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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 planners as a strategic target. The causes and consequences of this war against the people of Yugoslavia have been the object of a vast media disinformation campaign, which has sought to camouflage NATO and US war crimes. What was US-NATO’s Strategic Objective: Undermine and destroy Yugoslavia’s “Market Socialism” which ensured…
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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 this case], has so far not been substantiated”, he said during the interview with Die Welt. No evidence of foreign sabotage of an act which has created social havoc and hardship in the European Union, with rising energy prices? People are freezing, unable to pay…
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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 the Island and called it 𝗘𝗸𝗼. Note: Yorùbá fishermen and hunters were the earliest recorded settlers on Lagos Island. They called it 𝗢𝗸𝗼. The Edo met those Yorùbá settlers there. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗮𝗴𝗼𝘀 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 The first chief of Lagos Island on record was…
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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, defame Catholic candidates, others in rival parties. Members of the Catholic extraction in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) have narrated how Archbishop of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province, Valerian Okeke aided Priests under his administration to ditch their primary assignment of preaching the gospel to publicly…
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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 street trader from Lagos, was brought to the UK last year to provide a kidney in an £80,000 private transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London. He said he was promised opportunities in the UK for helping, and that he only realised what was…
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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 summary of what he said, which I have transcribed from Yoruba to English as best as I could was…..CONTINUE READING “…. Let us the Yorubas come together. Let the Ibos not ‘disorganize’ us with this election. We must not allow them to use this election…
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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 been far too long in the making, I found a copy of a letter which I sent to a prominent (UK) Member of Parliament. It is dated November 1993 and clarifies for ever why the invaders were never going to be greeted with ‘sweets and…
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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 the Russian Federation, in prejudice of Ukrainian children.” (emphasis added) The I.C.C. accusation directed against Vladimir Putin of “kidnapping” or “deportation” of Ukrainian children borders on ridicule. The president of the I.C.C. Piotr Hofmanski (see below) refers to the Geneva Convention, without the foggiest understanding of the rights of civilians in a…
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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 May 1967, following a military coup, a counter-coup and what French diplomats described as “pogroms” of tens of thousands of Igbo living in northern Nigeria the previous year. The attempt to break away led to a 32-month war, which was to see about between 500,000…
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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 people who fought for secession, it remains a life-defining event. In 1967, following two coups and turmoil which led to about a million Igbos returning to the south-east of Nigeria, the Republic of Biafra seceded with 33-year-old military officer Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu at the helm.…
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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 such a beautifully written piece by both of them and it is a conversation worth having. Communication is key in understanding cultures What’s your take? Read Ike Chike wrote: I am Igbo. I am proud of who we are. I love Nigeria. I love the…
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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 from China to Oseakwa Ihiala, using the Seaport at Urashi Ihiala Anambra state. It also implies that Imo, Abia, Enugu, Ebonyi, Anambra, Rivers, Delta, Edo, Beyelsa, Benue, Kogi and Akwaibom business men living in Lagos will find it easy to have their business in south-…
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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 his running mate. Section 35 of the Electoral Act prohibits a candidate from knowingly allowing himself to be nominated by more than one political party or in more than one constituency for elective offices. From the filings by Obi’s legal team, they are contending that…
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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 mission observed the elections in Lagos and elsewhere and witnessed some of these incidents first-hand. The use of ethnically charged rhetoric before, during, and after the gubernatorial election in Lagos was particularly concerning. We commend all Nigerian political actors, religious and community leaders, youth, and…
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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 to a question posed during a press conference at the AIES Institute. One of the journalists asked him who would be managing the proposed transfer of tanks to Ukraine – NATO servicemen or Ukrainians. Reisner replied that if the military from Austria or NATO countries…
