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In my opinion, Lagos is not a NO MAN’S LAND. If for nothing else, for the mere fact that it is located in the Southwest of Nigeria establishes it as a Yorubaland. However, Lagos is cosmopolitan. After Calabar it became the colonial capital and later the federal capital of Nigeria before the capital was moved to Abuja. Lagos houses the biggest seaports in Nigeria, local and international airports, foreign missions, multinational corporations, massive industrial estates, Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies and so on. It is a potpourie of sorts and the commercial capital of West Africa. These attracts Nigerians from…
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One year ago Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat to Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 presidential election. Femi Aribisala, a scholar, international affairs expert and iconoclastic church pastor in Lagos, takes a very different view regarding the last year elections. He claimed that long before Jonathan lost the election, he had been defeated by the machinations of Jega and INEC. The innovation of the permanent voters cards is designed to permanently disenfranchise the south. If this is not redressed immediately, the north will always determine the winner in Nigerian elections. If you did not see my column last week, it was because I did…
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How Totalitarianism Is Designed to Ensnare Our Consent The real purpose of ninety nine percent of the available media out there is designed to help us ignore the truth. Not just mainstream media – all media. First for those who may be unfamiliar with the concept of unlimited hangout – a definition. That this Covid pandemic and the responses to it – and a whole host of hot button issues – were designed to manufacture our consent is the case. This is what this essay will address in the best shorter unlimited hangout I can manage. More complete descriptions of…
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At last week’s Rage Against the War Machine peace rally in Washington there was no shortage of speakers who denounced the Biden Administration’s hypocritical foreign policy, which essentially judges any violent action undertaken by the United States and its friends as good by definition while anything done by rivals or competitors, sometimes conveniently referred to as “enemies,” as “evil.” In the current context of Ukraine versus Russia, where the US is engaged in proxy warfare, speakers were able to cite and compare the formidable list of America’s armed interventions worldwide since World War Two ended. Neither Russia nor any other nation comes…
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This incisive article by Nauman Sadiq was first written on March 18, 2022, barely two weeks after the Russian invasion, provides a carefully documented portrait of President Zelensky and his links to the CIA. Contradictions: Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish. He supports the Nazi Azov Battalion, the two Nazi parties, which have committed countless atrocities against the Jewish community in Ukraine. He belongs to a Russian-Jewish family. He was brought up as a native Russian speaker, who until recently was not fluent in Ukrainian. And now his government is involved in targeting the Russian speaking population throughout Ukraine. Amidst Russia’s impending Ukraine invasion last…
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Opposition parties in Nigeria’s fiercely contested polls will attempt to do what has been described as the impossible – getting a court to overturn the outcome of a presidential election in Africa’s most populous nation. Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar, the second and third-placed candidates in the tightest presidential election since the end of military rule in 1999, are heading to court to challenge the result that saw Bola Tinubu of the ruling party declared the winner with 37% of the vote. While Mr Abubakar of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) called the result “a rape of democracy”…
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Pres. Buhari-led administration and his ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) colluded with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu and some elements in the electoral umpire, to effect the most audacious electoral heist ever perpetuated in Nigeria, with soldiers, policemen and other security personnel, playing prominent roles in the robbery. Democratic nations across the world should condemn perversions of the virtue of democracy and not wait until violent revolts/coups to express indignation. A rigged poll, as the one conducted by Nigeria’s INEC on 25th February 2023, is practically, legally and morally equivalent to a coup or violent and…
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The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), has called on the United States of America, United Kingdom and European countries to impose visa ban on the Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, and other 43 top INEC staff for allegedly rigging last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in the country. The group also called for visa ban on four state governors; Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, Hope Uzodinma of Imo State and David Umahi of Ebonyi State. The group made the call in petition to 31…
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Africa’s biggest economy is facing a deepening fiscal crisis, acute shortages of domestic and foreign currency, and widespread insecurity. The government’s ability to deal with those issues is being undermined by a gasoline subsidy that will drain 6 trillion naira ($13 billion) from state finances this year — about two-thirds of the revenue expected to be generated by oil and gas output. For overseas investors, Nigeria’s multiple exchange rates and moves by the central bank to ration dollars are also a big deterrent. “The next president will be tasked with a course correction anchored on sound economic policies, fiscal and…
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U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on Nigeria’s recent elections: “The ongoing electoral process in Nigeria is widely viewed as deeply flawed by election observers and many Nigerians. It is disappointing to see the administration rush to embrace the result while the full picture of what occurred during this electoral process is yet to be seen. “I’ve expressed similar concerns related to other areas of our relationship with the Nigerian government. I worry this rush to judgement will undermine our ability to be an effective partner to all…
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The Financial Times says Nigeria’s recently concluded presidential election was flawed and mismanaged. In an editorial published on Wednesday, the London-based publication said the results of the election failed to pass the basic message of democracy — that a nation can choose its leaders. “The election – which appears to have delivered the presidency to Bola Tinubu, a wealthy political fixer running for the incumbent All Progressives Congress – was badly mismanaged at best. It failed to set the example needed for west Africa, a region where too many national leaders have extended term limits or resorted to seizing power at…
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Since February 25, 2023, the day that the Presidential Election was conducted, most Nigerians have been in shock following the incompetent handling and mismanagement of the electoral process by the Independent National Elections Commission (INEC). In the process of trying to provide an explanation for its ineptitude, INEC issued a press release through one of its national commissioners, Barrister Festus Okoye, which claimed that its failure to transmit results from the polling booths across the country arose from the failure (or is it inability?) of its information technology infrastructure to handle the demands of national elections as well as it…
