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Whether he wins the presidency or not, Peter Obi has already changed the course of Nigerian politics for good. This time last year, Peter Obi was just one of several politicians gunning for the presidential ticket of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Personally, he was only hoping to go one step further than he had four years ago when he secured the same party’s nomination as running mate to Atiku Abubakar. All that changed in the last week of May when, citingdevelopments within the party which made it “impossible to continue participating and making constructive contributions,” Obi unexpectedly quit the…
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By Ben Norton Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia have rejected requests by the United States and European Union that they send weapons to Ukraine. The commander of the US military’s Southern Command (Southcom), which operates in Latin America and the Caribbean, revealed on January 19 that Washington has been pressuring countries in the region to arm Ukraine. Southcom wants Latin American nations to “replace [their] Russian equipment with United States equipment – if those countries want to donate it to Ukraine”, said Army General Laura J. Richardson. But Latin America’s left-wing leaders have refused, instead maintaining neutrality and urging peace. The socialist…
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By Barbara Nimri Aziz Commentators are busy speculating how the American president’s promise – endorsed by the country as enthusiastically as Zelensky himself– of M1 Abram tanks to Ukraine will affect the war that grinds on in Ukraine. Many assume that gifts of fighter jets will follow shortly. What disturbs me is the semantics of Biden’s announcement of the gift, rationalized and neatly summed up by, “We all want an end to this war.” I wonder if Joe Biden is aware that his statement comes in the very week that marks 50 years since the inglorious end of the U.S. war in Vietnam, (noted more…
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Realizing NATO’s war with Russia will likely end unfavorably, the US is test-driving an exit offer. But why should Moscow take indirect proposals seriously, especially on the eve of its new military advance and while it is in the winning seat? Those behind the Throne are never more dangerous than when they have their backs against the wall. Their power is slipping away, fast: Militarily, via NATO’s progressive humiliation in Ukraine; Financially, sooner rather than later, most of the Global South will want nothing to do with the currency of a bankrupt rogue giant; Politically, the global majority is taking…
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By Mac Slavo Bill Gates has warned that the next pandemic will be worse than COVID-19 and it’ll also be “man-made.” The Microsoft co-founder said that the next one will be “much more brutal” than the mild cold symptoms experienced with the coronavirus. Gates told the Lowy Institute think tank in Sydney on Monday that the ruling class needs to set aside their “differences “and work together to control the public to prepare for the next virus. He called for greater global cooperation using the Covid-19 pandemic as an example of how countries could improve their stranglehold on humanity and…
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Healing will always naturally come where there is justice and hence whenever justice is denied, any efforts made at chasing peace and reconciliation will thus always end up an exercise in futility. The question is; does Nigeria want genuine healing that can help it eventually lay events of the last 63 years to rest? The answer is simply embedded in her body language which is a screaming No. The avoidable deaths of more than three million people as a result of the brutal genocide which took place between 1967 -1970 is one that can never be swept under the carpet. This genocide…
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“Was Tinubu planning to be the president of the living or the dead?…” Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller was a German theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known for his opposition to the Nazi regime during the late 1930s and his widely quoted 1946 poem featured on the United States Holocaust Memorial, it reads: “First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out -because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews,…
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Part II Recent Developments. We are at a Dangerous Crossroads While there are divisions within NATO, Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock confirmed in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) (January 25, 2022), that Germany and its allies [NATO] are at war with Russia: In mid-November 2022, Der Spiegel published a leaked German Defense Ministry document [68 pages], revealing that the Bundeswehr is preparing for war with Russia [See below] The secret draft titled “Operational guidelines for the Armed Forces” was authored Germany’s Chief of Staff, General Eberhard Zorn himself. For further details, documents, and analysis see detailed article below: Turkey is both a “NATO Heavyweight” as well as…
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Part I Introduction In the course of the last 11 months, I have been reviewing on a daily basis numerous carefully documented articles on the unfolding war in Ukraine, The evolving consensus — after eleven months which emanates from the senior ranks of the US military and intelligence establishment — is that Ukraine “has lost the war”. What strikes me in this ingenuous assessment is something which should have been obvious to analysts from the very outset of Russia’s “Special Operation”. Ukraine Had Lost the War Before it Even Started I will start with the obvious, much of which has been confirmed by official sources and analysis. From Day…
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31 January 2023 By Dr. Russell Blaylock The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history, characterized by official lies in an unending stream lead by government bureaucracies, medical associations, medical boards, the media, and international agencies.[3 , 6 , 57] We have witnessed a long list of unprecedented intrusions into medical practice, including attacks on medical experts, destruction of medical careers among doctors refusing to participate in killing their patients and a massive regimentation of health care, led by non-qualified individuals with enormous wealth, power and influence. For the first time in American history…
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1 February 2023 By Jacob G. Hornberger President Kennedy had a unique ability that Pentagon generals did not have. He was able to analyze an international crisis by placing himself in the shoes of his adversary in an attempt to understand his adversary’s motives. Doing that enabled him to figure a way out of the crisis that did not involve war. The response of the generals and the Pentagon was always the same: invade, bomb, kill, and destroy. Today’s generals are no different from their counterparts back in the early 1960s. They are unable to step into the shoes of…
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31 January 2023 By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Introduction At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable. All the safeguards of the Cold War era, which categorized the nuclear bomb as “a weapon of last resort”, have been scrapped. Vladimir Putin’s statement on February 21st, 2022 was a response to US threats to use nuclear weapons on a preemptive basis against Russia, despite Joe Biden’s “reassurance” that the US would not be resorting to “A first strike” nuclear attack against an enemy of America: “Let me [Putin] explain that U.S. strategic planning…
