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On Saturday 18 March 2023, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) conducted the gubernatorial and State Assembly elections to mark the second and concluding round of the 2023 elections. On that day, INEC, the law enforcement agencies and the Nigerian populace were presented with a golden opportunity to demonstrate to the rest of the world that, the below par showing on 25 February 2023 notwithstanding, Nigeria’s democracy had come of age. At the end of the day, not only did we fail spectacularly in this regard, but more dangerously, the fragile unity of the Nigerian State suffered a massive set…
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As reactions trail the disclosure by the Department of State Services (DSS) on Wednesday over plot to install interim government ahead of May 29 handover from President Muhammadu Buhari to President-elect Bola Tinubu, Labour Party (LP) has dissociated itself from the alleged plot, denying being part of any unconstitutional arrangement to install an interim government. LP’s spokesman, Yunusa Tanko, said the party is not plotting any insurrection, describing the development as a conspiracy against the state. He made the clarification when featured yesterday on Channels Television’s Lunch Time Politics. “We are not part of any insurrection plans whatsoever. But what…
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I always insist that the greatest merit for Igbos in recent times is not simply the advent of the internet on the surface! It is the social media aspect of the internet which now allows independent thinkers to challenge the lies of history. In Nigeria, our little corner of the world, through social media presentations, scholars are now debunking the false stories perpetuated by the Yoruba press (with the help of the north who has always been paranoid about Igbos). The Yorubas took advantage of their civil war take-over of the press to rewrite the history of Nigeria as it…
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All through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialised nation, so they needed resources such as palm oil to maintain that. Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, which is native to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance came a century later. By 1870, palm oil had replaced slaves as the main export of the Niger Delta, the area which was once known as the Slave Coast. At first, most of the trade in the oil palm was uncoordinated, with…
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It is difficult to control a crowd of slaves in a slave farm but the slave master knows what to do. He targets a few slaves and makes them happy, at least, relatively happier than their counterparts. Make a few slaves happy and they will be loyal to you. They will be happy to defend you with their lives. They will go any length to do so. Yes! They will defend you at the expense of their own. They will forget that they are slaves too. They will fail to see that they are also having the short end of…
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A friend of mine sent me a text message the other day: “Ikechukwu, please stop this fight. This election has been won and lost and it is high time we moved forward. Lamenting over spilt milk is an exercise in futility and if you are close to Peter Obi, please tell him to give peace a chance and allow the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to get on with the job. His insistence on challenging the outcome of the election in court is a disservice to the nation. He should withdraw it and seek accommodation in the incoming administration.” Really?…
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Even when you adopt a name or date of birth, there is evidence that you attract the cyclic essences attached to them. Studying the Olokun essences of leadership, consciousness, propaganda and spirituality, there are striking similarities between Madam Efunroye Tinubu and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Lagos influences. Both were non-Lagosians, starting with links to Abeokuta and ending with attacks on Lagos migrants. It was in Abeokuta that Madam Tinubu met and married the visiting deposed Oba Adele of Lagos that was later reinstated and gave her access to control Lagos political and slave economy. It was Abeokuta Chief MKO Abiola and…
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A Senior Advocate Of Nigeria and Human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana has alleged that the lawyers of the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi have an upper hand heading into the court. The Senior Advocate stated that what the Court will be looking at is the evidences presented by the petitioners and the veracity of such evidences. He cited the fact that INEC on their own hand has also admitted that some of the electoral officers have breached the conduct of the electoral commission. The Legal eagle argued that the Court is empowered to prosecute any INEC…
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The Department of State Services (DSS) says it has confirmed a plot “by some key players” to install an interim government and stop Bola Ahmed Tinubu from being inaugurated as president. The plot includes embarking on violent protests nationwide to engineer the declaration of a state of emergency as well as securing frivolous court injunctions to stall the inauguration, the DSS said. In a statement on Wednesday, Peter Afunanya, the public relations officer of the secret police, said: “The Department of State Services (DSS) has identified some key players in the plot for an Interim Government in Nigeria. “The Service…
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An elder statesman and former Chairman of the PDP in Anambra State, Dan Ulasi has disclosed how the relationship between the Igbos and northern Nigeria led by Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello began several decades ago. Speaking during an interview, Ulasi said in 1937 Ahmadu Bello made attempts to become the Sultan of Sokoto but he was not successful. He said soon after that, he was charged to a magistrate court in Guzau (in present-day Zamfara) over tax evasion and he was locked up. According to Ulasi, it was an easterner, the late Chief Okonkwo who was Ahmadu Bello’s…
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There are many still in shock about February 25th and March 18 elections. This is understandable. In the week before the 20th of February it appeared the Obidient movement had pulled off a miracle and already made good of the first part of the first promise of the Obi/Datti manifesto: To unite and secure Nigeria. From Sokoto to Sagbama, Lagos to the lungus of Borno the youth of Nigeria were gyrating to the same beat of the president we need. Were we finally close to the words of our first national anthem, “though tribe and tongue may differ, in brotherhood…
