades, African visionaries and progressive thinkers have not stopped calling out to African nations to break free from Western prescriptions to cure their problems. Sadly, Africa continues to swallow these Western pills even to overdosing, thereby creating new problems for themselves, while the continent continues to get sicker by the day. Without mincing words, if Africa wants to achieve prosperity and gain an identity of its own, beyond being the former colonies that depend on their ex-colonial masters for survival, the time to wake up is now. It continues to be shocking how Africa, being the second largest continent…
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On April 3, the Wall Street Journal reported that Japan, one of the most prominent US vassal states, is now buying Russian oil at prices significantly above the illegal US/EU cap, effectively breaking the sanctions imposed by the political West. According to the report, Japan also got Washington DC to agree to the exception, claiming that the move was aimed at maintaining the energy security of Japan. The concession outlines just how dependent Tokyo is on Russia for fossil fuels. WSJ claims that (Western) analysts think this contributed to “a lot of hesitancy” in Tokyo to back the Kiev regime more…
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President Donald Trump is being arraigned on the basis of sealed charges. It is unclear why the charges are sealed. Imagine arresting someone on the basis of charges kept from the person. It happens in America as it did in Stalin’s Soviet Union. Perhaps the charges are kept secret so that the media can defame Trump by reporting that his arrest is “related to his alleged involvement in a hush money payment and subsequent cover-up involving a purported affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels,” as Sputnik International reported this morning. Note that Sputnik is a Russian news service and not part of the US…
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Last week, the Economist dedicated its cover and leading article to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s worldview. The timing was perfect: Xi had just completed a controversial three-day visit to Russia, where the two countries signed important agreements expanding their cooperation. Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin both issued hubristic and highly confident statements about the future. Putin invited Russia’s main partners in Latin America, Africa and Asia to use the yuan for foreign trade settlements. Xi said: “There are changes that haven’t happened in 100 years. When we are together, we drive these changes,” Xi told Putin in his departing words. The first is a further boost to de-dollarisation in the Global South;…
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