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The Guardian view on Nigeria’s election: A fresh start? Not this time It is perhaps unsurprising that many Nigerians are dissatisfied with the outcome of the presidential election. The winner, Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), ran on the slogan “It’s my turn”. It seemed to epitomise the uninspiring campaign of an immensely wealthy veteran powerbroker trailed by corruption claims, which he denies. The main opposition Peoples Democratic party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and the outsider challenger, Peter Obi of the tiny Labour party, want the results scrapped, citing problems with both voting and counting. On any account, Mr Tinubu hardly gained…
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Allegations of rigging may hamper his efforts to unite a divided country After a chaotically organised vote and messy count, Bola Tinubu, the candidate of Nigeria’s incumbent ruling party, has been declared the winner of the closest presidential election in decades. Mr Tinubu, a 70-year-old former governor of Lagos and longtime kingmaker in Nigerian politics, took 37% of the vote, the electoral commission said on March 1st. This placed him ahead of Atiku Abubakar (29%), a tycoon standing for the People’s Democratic Party (pdp), the main opposition, and Peter Obi (25%), a wildcard third-party candidate representing the Labour Party. Copyright © The…
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On February 25th, Elon Musk tweeted “That election was arguably dodgy, but no question that there was indeed a coup.” By “That election,” he was referring to Viktor Yanukovych’s having won the Presidency of Ukraine in an election about which even the British Guardian newspaper had headlined on 8 February 2010, “Yanukovych set to become president as observers say Ukraine election was fair”, and it made clear that even Western international observers there were testifying to the authenticity of that electoral win by Yanukovych, such as by its reporting that, “Observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said there were no indications…
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Robert Gates, the former US Secretary of Defense, wrote in his memoirs that when the decision was made to launch a military attack against Afghanistan in 2001, that nobody in Washington had a real idea of how complex a nation it is. This included Afghanistan’s various ethnic groups and the rivalries between urban and rural areas of the country. It was a similar story with Iraq which the US, with heavy British support, invaded in the spring of 2003. Gates admitted “nearly always, we begin military engagements–wars–profoundly ignorant about our adversaries and about the situation on the ground” (1). Gates…
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The Twitter Files have lifted the lid on a secret alliance between Silicon Valley, intelligence agencies and the political establishment The US Congress last tried to grapple with what the country’s ballooning security services were up to nearly half a century ago. In 1975, the Church Committee managed to take a fleeting, if far from complete, snapshot of the netherworld in which agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and National Security Agency (NSA) operate. In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, the congressional committee and other related investigations found that the country’s intelligence services had sweeping surveillance powers and…
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Over the past year Ottawa has given Ukraine over $2 billion in weapons. The size of the arms donation is unprecedented in Canadian history. According to a February 17 Le Devoir calculation, Canada has delivered $2.26 billion in weapons to Ukraine. The paper costed 17 different announcements, which include 4 heavy tanks, 4,200 single-use rocket launchers, an anti-aircraft missile system, 4 howitzers with 27,000 shells, 76 drone cameras, 247 armored vehicles and more. On Friday the Liberals announced they were sending four more heavy tanks, an armored recovery vehicle and more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition. Since World War II, this quantity of…
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It is fundamental to state at this outset that there is no presidential election yet conducted in 2023 and that this is one moment when one would wish he were not a Nigerian. INEC started the process and there was voting but the collation of the results veered off the course of the law and has now ended in irredeemable and incurable deformity. Verification and authentication of results must first be done before collation and announcement at Ward, LG, and State levels and in the final stage at the national level. Results of elections from 176,846 polling units ought to…
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The All-Share Index closed trading at 55,508.61 points after opening trading at 55,806.26 points on the last day of trading in February. This represents a -0.53% drop day on day. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced in the early hours of Wednesday that the former governor of Lagos State Bola Ahmed Tinubu was declared winner of the controversial election that took place on Saturday February 25th, 2022. Most young Nigerians had showed support for the election of Labour party candidate Peter Obi as president, but he ended third with about 6.1 million votes despite also winning 12 states same…
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Nigeria’s political landscape has been dominated by a highly contested presidential election, with Bola Ahmed Tinubu declared as the president-elect by the Independent National Election Commission on Wednesday, March 1st, 2023. Tinubu secured a total of 8,974,726 votes, defeating his main rivals Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, who received 6,984,520 and 6,101,533 votes, respectively. This election has captured the attention of both local and foreign media outlets, as its outcome could have significant implications for Nigeria’s economy and social stability. As foreign investors closely monitor the situation, several major news organizations have provided extensive coverage of the election and its…
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Mr. Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos and the ruling party candidate, campaigned using the slogan “It’s my turn.” He promised to address widespread insecurity and economic woes, but he faced concerns about his fitness for office. The purported winner of Nigeria’s presidential election, Bola Tinubu, is a divisive figure in Africa’s most populous country. Mr. Tinubu is revered by his cronys as a political wizard and the man who turned around the fortunes of Lagos, Nigeria’s labyrinthine megacity. His supporters are hoping he can repeat that performance on a national level. Others deride Mr. Tinubu, the candidate of the…
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Chioma Agwuegbo was one of tens of thousands of young Nigerians who took to the streets in October 2020 to demand an end to police brutality in Nigeria. The mass movement, which became known as #EndSARS, called for the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad after a video of a man getting killed by the police went viral. As Agwuegbo protested in the capital city of Abuja, where she heads a women’s rights non-profit called TeachHerNG, she recalls police firing live rounds and tear gas at her. Agwuegbo says she was “heartbroken” by the government’s response to the protests, which…