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Sunday, March 26, 2023 His Excellency,Muhammadu Buhari,The President Federal Republic of Nigeria,The Presidency,The Villa,Abuja,Nigeria. Your Excellency Sir, PETITION AGAINST MR. BOLA AHMED TINUBU FOR MAKING INCENDIARY COMMENTS AND HATE SPEECH BREEDING YORUBA SUPREMACISTS AND CAUSING TRIBAL ATTACK AGAINST IGBOS IN LAGOS AND ACROSS NIGERIA. I write this petition with the full realization that with the recent general elections like ours that allegedly became a tribal war against a particular tribe, there is need to conduct post-mortem investigation and put on trial those directly responsible and those who incited and sponsored such verbal and physical attacks, especially in Lagos State to…
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Nigerians underrated Tinubu, a man who forged his birth certificate and forged his parental background. He forged his school certificate.He forged his identity and name.He forged his village, town, LGA and state of origin.He forged his university degree certificate. And nothing happened. We underrated a man who got away with paying people to impersonate as bishops and GOsHe got away with drug cases in the US by paying huge fines.He got away with a Muslim/Muslim ticket.He got away with ethnic bigotry. And we did nothing. We underestimated a man who pocketed the media for years and controlled the narrative.Pocketed Lagos…
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It was in December 2022 that I first saw the chilling video of the then-All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, explaining his political philosophy. “Political power is not going to be served in a restaurant…not served in (sic) a la carte,” he says to what appears to be an inner political circle. “It is what we are doing. It is being determined to do it at all cost. Fight for it, grab it, snatch it, and run with it….” “Grab it, snatch it, run with it” as a political principle? The first image that came to my mind as…
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The Igbo political elite faces the challenge of transforming an unimpeachable moral argument into a winning political coalition. As campaigning for the just concluded presidential election gathered pace, Peter Obi, standard bearer of the Labour Party (LP) found himself athwart two apparently contrary impulses. The first, let’s call it the liberal impulse, centered on the irrepressible energy and creativity of the “Obi-dient,” the mass of mostly young enthusiasts who had come to see the former Anambra State Governor as the answer to all their prayers for a better Nigeria. The second impulse was the ethnic one, the conviction of the Igbo that “it is…
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Peter Obi may have lost the Nigerian presidential election, but he and the movement he leads may yet win the political war. This time last year, no one saw Peter Obi coming. Mentally, Nigerians were preparing for yet another general election in a series dominated since the country’s return to democracy in 1999 by the incumbent All Progressives Congress (APC) and its rival People’s Democratic Party (PDP). An uninspiring two-horse race seemed all but guaranteed, and voters were more or less set to pull the lever for the lesser of two evils in a long-standing arrangement that had failed to…
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We are currently at the crossroads of the Most Serious Economic and Social Crisis in World History. It is an outright war against all humanity: the Planet’s 8 billion people. Starting with the corona crisis in late January 2020, the global crisis (2020-2023) –which is ongoing– has literally disrupted and destroyed people’s lives Worldwide in the course of the last three years. The scale and complexity of the 2020-2023 Global Economic and Social Crisis far surpasses all previous “depressions” including the 2007-2009 Recession which was categorized as the most serious economic meltdown since the Great Depression of 1929. Everything is interrelated starting with the Covid pandemic, the mRNA vaccine, the powers of…
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A thoughtful man, he has studied Islam deeply, even going to the lengths of learning Arabic in order to read the Quran Liz Truss took over as prime minister of what many consider to be the most Islamophobic government in British history. A government which refuses to engage with the largest representative body of British Muslims and has framed an invidious security regime (Prevent) which targets them; in which a minister was sacked because her “Muslim woman minister status was making colleagues feel uncomfortable”. A government accused this week of treating Muslims like second-class citizens. Little surprise: more than half of the members of the ruling Conservative Party entertain wild conspiracy theories about British Islam.…
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The death of Queen Elizabeth II and the inheritance of the British throne by her eldest son Charles, can either be viewed as a significant event holding the possibility of positive change, or the further manifestation of a beguiling and deceptive show of imperial/colonial self importance. It’s too early to know which way the pendulum will swing, but well over half the British public still supports the existence of a Monarchy and turns out in large numbers to express their approval of the theatre that remains an enduring part of the British love affair with ‘tradition’ and the uncopromisingly expensive and pompous spectacle…
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In recent developments “Green King Charles” has endorsed legislation allowing for the genetic manipulation of plants and animals. By Julian Rose, March 27, 2023 Did you know that Prince Charles, now King Charles, was the first to announce the Global Reset? Boy was that prophetic. Farmers in the Netherlands are being persecuted more than ever to stop providing food to the masses. What is this all about? We break it down. Featured image is licensed under Creative Commons The original source of this article is Redacted Copyright © Redacted, Redacted, 2023
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A trillion dollars is a lot of money. If you stacked a billion dollar bills on top of one another, the pile would be 67.9 miles high, but if you stacked a trillion dollar bills on top of one another the pile would be 67,866 miles high. And if you lined up a trillion dollar bills end to end, the line of dollar bills would be a staggering 96,906,656 miles long. That is longer than the distance from the Earth to the Sun. A trillion dollars is such a vast amount of money that it is truly difficult to comprehend, but…
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Peter Obi Won the Presidential Election, but let the Law take its Course- Governor Nyesom Wike says.