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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 front bisects the Donbass with a 240-kilometer incision. The SRO engages a segment of Donbass-situated line, with the Russian-held city, Donetsk, at its strategic core. The SRO’s operational theatre contiguously connects 5 small Ukrainian-held cities: (north-to-south) Bakhmut, Chavis Yar, Avdiivka, Marinka and Vuhledar As missiles fly, Bakhmut sits…
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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 is very difficult to be an Igboman in Nigeria. It becomes even more excruciating outside Nigeria. The farther one travels, the more the pull and lure of the homeland. It is difficult to find a home outside the homeland. That’s why the Igboman always longs…
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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 is landlocked or has no access to the Atlantic Ocean. Just recently, this vexatious lie became predominant in the wake of the ethnic-baiting of Igbos in Lagos following the dubious 2023 presidential and governorship elections. Igbos, a merchant race, are being taunted again and told…
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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 confidence. We exuded belief. The ibos secretly admired us. They adopted our clothes and music. They flocked to our churches. We accommodated strangers because we were so sure of ourselves, of our standing in the world, our stature, our swag that we knew our guests…
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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 to all of this noise is understandable when one considers the sky-high properties and extensive investments made over decades by ndigbo. However, our collective expressions of “shock”, “surprise” and indignation seem to border more on sentimentalism and emotional outbursts without reference to a historical context…
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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 have caused the relationship that we share! When you agitated for your own country, you did it without any tribal attack on the Yoruba tribe, all you wanted was a libration from the servitude of the Nigerian system because she has been failing to include…
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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 the Niger have moved from the back seat to the driving seat of the Nigerian economy, commerce, sports and every major sector. Igbo investments span real estate, where they own more than 60 per cent of property in the nation, banking, near total dominance of…
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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 and 1970s, Cleveland was described as a city where ducks flew upside down because there was nothing worth dumping on. An unforgettable incident happened in June 1969 that made the appellation of a rundown city stick to Cleveland like a mask. Just as Nigeria has…
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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 what the deafening clamor for restructuring is all about. The 1999 Constitution could be the worst in the nation’s annals for imposing a unitary system in a federal environment, with 68 key items on the Federal List compared to a little over 30 flimsy and…
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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 to share a video of his family hosting the number one enemy of the Nigerian youths. What an eye-sore!! What a social miasma!! The same Tony Elumelu is alleged to have weaponized his huge influence at the United Bank for Africa (UBA) to morph up…
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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. government-funded claims of such transfers are true, or whether removing orphans from an active war zone is in fact a war crime. It is notable that the ICC did not allege war crimes based on the crime of aggression (see also here), i.e., the invasion itself, perhaps because that might set…
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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 of it’s sacredness and sanctity as the highest position in the country. The validity of the election process against the Provisions of the 1999 constitution of Nigeria as amended. The profundity or otherwise of the declaration of a winner against the violations of the provisions…
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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 of Retired Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari; covering 1st June 2015 to 31st January 2017. The Report is majorly focused on Civil and Political Rights; which is one of the four internationally existing generations of human rights. These fundamental liberties include citizens’ constitutional and legal rights as well as regional and…
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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, the Judicial and Legislative branches seem just another lie intended to manipulate the masses into compliance, the people’s complacency will morph into unbridled rage in an instant. With nothing but liberty left to lose, the people will do whatever it takes to reclaim their mandate…
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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 governments feel no obligation to the citizens and the suffering they inflict on them through insensitive policies is proof. What the government has for the Nigerian masses is utmost contempt for their overlords. Probably the best-known, simple, and short definition of public policy has been…
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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 generation of those that left their state(s) of birth pauperized and uneducated and headed to Lagos in 1950 and 1960s or earlier or thereafter; assimilated and became part of Lagos street gangs including ‘street children’ and drug addicts (retreatists); commonly called “Alaayes” and “Area Boys”.…
