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Are Bola Tinubu, Femi Fani-Kayode and Bayo Onanuga Aware that their Great Grandfathers were of Nupe Origin? True Sons of Oduduwa know their true enemies are not the Igbo. Their real enemies are those parading today as their reckless political drivers in collaboration with Muslim Fulani oligarchy; those who delight in shedding the innocent blood
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Being the text of Speech by Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi, Initiator, Center for Justice and National Integration, delivered at The Convention of the Igbo in Lagos Organised by Africa Peace and Development Foundation titled, “Which Way Forward: Ndigbo and Nigeria?” on Saturday the 1st of April 2023 Protocol King Solomon’s wisdom is ever relevant to
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The Department of State Services (DSS) is an interesting organization. It is one place the citizens love to hate. The body thrives on Reverse Psychology and gaslighting, saying one thing and meaning the exact opposite and making the citizens doubt and blame themselves for the failures of their leaders. Inimitable also is their ambivalence and
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On Saturday 18 March 2023, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) conducted the gubernatorial and State Assembly elections to mark the second and concluding round of the 2023 elections. On that day, INEC, the law enforcement agencies and the Nigerian populace were presented with a golden opportunity to demonstrate to the rest of the world
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As reactions trail the disclosure by the Department of State Services (DSS) on Wednesday over plot to install interim government ahead of May 29 handover from President Muhammadu Buhari to President-elect Bola Tinubu, Labour Party (LP) has dissociated itself from the alleged plot, denying being part of any unconstitutional arrangement to install an interim government.
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I always insist that the greatest merit for Igbos in recent times is not simply the advent of the internet on the surface! It is the social media aspect of the internet which now allows independent thinkers to challenge the lies of history. In Nigeria, our little corner of the world, through social media presentations,
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All through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialised nation, so they needed resources such as palm oil to maintain that. Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, which is native to the Niger
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It is difficult to control a crowd of slaves in a slave farm but the slave master knows what to do. He targets a few slaves and makes them happy, at least, relatively happier than their counterparts. Make a few slaves happy and they will be loyal to you. They will be happy to defend
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A friend of mine sent me a text message the other day: “Ikechukwu, please stop this fight. This election has been won and lost and it is high time we moved forward. Lamenting over spilt milk is an exercise in futility and if you are close to Peter Obi, please tell him to give peace
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Even when you adopt a name or date of birth, there is evidence that you attract the cyclic essences attached to them. Studying the Olokun essences of leadership, consciousness, propaganda and spirituality, there are striking similarities between Madam Efunroye Tinubu and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Lagos influences. Both were non-Lagosians, starting with links to Abeokuta and
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A Senior Advocate Of Nigeria and Human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana has alleged that the lawyers of the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi have an upper hand heading into the court. The Senior Advocate stated that what the Court will be looking at is the evidences presented by the petitioners and
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The Department of State Services (DSS) says it has confirmed a plot “by some key players” to install an interim government and stop Bola Ahmed Tinubu from being inaugurated as president. The plot includes embarking on violent protests nationwide to engineer the declaration of a state of emergency as well as securing frivolous court injunctions
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An elder statesman and former Chairman of the PDP in Anambra State, Dan Ulasi has disclosed how the relationship between the Igbos and northern Nigeria led by Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello began several decades ago. Speaking during an interview, Ulasi said in 1937 Ahmadu Bello made attempts to become the Sultan of Sokoto
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There are many still in shock about February 25th and March 18 elections. This is understandable. In the week before the 20th of February it appeared the Obidient movement had pulled off a miracle and already made good of the first part of the first promise of the Obi/Datti manifesto: To unite and secure Nigeria.