Incumbent governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has opined that although the winner of the 2023 presidential election is the Labour Party 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, Nigerians should allow the Supreme Court to rule over the case that he has filed against the outcome of such election. In a video which was uploaded on the micro blogging platform Twitter, the former 2023 presidential candidate made such statement while commissioning one of his many projects in the state, as he stated that the winner of the February polls is Peter Obi whether people like it or not. According to Nyesom…
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THE DRAMA IN TRYING TO CONVERT ELECTION PDFs TO SPREADSHEETS My phone pinged: “Tell Mark Essien they are coming for him.” I had no idea what that even meant. It was a forwarded WhatsApp message that someone had sent to a friend of mine. All I was doing was trying to convert PDFs from the 2023 Nigeria Presidential elections into spreadsheets. But let’s rewind a bit and give some context. In 2020 a small group of about 5 young people went to a crossroads in Lagos, Nigeria to protest against police brutality. Their protest was called #EndSARS, and they were…
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A Special Report …Prof Nnenna Oti, VC-FUTO, Prof Esimone, VC-UNIZIK, Prof Maduebibisi Iwe, VC-Umudike University, Prof Uzochukwu, Abia REC exempted The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has investigated and found that 50 top Nigerian university professors played various conspiratorial or vicarious roles in the brutal poll rigging and voter suppression in the 25th Feb Presidential/National Assembly and the 18th March 2023 Governorship/State Assembly Polls. Among the 50 university professors conspiratorially or vicariously involved are 34 Vice Chancellors and a Deputy Vice Chancellor drawn from Federal, State and Private Universities across the country. Apart from the…
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To whom it may concern and those who want to know the position of the law. OUR NEXT PRESIDENT, HEAD OF STATE, THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE FEDERATION AND COMMANDER IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF FEDERATION. “In a country where the Law Enforcement Agents guard and protect Criminals, the direct message and implication is that Citizens should become Criminals so they can enjoy the same protection. The bigger your crime, the more security personnel attached to you. Correctional centres in my country are for small criminals or even innocent citizens while the big criminals continually parade themselves in the…
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First it was the US secretary of state who went on a trip to Africa, now it is the vice-president and later in the year the president himself is expected to come. This flurry of visits by top figures in the US administration reflects a growing awareness that the US needs to deepen its engagement with the continent. This all comes in the face of growing competition from other global powers, especially China and Russia. Vice-President Kamala Harris starts her nine-day trip in Ghana before moving on to Tanzania and Zambia. Ghana, with its focus on strengthening ties with the…
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“Don’t stay in Lagos, and benefit from the leadership, infrastructure and economy Lagosians built over time, yet carry resentment towards them. You threaten violence and de-market Lagos on social media. You have options. Behave or relocate!” – Reno Omokri. Let me open this short contribution by saying that I completely agree with the views expressed above by Pastor Reno Omokri. Let us hope that those he is attempting to offer such wise counsel appreciate and accept it before it is too late and things fall apart. I am constrained to go further by saying that I also share the views…
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Assume a state with about 30 Local Government Areas (LGAs). Assume each LGA has 10 council wards. That will mean 300 wards in the state. If each ward has 10 polling units that will mean 3,000 polling units in the state. If a political party in the 2023 election spent minimum $500USD per polling unit in buying votes, that will mean $1,500,000USD (One Million Five Hundred Dollars). If as at March 18, 2023, the street exchange rate per Dollar was N740, the $1,500,000 will mean N1,110,000,000. That is One Billon, One Hundred and Ten Million Naira, spent by the political…
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has condemned the “persistent” aversion to people of southeastern extraction, which he describes as Igbophobia. Speaking at an event in Anambra State to commemorate Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s one year in office, Obasanjo recalled his work with the professor of economics as well as the current Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. In Obasanjo’s administration which spanned 1999 to 2007, Soludo served as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), while Okonjo-Iweala was the Minister of Finance. The former president stated that Soludo, who worked closely with him as an economic…
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The much awaited 2023 elections have come and gone with it’s happiness and sorrow. With the belief and disbelief in the existence of God. But in all these, the Bible admonished us to thank God. So we thank God for everything. For students of political history, the various “INEC and IREV” results as variously announced and declared is just the first step to real or phyric victory. It is the first round of a four -round tournament. The first being the election. The second being the tribunal. The third being the court of appeal and the fourth and final being…