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The election, which appears to have delivered the presidency to Bola Tinubu, a wealthy political fixer running for the incumbent APC, was badly mismanaged at best. It failed to set the example needed for west Africa, a region where too many national leaders have extended term limits or resorted to seizing power at gunpoint. Nigeria remains a democracy, but only just. The outgoing president, Muhammadu Buhari, had staked what remains of his tattered reputation on a clean contest. Yet the INEC badly misfired. Voting started late in many districts, depriving millions of the right to vote. The system to upload…
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(Published in New York Times on Feb. 28, 2023) Imagine standing patiently in line, waiting to vote, and suddenly men with guns arrive on motorcycles and start shooting. Imagine men dashing into your polling unit, violently seizing ballot boxes and taking them away. Imagine other ballot boxes being destroyed. Imagine being beaten to keep you from voting for a particular candidate. Imagine a crowd of people chanting “We must vote! We must vote!” when polling workers failed to arrive as expected. Imagine the police doing very little. All these things happened during the Nigerian presidential elections on Saturday. Through it…
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By James A. Lucas Introductory Note by Michel Chossudovsky Let us put this in historical perspective: the commemoration of the War to End All Wars acknowledges that 15 million lives were lost in the course of World War I (1914-18). The loss of life in the second World War (1939-1945) was on a much large scale, when compared to World War I: 60 million lives both military and civilian were lost during World War II. (Four times those killed during World War I). The largest WWII casualties were China and the Soviet Union: 26 million in the Soviet Union, China estimates its losses at…
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25 February 2023 Covid, Capitalism, Friedrich Engels and Boris Johnson By Colin Todhunter “And thus it renders more and more evident the great central fact that the cause of the miserable condition of the working class is to be sought, not in these minor grievances, but in the capitalistic system itself.” Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) (preface to the English Edition, p.36) The IMF and World Bank have for decades pushed a policy agenda based on cuts to public services, increases in taxes paid by the poorest and moves to undermine labour rights and…
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25 February 2023 By Manlio Dinucci We are not on the first but on the ninth anniversary of the war in Ukraine, which was unleashed in February 2014 with the coup d’état under US-NATO direction. Speaking from Warsaw, President Biden promised to “stand by President Zelensky no matter what.” He is echoed by President Meloni who, reversing the position assumed in 2014, assured Zelensky that “Italy will be with you until the end”. These are disturbing statements, given the real possibility that the conflict could lead to a nuclear war, which would be the end not only of Europe but…
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This article was written more than six years ago, two weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20th 2017. (The author is based in Canada and is not involved in U.S. politics). In the light of recent events pertaining to the FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, it is important to carefully reflect on the history of the Trump presidency and its ongoing aftermath. According to reports: the FBI had a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago: Some 30 to 40 FBI agents and around 10 to 15 FBI vehicles. The FBI refused to allow Mr. Trump’s attorney or…
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The lightning visit of US President Joe Biden to Ukraine and the new military aid offered to the country aims to reverse the advances made by Russia in recent months. It also demonstrates that the US is desperately trying to prolong the conflict for as long as possible. However, to serve as a warning that the Kremlin is prepared to take every measure to ensure Russia’s security, Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended his country’s participation from START III (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). US President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kiev on February 20, a gesture of political, emotional and obviously military support…
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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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Welcome to the multipolar world of weapons exports, which is expected to grow even when the conflict is over. This is part of our weeklong series marking the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, February 24, 2022. Earlier this month, arms maker General Atomics made Ukraine a tempting offer. For the low price of $0.50 a pop, the defense contractor would send Kyiv two of its top-of-the-line MQ-9 Reaper drones, which are usually valued at about $30 million per plane. (Budget-conscious readers should keep in mind that shipping and handling — worth nearly $20 million — were not included.) While…
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The Invisible Victims of the War in Ukraine “It is the writer’s duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader’s civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one’s eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished.” ― Vasily Grossman. On 20 February Didier Reynders, the European Commissioner for Justice, announced that a new international centre will be set up in July of this year to investigate war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine over the course of the last year. Yet when Ukrainians are tortured by their own government the EU…
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Since the dawn of human civilization 5,000 years ago, ordinary people like you and me have been engaged in an endless struggle to resist efforts by elites, whether local, national, international or global, to assert complete control over us and the resources around us. And for 5,000 years, with some wins and a great many losses, we have managed to stave off the worst. Finally, in January 2020, the World Economic Forum launched its ‘Great Reset’: The final assault in the Elite’s long war against humankind and nature itself. As we pass the third anniversary since this final battle was…
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Author’s Update The conclusion of “No Evidence So Far” in the title referred to the strong suspicion that this horrendous quake was the result of an ENMOD engineered disaster. (Environmental Modification Techniques). Up to this day it killed more than 48,000 people, injured more than half a million, and still tens of thousands are missing. Will there ever be justice? Will the presumed perpetrators be brought to trial? The “no evidence” statement is wearing thinner and thinner, especially, when listening to Serdar Hussein, the Head of the Turkish Space Agency talking on Russian TV. He uses hyperbolic emblematic speech, when talking about…
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By Maxim Nikolenko It was 23 February 2022. By then, the Ukrainian elite knew that Russia’s military attack was imminent. Wealthy tycoons and politicians, including Secretary of National Security Council Oleksiy Danilov, already made accommodations to make sure their military-age sons would be out of the country. The only thing left was to prepare government agencies for war. There “was a huge meeting of Ukrainian tycoons with President Zelensky” and his cabinet on February 23, commented Taras Berezovets, a Ukrainian analyst and television host. “They all declared their readiness to” stand with the regime and therefore mobilize the rest of the population to fight for their cause. The…