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31 January 2023 By F. William Engdahl Since the creation of the US Federal Reserve over a century ago, every major financial market collapse has been deliberately triggered for political motives by the central bank. The situation is no different today, as clearly the US Fed is acting with its interest rate weapon to crash what is the greatest speculative financial bubble in human history, a bubble it created. Global crash events always begin on the periphery, such as with the 1931 Austrian Creditanstalt or the Lehman Bros. failure in September 2008. The June 15 decision by the Fed to impose…
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We gather around the school in Mariupol. All windows without exception are broken. The rooms inside are fully demolished. The Ukrainian have used the school and its surrounding as defense position. At 09:00 in the morning, humanitarian aid will be distributed. We start talking with Mariupol’s locals. ‘The Azov Battalions have bombarded our house’ The biggest and most urgent problem is housing. A great number of houses and building are in a shape they cannot even be accessed. The Azov Battalions have occupied the houses, forced part of the inhabitants to leave and go to the cellars, while keeping others…
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IT was always obvious to keen, disinterested observers that Bola Tinubu’s gamble in helping Buhari to ascend to power won’t pay off in the end; that his opportunistic political love affair with Buhari won’t be requited; and that the brittle, delicately thin thread that held their relational dynamic would snap sooner or later. I wrote countless columns on this. Tinubu won the nomination of the APC not because of Buhari and the cabal of provincial power brokers that prop himbut in spite of them. Tinubu was compelled to ventilate his famously impassioned “emi lo kan” outburst in Abeokuta (in the…
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Never mind, I once referred to him as ‘Rebel Leader’! That was the appropriate language of the official perception of his role at that time, during the Nigerian Civil War; but he was His Excellency, Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu – Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria. However, i can testify that he was not only a remarkable and interesting man, he was also a brave and courageous Soldier – Statesman. I say this because i knew him as a colleague and he was my friend. However, owing to the fact that we were on opposing sides of the civil war, many…
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Growing up, there was this expression we took both as a joke and a rebuke for one exaggerating: no one who examines him or herself has ever failed. This maxim filled the mind while hearing or reading President Muhammadu Buhari score himself as excellent. Mr. President came away with the ‘A’ for his scorecard, unabashedly claiming: “I have not failed Nigerians “. Haba Mr. Presido! The President did not however state the aspects of governance where his promises to Nigerians scaled so excellently for him to thump his chest so loudly and come away with such an amazing grade. One…
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After a careful research to find the meaning and implications of the term “multipolar world” often used these days, the freedictionary and englopedia offer insights as a system of world order in which the majority of global leading powers coordinate and commonly agree on economic, political and cultural influence and mutually acceptable directions. Both dictionaries further explain that countries have multipolar approaches to foreign policy. Participating countries necessarily conceive multiple centers of power or influence in the world, have a multipolar approach to foreign policy. Multipolar world could mean the various differences in thoughts, views and ideas regarding anything in…
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By Kester Kenn Klomegah Russian Presidential Special Representative for Middle East and Africa, Mikhail Bogdanov, in an April 2022 interview to Interfax news agency, offered an insight into aspects of Russia’s policy objectives, initiatives and future prospects in Africa. He highlighted a few obstacles for Russia’s inability to realize its set goals and tasks during the past several years. What is spectacularly interesting in the interview text concerns Soviet and Russian education for Africans. Bogdanov authoritatively told the interviewer, Ksenia Baygarova, that Africa has always been an important region from the point of view of foreign policy of the Russian Federation.…
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January 22, 2023 at 11:00 PM CST Full story here. After years of stop-and-go litigation, Nigeria could be on the hook for a debilitating $11 billion payout if a trial which started on Monday in a London court doesn’t go its way. The Nigerian government urged the UK high court to stop the hedge fund-backed firm Process & Industrial Development Ltd. from collecting a massive arbitration award that was handed down in 2017 following a failed — and allegedly fraudulent — gas deal. That amount equals almost a third of Nigeria’s forex reserves, and its payout would deal a huge…
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A very objective assessment of the Buhari administration Sunday, Jan 22, 2023 Few weeks ago, he turned 80. At that, he is the oldest Nigerian to serve as the leader of this country. He is unarguably one of the luckiest Nigerians. Besides Olusegun Obasanjo who became Nigeria’s democratically-elected President, having served as military Head of State, no other person has been as lucky as President Muhammadu Buhari, not only for twice emerging as Nigeria’s leader, but more because on both occasions, he landed the presidency of the country on a platter of gold. Even when he emerged as Military Head…
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After a chaotic early period after the starter’s gun was fired, things have settled and the picture of the choice of potential or prospective candidates has now emerged. But what exactly do Nigerians want from their elected leaders? Nigerians, like any other people, want what they have always wanted: consistent electricity supply, adequate safety and security, good health service and education, properly functioning institutions, and decent infrastructure all of which make for human flourishing. Each election cycle promises change which never happens. What many do not realise is that democracy is not really about the government of the people, even…
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Nigerians say they want credible, responsive, responsible and accountable leadership. They also need security, critical infrastructure, ease of business, job security, top notch health facilties, quality educational institutions, constant electricity supply, affordable homes etc. For decades, these have been the cravings and desires of every average Nigerian. A major concept in economics is the concept of wants and needs. Our current challenges spring from an inability to identify the difference between wants and needs. Until a balance is created between human wants and needs, the situation may never be different from what a bird goes through when it perches on…
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19th January, 2023. Press Statement. ……Calls on their Constituents to ensure they are voted out in the forthcoming general elections. The PDP Candidate for Imo East Senatorial District, Hon. Barr. Uche Onyeagocha strongly condemns Imo Lawmakers for voting against the proposed financial autonomy of legislature, judiciary and local Governments. legislative and local government financial autonomy. These lawmakers who voted against financial autonomy of legislature and judiciary acted in bad faith; Hon. Eddy Obinna, Hon. Samuel Otuibe, Hon. Emeka Nduka, Hon. Arthur Egwim, Hon. Johnson Duru, Hon. Michael Onyemaechi, Hon. Uche Ogbuagu, Hon. Chiji Collins-Isiala, Hon. Ngozi Obiefule Hon. Uju Onwudiwe,…