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Declassified files show how Russia’s president, during the 1990s, repeatedly told Western counterparts he was “not against” expansion of the military alliance, Matt Kennard reports. He even devised an agreement to bring the Russian people onside. Boris Yeltsin privately stated he was not against NATO expansion in the 1990s while publicly opposing the military alliance, declassified files show. This posture went back as far as 1993, two years into his presidency, which would last until 2000 when he appointed Vladimir Putin his successor. Declassified notes from a meeting of the British cabinet in September 1993 include a statement from defence secretary Malcolm Rifkind…
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The congratulatory message purportedly from mobil is yet again another desperate search for legitimacy. Tinubu worked briefly with Mobil oil Nigeria. Not ExxonMobil, there’s a world of difference. Exxon Mobil USA of today will not touch Tinubu with a 10ft pole. Not with all the controversies. Doing so is a sure way to suffer huge brand erosion for such a corporate giant and global brand. But one clear observation here is that those listed here are All Yoruba Names. No single member of other ethnic groups in Nigeria was listed there. It is 100% people from his ethnic group. What…
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BREAKING OF THE COLONIAL AGREEMENTS WITH FRANCE. I INVITE YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE MALIAN CASE AGAINST IMPERIALIST FRANCE. After independence, 14 French-speaking countries signed 11 agreements with France which are as follows : AGREEMENT n⁰1: THE COLONIAL DEBT TO REPAY THE BENEFITS OF COLONIZATION. That is to say that the newly independent states must reimburse the cost of the infrastructures built by France during the colonization.We are always looking for the details of the costs, the evaluation of the benefits and the payment conditions imposed by France on African countries. AGREEMENT N⁰ 2 : THE AUTOMATIC CONFISCATION OF NATIONAL FINANCIAL…
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The publicity for the Ukraine war has been handled far more successfully by the US, NATO and allies than the campaign to justify the 2003 US war on Iraq. The Ukraine news is pervasive. It comes from the front, from anchors in Kyiv, from interviews with victims, medical staff and politicians. Moscow-based Western correspondents who dominate the airwaves, television and print media provide unenlightening input from Russia. The war is being won for hearts and minds while bloody battles rage in eastern Ukraine. Blanket efforts to influence global public opinion in favour of the war will go on long after…
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Our thoughts today are with the people of Iraq, whose country was invaded twenty years on March 20, 2003. The destruction and loss of life is beyond description. More than a million deaths have been recorded. It is important to analyze the political justification of the invasion of Iraq which was presented to public opinion. The evidence is overwhelming. The justification to wage war on Iraq was based on fake intelligence. War crimes committed at the highest levels of government. Smoking Guns The War narrative which unfolded with Colin Powell’s February 5, 2003 presentation to the UN Security Council was that Saddam possessed “Weapons of Mass Destruction”. The intelligence Dossier presented by Colin Powell to the UNSC…
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On the 24th of March 2023, the people of Serbia commemorated NATO’s illegal and criminal invasion of Yugoslavia. Twenty-four years ago in the early hours of March 24, 1999, NATO began the bombing of the Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia. When Belgrade was bombed, the children’s hospital was the object of air attacks. It had been singled out by military planners as a strategic target. The causes and consequences of this war against the people of Yugoslavia have been the object of a vast media disinformation campaign, which has sought to camouflage NATO and US war crimes. What was US-NATO’s Strategic Objective: Undermine and destroy Yugoslavia’s “Market Socialism” which ensured…
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Author’s Update In recent developments, German Prosecutor General Peter Frank confirmed “there is no evidence to blame Russia for the destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipelines”: “It currently has not been proven (…) The investigation is ongoing (…) We are currently evaluating all this forensically. [The suspicion] that there had been a foreign sabotage act [in this case], has so far not been substantiated”, he said during the interview with Die Welt. No evidence of foreign sabotage of an act which has created social havoc and hardship in the European Union, with rising energy prices? People are freezing, unable to pay…
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𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗴𝗼𝘀 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱? We don’t know, but ‘by the late 15th century, Lagos Island had been settled by Yorùbá fishermen and hunters of the Àwórì stock who called it 𝗢𝗸𝗼’, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica. Later, by the late 16th century, the Kingdom of Benin set up a military post on the Island and called it 𝗘𝗸𝗼. Note: Yorùbá fishermen and hunters were the earliest recorded settlers on Lagos Island. They called it 𝗢𝗸𝗼. The Edo met those Yorùbá settlers there. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗮𝗴𝗼𝘀 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 The first chief of Lagos Island on record was…
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Address A Petition To Rome Accusing The Archbishop And All Catholic Priests Of Abusing Their Office/Calling By Openly Working For Peter Obi And Labour Party At The Alter Of God. Members of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, who are Catholics have accused Archbishop of Onitsha, Valerian Okeke of aiding Priests to Campaign for Labour Party, defame Catholic candidates, others in rival parties. Members of the Catholic extraction in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) have narrated how Archbishop of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province, Valerian Okeke aided Priests under his administration to ditch their primary assignment of preaching the gospel to publicly…