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By Law Mefor Unitary Nigeria is essentially a military legacy for the country has always been a federal environment. Colonial Britain recognized this fact since the 30s. Thus Bernard Bourdillon, the Governor-general at that time initiated and laid the foundation of federalism in Nigeria in 1939 by creating three provinces. He later handed over the draft constitution to his successor Arthur Richards and it became the Richards Constitution of 1946. Federalism as a system of distributing power between national and state governments progressed in Nigeria since then, until the military coup of January 1966 when the military imposed a unitary…
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By Law Mefor The treasonable actions of some APC governors over the naira redesign, a matter constitutionally exclusive to the Federal Government, should worry all patriots who want the February/March elections to hold. These latter-day saints want the naira redesign policy halted or they truncate the election. The interests of these governors are varied. Apart from the need for big cash to push in their surrogates as successors, there could be other more latent issues that they need to keep the lid on even after office. For example, to date, nobody knows how the bandits were brought into Nigeria in…
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With the Ukraine war now reaching its one-year mark on February 24, the Russians have not achieved a military victory but neither has the West achieved its goals on the economic front. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and its European allies vowed to impose crippling sanctions that would bring Russia to its knees and force it to withdraw. Western sanctions would erect a new Iron Curtain, hundreds of miles to the east of the old one, separating an isolated, defeated, bankrupt Russia from a reunited, triumphant and prosperous West. Not only has Russia withstood the economic assault, but…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the country’s temporary withdrawal from the New START Treaty. Moscow is suspending its participation in the last remaining nuclear treaty between Russia and the US, President Vladimir Putin has announced. During his key address to the Russian parliament on Tuesday, he noted that Moscow will not exit the New START Treaty, but is temporarily withdrawing. Explaining the decision, Putin stated that the agreement was initially drawn up under completely different circumstances, when Russia and the US did not perceive each other as adversaries. Now, however, according to the president, not only is the US…
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One of the most critical economic partners of Russia amid the unprecedented Western economic sanctions from Washington and the EU over the Ukraine war has been the Indian government of BJP leader Narendra Modi. In the past several years Modi, playing a delicate balancing act between alliances with Russia and also with the West, has emerged as a vital trade partner of Russia amid the sanctions. Despite repeated efforts by Biden Administration and UK officials, Modi has refused to join sanctions against Russian trade, above all oil trade. Now a series of suspiciously-timed and targeted events suggest that there is an…
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Though they are being fought in the confusion of a single catastrophic conflict, there are four closely related, but distinct, wars being fought in Ukraine. The first is the war within Ukraine. The second is the war between Russia and Ukraine. The third is the proxy war between NATO and Russia. And the fourth is the direct war between the United States and Russia. Deconstructing this single conflict into its four real wars may be necessary to understand the issues that must be resolved if a negotiated settlement is to be possible. The latent domestic problems that have been ripped…
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Nigeria desperately needs a new kind of leadership Nigeria has been cursed with bad rulers. A military regime gave way to democracy in 1999, but since then elections have offered voters an ugly selection of the ancient, the incompetent, and, most recently, a former military dictator. Parties have stoked ethnic divisions, intimidated their opponents, and bought votes. Many candidates—federal, state, and local—seek power to grab a share of the country’s oil wealth. Successive governments have been deeply corrupt. Turnout has steadily fallen. But as Nigerians go to the polls on February 25th, Peter Obi, a third-party presidential candidate, offers a…
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Russia on Sunday scolded Emmanuel Macron over remarks about wanting to see Russia defeated, saying Moscow still remembered the fate of Napoleon Bonaparte and accusing the French president of duplicitous diplomacy with the Kremlin. Macron told paper Le Journal du Dimanche France wanted Russia to be defeated in Ukraine but had never wanted to “crush” it. “About ‘Never’: France did not begin with Macron, and the remains of Napoleon, revered at the state level, rest in the centre of Paris. France – and Russia – should understand,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. “In general, Macron is priceless,” she said,…
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So, what we are asking our governments to do is to withdraw this killer vaccine! “This is why I am pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement with BioNTech-Pfizer to, once again, speed up the delivery of vaccines. 50 million additional doses of BioNTech-Pfizer vaccines will be delivered in quarter 2 of this year, starting in April….I want to thank BioNTech-Pfizer. It has proven to be a reliable partner. It has delivered on its commitments, and it is responsive to our needs. This is to the immediate benefit of EU citizens.” – Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission…
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The annual Davos Boys Club (it’s also open to girls as long as they know their place) is meeting Jan 16 – 20 in the Swiss Alps. The uber wealthy technocrats will discuss how to fix the fragmented world they broke. The promo for the event says it all, no need to dig for a hidden agenda: Canadian Deputy Crime Minister Chystia Freeland will be there sniffing and twitching like she just fell off the bus on East Hastings. The usual suspects will attend, basking in the glow of their mutual sociopathy. Hopefully, they will squeeze in some skiing, and maybe cruise…
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Secret Meeting Held on Hiroshima Day 2003. Behind closed doors at Strategic Command Headquarters Author’s Note and Update Of relevance to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Is the Biden Administration committed to the use of nuclear weapons as an instrument of peace? The cost of America’s “peace-making” nuclear weapons program is of the order of 1.3 trillion dollars. The focus of US military doctrine since the Bush administration has been on the development of so-called “more usable nuclear weapons”. George W. Bush’s 2001 Nuclear Posture Review, which was adopted by the US Senate in late 2002. envisaged the development of “a generation of more…
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Update: There Never Was a “Secret Operation” There never was a “Secret Operation” with a view to preventing that the act of sabotage of Nord Stream be “traceable to the United States”. The project had been discussed behind closed doors in 2021 as outlined by Seymour Hersh, but the actual planning of this so-called “secret operation” started in December 2021 extending to its execution in June 2022 and the actual sabotage on September 26-27, 2023. (see map below). In late December 2021, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan convened what was described as “a newly formed task force” (Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA, State Department, and Treasury) pertaining to Russia’s…