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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 by the US Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which authorized President Lyndon Johnson to dispatch ground forces to Vietnam. Also in March we will be commemorating NATO’s War on Yugoslavia which was launched on March 24, 1999 under Operation “Noble Anvil”. All these wars, according…
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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 Committee for the Republic, a non-profit organization, Hersh noted that the US “did stupid things” during the Vietnam War, and suggested that Washington could “start doing something else” in the Ukraine conflict. “I don’t know what happens if it goes bad for Ukraine, you have…
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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 the outcome of the last Presidential election, in which our Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmad, performed above the expectations of our critics and consequently set some political parties on a panic mode. This panic mode is accentuated by their…
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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 be saying, “Awa L’okan” (it is our turn), also forging an alliance with southern ethnic groups, particularly the Igbo. Now, the ajoji godogbo (audacious alien) is jittery and threatening the landlord because the owner wants to rule his land. For those who think only the…
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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 of the country. Perhaps, it is only the Jews that have gone through this level of hostility and still survived. Starting from colonial times, the hostilities the Igbo ethnic group has suffered have been widespread and rooted in no justifiable causes. The ultimate should be…
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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 the seventh at nine in the morning to inspect the materials but most specifically, the letter requested us to get in touch with our resident electoral commissioners across the 37 states of the Federation to make the documents and information available for the prosecution of…
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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 materials stored on the BVAS and IREV may lead to a national calamity. The lawyers led by Livy Uzoukwu (SAN), also said that “not making the documents available will create the impression that INEC is deliberately frustrating us. That’s just the impression it will create…
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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 up for some muscle-flexing game between opposing genders which is further fuelled by a desperate contrivance to bring men under control and end or suppress their chauvinistic posturing. This is all shades of wrong. It is sad that people do not understand that feminism is…
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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 colonial struggles, conflict, identity crisis, and poverty. One thing that must be established is that while those stories still exist and might still be relevant, they shouldn’t exist as the only lens through which the entire African continent is viewed. Over the past few centuries,…
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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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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 a land belonging to the Yorubas. This needless debate, has, on the flip side, continued to offer Gubernatorial candidates an avenue to escape scrutiny concerning their manifesto and what they have to offer the state, which, in turn, exposes the state to ill-prepared leadership and…
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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 the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu committed one of the most organised electoral heists in Africa which saw him snatching an underwhelming victory in Nigeria’s Presidential elections. Tinubu’s triumph at the crooked elections did not come as a startling surprise to keen observers who…
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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 Oodua of Yorubaland, said that INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, should explain to Nigerians how Odubiyi, a former Commissioner for Science and Technology in Lagos State, who is loyal to Tinubu, found his way into INEC as head of ICT. He, however, called for a…
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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 remain reaching the goals that we’ve set for ourselves. At this point in time, they can only be achieved through military means,” the official told journalists on Monday. Peskov was reacting to an article penned by veteran German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger, who served as chair…
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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 was the 16th largest US bank with over $200 billion in assets only a few months ago, imploded on Friday after what analysts called “a classic case of bank run.” Alarmed over the state of the bank, depositors rushed to withdraw funds, which saw SVB’s…
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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 the realms of economy, politics, and (proxy) war. Rather than outright predictions, it might be more useful to characterize the trends likely to develop further in 2023. I’ve asked some of my fellow writers at The Cradle to weigh in with their own takes. But let’s first jump 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 even more dangerous than that! Here we deal with the power of corporatism to destroy humanity itself. In wars, by corruption and by disease. Big Pharma One of the chief characteristics of an anti democratic corporatist society is the way parliament and people become the…