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A senior wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical “middleman” have been found guilty of an organ-trafficking plot, which saw them bring a 21-year-old man to the UK from Lagos. The Old Bailey heard the organ was for the couple’s daughter, Sonia, aged 25. She was cleared of the same charge. The victim, a street trader from Lagos, was brought to the UK last year to provide a kidney in an £80,000 private transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London. He said he was promised opportunities in the UK for helping, and that he only realised what was…
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Someone forwarded an audio recording to me few days ago which must have been preserved for more than 57 years. It was the voice of Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola (SLA), the last Premier of the Western Region and the 13th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland The voice was unmistakable, in his distinctive Ogbomosho accent. The summary of what he said, which I have transcribed from Yoruba to English as best as I could was…..CONTINUE READING “…. Let us the Yorubas come together. Let the Ibos not ‘disorganize’ us with this election. We must not allow them to use this election…
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Editors have a mantra, do not look back, move on, write what is current. But sometimes looking back is vital. Those who ignore even the recent past are doomed to understand nothing, sink deeper into quagmires – and bleat again : ‘Why do they hate us’ ? Looking through material for the book that has been far too long in the making, I found a copy of a letter which I sent to a prominent (UK) Member of Parliament. It is dated November 1993 and clarifies for ever why the invaders were never going to be greeted with ‘sweets and…
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for President Vladimir Putin and his Children’s Rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, over the alleged “unlawful kidnapping of Ukrainian children’. According to the I.C.C: “there are reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears responsibility for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population and that of unlawful transfer of population from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, in prejudice of Ukrainian children.” (emphasis added) The I.C.C. accusation directed against Vladimir Putin of “kidnapping” or “deportation” of Ukrainian children borders on ridicule. The president of the I.C.C. Piotr Hofmanski (see below) refers to the Geneva Convention, without the foggiest understanding of the rights of civilians in a…
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France secretly armed Biafra in the self-proclaimed republic’s attempt to break away from Nigeria in a bid to weaken British and US influence in Africa, documents seen by RFI reveal 50 years after the beginning of a war that cost up to two million lives. The ethnic Igbo-majority Eastern Region declared its independence on 30 May 1967, following a military coup, a counter-coup and what French diplomats described as “pogroms” of tens of thousands of Igbo living in northern Nigeria the previous year. The attempt to break away led to a 32-month war, which was to see about between 500,000…
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The deaths of more than a million people in Nigeria as a result of the brutal civil war which ended exactly 50 years ago are a scar on the nation’s history. For most Nigerians, the war over the breakaway state of Biafra is generally regarded as an unfortunate episode best forgotten, but for the Igbo people who fought for secession, it remains a life-defining event. In 1967, following two coups and turmoil which led to about a million Igbos returning to the south-east of Nigeria, the Republic of Biafra seceded with 33-year-old military officer Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu at the helm.…
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Culled from contributions on a WhatsApp discussion group This is a very long read. This insight into the Igbo Cultural mindset was shared on @Balogun Olamilekan’s wall by Ike Chike, where sister Sola Salako Ajulo responded to his very beautiful insight. The response of SSA is below here after that of Ike Chike. It is such a beautifully written piece by both of them and it is a conversation worth having. Communication is key in understanding cultures What’s your take? Read Ike Chike wrote: I am Igbo. I am proud of who we are. I love Nigeria. I love the…
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The almighty Lagos Seaport to Atlantic Ocean is 60 nautical miles, While the Potential OSEAKWA Seaport that was abandoned in 1959 by the Nigeria government is only 18 nautical miles to Atlantic Ocean with a depth of 20mft. By implication, shipping goods from China to Lagos with Lagos Seaport is very far than shipping goods from China to Oseakwa Ihiala, using the Seaport at Urashi Ihiala Anambra state. It also implies that Imo, Abia, Enugu, Ebonyi, Anambra, Rivers, Delta, Edo, Beyelsa, Benue, Kogi and Akwaibom business men living in Lagos will find it easy to have their business in south-…
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In my view as a layman, I believe PO’s legal team has done a good job. So we await the judgement of the court. That said, I believe the real challenge for the Tinubu’s legal team would be to prove that Tinubu was validly nominated to run for the presidency considering the defective nomination of his running mate. Section 35 of the Electoral Act prohibits a candidate from knowingly allowing himself to be nominated by more than one political party or in more than one constituency for elective offices. From the filings by Obi’s legal team, they are contending that…