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz Gives “The Green Light” to Joe Biden Introduction There never was an effective “Secret Operation” to ensure that an act of sabotage of Nord Stream would be “untraceable to the United States”. The project had been discussed behind closed doors in 2021 as outlined by Seymour Hersh, but the actual planning of this so-called “secret operation” started in December 2021 extending to its execution in June 2022 and the actual sabotage on September 26-27, 2023. (see map below). In late December 2021, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan convened what was described as “a newly formed task force” (Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA, State Department, and…
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Introduction This morning I received an interesting document: Pfizer 2022 Full Year Financial Report, which in my mind as an economist trained in correlation analysis raises some important issues. There are two Pfizer reports One deals with Money, the other which is “confidential” deals with Mortality and Morbidity resulting from Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine. The Full Year Revenues Report is a public document. It assesses Pfizer’s impressive “financial performance” It is also intended to be consulted by potential investors, reported by financial analysts and the media. The second is Pfizer’s “Confidential” Report which gives you a glimpse of the “performance” of Pfizers’s Covid-19 Vaccine: i.e. mortality and morbidity. Released…
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As physiology, the science of life, has proven many times, all things, when driven to the limits of excess – and beyond – will collapse. History is living proof. Empires of the past disappeared because of greed for power and possession had no limits. It looks like we are reaching this point now quickly. This time on a worldwide basis. The western empire, led by Anglosaxonia, is intent on becoming a globalist One World Order (OWO). For that purpose, Mother Earth is literally being weaponized. This is clearly ignoring the limits of reason, the limits of nature – it enters…
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He has been celebrated for years by his army of acolytes as the grandmaster of political strategies. His reputation was further burnished, and his place atop the country’s political pyramid confirmed, by the historic triumph of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 general elections. He led the political forces that routed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, after 16 dominant years in power. And he ‘put’ Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock after serial failures in previous presidential elections. Then Tinubu himself became a god. Literally. He was transformed from the Emperor of Lagos and Political Overseer of the South-west…
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Western armies have been “hollowed out” over the last three decades, Ben Wallace said. After pledging to supply Ukraine with modern heavy tanks, many Western nations have now discovered that a significant part of their weaponry is not fit to take part in any conflict, The UK’s Secretary of Defence Ben Wallace has said. In a Saturday interview with Der Spiegel, Wallace noted that Germany organized a meeting with its NATO allies this week to discuss tank deliveries. “That’s when the problems became obvious. The political decision is there… The politicians sent their military to the depots only to find…
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The statement came in response to claims that China was ready to help arm Russia. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin has shot back at Washington’s accusations that Beijing is considering providing “lethal support” for Moscow in Ukraine. The diplomat said the US was in no position to tell China what to do. “It is the US, not China, that has been pouring weapons into the battlefield,” the diplomat said at a regular press briefing on Monday. He added that, unlike Washington, Beijing had been “supporting talks for peace” since the beginning of the Ukraine conflict. “The international community is…
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Sometime in 1967, a governor from one of the states in Nigeria chose to chart a new path by challenging the sovereignty of the leadership at the centre. He was quickly declared a rebel and a full scale war was waged against him and those who supported his rebellion. One of the things he did as a rebel was to print his own currency and a different legal tender was in circulation throughout the period his rebellion lasted. Today, there are two governors who have decided to rebel against the government of the day by insisting on the use of…
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The ALSCON privatisation controversy is still on. The privatization of the Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria, ALSCON, Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State may well be one of Nigeria’s longest attempt to privatise a public asset by the Federal Government. But, it is a transaction mired in controversy and steeped in executive intrigues and corruption. Here are some 14 facts Nigerians should know about ALSCON and its privatization by the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE and the National Council on Privatization, NCP. The $3.2billion (N480 billion) plant, incorporated in 1989, was closed mid-1999 after it was bogged down by operational problems including capital,…
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The Fulani to Fulani succession plot (from Muhammadu Buhari to Atiku Abubakar) is as ominous as the all-Moslem ticket of Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shetima. Both are plots of subjugation and must be equally condemned, given our circumstances. The frenzy of the 2023 general elections keeps exposing people you thought were sincere about the unity of Nigeria as pretenders. One of the most surprising victims is Mukhtar Shagari, former Deputy Governor of Sokoto State and former PDP Minister of Water Resources, who, on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today,’ on December 6, 2022, joined the ranks of those with the born-to-rule mindset…
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The West didn’t even want Kiev in NATO because of corruption concerns, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist says. The US and its allies should have attempted to reach an agreement with Moscow as their belief that Ukraine can win a conflict against Russia is “suicidal,” iconic American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has argued. Speaking in a YouTube interview with the Consortium News outlet on Friday, Hersh accused the Biden administration of making “so many bad mistakes,” adding that “it’s impossible to believe just how dumb this leadership was.” “It was suicidal to think you can win that war, that Ukraine can…
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By Law Mefor Unknown to most people, Election polls are of two kinds: Opinion polls and Push polls. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence intervals. A person who conducts polls is referred to as a pollster. Opinion polls are often conducted by nonpartisan pollsters who are out to gauge the standings of political parties and candidates at various stages of an electoral contest, from its beginning and to the end. The unbiased assessments help the public and the political…
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Attendees: Chief Simon Okeke Elder Ken Emechebe Ambassador Humphrey Orjiakor Arc Ferdinand Agu Prof Charles Nwokeaku Tagbo Okeke Meeting commenced at 4:01pm The delegation was warmly received by Leena Pylvanainen, Ambassador to Finland and we were later joined by Johanna Antila, Deputy Head of Mission. Leader of the delegation Chief Simon Okeke narrated the mission of the group which was essentially to express our concern over their citizen Mr Simon Ekpa, a self styled leader of the group IPOB, a dual national of Finland and Nigeria but residing in Finland, and who has been for a long time sponsoring a…