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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 18 governorship and state assembly elections. “As at the last time, over 170,000 of those results have been uploaded,” INEC National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, stated on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. “As you are aware, we are reconfiguring the BVAS for purposes of the governorship and state…
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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 to go and learn righteousness.’ Pa. S. G. Elton The declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of All Progressive Congress (APC) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the President-Elect in the just conducted Presidential Election of 25 February 2023; fulfilled this given word of…
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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, balloting in Nigeria remains riddled with inefficiency and tainted by accusations of result falsification, vote buying, voter suppression, calculated disenfranchisement, and violence. Just like the previous general elections that were defiled by malpractices, Nigerians are traumatised by the first rounds of balloting in the 2023…
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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 crusader not because of the truth it reveals, but because it discloses the biases and perceptions of those who produce it and those who read it. I read about the decision of the Nigerian Labour Congress led by Comrade Joe Ajaero, to shut down economic…
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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 reality. The three major candidates in the election exploited, to varying degrees, Nigeria’s primordial fault lines to enhance their chances of winning. We’re now contending with the aftershocks of this fact. But what has kept me awake these past few days is the creeping normalization…
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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 belong to one indivisible Nigeria For three years, they resisted and lost another 3,000,000 of their kith and kin were fed to the vultures. Their entire homeland was a killing field, they were killed, and they were starved. Kwashiorkor finished up their starving children. Many…
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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 the February 25 Presidential election stands. This is coming on the heels of President Muhammadu Buhari’s foreign tour where he drummed support for a Tinubu presidency. Both actions seem to put finality to the presidential election and make any court process a mere academic exercise…
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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 Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). His responsibility is to ensure that workers in Nigeria who are affiliated to the NLC enjoy their democratic rights to the fullest. Governor Hope Uzodinma is not a king. Comrade Joe Ajaero is not a king. Each has a work to…
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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 the Oba of Lagos, a Yoruba the Oba and not Emir of Ilorin, the Hausa Serikin Gobir not the Sultan of Sokoto, the Emir of Suleja returning as Serikin Zauzau (Zaria), a Nupe man of Tsuede ancestry taking over his ancestral Etsu Nupe throne in…
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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’ were the Maoist-led guerrilla armies and mass movements in the poorest parts of the country. In China, with 20 billionaires with $29.4 billion net worth, the new rulers, confronting nearly a hundred thousand reported riots and protests, have increased the number of armed special anti-riot…
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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 seen these oligarchs expand their influence from markets, finance and trade to politics, social issues and even public health. The impact this group has had on these other areas of interest, has been nothing short of breathtaking. Establishment elites and their media not only stood…
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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 the pyramid whose ideas range from establishing a police state, to implanting microchips the day we are born to track and trace us, to depopulating the planet. I know it all sounds insane but that’s what the globalists have planned for us for a very…
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We are being accused of “spreading disinformation” regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. The Reuters and AP media “trackers” and “fact checkers” will be out to smear the testimonies of parents who have lost their children. “Once the Lie becomes the Truth, there is no moving backwards. Insanity prevails. The world is turned upside down.” Let us be under no illusions, the Covid Jab is not only “experimental”, it’s a Big Pharma “killer vaccine” which modifies the human genome. The evidence of mortality and morbidity resulting from vaccine inoculation both present (official data) and future (e.g. undetected microscopic blood clots) is overwhelming. The official…