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By Peter Koenig The World Economic Forum (WEF) has reached a new climax. It apparently has become a hub for high-flier and high-priced prostitution, pardon, “Escort Services”. Like never before. This is amply covered by the international media. With exception of a few, the major Swiss media remain silent. Why? Why is Switzerland still hosting this new Sodom and Gomorrah? Politely called the Chaos of Davos? The citizens of Davos dislike the WEF meeting ever more vehemently. It destroys not just their tranquility, but also their winter sport pleasure and business. Tourists stay away. They do not want to be…
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By Dr. Joseph Mercola There’s a new COVID variant making the rounds, and it’s said to be “the most transmissible” variant to date. The new variant, XBB.1.5, was quickly dubbed the “Kraken,” which is a moniker referring to a legendary sea beast that could not be defeated But there’s nothing particularly noteworthy, and certainly nothing scary, about this new variant. It’s more transmissible but causes milder disease than previous Omicron variants. Most experience only mild cold symptoms Behavioral scientists have long known that fear of contagion makes people both intolerant toward others and compliant with authority. As such, fear is…
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By Steve Kirsch I bet $1M that the vax causes strokes. Any takers? They knew this at the very start of the vaccination campaign if they were paying attention to the adverse event reports. I’ll show you how they knew. Executive summary The COVID vaccines cause strokes. There is no doubt about it. In fact, I’m so sure of this, I will bet anyone $1M that I got it right and the CDC got it wrong by dismissing the signal. I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is. Are any of the drug companies willing to do that?…
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20 January 2023 Let’s start with three interconnected multipolar-driven facts. First: One of the key take aways from the World Economic Forum annual shindig in Davos, Switzerland is when Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan, on a panel on “Saudi Arabia’s Transformation,” made it clear that Riyadh “will consider trading in currencies other than the US dollar.” So is the petroyuan finally at hand? Possibly, but Al-Jadaan wisely opted for careful hedging: “We enjoy a very strategic relationship with China and we enjoy that same strategic relationship with other nations including the US and we want to develop that with Europe and other countries.” Second: The…
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20 January 2023 By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts As a participant in the 20th century Cold War, I can tell you that the Cuban Missile Crisis had the effect of convincing the leaders of the US and the USSR that trust had to be created between the two nuclear superpowers in order resolve differences and prevent a reoccurrence of tensions at the level of the Cuban Missile Crisis. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev worked together independently of their military/security bureaucracies to resolve the issue. Both paid a price. President Kennedy was murdered by the CIA and Joint Chiefs of…
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15 January 2023 By Prof. Yakov M. Rabkin and Prof. Samir Saul The war in the Ukraine has revived Western plans of dismembering Russia and, in the words of the promoters of this idea, to complete the dismantlement of the Soviet Union. Active efforts, including ample funds, are being spent on fomenting ethnic nationalism among Russia’s many ethnic groups. Meetings are convened outside Russia in order to stimulate separatism along ethnic lines. The plan of breaking up the country is sometimes labelled “decolonization of Russia”. Since most fervent opposition to Russia is articulated by political groups that consider themselves progressive (such as…
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By Mike Whitney Billionaire elites are using their power over the media, the political class and public opinion to coerce Joe Biden into sending US troops to Ukraine to prevent a Russian victory. Idiot conservatives think the media is actually doing their job for once by accurately reporting Biden’s alleged transgressions. But, the fact is, the media is simply showing that it can switch sides at any time in order to pursue the elitist agenda. No one should be surprised that Joe Biden’s ‘classified documents problem’ has emerged at the same time a key city in Ukraine (Soledar) has been…
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To: Anya Ndi-Igbo and other Igbo elite groups c/o Chidi OsuagwuFrom: ChinweizuDate: 12 January 2023 Subject: Contingency planning for the 2023 election results There is a possibility that the Peter Obi campaign result, if not properly handled, could be disastrous for Ndi-Igbo. I therefore suggest you guys at Anya-Ndi-Igbo should do contingency planning on ways to handle it to avoid the dangers. Consider these three scenarios and the dangers they pose: Case #1: Peter Obi is declared winner by INECNdi-Igbo have a track record of not knowing how to behave safely in victory or what looks like their approaching victory.…
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By Law Mefor Prof ABC Nwosu just resigned his membership on the PDP Board of Trustees, protesting jettisoning of the zoning principle by the main opposition PDP. The value of his resignation needs to be calculated by interrogating his role in the Ortom zoning committee. History is a bitch and the burden of it can hardly be shaken off by those who fall on the wrong side. As a reminder, Prof Nwosu represented Anambra state in the Governor Samuel Ortom Committee on the zoning of the Presidential ticket of the main opposition Party, PDP. The 37-member zoning committee, which included…
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(An Open Letter to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former head of state, former President, Federal Republic of Nigeria) Dear General, I sincerely hope this letter meets you in your usual high spirits. A boy advising his father is rather a very difficult task. His effort can easily suffer ad hominem (the advice being misconstrued as directed against the person rather than the position they are maintaining). In traditional Nigerian society also, a son cannot chide his father openly. An Igbo adage states, If a boy lifts his father his sight will be covered by the old man (his father)’s scrotum. However,…
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His failure to bring peace or prosperity offers lessons for his successor Jan 9th 2023 “Buhari has given us very big wahala (trouble),” says Usama Sani, a student in Kano, the biggest city in northern Nigeria. “There is insecurity and unemployment,” he complains, before shouting: “We are going to kick Buhari aside!” President Muhammadu Buhari used to be popular in Kano; he won landslide support there in two presidential elections. Now, says another student, Umar Garba Umar, “we are so hungry for change.” Even members of Mr Buhari’s own All Progressives Congress (apc) are down on the outgoing president. Kashim…
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By Peter Omonua; Sahara Reporters, January 6, 2023. Sometime in early 2021, news filtered out that Bola Ahmed Tinubu had assured the northern APC leaders that he would sell a Muslim/Muslim ticket to the Southwest and they would buy it. The report has it that at the meeting where the commitment was made, they asked him how he was going to convince the Southeast to vote for the same ticket. He was alleged to have responded that the Southeast did not really matter in the calculation, that as long as he could convince his people in Yoruba land and they…