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…Says Unpatriotic Politicians Behind Naira Scarcity … Urges CBN Set Up Modalities For Swapping Old Naira Notes For Nigerian Masses Conference Of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has called on Nigerians not to fall for what it described as the antics of the Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as they are not fighting for the wellbeing of the people, insisting that the “opposing APC leaders are insincere and are only united in attacking President Muhammadu Buhari and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele because they are desperate to buy votes knowing that APC has failed.” CNPP is calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to call Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State…
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In the last few days, Nigeria has experienced a spasm of national discontent occasioned by the Central Bank of Nigeria’s pronouncement that the old Naira notes will be taken out of circulation and replaced by a new Naira especially for its N200, N500 and N1,000 denominations. This has caused a severe shortage of the Niara in circulation as the CBN has not been able to scale up its cash management policy to ensure that the new naira notes get to the downtrodden who are mostly financially excluded due to a lack of bank accounts in a cash-based economy like the…
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I am beginning to think very seriously that President Muhammadu Buhari might had very noble intentions for Nigeria, but was mostly sabotaged by those in his Party. Thinking of it, have you wondered how it is that these governors who are today insulting the President over what is arguably his best policy decision in eight years, were the same people who cheered him on when he proposed and implement some very unhealthy policies? How come the President actually increased the amount of money in circulation by more than 100% from what he met in 2015, yet money is scarcer than…
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Ahead of next week’s presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday justified the Naira redesign policy of his administration, saying it has contributed immensely to the the reduction of throwing money around in political season. In a nationwide broadcast, the President also directed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to release old N200 notes into circulation to co-exist with new N200, N500 and N1,000 banknotes for 60 days. While also assuring Nigerians that the elections will go ahead as scheduled by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), he urged Nigerians to go out without fear and vote for anybody they…
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The billionaire is urging “civilizational diversity” as a hedge against total global collapse Any attempt to create a single world government is a cause for concern, since it could strip humanity of diversity and precipitate the end of civilization, billionaire Elon Musk has told a summit of government officials in Dubai. The SpaceX CEO made a virtual appearance at the 2023 World Government Summit in the UAE on Wednesday. The event is aimed at fostering cooperation between nations, but Musk warned against taking it too far. “We want to avoid creating a civilizational risk by having – and this may…
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Mark Milley talked to the FT after traveling to Brussels to coordinate NATO efforts on shoring up Kiev’s firepower The Ukraine conflict can only end through a negotiated peace deal because neither side is likely to achieve its goals on the battlefield, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said in an interview with the Financial Times published on Thursday. “It will be almost impossible for the Russians to achieve their political objectives by military means,” Milley claimed without providing specific reasons for his stance. “It is unlikely that Russia is going to overrun Ukraine. It’s just not going to happen.” He…
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China, India and Türkiye have boosted imports to partially offset a drop in Russian crude shipments to the EU, a survey has shown Russian oil exports surged to an all-time high last month despite the Western embargo on the country’s seaborne crude imposed in December, the International Energy Agency (IEA) revealed in a report on Wednesday. The country’s oil deliveries jumped by 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) in January compared to the previous month, reaching 8.2 million bpd, proving that product exports are holding steady, according to the IEA. Shipments of petroleum products remained unchanged last month and totaled 3.1…
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‘The epicenter of world politics and economic development has shifted eastwards, towards a more equal and balanced dispensation of power’ The Russian ambassador to India, Denis Alipov, assumed office early in 2022, having worked in the country in various diplomatic capacities for decades. On the occasion of Russian Diplomats’ Day, which was observed at the nation’s missions around the world on February 10, Alipov spoke with RT on a host of issues, ranging from the challenges faced by diplomats following the launch of Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, to Indo-Russian defense deals and the journey towards a multipolar world, as well…
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday summoned the Finnish Ambassador, over misinfornation, disinformation, hate speech and incitive comments by a Nigerian-Finnish lawyer and Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa, which many fear could derail the peaceful conduct of 2023 general elections. At the meeting with the Finnish Ambassador to Nigeria, Leena Pylvanainen, Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama expressed displeasure over the orders given by Simon Ekpa to his teeming followers who consequently embarked on killings, maiming, burning and other destructive activities. The Ekpa-led faction of the outlawed Indigenous People’s of Biafra (IPOB) had reportedly declared that elections will not be allowed to…
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By Law Mefor One of the most challenging things in life is decision-making. It is like being at a crossroads, a point at which a crucial decision must be made which will have far-reaching consequences. A wrong decision at this point can lead to lifelong regrets or bliss. That’s why one has to be careful when at crossroads. The coming presidential election presents such a dilemma to the Southeast. Yes, a dilemma for the Southeast in particular, and Ndigbo in general. Though the rest of Nigeria has to deal with the same decision to varying degrees, no case of any…
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The pipelines were sabotaged because Washington saw Russian-German cooperation as a threat, Sergey Lavrov has claimed. US officials are basically admitting that they were behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, which was perpetrated to prevent rapprochement between Moscow and Berlin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. “The US decided that we [Russia] have been cooperating too well with Germany over the past 20 or 30 years; or rather, the Germans cooperated with us too well,” he said in an interview published on the Foreign Ministry’s website on Sunday. The “powerful alliance” based on Russian energy resources and…
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By Farooq Kperogi When I opened my WhatsApp on Saturday, I saw a higher than usual volume of messages and forwards from friends. The first one I opened was a riotously uneducated, sidesplittingly error-ridden, indefensibly malapropistic press statement attacking me for calling out the Supreme Court’s bizarre perversion of justice in recognizing Senate President Ahmed Lawan as Yobe North’s APC senatorial candidate when he didn’t participate in a primary election. The statement was such an uproariously juvenile drivel that I sincerely thought it was written by someone who was trying his hand at textual comedy—following the wild success of online…