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Important article first published on October 11 2022 “We are not threatening anyone.… We have made it clear that any further NATO movement to the east is unacceptable. There’s nothing unclear about this. We aren’t deploying our missiles to the border of the United States, but the United States IS deploying their missiles to the porch of our house. Are we asking too much? We’re just asking that they not deploy their attack-systems to our home…. What is so hard to understand about that?” Russian President Vladimir Putin, YouTube, Start at :48 seconds Imagine if the Mexican army started bombarding American ex-pats…
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Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab’s so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or his claim to having invented the notion of Stakeholder Capitalism a product of Schwab. Klaus Schwab is little more than a slick PR agent for a global technocratic agenda, a corporatist unity of corporate power with government, including the UN, an agenda whose origins go back to the beginning of the 1970s, and even earlier. The Davos Great reset is merely an updated blueprint for a global dystopian dictatorship under…
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“GO TO COURT” seems to have become the new mocking refrain for the brazen and foolhardy. In Nigeria, sacred institutions are treated with utmost contempt. Sadly, the courts are not exempt from this attitudinal dissonance. Check out the many instances when fundamental rights and inalienable freedoms of the citizens are trampled upon or when a highly placed person is oppressing the poor or less privileged. The most severe complaint for redress in this respect will be met with the insulting or condescending remark- “GO TO COURT!” “GO TO COURT” has become a taunt statement or jeer phrase which the unscrupulous…
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The Governors of Rivers and Benue States, Nyesom Wike, and Samuel Ortom, have challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to expose governors responsible for stealing local government funds. The governors who were part of the five Integrity Governors among the governors of the Peoples Democratic Party threw the challenge to the President during the inauguration of the Mgbuosimini Internal Roads in Rivers State. Channels Television reported that President Buhari in a speech at the presidential parley for members of the Senior Executive Course 44 (2022) of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) at the State House, said that state…
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For Immediate Release, March 8, 2023 A group of Nigerians led by Govindex Leadership, Empowerment and Development Foundation have sued the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over its failure to comply with Section 160(I) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As Amended) and Sections 60(5) and 148 of the Electoral Act, 2022. Govindex in the suit filed before the Federal High Court Abuja by its solicitors, Ifeanyi Nrialike Esq. on behalf of Ikechukwu Ezechukwu, SAN & Co., is demanding the criminal prosecution of INEC officials who compromised the integrity of the Saturday, February 25, 2023 Presidential…
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An open letter to Joe Biden By Olivia DiNucci Dear President Biden, My name is Olivia DiNucci and I am the anti-war activist who interrupted your dinner in DC the other night. You, the most powerful man in the world, were sitting right in front of me. Normal people like me don’t often have access to people like you and I couldn’t resist addressing you knowing we are in such a pivotal moment in history, one year after the horrific Russian invasion of Ukraine. I know that it was President Putin’s decision to illegally and inhumanely invade Ukraine but I believe you…
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When former US President George W. Bush and his neocon regime launched their anti-terrorism campaign after the September 11th attacks, he declared that “Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” Western threats against the Global South continue today. In the recent Munich Security Conference 2023, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that “Neutrality is not an option, because then you are standing on the side of the aggressor,” she continued “and this is a plea we are also giving next week to the world again: Please take a side,…
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This was originally published in October 2015. People these days look at you like a weirdo if you talk about the healing properties of plants or any other holistic practices. Much like anything else, there is a lot of politics and money behind our modern medical system. It all starts with John D. Rockefeller (1839 – 1937) who was an oil magnate, a robber baron, America’s first billionaire, and a natural-born monopolist. By the turn of the 20th century, he controlled 90% of all oil refineries in the U.S. through his oil company, Standard Oil, which was later on broken up to…
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[NATO’s goal is] “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” Lord Ismay, first NATO Secretary-General (1952-1957). “Near-term-thinking [by political and business decision-makers] is not only deeply irresponsible—it is immoral.” Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, (in a speech to the General Assembly, Monday February 6, 2023). “Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.” Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017), Polish-born American political theorist. (In his book ‘The Grand Chessboard’, 1997). “Peace is the virtue of civilisation.…
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Chief Martin Agbaso is a Nigerian economist, politician and was a one time winner candidate for Governor of Imo State. Agbaso popularly called Ochoudo which means The Peacemaker or one who seeks peace, has played significant roles both in the corporate world and in politics in Nigeria especially in the south eastern region of Nigeria.. He was a special assistant on Ecology to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Olusegun Obasanjo. Early life Chief Martin Agbaso was born on April 5, 1959 in Emekuku, Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State. The first son of Chief…