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March 21, 2023 Nigeria carried out the second round of its electoral process with gubernatorial and state assembly elections on March 18. The United States is deeply troubled by the disturbing acts of violent voter intimidation and suppression that took place during those polls in Lagos, Kano, and other states. Members of the U.S. diplomatic mission observed the elections in Lagos and elsewhere and witnessed some of these incidents first-hand. The use of ethnically charged rhetoric before, during, and after the gubernatorial election in Lagos was particularly concerning. We commend all Nigerian political actors, religious and community leaders, youth, and…
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According to Colonel Markus Reisner, the military strategist of the Austrian Ministry of Defence, Ukraine does not need NATO soldiers, as they are already there on the frontlines as mercenaries. In a video posted on the Intel republic Telegram channel, the Austrian can be seen and heard giving his view on the situation. Reisner’s remark came in response to a question posed during a press conference at the AIES Institute. One of the journalists asked him who would be managing the proposed transfer of tanks to Ukraine – NATO servicemen or Ukrainians. Reisner replied that if the military from Austria or NATO countries…
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Breaking: “Second Russia Offensive” (SRO): Vladimir Sharpens the Cleaver; Volodymyr Fattens the Calf
The Second Russian Offensive to the imminent Fall of Bakhmut NATO prophesied a Second Russian Offensive (SRO) on the muddy heals of rasputitsa [Spring]. Then when queried, on February 13, about upcoming festivities, Secretary-General Stoltenberg imparted: “we are seeing the start already.” The SRO crept imperceptibly. April Fools’ came early. The Russo-Ukrainian War’s 800-kilometer front bisects the Donbass with a 240-kilometer incision. The SRO engages a segment of Donbass-situated line, with the Russian-held city, Donetsk, at its strategic core. The SRO’s operational theatre contiguously connects 5 small Ukrainian-held cities: (north-to-south) Bakhmut, Chavis Yar, Avdiivka, Marinka and Vuhledar As missiles fly, Bakhmut sits…
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…it behoves the average Igboman to critically revisit his cultural inheritances and reflectively evaluate their reasonableness and suitability in today’s world. It is not in the interest of the Igboman to be perpetually misunderstood by friends and foes alike. The Igboman needs to pragmatically rethink his cultural and historical antecedents and redirect his future. It is very difficult to be an Igboman in Nigeria. It becomes even more excruciating outside Nigeria. The farther one travels, the more the pull and lure of the homeland. It is difficult to find a home outside the homeland. That’s why the Igboman always longs…
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It’s often said that a lie told so many times, if unchallenged, may – in the course of time and generations – begin to pass for the truth. One of such is the terrible lie and brazen propaganda, institutionally purveyed (against the Igbo) since the end of the Civil War, to the effect that Igboland is landlocked or has no access to the Atlantic Ocean. Just recently, this vexatious lie became predominant in the wake of the ethnic-baiting of Igbos in Lagos following the dubious 2023 presidential and governorship elections. Igbos, a merchant race, are being taunted again and told…
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No woman likes a clingy, insecure man. But that is what we yorubas are becoming, a frightened, insecure and second rate nation. So fearful that we cant even accept one of our own because his mother is ibo. There was a time when the word swagger was synonymous with the yoruba. Reflecting self assurance and confidence. We exuded belief. The ibos secretly admired us. They adopted our clothes and music. They flocked to our churches. We accommodated strangers because we were so sure of ourselves, of our standing in the world, our stature, our swag that we knew our guests…
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My brothers and sisters, a lot of emotions and angst have been expended and continue to be poured out over the last few days concerning ‘who’ owns Lagos, the multitude of investment by people of south east origin and the deployment of ethnic and primordial means to press home an ominous message. The emotional response to all of this noise is understandable when one considers the sky-high properties and extensive investments made over decades by ndigbo. However, our collective expressions of “shock”, “surprise” and indignation seem to border more on sentimentalism and emotional outbursts without reference to a historical context…
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Dear Igbos,Ekenem ndi igbo nile na-agu ihe a! On behalf of well meaning, liberated, loving and reasonable Yorùbás, I say WE ARE SORRY! We are sorry for the humiliation, the threats, the discriminations and the bad situation that our tribe has put you. We are sorry for the pains, the traumas and the division we have caused the relationship that we share! When you agitated for your own country, you did it without any tribal attack on the Yoruba tribe, all you wanted was a libration from the servitude of the Nigerian system because she has been failing to include…
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There’s something special about the Igbo, otherwise how could a people devastated by a 30-month civil war, displaced, dispossessed of their possessions, positions and political power come back under 40 years to regain all and more? The resilience of the Igbo has rubbed off on other Nigerians in almost everything we do. Our brothers from across the Niger have moved from the back seat to the driving seat of the Nigerian economy, commerce, sports and every major sector. Igbo investments span real estate, where they own more than 60 per cent of property in the nation, banking, near total dominance of…