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Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria, Sunday, 8th Jan 2023 The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety)* is deeply dismayed by new postings announced by the authorities of the Nigerian Army. The authorities of the Nigerian Army and the Presidency have continued to collapse the High Command cadre of the Army in the hands of Northerners particularly members of the Northern Muslim population; thereby scornfully and magisterially treating the general and privileged populations of the country and the country’s civil and military spaces as if they permanently belong to “a homogenous theocratic Islamic State”. Intersociety is shocked at the…
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The presidential candidate has enjoyed a rapid rise from outsider to election frontrunner. Is his country ready? Richard Assheton, LagosSaturday January 07 2023, The Sunday Times In Lagos there is no arguing with traffic. So when crowds backing a smiling, mild-mannered outsider for president brought gridlock to Nigeria’s teeming megacity late last year, it proved that their man had arrived as a force to be reckoned with. Afrobeats music ringing in their ears, thousands of supporters of Peter Obi filled the streets. Many converged near the Lekki tollgate, where in 2020 soldiers had massacred people protesting against the same corruption…
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January 5, 2023 Peter Obi has rekindled hope in the fact that the North actually holds a vital key to Nigeria’s future prosperity. In recent times, it has been generally acknowledged that no personality has stirred the nation’s political space as much as Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party since he took the bold step of contesting Nigeria’s presidency. As the phenomenon continues to unfold, those who gave Peter Obi very minimal attention are coming to terms with the realization that it is not a fluke after all. Once described as “a group of four young…
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𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 (𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟏 -𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟒) 𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟏-𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟐: The Anglo-Aro wars to subdue the domination of the Aro hegemony. Military Garrison established in Owerri. 𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟑: Owerri Native Court established. 𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟔: Owerri becomes Divisional Headquarters in the Eastern Province. Egerton disapproves the proposed Owerri-Isiokpo railway. 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟎: The proposed Itu-Ikot Ekpene-Owerri-Oguta Railway project, declined by the colonial authorities. 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟐: E.O Okoroji from Aro appointed Court clerk in Sogho Native Court, Ogoni. 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟑-𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟓: Sierra-Leonians, Liberians Ghanians and other educated Africans dominate/pioneer clerical services, contracts, commercial firms in the city of Port-Harcourt. 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟑: Port-Harcourt established on the banks of the Bonny River to export coal from Enugu…
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Nothing speaks better to a time like this than the message embedded in ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’. Particularly in the Southeast. I have deployed the 18th century poem by German writer and politician, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe several times on this page. It tells a compelling story that begins as an old sorcerer departs his workshop, leaving an apprentice with chores to perform. The apprentice, who had apparently observed his master at work, enchants a broomstick to help him with the task of fetching water, deploying a magic he was not yet fully trained in. Although the magic instantly began to…
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This article by learned Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr Muiz Banire, gives an overview of extent of the violence and insecurity that has encompassed practically all parts of the country, and chastises Politicians for being more interested in the upcoming elections of 2023, rather than being part of the solution to our present problems; reminding us about Somalia, Liberia and Rwanda, wondering if perhaps, there will be anything left to govern in 2023 if things are allowed to continue like this Introduction The security situation in Nigeria, has become wholly intractable. What started as an isolated case of insurgency in…
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‘Nearly all men can stand adversity.If you want to test a man’s character, give him power.’– Abraham Lincoln President Muhammadu Buhari says, for the umpteenth time, that he cannot wait for the end of his term. He says he plans to live as far away from Abuja as he can when he serves his two terms out.Recently, he was specific in preferring Daura, his hometown, where he will live in peace without being troubled by anyone. In recent days, he had lamented that he has not been as appreciated as he should have been, in spite of doing his best.…
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Research has revealed that the richest person of all time lived in the 14th century in West Africa and went by many names, including Kankan Musa Keita, Emir of Melle, Lord of the Mines of Wangara, Conqueror of Ghanata and the Lion of Mali II, but today he is usually referred to as Mansa Musa. Adjusting his wealth to modern values, he was worth about an estimated $400 billion as the Sultan of ancient Mali, which controlled the trade routes across the Sahara Desert.Mali empire was a central to several key trading routes in the world, and with the support…
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Bernard Arnault, the CEO and chair of LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) is now the world’s richest man after toppling Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk. According to Forbes Real Time ranking of the richest, Arnault’s net worth is $180.8 billion. Elon Musk’s net worth dropped to $137.5 billion, from about $200 billion, following the crash of Tesla stocks. Tesla has seen 69% of its value vanish amid Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover and related online antics. On Tuesday, the stock plummeted by 11 percent. The latest crash came amid news that the company planned to suspend production at its Shanghai factory in…
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150 years from now, none of us reading this post today will be alive. 70 percent to 100 percent of everything we are fighting over right now will be totally forgotten. Underline the word, TOTALLY. If we go back memory lane to 150 years before us, that will be 1872, none of those that carried the world on their heads then are alive today. Almost all of us reading this will find it difficult to picture anybody’s face of that era. Pause for a while and imagine how some of them betrayed their relatives and sold them as slaves for…
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In Colonial Lagos , Lady Oyinkan Ajasa (Lady Oyinkan Abayomi) was born daughter of Sir Kitoye Ajasa, a Yoruba aristocrat who was the first Nigerian to be knighted by the British, and Lucretia Olayinka Moore, a princess of Egba royal family, in Lagos, was born on March 6, 1897. She schooled at the Anglican Girls’ Seminary in Lagos and graduated in 1909. From there to Young Ladies Academy at Ryford Hall, Gloucestershire. In 1917, she attended the Royal Academy of Music in London. She moved back to Lagos in 1920 and became a music teacher at the Anglican Girls’ Seminary.…