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The one thing that is worse than being a slave is being a slave that loves his chains. For many decades, southern Nigerians have often through their actions and inactions, shown that they love their chains and don’t seem interested in welcoming any idea that bears some semblance of genuine freedom. Despite the carefully-orchestrated scenarios created in recent times by the Fulani Oligarchy in Nigeria, the truth remains that to date, they still own Nigeria and are not prepared to give up an inch of their stronghold on the country for any reason. The Lugardian contraption and geographical expression called Nigeria is…
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Growing up, two proverbs stuck out for me, one by my father, and the other was a Pidgin English saying. One was: “If one person buries himself, one hand will stick out”. Young, impressionistic, and inquisitive, I asked for an explanation. My father explained it away both as an idiomatic expression and a literary saying. According to him, if one person tries to bury himself, certainly the hand that covered his body with sand would need another hand to cover it. And left that way, the man wouldn’t be fully buried. The other was: “If a cunning man die, a…
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Lagos has been a cosmopolitan, global destination with a modern seaport at Apapa since the mid-1800. It became a Crown Colony in 1861. I did a research for the Nigerian Customs, went into the Federal Archives at the University of Ibadan and discovered records of the Customs Administration of Lagos since 1877. Could have been earlier. Lagos was developed by people from diverse parts of the world. The British contributed their bit, ditto indigenous people, as well as other West African groups like Dahomians, Ghanaians, Togolese, etc. From within Nigeria, you have early settlers like the Bini, and the Tapa,…
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At some point the war in Ukraine will end, and when it does, the resulting influx of mercenaries will send shockwaves through Africa. As the current conflict grinds toward its grim one-year anniversary, experts disagree on what might happen next. But eventually one side will win, or the fighting will morph into a low-intensity conflict. At this point, thousands of former soldiers with combat experience will hit the open market. These soldiers will find limited job prospects in Ukraine or Russia, as both armies cut down on active-duty troops. The Wagner Group and other private military companies from South Africa, France,…
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Chief Martin Agbaso (Ochoudo) has joined the race for Imo State governorship election under the Labour Party. Agbaso, the former Imo governorship election winner whose election was illegally cancelled and fresh elections conducted during the 2007 elections, revealed this via a tweet on Wednesday evening. He said the move is “In response to the overwhelming call by Imolites, well meaning Igbo leaders and the global Obidient family.” Agbaso a former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) said he has “stepped forward” and the “journey to fix Imo has began.” This comes as very refreshing news for the…
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8th March 2023 The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, gave the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the nod to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, it used for the presidential election. The court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of Justices, held that stopping the electoral body from reconfiguring the BVAS would adversely affect the impending Governorship and State Assembly elections. It dismissed objections that the Labour Party, LP, and its presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, raised against INEC’s move to reconfigure all the BVAS. According to…
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Take it like this. You make a transfer from your bank account to another. Once you’ve done this, between the time it leaves your account and hits the other account, nobody can interfere with the process.It’s technology. The algorithm of that software incorporates block-chain technology and does not give room for interference once the process is initiated. This is to ensure tamper-proof transmission of results. INEC deliberately shut down the server on election day, after their supervisors gave most polling unit agents fake passwords. When the polling agents tried to upload at the PU’s, they couldn’t log in. Very few…
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8TH OF MARCH, 2023 The present situation in Imo state especially as it concerns reasonable and effective social dialogue has become so toxic that it is almost impossible to engage the government in any decent conversation. Hobbesian state of nature has become prevalent exposing not just workers in the state but institutions and individuals to the most horrendous of scare, fear and violence in their daily activities. A state that once prided itself as the Eastern Heartland which provided weekend rendezvous to those looking for relaxation and comfort by the deliberate actions of this government has become heavily terrorised. Citizens’…
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Prof. Femi Olufunmilade writes : ‘Tinubu and his minions like the Elegushis sold the better part of Lekki, Ajah etc to whoever had money. That was how Igbos came to own lots of property there. They paid to the jeunsoke former governor and his front estate companies. What Tinubu wouldn’t share is power. It must be in his hands. But he can sell Lagos to anybody at the right price. Go to Eko Atlantic City. You must be a millionaire in dollars to own a plot there. Again, the Yoruba who own properties there are mainly in the Tinubu circle.…