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Sunday, March 26, 2023 His Excellency,Muhammadu Buhari,The President Federal Republic of Nigeria,The Presidency,The Villa,Abuja,Nigeria. Your Excellency Sir, PETITION AGAINST MR. BOLA AHMED TINUBU FOR MAKING INCENDIARY COMMENTS AND HATE SPEECH BREEDING YORUBA SUPREMACISTS AND CAUSING TRIBAL ATTACK AGAINST IGBOS IN LAGOS AND ACROSS NIGERIA. I write this petition with the full realization that with the
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Nigerians underrated Tinubu, a man who forged his birth certificate and forged his parental background. He forged his school certificate.He forged his identity and name.He forged his village, town, LGA and state of origin.He forged his university degree certificate. And nothing happened. We underrated a man who got away with paying people to impersonate as
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It was in December 2022 that I first saw the chilling video of the then-All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, explaining his political philosophy. “Political power is not going to be served in a restaurant…not served in (sic) a la carte,” he says to what appears to be an inner political circle. “It is
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The Igbo political elite faces the challenge of transforming an unimpeachable moral argument into a winning political coalition. As campaigning for the just concluded presidential election gathered pace, Peter Obi, standard bearer of the Labour Party (LP) found himself athwart two apparently contrary impulses. The first, let’s call it the liberal impulse, centered on the irrepressible energy
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Peter Obi may have lost the Nigerian presidential election, but he and the movement he leads may yet win the political war. This time last year, no one saw Peter Obi coming. Mentally, Nigerians were preparing for yet another general election in a series dominated since the country’s return to democracy in 1999 by the
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We are currently at the crossroads of the Most Serious Economic and Social Crisis in World History. It is an outright war against all humanity: the Planet’s 8 billion people. Starting with the corona crisis in late January 2020, the global crisis (2020-2023) –which is ongoing– has literally disrupted and destroyed people’s lives Worldwide in the course of the last
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A thoughtful man, he has studied Islam deeply, even going to the lengths of learning Arabic in order to read the Quran Liz Truss took over as prime minister of what many consider to be the most Islamophobic government in British history. A government which refuses to engage with the largest representative body of British Muslims and has framed an
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The death of Queen Elizabeth II and the inheritance of the British throne by her eldest son Charles, can either be viewed as a significant event holding the possibility of positive change, or the further manifestation of a beguiling and deceptive show of imperial/colonial self importance. It’s too early to know which way the pendulum will swing, but
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In recent developments “Green King Charles” has endorsed legislation allowing for the genetic manipulation of plants and animals. By Julian Rose, March 27, 2023 Did you know that Prince Charles, now King Charles, was the first to announce the Global Reset? Boy was that prophetic. Farmers in the Netherlands are being persecuted more than ever to stop
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A trillion dollars is a lot of money. If you stacked a billion dollar bills on top of one another, the pile would be 67.9 miles high, but if you stacked a trillion dollar bills on top of one another the pile would be 67,866 miles high. And if you lined up a trillion dollar bills
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Peter Obi Won the Presidential Election, but let the Law take its Course- Governor Nyesom Wike says.
Incumbent governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has opined that although the winner of the 2023 presidential election is the Labour Party 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, Nigerians should allow the Supreme Court to rule over the case that he has filed against the outcome of such election. In a video which was uploaded on
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THE DRAMA IN TRYING TO CONVERT ELECTION PDFs TO SPREADSHEETS My phone pinged: “Tell Mark Essien they are coming for him.” I had no idea what that even meant. It was a forwarded WhatsApp message that someone had sent to a friend of mine. All I was doing was trying to convert PDFs from the
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A Special Report …Prof Nnenna Oti, VC-FUTO, Prof Esimone, VC-UNIZIK, Prof Maduebibisi Iwe, VC-Umudike University, Prof Uzochukwu, Abia REC exempted The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has investigated and found that 50 top Nigerian university professors played various conspiratorial or vicarious roles in the brutal poll rigging and voter suppression
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To whom it may concern and those who want to know the position of the law. OUR NEXT PRESIDENT, HEAD OF STATE, THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE FEDERATION AND COMMANDER IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF FEDERATION. “In a country where the Law Enforcement Agents guard and protect Criminals, the direct message and implication is
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First it was the US secretary of state who went on a trip to Africa, now it is the vice-president and later in the year the president himself is expected to come. This flurry of visits by top figures in the US administration reflects a growing awareness that the US needs to deepen its engagement
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“Don’t stay in Lagos, and benefit from the leadership, infrastructure and economy Lagosians built over time, yet carry resentment towards them. You threaten violence and de-market Lagos on social media. You have options. Behave or relocate!” – Reno Omokri. Let me open this short contribution by saying that I completely agree with the views expressed
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Assume a state with about 30 Local Government Areas (LGAs). Assume each LGA has 10 council wards. That will mean 300 wards in the state. If each ward has 10 polling units that will mean 3,000 polling units in the state. If a political party in the 2023 election spent minimum $500USD per polling unit