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A. NigerDock is the largest ship fabrication yard in West Africa sub region. When it was sold, its Ex-MD Engr. Nkpubre Okon, openly stated how “Mr Job Creator” ignored the Transport Ministry then to Open bid for NigerDock. Atiku’s preferred bidder, ‘Global Energy’ that agreed to increase NigerDock’s workforce from 4,800 to 6,000 as part of privatization agreement dismissed 2,200 immediately it took ownership. Jagal Group that took over after Global Energy lost out on power play also sacked 1,400. B. Nigeria Port Authority reform was purely contrived to grab landed properties. 10,000 workers were sacked & 133 bids opened…
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Recently, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen carelessly revealed the devastating cost of the Ukraine war. “It is estimated that more than 20,000 civilians and 100,000 Ukrainian military personnel have died to date,” she said. The comment drew sharp backlash and the E.C. later deleted the comments from video recordings of the address. The censorship was left unexplained and demonstrated the confusion of the purveyors of the approved narrative. If Von der Leyen’s estimate is true, that is nearly ten times the number of dead Ukrainian soldiers reported by the Ukrainian government. The E.C. president’s remark shows that even the strongest backers…
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Dmitry Trenin: Post-Soviet Russia is dead, but what will replace the West as the country’s primary inspiration? Entering a new period of turbulence in 2022, Russia will change beyond recognition, but we have yet to know precisely how. To describe in one word what 2022 has been for Russia? I would say – transformative. This is nothing new. Wars invariably reconstruct the foundations of those who wage them. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine is not a minor operation. Even after only ten months, its impact appears to be far bigger than that of the Crimean War of the mid-19th century…
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How exactly does the mind of Tinubu supporters work? What is their thought process, really? Are they supporting Tinubu because they genuinely believe he is mentally and physically sound to preside over Nigeria or they just want to punish the over 200 million of us? Here is a man whose real name you don’t even know. His academic record, age and ancestry are all shrouded in mystery. 20 years of his life was practically deleted from history. Health-wise, he is not good and you don’t even need a doctor to confirm that. Mentally, he is not in a good place.…
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(Published on Monday, 19 December, 2022) Muhammadu Buhari started his presidency with “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody.” Will he end as a nobody’s man? Sometimes, and for some, it is gracious to maintain one’s lane, listen to your own vision, single, unattached. French statesman, Charles de Gaulle, who holds the copyright of “I am a man who belongs to nobody and who belongs to everybody” deeply said on another occasion that “If Joan of Arc had married, she would no longer have been Joan of Arc.” Whatever that means – Joan was 15th century France’s iron…
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Believed to be Nigeria’s First Millionaire, Candido da Rocha (1860–1959) was so rich that he frequently sent his dirty clothes from Lagos to be washed by a laundry man in the United Kingdom. Da Rocha was a rich entrepreneur, businessman, landowner and creditor who owned Water House or Casa d’Agua on Kakawa Street, Lagos Island, Lagos. It was named Water House because it was the first and only house in Lagos in those days to have a borehole and in turn sell water to the residents. Candido Da Rocha, a native of Ilesha, present-day Osun State, was born to the…
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Leader of the ‘unseen’ persons ruling us, Alhaji Mamman Daura, spoke last week. He said enough of turn-by-turn presidency for Nigeria. He decreed that North-South rotation of the presidency of Nigeria should be dead; from 2023, the most competent among contenders would be put in the Presidential Villa. Post script (We are begining to see the signs of the Competence Concept with the Senate Presidents reference to Shettima as President and Shettimas claim of his official entitlement in Office as Vice President) The Afenifere reacted sharply; the North is silent; the Ohanaeze spoke hard. Leaders of the Niger Delta also…
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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) are the two most dominant political parties that do not need introduction in Nigeria. The two parties have woefully piloted the affairs of the supposedly giant of Africa since 1999 to a state of regrettable moribund it is today as a sleeping giant. The names of these two parties sound cancerous, tragic, depict failure and activate horror to the ears of many Nigerians. The reasons are not farfetched. Under PDP and APC every part of Nigeria bleeds, and nothing functions properly except corruption. With these two parties at the helm of…
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“Conscious of this (Northern) hegemony and the fact that it does not have to be incompatible with the progress of Nigeria I have always argued that Northern hegemony per se is not the problem of Nigeria. It is the double jeopardy indicated in its abuse and wanton mismanagement that is the problem”. Whenever I write on the subject of Northern hegemony in Nigerian politics, I have always found the need to enter this rider to guarantee a fulsome understanding of my premises on the subject matter.An underlying theme of the post independent political history of Nigeria is what has come…
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As Nigerians await the thrilling year of 2023 to see who succeeds President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock, Nigerians in Diaspora can make impactful contributions by blackmailing, arm twisting their wards to shun cultic partisanship and vote to elect the right Individual as president come 2023. Our votes are going to count and there is proper planning ongoing to ensure every Nigerian home and abroad will contribute to voting the right individuals. Diasporans seem not to understand the mighty power of influence they have over the recipients of their sustaining largesse. Every diasporan has direct influence over not less than…
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On the 9 of June 1991, at the Iwuanyanwu Glass House, Ugwuorji, Owerri, elders of the State of the time with honour and integrity recommended that for equity, fairness and justice, democratic processes regarding to the office of the Executive Governor of Imo State shall be by rotation. Some notable elders from Owerri zone who appended their signatures to the agreement included Chief Engr. E.C. Iwuanyanwu, Chief Evan Enwerem, J.C. Odunna, Barr. B.S.C Nzenwa, Chief Onyenso Nwachukwu, Chief R.O. Onyenobi, Chief B.A Nwanne, Prof. Roland Anyanwu, Dr. F.U Ukoha, Barr. R.C Azuatalam, Chief Engr. R.O Ugorji. Dr. A.C Ohashiegbula and…
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Only a world united by common goals can act on the challenges it faces, the Russian President said. The West and its allies are playing a “dirty game,” the prize in which is global dominance, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. However, the US and its allies are not safe from the consequences of their own actions, he added. “Power over the world is what the West has put at stake in the game it plays. This game is certainly dangerous, bloody and I would call it dirty.” The Russian president’s comments came at a Valdai Discussion Club meeting outside…