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( Published on May 3, 2017 By Ṣeun Opejobi) The Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, has claimed that Lagos State is not part of Yoruba land. In a statement from Akiolu’s Palace, the monarch traced the historical background of the state and why it should not be regarded as part of Yoruba land. The statement reads: “Coming from the Palace, with what I was told by my late paternal grandmother, who was a descendant of Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi and also reading from factual historical books, let me share this knowledge with you all on Eko/Lagos. “Modern day Lagos was…
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Introduction According to a video published by the World Economic Forum in 2016, by 2030 ‘You’ll Own Nothing. And You’ll Be Happy.’ See ‘8 predictions for the world in 2030’. Clearly, if this prediction is to come true, then many things must happen. Let me identify why the World Economic Forum believes it will happen and then investigate these claims. Among other questions, I will examine whether those who will own nothing will include the Rothschild, Rockefeller and other staggeringly wealthy families. Or, perhaps, whether they just mean people like you and me. In fact, a primary intention behind the Elite’s…
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US Investments in Nazi Germany. Rockefeller Financed Adolf Hitler’s Election Campaign Incisive historical analysis. From World War I to the Present: Dollar denominated debt has been the driving force behind all US led wars. Wall Street creditors are the main actors. They were firmly behind Nazi Germany. They financed Operation Barbarossa and the invasion of the Soviet Union. The Rockefellers funded Hitler’s election campaign. Wall Street also “appointed” the head of Germany’s Central Bank (Reichsbank). World War II: More than 80 years ago was the start of the greatest slaughter in history. If we are to approach the problem of “responsibility for the war”, then we first…
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Of relevance to the current crisis, this carefully researched article was first published more than ten years ago on June 1, 2011. (Part one of a four-part series) The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths. But their monopoly over the global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch. According to company 10K filings to the SEC, the Four Horsemen of Banking are among…
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First published on May 10, 2022 77 years ago Germany surrendered to allied forces finally ending the ravages of the Second World War. Today, as the world celebrates the 77th anniversary of this victory, why not think very seriously about finally winning that war once and for all? If you’re confused by this statement, then you might want to sit down and take a deep breath before reading on. Within the next 12 minutes, you will likely discover a disturbing fact which may frighten you a little bit: The allies never actually won World War II… Now please don’t get…
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Amid incessant NATO aggression and escalation of hostilities within Russia, now also including US-backed Kiev regime terrorists targeting schoolchildren, Moscow has started revamping the doctrinal approach to the use of its strategic arsenal. Rather curiously, the new document, published by the “Military Thought” magazine run by the Russian Ministry of Defense, attracted little attention in Western media. It should be noted that such changes are made only once in several decades or even longer. The strategic posturing of countries, particularly superpowers, is usually “set in stone”, meaning that changes are prompted only by major events of historical proportions. It was only a week…
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This is an important article. The statements by Blinken reported in the WP by David Ignatius remain to be confirmed. There is a complex decision-making process. It is not the US Secretary of State who ultimately decides. (M.Ch, GR) David Ignatius (lead image, left) has been a career-long mouthpiece for the US State Department. He has just been called in by the current Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) to convey an urgent new message to President Vladimir Putin, the Security Council, and the General Staff in Moscow. For the first time since the special military operation began last year, the war party in…
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The world over, politicians try to win elections by fair and foul means. That tendency is the reason institutions and laws exist and are operated by men of honour and integrity, who are sticklers to rules and unyielding to pressures from partisan interests. The February 2023 Presidential election in Nigeria is a watershed and a new low in the kind of life Nigerians live as human beings who deliberately refuse to grow up and join civilized societies. Our leaders lack honour and integrity, and have now added impunity by refusing to obey the laws of the land. Nigeria’s problems are…
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The war in Ukraine is not about democracy, freedom, human rights, or Ukrainian peoples. It is about the destruction of all of the above, and the main perpetrators are the usual suspects: Washington and the West. It is the West and its agencies, that revived and emboldened nazism in Ukraine since the end of WW2. It is Washington that conducted a blatant and violent coup against the democratically-elected Ukrainian government in 2014, thus destoying democracy and freedom and even the pretense of democracy and freedom for all of Ukraine at that moment and for years to come. The on-going coup…