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has condemned the “persistent” aversion to people of southeastern extraction, which he describes as Igbophobia. Speaking at an event in Anambra State to commemorate Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s one year in office, Obasanjo recalled his work with the professor of economics as well as the current Director General of the World Trade
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The much awaited 2023 elections have come and gone with it’s happiness and sorrow. With the belief and disbelief in the existence of God. But in all these, the Bible admonished us to thank God. So we thank God for everything. For students of political history, the various “INEC and IREV” results as variously announced
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Declassified files show how Russia’s president, during the 1990s, repeatedly told Western counterparts he was “not against” expansion of the military alliance, Matt Kennard reports. He even devised an agreement to bring the Russian people onside. Boris Yeltsin privately stated he was not against NATO expansion in the 1990s while publicly opposing the military alliance, declassified
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The congratulatory message purportedly from mobil is yet again another desperate search for legitimacy. Tinubu worked briefly with Mobil oil Nigeria. Not ExxonMobil, there’s a world of difference. Exxon Mobil USA of today will not touch Tinubu with a 10ft pole. Not with all the controversies. Doing so is a sure way to suffer huge
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BREAKING OF THE COLONIAL AGREEMENTS WITH FRANCE. I INVITE YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE MALIAN CASE AGAINST IMPERIALIST FRANCE. After independence, 14 French-speaking countries signed 11 agreements with France which are as follows : AGREEMENT n⁰1: THE COLONIAL DEBT TO REPAY THE BENEFITS OF COLONIZATION. That is to say that the newly independent states must reimburse
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The publicity for the Ukraine war has been handled far more successfully by the US, NATO and allies than the campaign to justify the 2003 US war on Iraq. The Ukraine news is pervasive. It comes from the front, from anchors in Kyiv, from interviews with victims, medical staff and politicians. Moscow-based Western correspondents who
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Our thoughts today are with the people of Iraq, whose country was invaded twenty years on March 20, 2003. The destruction and loss of life is beyond description. More than a million deaths have been recorded. It is important to analyze the political justification of the invasion of Iraq which was presented to public opinion. The evidence is overwhelming. The justification to wage war
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On the 24th of March 2023, the people of Serbia commemorated NATO’s illegal and criminal invasion of Yugoslavia. Twenty-four years ago in the early hours of March 24, 1999, NATO began the bombing of the Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia. When Belgrade was bombed, the children’s hospital was the object of air attacks. It had been singled out by military
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Author’s Update In recent developments, German Prosecutor General Peter Frank confirmed “there is no evidence to blame Russia for the destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipelines”: “It currently has not been proven (…) The investigation is ongoing (…) We are currently evaluating all this forensically. [The suspicion] that there had been a foreign sabotage act [in
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𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗴𝗼𝘀 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱? We don’t know, but ‘by the late 15th century, Lagos Island had been settled by Yorùbá fishermen and hunters of the Àwórì stock who called it 𝗢𝗸𝗼’, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica. Later, by the late 16th century, the Kingdom of Benin set up a military post on
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Address A Petition To Rome Accusing The Archbishop And All Catholic Priests Of Abusing Their Office/Calling By Openly Working For Peter Obi And Labour Party At The Alter Of God. Members of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, who are Catholics have accused Archbishop of Onitsha, Valerian Okeke of aiding Priests to Campaign for Labour Party,
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A senior wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical “middleman” have been found guilty of an organ-trafficking plot, which saw them bring a 21-year-old man to the UK from Lagos. The Old Bailey heard the organ was for the couple’s daughter, Sonia, aged 25. She was cleared of the same charge. The victim, a
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Someone forwarded an audio recording to me few days ago which must have been preserved for more than 57 years. It was the voice of Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola (SLA), the last Premier of the Western Region and the 13th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland The voice was unmistakable, in his distinctive Ogbomosho accent. The
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Editors have a mantra, do not look back, move on, write what is current. But sometimes looking back is vital. Those who ignore even the recent past are doomed to understand nothing, sink deeper into quagmires – and bleat again : ‘Why do they hate us’ ? Looking through material for the book that has
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for President Vladimir Putin and his Children’s Rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, over the alleged “unlawful kidnapping of Ukrainian children’. According to the I.C.C: “there are reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears responsibility for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population and that of unlawful transfer of population from occupied areas of Ukraine to
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France secretly armed Biafra in the self-proclaimed republic’s attempt to break away from Nigeria in a bid to weaken British and US influence in Africa, documents seen by RFI reveal 50 years after the beginning of a war that cost up to two million lives. The ethnic Igbo-majority Eastern Region declared its independence on 30