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For the first time in its modern democratic political history, Nigeria is experiencing a presidential candidacy that is supremely equipped to furnish the country with a transformational leadership. Since its independence in 1960, Nigeria has been described as having enormous potential, but the potential has remained largely unrealized due to poor leadership. If Nigeria makes the best political leadership choice right now—the effect on the country’s socio-economic profile would be transformational. It would set the country on the path to finally realizing its potential. Many Nigerians, especially the youth and countless other citizens who are tired of remaining in the…
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Peter Obi’s enemies are very clever and audacious. They are determined to ruin him and the promise of his movement. Imagine, they appointed for him a certain Mr. John Ezeigbe Ughulu as his campaign coordinator for Lagos State. Lagos is a Yoruba state in the South-West. Yoruba don’t bear Ughulu. It is an Igbo name. Only an enemy of an Igbo-born presidential candidate with a lot of promise would tuck such a combustible contraband, a lighted roll of weed in his electoral pocket. The enemies are not done with Obi. They went to Sokoto, seat of the caliphate, and planted…
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(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 24 October, 2022) The Washington Post of May 29, 1979 reported an exchange between President Idi Amin Dada of Uganda and an agent of a British money-printing firm. The Ugandan dictator asked the man to help him print two million Ugandan shillings worth of 100 shilling notes. The Briton accepted the offer but “gingerly” asked Idi Amin how he was going to be paid for his services. “Print three million and take one million for yourself” was Amin’s answer. The Ugandan leader had a minister of foreign exchange. Before Idi Amin’s engagement with…
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Nigeria’s problems are essentially civilizational. Contrary to permutations that the 2023 presidential election will be significantly different from the past ones, it is still niche-carving, cult-following, and primordial sentiments that will produce Nigeria’s next president. The 2023 Presidential Election is upon us and surely it will be peculiar in many respects but much more will remain the same. Initially, the 2023 general election was perceived as a two-horse race between the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which is quite determined to return to power. However, the emergence of Mr. Peter Obi…
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Slave trade in the U.S. remains a complicated period in history that continues to negatively affect Africans and African Americans alike. The transatlantic slave trade saw about two million people enslaved in the U.S. Most of them were Africans who were uprooted from their homes. Through their harrowing experiences on the ships, many of these enslaved Africans even died before reaching their new homes. For the many who survived, it was the beginning of sleepless nights, several hours of work on plantations on empty stomachs and the constant reminder that in their new lives they were nothing but a commodity…
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He was slain with his legion for standing up to the king’s order to hunt down Christians in the region. For his valor and faith, St. Maurice was martyred in the Cathedral of the German city of Magdeburg with his name inscribed on the sculpture. He was born in Thebes, Egypt, in 250 CE where he had his early upbringing, and later became a Roman General in the Theban legion, according to art way. The image of St. Maurice is depicted as a Black man in his war accouterments flanked by his spear in his right hand. Cultural anthropologists argue…
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If we Christians keep insisting on this fallacy called One-man/One-wife, too many ladies will end up sleeping with different married men secretly while trying to make money and waiting for their own husband. Too many ladies will remain in their parents house till their 30s and some will live alone till their 40s. Most women who lose their husbands in their 40s and 50s will never find another man to marry them legitimately, they will end up sleeping around with different men. GET IT RIGHT:Men and women are not equal and God never made us to be equal. Lets stop…
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Hon Uche Onyeagocha is the Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Owerri Zone, otherwise known as Imo East Senatorial District of Nigeria, in the 2023 general election. Recently, Onyeagocha, as usual, was in the news. But this time for his “Covenant” with his beloved Owerri People. Since he won his most contentious PDP primary, a victory which has gladdened the heart of many, he has not “Presented” himself to the people before the election proper. Therefore, on Thursday October 6, 2022, Onyeagocha “Stepped out” to the full embrace of Owerri people, as he publicly told the constituents in-waiting…
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𝑨 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌, 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏. 𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒈𝒐 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒐 “𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍” 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆. 𝑰𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂, 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒎𝒆… 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒊 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍. 𝑩𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒊 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒂 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒈𝒆, 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒚, 𝑰 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒕 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒐𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒊 𝒊𝒏…
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Julius Berger Nigeria Plc has emerged as ‘Nigeria’s Most Valuable Brand in the Building and Construction Services Category’ at the Top 50 Brands Nigeria Awards for the 7th consecutive time. At a ceremony to unveil the top 50 business brands in Nigeria last week in Lagos, Julius Berger, again retained its position in Nigeria’s engineering construction sector in recognition of its outstanding and trustworthy quality in the building and construction industry for the year 2022. At the event, the company emerged as the winner in the building and construction sector with a Brand Strength Measurement (BSM) of 66.5, notching up…
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“The judges have done their jobs and I am satisfied. Of course, I wished that the main suspects would be here before the judges. It’s not good that people kill people and stop the process of the development of a country without being punished!” – Mrs. Mariam Sankara, at the sentencing of Blaise Compaore, in absentia, to life imprisonment for the 1987 assassination of Thomas Sankara; on April 6, 2022 The news of another coup in Burkina Faso on Friday, September 30, 2022, was mostly received with indifference and equanimity, “Oh. There they go again!” Capt. Ibrahim Traore replaced Lt.…
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Nigeria and Africa’s most revered literary icon, Chinua Achebe, had in 2011 for the second time (the first being in 2004 under the regime of Olusegun Obasanjo) flatly refused to accept a Nigerian national honor the then regime of Goodluck Jonathan had tried to bestow on him on grounds that receiving such would amount to endorsing Corruption and the monumental mismanagement of Nigeria under those earlier regimes. In Achebe’s rejection letter, the late sage had stated: ” Forty-three years ago, at the first anniversary of Nigeria’s independence I was given the first Nigerian National Trophy for Literature. In 1979, I…