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Trilateral Commission, organization of private citizens founded in 1973 principally by American banker David Rockefeller to confront challenges posed by the growing interdependence of the United States and its principal allies (Canada, Japan, and the countries of western Europe) and to encourage greater cooperation between them. The Trilateral Commission is headed by three regional chairs (for Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region), who are assisted by several deputies, and an executive committee. The entire membership meets annually (the location rotating among the three regions) to consider reports and debate strategy. Regional and national meetings are held throughout the year. Regional headquarters are in Paris, Washington, D.C., and Tokyo. The…
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The Trilateral Commission was formed in 1973 by private citizens of Japan, North American nations (the U.S. and Canada), and Western European nations to foster substantive political and economic dialogue across the world. The idea of the commission was developed in the early 1970s, a time of considerable discord among the United States and its allies in Western Europe, Japan, and Canada. To quote its founding declaration: • “Growing interdependence is a fact of life of the contemporary world. It transcends and influences national systems… While it is important to develop greater cooperation among all the countries of the world,…
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Some governors and chieftains in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are allegedly plotting to go against President Muhammadu Buhari over current policies that they perceive to be targeted against the party. Sources report that the Buhari-led Federal Government had backed the Naira redesign and cash swap policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria. The deadline set by the apex bank for the cash swap has resulted in panic among Nigerians as they scramble to get the new notes before the old ones cease to be legal tender. The scarcity of the naira notes and fuel has led to widespread protests, with government…
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The currency redesign and the cash crisis it has engendered have exposed the treacherous nature of Nigeria’s ruling party(APC) and ruling elites. They have sought power and wealth as ends in themselves and not as means to better the society and lots of ordinary Nigerians. Their rallying points are the Nigerian governors who congregate under the amorphous and illegal body called the Nigeria governors forum (NGF). The NGF group is illegal and unconstitutional because they have no such right or mandate; nor is the forum a creation of any law. Some of the governors led by Nasir El Rufai have…
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The Federal Government has said it would obey the ruling of the Supreme Court suspending the February 10 deadline given by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN on the exchange of naira notes. Recall that the apex court in its ruling on Wednesday, suspended the February 10 deadline on the old naira notes which expires today. The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, who confirmed this in an in terview on Arise TV yesterday, said the government was hopeful that the ex parte ruling which expires on Wednesday, February 15, 2023, would be upturned. He said the CBN, which…
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The church recently issued an apology to LGBTQ people for the ‘hostile and homophobic response’ it once gave them The Church of England will offer blessings to same-sex civil unions after its General Synod voted in favor of the measure, its two leaders, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, announced on Thursday. “For the first time, the Church of England will publicly, unreservedly and joyfully welcome same-sex couples in church,” the archbishops said in a statement, while conceding that “the church continues to have deep differences on these questions.” They insisted the Church was “committed to respecting” those “for whom…
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Ukraine began the war in 2014 by targeting civilians in Donbass, the Russian president said Moscow is trying to end the conflict in Ukraine, which was started by Kiev following the 2014 US-backed coup, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. “Let me repeat: we did not start the military activities, we are trying to end them,” the president said in a meeting with aviation industry executives in Moscow. Ukrainian nationalists first resorted to force in 2014, with the coup d’etat in Kiev, followed by events in Crimea and in Donbass, he argued. “They started the war,” Putin said. “For eight years, that…
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All eyes are on Nigeria as it prepares for its general election in a fortnight. Has the government convinced Nigerians that their votes, and lives, will be secure? There are some reasons for optimism that the upcoming polls will be an improvement on the 2019 election. First, President Buhari has strongly signaled that he wants a credible, transparent electoral process to be an important part of his legacy. Legal reforms enabled earlier planning and new technology has been deployed to improve voter accreditation and the transmission of results. A surge of new voter registrations, especially among young people, suggests that Nigerians believe the…
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By Prof. Abdullahi Shehu The collapse of the Soviet Union and the decades of the 90s seemed to have reversed the gains made in Africa-Soviet Relations and by extension, in Africa-Russia relations. Understandably, it was a period of politico-ideological downturn and harsh economic realities for Russia, the successor-nation to the Soviet Union. The speech of H. W Bush on December 25, 1991 was clear and unambiguous. He summarized the victory of the value-based American/Western model thus: “This is a victory for democracy and freedom. It is a victory for the moral force of our values. Every American can take pride…
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By Prof Michel Chossudovsky In recent developments, Germany’s 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. If it’s not Russia, Who Did It? “No evidence of foreign sabotage” of an act which has created social havoc and hardship in the European Union, with…
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Hundreds in the dock linked to the mafia clan who feed their enemies to pigs. But the most shocking ‘crime’ in their eyes? The man who ratted them out is a capo’s son Nicola Gratteri, 62, is the prosecutor in the ‘Ndrangheta mobster trials in Italy Nicknamed ‘Signor Untouchable’, he grew up in the mafia-dominated Calabria A total of 355 suspected members of ‘Ndrangheta will take part in a ‘maxi-trial’ It’s Italy’s biggest mafia shakedown since Sicily-based Cosa Nostra trials in 1986 Listening to the recording of a wire-tapped phone call, Nicola Gratteri shuddered at the words: ‘He’s a dead man…
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By Peter Koenig Introduction Remember Bill Gates’ initiative, Agenda ID2020? What we are confronted with now is much worse. It’s Agenda ID2020 on steroids. It’s the worldwide invasion of the QR code – QR coding of everything, including Agenda ID2020 – and all of your most intimate data, health, personal behaviors, habits – track records of where we have been and even where we may be planning to go. Nothing will escape the QR code. Nobody talks about it. It’s been quietly sneaking into our lives, quietly, persistently – but by now almost unavoidably. “What is the infamous ID2020? It’s an…