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Cleveland, a city in Ohio, USA, was long regarded as the sufferhead among American cities. Bearing on its big head the weight of an unfortunate nickname – The mistake on the lake – Cleveland shares a few similarities with Nigeria. How did Cleveland get its nickname? This is how. As recently as the late 1960s and 1970s, Cleveland was described as a city where ducks flew upside down because there was nothing worth dumping on. An unforgettable incident happened in June 1969 that made the appellation of a rundown city stick to Cleveland like a mask. Just as Nigeria has…
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In life, it is not the much said that matters but the much done of the much said. That’s what President Muhammadu Buhari just demonstrated by signing some devolution of powers into law. Restoration of federalism to Nigeria as agreed between the nation’s founding fathers (Zik, Awo, Ahmadu Bello, et al) and colonial Britain is what the deafening clamor for restructuring is all about. The 1999 Constitution could be the worst in the nation’s annals for imposing a unitary system in a federal environment, with 68 key items on the Federal List compared to a little over 30 flimsy and…
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The meeting of some Nigerian billionaire businessmen, notably, Aliko Dangote, Tony Elumelu, and Femi Otedola with Bola Tinubu, an illegitimate president-elect, is as insensitive as it is provocative. That is impunity gone too far. As if the show of shame lacks in folly, Mr. Elumelu—the poster vainglory of the Nigeria’s shady banking system—had the affrontery to share a video of his family hosting the number one enemy of the Nigerian youths. What an eye-sore!! What a social miasma!! The same Tony Elumelu is alleged to have weaponized his huge influence at the United Bank for Africa (UBA) to morph up…
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Not Because Putin Is So Great, But Because His Crimes Pale in Comparison to the Real Criminals On Friday, the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for the alleged war crime “of [the] unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine.” I have no personal knowledge of whether U.S. government-funded claims of such transfers are true, or whether removing orphans from an active war zone is in fact a war crime. It is notable that the ICC did not allege war crimes based on the crime of aggression (see also here), i.e., the invasion itself, perhaps because that might set…
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As aggrieved Parties head to the Presidential election tribunal to make a case against the improper conduct of the February 25, 2023 election as directed by INEC, three critical issues stand out: The eligibility of a contestant to stand for election to the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in view of it’s sacredness and sanctity as the highest position in the country. The validity of the election process against the Provisions of the 1999 constitution of Nigeria as amended. The profundity or otherwise of the declaration of a winner against the violations of the provisions…
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Executive Summary of Report by International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety) Introduction: This Special Report (Welcome to Bleeding Republic of Nigeria: A Land Flowing with Blood and Tears) is a compilation of widespread human rights abuses in Nigeria in the past 20 months of the four-year tenure of the central Government of Retired Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari; covering 1st June 2015 to 31st January 2017. The Report is majorly focused on Civil and Political Rights; which is one of the four internationally existing generations of human rights. These fundamental liberties include citizens’ constitutional and legal rights as well as regional and…
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When the people conclude once and for all, that their government has become the greatest modern threat to Nigerian peace, prosperity and liberty, the rules of the game are going to change dramatically. Once the people reach a point where they no longer trust anyone in their government, when every government action from the Executive, the Judicial and Legislative branches seem just another lie intended to manipulate the masses into compliance, the people’s complacency will morph into unbridled rage in an instant. With nothing but liberty left to lose, the people will do whatever it takes to reclaim their mandate…
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In politics, philosopher John Locke is best known as a proponent of limited government. He uses a theory of natural rights to argue that governments have obligations to their citizens, have only limited powers over their citizens, and can ultimately be overthrown by citizens under certain circumstances. This is not the case in Nigeria. Our governments feel no obligation to the citizens and the suffering they inflict on them through insensitive policies is proof. What the government has for the Nigerian masses is utmost contempt for their overlords. Probably the best-known, simple, and short definition of public policy has been…
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It is correct to say that ‘transformed’ and ‘untransformed’ Retreatist Osun State-born “Lagosians” are dangerously breeding insurgency in Lagos State, Nigeria’s smallest land-massed and most populated sub-national entity. The ‘Retreatist’ Osun State-born “Lagosians” presently threatening lives and properties of defenseless nationalities in the state or any part thereof have been found to belong to a generation of those that left their state(s) of birth pauperized and uneducated and headed to Lagos in 1950 and 1960s or earlier or thereafter; assimilated and became part of Lagos street gangs including ‘street children’ and drug addicts (retreatists); commonly called “Alaayes” and “Area Boys”.…