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We were once told not to approach a wellhead in Niger Delta. The reason was simple.There was an ongoing ‘operation’. I was working with an oil service company, we had already gone back to accommodation after working on the well. But a call from base necessitated we get to the wellhead again the same night. We waited to have a feedback confirmation on when to approach.Worthy of note is that we move with armed military and mobile police. It took 4 hours. Then we saw the convoy, a streak of rickety tankers, and a Hilux.They were heading out with crude.The…
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The task before the incoming President of Nigeria is twofold: providing astute leadership and resetting the nation’s unworkable structure. In order words, the core challenges confronting Nigeria today are reducible to just two factors: parochial leadership, and dysfunctional structure. Both have left the country as a mere geographical expression. And as a former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo recently asserted, Nigeria is still a country and not yet a nation. Obasanjo is in a privileged position to know. Since everything rises and falls on leadership, it will be right to assume that the structural crisis being faced by Nigeria was caused…
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U.S. foreign policy has prompted scenes of woe and horror worldwide and seriously jeopardized global peace and stability. From the end of World War II to 2001, the United States has initiated 201 armed conflicts in 153 locations, accounting for more than 80 percent of the total wars that occurred across the world in that time. Outright military aggression is not the only tool of U.S. control. It has also resorted to economic seduction, financial sanctions, cultural infiltration, incitements to riot, election manipulation and other ruses to covertly subvert so-called “ideologically hostile countries.” The consequences have extended beyond the human…
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We have been innundated with the word North – Northern Elders, Arewa Consultative Forum, Northern Governors Forum, etc. But really we are asking , “who are these Northerners?” Let us borrow a bit from History. When Obasanjo as President gave Non-Fulanis sensitive positions in his regime, the Sultan of Sokoto went with some Fulani irredentists like Ango Abdullahi , and confronted him, and made allegations that the North was being marginalized. Baffled , Obasanjo querried them, “Are Non-Fulanis in the North , not Northerners?” The sultan said, “NO, they are not.” Obasanjo nodded his head to learn what he probably…
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This video presents the staggering story of human sacrifice and satanic rituals involving the most famous people in the world. World famous conspiracy researcher, lecturer and author David Icke hosts an interview with Arizona Wilder, formerly Jenifer Greene, who was programmed and trained to conduct satanic rituals by Joseph Mengele AKA “The Angel of Death” from the Nazi death camps of World War II. Arizona Wilder describes how she conducted rituals in which the Queen, the Queen Mother and other members of the British Royal Family sacrificed children in satanic ceremonies. She talks of the same experiences with Henry Kissinger,…
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The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone investigates the reasons behind the Cold War, the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, and America’s role in the world since to fall of communism. Over the course of ten episodes, the series draws upon little-known and newly uncovered archive material to explore some of the underreported and darkest periods in modern American history. The film looks beyond official narratives to explore the deeper implication of past events and how they have shaped the world today. Although it features no interview subjects, it draws heavily on archive film, photos, historical…
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A constant debate between scientists and historians Historians and scholars from different eras have always debated about which year has been the worst for humankind and most of them point their fingers at AD 536, not only due to the massive number of deaths but also because of the many events that took place which led to a scaringly high death count and terrible living conditions for most humans. In this article, we will be looking at some of the factors that make this the worst year and why other historians, as well as scientists, beg to differ. It is imperative to…
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Modern Russia’s first major foreign military campaign began seven years ago. It was a very different challenge to the current test in Eastern Europe FILE PHOTO: Russian soldiers, with Russian flag, are seen on armoured vehicle as they enter the base at the Tishrin Dam on the Euphrates in Aleppo Governorate, Syria. © Bekir Kasim / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images It was seven years ago, this week, that Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to help the Syrian government in its fight against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists and US-backed Al-Qaeda insurgents. Russia’s military support propped up President Bashar Assad, who…
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Freemasonry is a fraternal organization of which members have included George Washington, Harry S. Truman and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Worldwide membership in the society totals over 3 million members, of which 1.1 million are in North America. But where did Freemasonry come from? Modern Freemasonry, as it is known today, is often considered to have begun in 1717, the year that four lodges in England formed the Grand Lodge of England. Originally emanating from British trade guilds of old, by the 1700’s Freemasonry had evolved into an organization that favored religious tolerance over the strict dictates of the Catholic Church.…
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Paper presented at the 2022 General Assembly of the Archdiocese of Abuja, Sept 23, 2022 By Rev. Fr. George Ehusani, Executive Director, Lux Terra Leadership Foundation After the major scandal and embarrassment that attended the unfortunate massacre of 13 worshipers inside the St. Philip’s Church, Ozubulu, Anambra State, on Sunday August 6, 2017, I addressed a memorandum to the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria, pleading that they consider it a matter of priority to come up urgently with clear guidelines on what manner of fundraising can be considered suitable in our Churches, and especially within liturgical and paraliturgical…
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September 22, 2022 The cabals including some members of Buhari’s extended family and friends are the powers behind the throne. President Muhammadu Buhari and members of the Aso Rock cabals are plotting to retain power in the Northern region in 2023, a presidential source has informed SaharaReporters. According to the source, Buhari and members of the cabals are secretly supporting Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party against Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The cabals including some members of Buhari’s extended family and friends are the powers behind the throne. The group, led…
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Europe’s royal houses have shared close family ties for centuries. The British royals have more German roots than you might think. About 300 years ago, on August 1, 1714 — the English Queen Anne died. As a result, the German Elector George Louis of Hanover was proclaimed king of Great Britain in absentia. He was the only possible heir to the throne and the first German to ascend an English throne. Manners please. At the beginning, his British subjects were not amused. The German king did not set foot on English soil until two months after his proclamation and was…