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The deaths of more than a million people in Nigeria as a result of the brutal civil war which ended exactly 50 years ago are a scar on the nation’s history. For most Nigerians, the war over the breakaway state of Biafra is generally regarded as an unfortunate episode best forgotten, but for the Igbo
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Culled from contributions on a WhatsApp discussion group This is a very long read. This insight into the Igbo Cultural mindset was shared on @Balogun Olamilekan’s wall by Ike Chike, where sister Sola Salako Ajulo responded to his very beautiful insight. The response of SSA is below here after that of Ike Chike. It is
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The almighty Lagos Seaport to Atlantic Ocean is 60 nautical miles, While the Potential OSEAKWA Seaport that was abandoned in 1959 by the Nigeria government is only 18 nautical miles to Atlantic Ocean with a depth of 20mft. By implication, shipping goods from China to Lagos with Lagos Seaport is very far than shipping goods
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In my view as a layman, I believe PO’s legal team has done a good job. So we await the judgement of the court. That said, I believe the real challenge for the Tinubu’s legal team would be to prove that Tinubu was validly nominated to run for the presidency considering the defective nomination of
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March 21, 2023 Nigeria carried out the second round of its electoral process with gubernatorial and state assembly elections on March 18. The United States is deeply troubled by the disturbing acts of violent voter intimidation and suppression that took place during those polls in Lagos, Kano, and other states. Members of the U.S. diplomatic
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According to Colonel Markus Reisner, the military strategist of the Austrian Ministry of Defence, Ukraine does not need NATO soldiers, as they are already there on the frontlines as mercenaries. In a video posted on the Intel republic Telegram channel, the Austrian can be seen and heard giving his view on the situation. Reisner’s remark came in response
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Breaking: “Second Russia Offensive” (SRO): Vladimir Sharpens the Cleaver; Volodymyr Fattens the Calf
The Second Russian Offensive to the imminent Fall of Bakhmut NATO prophesied a Second Russian Offensive (SRO) on the muddy heals of rasputitsa [Spring]. Then when queried, on February 13, about upcoming festivities, Secretary-General Stoltenberg imparted: “we are seeing the start already.” The SRO crept imperceptibly. April Fools’ came early. The Russo-Ukrainian War’s 800-kilometer
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…it behoves the average Igboman to critically revisit his cultural inheritances and reflectively evaluate their reasonableness and suitability in today’s world. It is not in the interest of the Igboman to be perpetually misunderstood by friends and foes alike. The Igboman needs to pragmatically rethink his cultural and historical antecedents and redirect his future. It
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It’s often said that a lie told so many times, if unchallenged, may – in the course of time and generations – begin to pass for the truth. One of such is the terrible lie and brazen propaganda, institutionally purveyed (against the Igbo) since the end of the Civil War, to the effect that Igboland
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No woman likes a clingy, insecure man. But that is what we yorubas are becoming, a frightened, insecure and second rate nation. So fearful that we cant even accept one of our own because his mother is ibo. There was a time when the word swagger was synonymous with the yoruba. Reflecting self assurance and
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My brothers and sisters, a lot of emotions and angst have been expended and continue to be poured out over the last few days concerning ‘who’ owns Lagos, the multitude of investment by people of south east origin and the deployment of ethnic and primordial means to press home an ominous message. The emotional response
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Dear Igbos,Ekenem ndi igbo nile na-agu ihe a! On behalf of well meaning, liberated, loving and reasonable Yorùbás, I say WE ARE SORRY! We are sorry for the humiliation, the threats, the discriminations and the bad situation that our tribe has put you. We are sorry for the pains, the traumas and the division we
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There’s something special about the Igbo, otherwise how could a people devastated by a 30-month civil war, displaced, dispossessed of their possessions, positions and political power come back under 40 years to regain all and more? The resilience of the Igbo has rubbed off on other Nigerians in almost everything we do. Our brothers from across
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Cleveland, a city in Ohio, USA, was long regarded as the sufferhead among American cities. Bearing on its big head the weight of an unfortunate nickname – The mistake on the lake – Cleveland shares a few similarities with Nigeria. How did Cleveland get its nickname? This is how. As recently as the late 1960s
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In life, it is not the much said that matters but the much done of the much said. That’s what President Muhammadu Buhari just demonstrated by signing some devolution of powers into law. Restoration of federalism to Nigeria as agreed between the nation’s founding fathers (Zik, Awo, Ahmadu Bello, et al) and colonial Britain is
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The meeting of some Nigerian billionaire businessmen, notably, Aliko Dangote, Tony Elumelu, and Femi Otedola with Bola Tinubu, an illegitimate president-elect, is as insensitive as it is provocative. That is impunity gone too far. As if the show of shame lacks in folly, Mr. Elumelu—the poster vainglory of the Nigeria’s shady banking system—had the affrontery
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Not Because Putin Is So Great, But Because His Crimes Pale in Comparison to the Real Criminals On Friday, the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for the alleged war crime “of [the] unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine.” I have no personal knowledge of whether U.S.