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According to a newly published safety report on the incident, the pilot thought the instructor was pretending to be asleep as the pair flew a circuit near Blackpool Airport in Lancashire, England, on June 29, 2022. Shortly after takeoff, the instructor’s head rolled back. The pilot knew the 57-year-old instructor well and thought he was just pretending to take a nap. However, when he landed the plane and his co-pilot was still resting on his shoulder and not responding, he realized something was amiss. A post-mortem examination concluded that the instructor died from acute cardiac failure. He had passed a medical four months earlier. The…
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In the past, I have expressed my opinions on many subjects concerning the World Economy: Climate Change, Deforestation, Desertification, Population Control, Abject Poverty, Cleaning up our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Streams, and Creeks, Human Slavery, Over-fishing of our Oceans, Recycling of Plastics, Basic Education for all of humanity, Restoring Trust, Honesty, Respect and the rule of law for all peoples of the earth, Stop killing wild animals for profit, Stop invading countries for their resources and negotiate fairly, Eliminating World Hunger Potable water for all living things on Earth to name a few. These are truly noble goals that we are going…
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This incisive article was written on April 30, 2003 in the immediate wake of the war on Iraq, by renowned historian and political scientist Dr. Jacques Pauwels, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). The article largely pertains to the presidency of George W. Bush. A timely question: Why Does the Biden administration need war, including a $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program? War against Russia and China is currently on the drawing board of the Pentagon. The US has conducted numerous wars since the end of what is euphemistically called the post war era: Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen… It’s what the Project for the…
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The 2023 presidential election in Nigeria is not the worst in human history. That dubious reputation belongs in Liberia where, in 1927, the then President Charles D.B. King scored 234,000 votes out of a total of 15,000 registered voters. The victor was also kind enough to give his opponent 9,000 votes as a mark of fairness and justice. That uncommon feat is naturally in the Guinness Book of World Records. We in Nigeria have not reached that enviable height. We will get there one day, soon. But we had a presidential election last Saturday in which the person who was…
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THE intimidation, threats, and harassment of non-indigenes after the February 25 presidential/National Assembly elections in Lagos State speak to the primitive nature of politics in Nigeria. There have been reports of physical attacks, threats to evict non-natives from the state, and denial of access to social services because the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, who is from Lagos, lost the state to Peter Obi, the Labour Party candidate from Anambra State in the South-East. The security agencies and leaders of thought in Lagos and throughout the South-West should defuse this incendiary trend with urgency. This tendency does not…
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The 2023 elections that many Nigerians have always talked about, prayed, dreamt, prophesied, hoped, and campaigned about finally came and passed over the weekend leaving most of them bruised and mentally defeated. In the aftermath, a good majority of them have resorted to prayers ignoring the fact that if prayers and good wishes were prerequisites for a prosperous country, Nigeria will be far richer than China. Indeed, they have refused to acknowledge the fact that repeated idiocy has never been known to produce different outcomes notwithstanding the frequency of attempts. After casting their votes on Saturday, anxious Nigerians waited patiently for the…
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The Nigerian contraption has remained a classical case of ‘the more you look, the more you see’. As presently constituted, Nigeria is no doubt a political invention that is in urgent need of divine intervention. The unwilling union of the forcefully amalgamated southern and northern protectorates has continued to trudge on and secure validation at any major turn while shying away from the reality of Fulani control and domination. An election cycle has just ended and a number of southerners in Nigeria are in a jubilant mood about the outcome that saw the emergence of a Yoruba man from the South West…
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Since the return of Nigeria to the current democratic dispensation, the judiciary has increasingly made incursions in determining electoral victories and outcomes. In many cases, their judgments are based on technicalities, like the case of Senator Ademola Adeleke in 2019, in which a judge failed to do the needful and Adeleke lost as a result. Each time such judgment is handed down, it rapes democracy by usurping the democratic rights of the citizens to directly choose who governs them. It is a sort of civilian coup. Many may claim this to be a global practice, but the Nigerian experience is…
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1)Birds don’t urinate. 2)Horses and cows sleep while standing up. 3)The bat is the only mammal that can fly. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk. 4) Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids. 5) Despite the white, fluffy appearance of the Polar Bear’s fur, it actually has black skin. 6) The average housefly only lives for 2 or 3 weeks. 7) For every human in the world there are one million ants. 8) A small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make…
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