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Although a lot of literature has been produced highlighting the strengths and benefits of religion, many have associated the following problems with religion: conflict with science, curtailing freedoms, delusion, claims of having the exclusive truth, fear of punishment, feeling guilt, immutability, instilling fear, internal conflicts, irrationality, justification of violence, limitation on the rights of women, outdatedness, perpetuation of division, persecution, prejudice, rebuffing of broader perspective, social constructs, strange customs, strained relationships for partners of different faiths, the structure, the suppression of curiosity, its use as a tool for control, unsophisticatedness, etc. Some complain that religion is used as a reward…
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In 2010, sociologist Phil Zuckerman published Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment. Zuckerman lined up evidence that the least religious societies also tend to be the most peaceful, prosperous and equitable, with public policies that help people to flourish while decreasing both desperation and economic gluttony. We can debate whether prosperity and peace lead people to be less religious or vice versa. Indeed evidence supports the view that religion thrives on existential anxiety. But even if this is the case, there’s good reason to suspect that the connection between religion and malfunctioning societies…
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Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? No religious bigotry, no “righteous” judgement, no cruelty “in the name of God,” no holy wars, no honor killings, and no shame in just being yourself. Truly, the world would be a better place without religion, wouldn’t it? Well, let’s try it out. Let’s imagine what the world would be like without religion. There is, however, one small catch: if we are to do away with religion, we must, out of fairness, erase all of the good which it has inspired. After all, religion itself is not in the à la carte business. Religion doesn’t…
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Religion is filling people with fear. Religion is one of the main reasons why people are afraid of living. … Religion is turning people against themselves. … Religion is turning people against each other. … Religion is keeping people in ignorance. Copied
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British empire crimes in Africa, British empire crimes in India, British crimes in Ireland, British crimes in Australia, British empire crimes in Kenya When the news broke that the queen of England was ill, Ms. Uju Anya, a lovely anti-racist African living in the USA, responded to the news via Twitter, saying: “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.” That’s indeed a perfect wish if we must deal with Britain the same way they dealt with our ancestors. In 1891, in Kenya, the British buried an African king…
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Do you know that an Igbo man planned and proposed a modernised self-governed Nation/Empire/Republic of Igbos 39 years before the birth of Nigeria as a country? His name is JAMES AFRICANUS BEALE HORTON (1835–1883). He published and sent the British government his proposal titled, “The EMPIRE OF THE EBOES/HACKBOUS/HEEBOS/IBOES/IGBOES/EGBOES, with the Requirements Necessary for Establishing that Self Government Recommended by the Committee of the House of Commons, 1865: and a Vindication of the African Race.” This proposal included a plan for· A Self-governed independent nation· an army,· currency· Support for modern civilisation and economic empowerment. His proposal was hinged on…
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Firstly, when CIA recruits candidates for work as undercover, overseas operatives, they are seeking out individuals who, for the most part, ALREADY possess the mental traits required of a successful spy. More specifically, the recruit must demonstrate that he is supremely self-confident, observant, inquisitive, analytical, morally flexible, cool under pressure, comfortable working alone and, perhaps, a little bit paranoid. This is determined through multiple interviews, specialized verbal, written and other psychological testing, conversations with many of the recruit’s friends, relatives, teachers, former supervisors, co-workers, etc. (as part of the deep background search that is required), handwriting analysis, polygraph exams and…
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Chief Martin Agbaso was universally acknowledged as the winner of the governorship election in Imo State on April 14, 2007. The 2007 election was midwifed by the honorable and gentlemanly Governor of the state at the time HE Chief Achike Udenwa of Orlu zone, who was poised to reciprocate the gentlemanly dispisition of Owerri zone in acknowledging that it was the turn of orlu zone to govern the state, and at the same time, taking cognisance of the fact that Okigwe and owerri zones had taken turns with the stints of Chief Mbakwe and Chief Enwerem respectively, Chief Enwerem’s stint…
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FLASHBACK PERSPECTIVE A Case of Self-Evident Truth The late American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously reminded all of us that ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere’. Dr King’s admonition is instructive particularly for those who under the cover of darkness or in the seclusion of their homes or offices, when no one is looking, perpetrate the most insidious and heinous of crimes on the very citizens they are supposed to protect. The April 14, 2007 Imo Gubernatorial election is a case in point. By abbreviating the election and hoisting in its stead a predetermined…
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Kathy and Ross Petras We all have that little voice in our heads that weighs in on everything we do or say. If we let it, it can make us feel demoralized, belittled or just less capable. The end result is that we wind up not accomplishing what we want. It’s never easy navigating challenging times, but as word experts and hosts of NPR’s award-winning podcast “You’re Saying It Wrong,” we’ve found ways to reframe our thoughts and change our attitude. Here are 11 negative phrases to ditch if you want to think more positively and feel more confident, according to behavioral scientists,…
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German writer Esther Villar In her book “The Manipulated Man” that caused outrage and hostile criticism from women explains how women since the earliest times have manipulated men and turned them into their slaves, having pretended to be the oppressed sex, while in the real sense, they are the oppressors. She explains how a woman manipulates a man skillfully by steps like courtship and finally marriage, hence the saying “a man chases a woman until SHE catches him”. In her book she explains how the man is tricked to care for the woman all his life and her offspring. He…
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“The meeting of minds between Sir Lugard and the leaders of the Sokoto Islamic Caliphate was not surprising for, in practice, there were no emotional or philosophical differences between imperialism which Lugard championed and the feudalism in Northern Nigeria before British colonial rule.” – An unpublished work Britain operates a parliamentary democracy which is subordinated to a constitutional monarchy. That was why the last official function discharged by the queen was to invite Liz Truss – the new leader of the Conservative Party – to form a government. This summit took place at the queen’s summer residence at Balmoral Castle,…
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