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As aggrieved Parties head to the Presidential election tribunal to make a case against the improper conduct of the February 25, 2023 election as directed by INEC, three critical issues stand out: The eligibility of a contestant to stand for election to the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in view
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Executive Summary of Report by International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety) Introduction: This Special Report (Welcome to Bleeding Republic of Nigeria: A Land Flowing with Blood and Tears) is a compilation of widespread human rights abuses in Nigeria in the past 20 months of the four-year tenure of the central Government
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When the people conclude once and for all, that their government has become the greatest modern threat to Nigerian peace, prosperity and liberty, the rules of the game are going to change dramatically. Once the people reach a point where they no longer trust anyone in their government, when every government action from the Executive,
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In politics, philosopher John Locke is best known as a proponent of limited government. He uses a theory of natural rights to argue that governments have obligations to their citizens, have only limited powers over their citizens, and can ultimately be overthrown by citizens under certain circumstances. This is not the case in Nigeria. Our
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It is correct to say that ‘transformed’ and ‘untransformed’ Retreatist Osun State-born “Lagosians” are dangerously breeding insurgency in Lagos State, Nigeria’s smallest land-massed and most populated sub-national entity. The ‘Retreatist’ Osun State-born “Lagosians” presently threatening lives and properties of defenseless nationalities in the state or any part thereof have been found to belong to a
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The Ides of March March 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the onslaught of the war on Iraq. The US-NATO led invasion of Iraq started on 20 March 2003 on the pretext that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). In March, we will also be commemorating the Vietnam War launched on March 8, 1965 following the adoption
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Washington could clash with Moscow’s forces if Kiev starts to lose, the veteran journalist argues. The United States could get directly involved in the Ukraine conflict if it sees that Kiev’s forces are on the back foot, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh suggested on Tuesday. Speaking at an event in Washington, DC hosted by the
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Being a Press Statement by Balogun Akin Osuntokun, Director-General, the Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation. Good day gentlemen and ladies of the press. Kindly permit me, as the DG of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation, to comment on the rising ethnic tension across the country, particularly. There has been a contrived ethnic tension in Lagos State since
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Someone staked his claim to the presidency of Nigeria with the audacious slogan of Emi L’okan (it is my turn). And he seems to have got it using the Hausa/Fulani/ Kanuri alliance to drive his claim. The real owners of Lagos are on the street now demanding their right to rule themselves. They seem to
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A foremost Nigerian novelist, Professor Chinua Achebe once said: “I have written in my small book entitled The Trouble with Nigeria that Nigerians will probably achieve consensus on no other matter than their common resentment of the Igbo.” Ndigbo have gone through a lot and still go through a lot in Nigeria since the foundation
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(Between Peter Obi lawyers led by Dr. Livy Uzoukwu and INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, today at INEC office)Excerpts: Prof. Mahmood Yakubu We received a letter from Uzoukwu (SAN) on behalf of the Labour Party. The letter is dated March 6, in the letter we were served notice that the team will be here on
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Ten days before the expiration of the legally allowed timeline to file a petition at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal over the outcome of the 2023 presidential election, lawyers to Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, have warned that the continued refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow it access to election
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Nothing on earth is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. For many years, a better percentage of African ladies have continued to embrace the erroneously flawed belief that feminism was all about an unseen rivalry between male and female genders. Anytime the concept of feminism comes into a conversation, they immediately conclude that they were
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When writing stories of your life, it has been often advised not to allow someone else to hold the pen. For many years, Africa has been making a fundamental mistake by largely giving life to the idea of the ‘West’ about Africa by conforming to the stories about the continent that are heavily laced with
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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,
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Over the last two decades, gubernatorial elections in Lagos State have offered ethnic chauvinists the opportunity to engage in ethnocentric gymnastics to score cheap political points. At every election curve, candidates of major political parties are forced to pick a side and engage in needless debates on whether Lagos is a ‘no man’s land’ or
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It is one thing to brazenly steal a mandate to lead people, and it is another to acquire legitimacy to complete the heist. Just as clearly stipulated in social contract philosophies, the agreement has to exist between the ruled and their rulers for governance to happen. It is now weeks since the Presidential candidate of