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By Mike Whitney On February 16, 2022, a full week before Putin sent combat troops into Ukraine, the Ukrainian Army began the heavy bombardment of the area (in east Ukraine) occupied by mainly ethnic Russians.Officials from the Observer Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) were located in the vicinity at the time and kept a record of the shelling as it took place. What the OSCE discovered was that the bombardment dramatically intensified as the week went on until it reached a peak on February 19, when a total of 2,026 artillery strikes were recorded.…
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7 February 2023 By Prof Michel Chossudovsky 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…
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A senior Nigerian politician plotted to transport a street trader to the UK to harvest one of his organs for as much as £7,000 and the promise of a better life, a court has heard. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, allegedly conspired with family members and others to exploit the 21-year-old man in harvesting his kidney. The then-deputy president of the Nigerian Senate is on trial at the Old Bailey alongside his wife Beatrice Ekweremadu, 56, their 25-year-old daughter Sonia and medical ‘middleman’ Dr Obinna Obeta. Sonia Ekweremadu is alleged to have been the intended recipient of the kidney in an £80,000 private transplant operation at the…
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The founder of Russia’s notorious Wagner mercenary group challenged Volodymyr Zelensky to a dogfight on Monday for the control of Bakhmut, as Ukraine braced for a renewed Russian offensive. Yevgeny Prigozhin threw down the gauntlet to the Ukrainian leader in a bizarre video from the cockpit of an SU-24 fighter-bomber, claiming he had just flown a night sortie over the town in the eastern Donbas region. “Volodymyr Oleksandrovych [Zelensky], we have landed. We have bombed Bakhmut,” he said. “I will fly a MiG-29. If you so desire, let’s meet in the skies. If you win, you take Artemivsk (Bakhmut’s Soviet-era name). If not,…
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For many decades, many Nigerians have continued to blindly trust politicians and leaders who appear at every election curve to tell them the things they love to hear. Time and time again, these cruel politicians have continued to unapologetically smash their hopes and aspirations without consequences and the Nigerian situation has only continued to get worse. Nigerian politicians have consistently failed to deliver on the many promises they make over time. A careful look at the campaign promises that have been dished out from political podiums since the 1979 elections shows that the themes and promises are the same: that of constant…
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February 2, 2023 You cannot give what you don’t have they say and that’s a fact. When a clueless leader like President Muhammadu Buhari is allowed to take over the cockpit of a badly worn-out aircraft like Nigeria, the outcome can be very easy to predict. President Buhari, on record, is officially Nigeria’s worst nemesis and if you permit, the worst leader to be produced by the country. This postulation is not in any way trying to suggest that Nigeria has not had a fair share of bad leaders in the past or that her problems started with President Buhari.…
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Regardless of how one chooses to look at it, these are certainly not the best of times for the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The relationship between himself and the man he claims to have made President eight years ago is clearly not the blossoming one that the minions of both individuals have continuously painted for Nigerians. The cordiality of Tinubu’s relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari and some key figures in his party has been nothing close to being excellent. A fortnight ago, Hajia Naja’atu Muhammad who is the director, Civil Society Liaison, in…
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By Farooq Kperogi February 6, 2023 I was awoken on this side of the world by news of the reversal by the Nigerian Supreme Court of Senate President Ahmed Lawan’s primary election loss. I was already mentally prepared for it after the same Supreme Court affirmed Godswill Akpabio’s fraudulent primary win a few days ago. It’s a well-planned judicial choreography. The Nigerian Supreme Court is straight-up the most hopeless Supreme Court in the history of the world’s supreme courts. The same Court violated common sense and the will of voters and gave us a “Supreme Court governor” in Imo State…
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REVEALED: How Aso Rock Cabal Misled Buhari Into Fuel, Naira Crises Over Plot To Make Atiku President
By Alhassan Bello As Nigerians suffer on the crises caused by the fuel scarcity and naira swap, it has been revealed that the Aso Rock cabal led by Mallam Mamman Daura is behind the problem that is making Nigerians to suffer. Credible sources disclosed in Abuja, Katsina, Adamawa and Sokoto states that those who lost the primaries of APC tried to convince Mamman Daura to get President Muhammadu Buhari to change his mind on his support for Bola Ahmed Tinubu. No particular person among the losers was mentioned in the plot, but reports suggest that the plotters sold a dummy…
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All eyes are on Nigeria as it prepares for its general election. Has the government convinced Nigerians that their votes, and lives, will be secure? Nigeria’s 2023 general election is just weeks away. With incumbent President Mohammadu Buhari term-limited, the country will be choosing a new leader. That new president will immediately confront an exhausting array of challenges, from multiple, complex security crises to a disastrously mismanaged economy. In a recent Afrobarometer survey, nearly 89 percent of Nigerians felt that the country was heading in the wrong direction, and 77 percent were dissatisfied with the way their democracy has been performing. There are…
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At a moment of deep generational fracture, the political opposition would seem to be the least of Bola Tinubu’s problems. For some time now, Bola Tinubu’s presidential ambition has been the worst kept secret in Nigerian politics. Although his name will technically be appearing on the ballot for the first time in next month’s general election, truth be told, Tinubu has been gunning for the country’s highest political office since he completed his two terms as Governor of Lagos State in 2007. In that regard, only Atiku Abubakar, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) standard bearer, who has been involved in…
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For Nigeria’s serial presidential candidate, familiarity is both strength and disadvantage. Of the top contenders for Nigeria’s highest political office in next month’s general election, none approaches Atiku Abubakar, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) standard bearer, in name recognition. Abubakar has been running for the Nigerian presidency since 1993, and there is no presidential race in which he has not been in the mix since he concluded two terms of office as vice president to Olusegun Obasanjo in 2007. Judging by media reports, his spectacular falling out with his former boss (a relationship that, to his credit, he has tried many…
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This update represents violence in Nigeria and related to Boko Haram in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger from January 21 to January 27, 2023. Below is a visualization and description of some of the most significant incidents of political violence in Nigeria from January 21 to January 27, 2023. This update also represents violence related to Boko Haram in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. These incidents are included in the Nigeria Security Tracker. ©2023 Council on Foreign Relations. All rights reserved.Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
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