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Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has advocated the probe and removal of the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Director of ICT, Mr. Femi Odubiyi, owing to his closeness to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. George, the Atona
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In the absence of conditions for peace, military action is required to achieve Russian goals, Putin’s spokesman has said. There are currently no conditions for a peace settlement in Ukraine, meaning Russia has no other option but to keep fighting, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has argued. “The absolute priority for us remains and will always
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The former US president blames bank failures on Joe Biden’s economic policies. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was the fault of US President Joe Biden’s administration, Donald Trump has claimed, warning it could lead to a new Great Depression in the United States. SVB, a major lender focused on tech and startups, which
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Predictions are a notoriously painful exercise. In the world of geopolitics, especially during a time of seismic global transformation, they are nigh near impossible to make. In West Asia, a depressed and neglected region that acts as a punching bag for Great Power competition elsewhere, much relies on the settlement of major power battles in
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My first post on Corporatism described the nature of the disease from an analytical point of view, the ingredients from left and right which make it so virulent and hard to fight and how it is a destroyer of the basic pillars of a civilised society – democracy, truth and prosperity. In fact it is
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday said over 170,000 polling unit results of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections have been uploaded on its Result Viewing Portal (IReV). The Commission also said the reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems (BVAS) would be completed by Tuesday in preparation for the March
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Nigeria and Nigerians will be known all over the world for corruption. Your name – Nigeria will stink of corruption. But after a while; a new phase will come – a phase of righteousness. People from the Nations of the earth will hold a Nigerian and say, ‘we want to follow you to your Nation
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The conduct of the 2023 presidential/National Assembly polls on February 25 has once more stirred deep questions on the credibility and integrity of the Independent National Electoral Commission. A host of domestic and international observers agreed that the polls grossly fell short of minimum global standards. It is a shame that after seven election cycles,
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The words of a public crusader has it that “an immoral and unjust system would always breed contempt for its laws and regulations.” Sometimes, a government disavowing itself from the indictment of civil society organizations can be likened to newspapers which are only a poor shadow of reality. Their information is only relevant to the
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I wasn’t born in the First Republic (i.e., 1960 to 1966) and hadn’t come of age in the Second Republic (i.e., 1979 to 1983), so when I say this year’s presidential election represents the most toxic brew of ethnic and religious chauvinism Nigeria’s democracy has ever had, I’m talking within the limits of my experiential
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In 1966: Nearly 1,000,000 of them were massacred in the North as revenge killings for a coup that was plotted by a young man that bears their name but had never been to their land. They escaped back to their homeland and wanted a country of their own, but they were told that they must
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‘Tinubu’s victory stands’ was the declaration of the Presidency as it replied to PDP, LP, and others on 9th March 2023, in a press conference. The Presidency has said despite the alleged shoddy and shady conduct of the presidential election and the harsh criticism against the Independent National Electoral Commission it generated, the result of
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Hope Uzodinma is Chief Executive of Imo State. He controls the formal institutions of the state. It is his reaponsbiiity to ensure security and well-being of the people by articulating and implementing policies. He is assisted by the State Assembly and other regulatory institutions in the state. Comrade Joe Ajaero is the Chief Executive of
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— Let Oba Rilwan Akiolu Tell Nigerians his Ethnic Ancestry and Leave the Igbo Alone The English man Francis Bacon, the First Baron Verulam (1561-1625 wrote: “He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils: for time is the greatest innovator.” I am looking forward for the day when an Awori will become
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Even as the world’s billionaires grew in number from 793 in 2006 to 946 this year, major mass uprisings became commonplace in China and India. In India, which has the highest number of billionaires (36) in Asia with total wealth of $191 billion, Prime Minister Singh declared that the greatest single threat to ‘India’s security’
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In America, we have an oligarch problem, and it’s much bigger than the oligarch problem that Putin faced when he became president in 2000. The entire West is now in the grips of billionaire elites who have a stranglehold on the media, the political establishment and all of our important institutions. In recent years we have
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First published on July 9, 2020 The idea of the Great Reset derives from the New World Order which is still alive in the minds of the establishment or who we can call the globalists from people like Henry Kissinger to the current US president, Joe Biden. Of course there are many others on the top levels of
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