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The Ides of March March 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the onslaught of the war on Iraq. The US-NATO led invasion of Iraq started on 20 March 2003 on the pretext that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). In March, we will also be commemorating the Vietnam War launched on March 8, 1965 following the adoption by the US Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which authorized President Lyndon Johnson to dispatch ground forces to Vietnam. Also in March we will be commemorating NATO’s War on Yugoslavia which was launched on March 24, 1999 under Operation “Noble Anvil”. All these wars, according…
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Washington could clash with Moscow’s forces if Kiev starts to lose, the veteran journalist argues. The United States could get directly involved in the Ukraine conflict if it sees that Kiev’s forces are on the back foot, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh suggested on Tuesday. Speaking at an event in Washington, DC hosted by the Committee for the Republic, a non-profit organization, Hersh noted that the US “did stupid things” during the Vietnam War, and suggested that Washington could “start doing something else” in the Ukraine conflict. “I don’t know what happens if it goes bad for Ukraine, you have…
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Being a Press Statement by Balogun Akin Osuntokun, Director-General, the Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation. Good day gentlemen and ladies of the press. Kindly permit me, as the DG of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation, to comment on the rising ethnic tension across the country, particularly. There has been a contrived ethnic tension in Lagos State since the outcome of the last Presidential election, in which our Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmad, performed above the expectations of our critics and consequently set some political parties on a panic mode. This panic mode is accentuated by their…
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Someone staked his claim to the presidency of Nigeria with the audacious slogan of Emi L’okan (it is my turn). And he seems to have got it using the Hausa/Fulani/ Kanuri alliance to drive his claim. The real owners of Lagos are on the street now demanding their right to rule themselves. They seem to be saying, “Awa L’okan” (it is our turn), also forging an alliance with southern ethnic groups, particularly the Igbo. Now, the ajoji godogbo (audacious alien) is jittery and threatening the landlord because the owner wants to rule his land. For those who think only the…
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A foremost Nigerian novelist, Professor Chinua Achebe once said: “I have written in my small book entitled The Trouble with Nigeria that Nigerians will probably achieve consensus on no other matter than their common resentment of the Igbo.” Ndigbo have gone through a lot and still go through a lot in Nigeria since the foundation of the country. Perhaps, it is only the Jews that have gone through this level of hostility and still survived. Starting from colonial times, the hostilities the Igbo ethnic group has suffered have been widespread and rooted in no justifiable causes. The ultimate should be…
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(Between Peter Obi lawyers led by Dr. Livy Uzoukwu and INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, today at INEC office)Excerpts: Prof. Mahmood Yakubu We received a letter from Uzoukwu (SAN) on behalf of the Labour Party. The letter is dated March 6, in the letter we were served notice that the team will be here on the seventh at nine in the morning to inspect the materials but most specifically, the letter requested us to get in touch with our resident electoral commissioners across the 37 states of the Federation to make the documents and information available for the prosecution of…
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Ten days before the expiration of the legally allowed timeline to file a petition at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal over the outcome of the 2023 presidential election, lawyers to Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, have warned that the continued refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow it access to election materials stored on the BVAS and IREV may lead to a national calamity. The lawyers led by Livy Uzoukwu (SAN), also said that “not making the documents available will create the impression that INEC is deliberately frustrating us. That’s just the impression it will create…
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Nothing on earth is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. For many years, a better percentage of African ladies have continued to embrace the erroneously flawed belief that feminism was all about an unseen rivalry between male and female genders. Anytime the concept of feminism comes into a conversation, they immediately conclude that they were up for some muscle-flexing game between opposing genders which is further fuelled by a desperate contrivance to bring men under control and end or suppress their chauvinistic posturing. This is all shades of wrong. It is sad that people do not understand that feminism is…
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When writing stories of your life, it has been often advised not to allow someone else to hold the pen. For many years, Africa has been making a fundamental mistake by largely giving life to the idea of the ‘West’ about Africa by conforming to the stories about the continent that are heavily laced with colonial struggles, conflict, identity crisis, and poverty. One thing that must be established is that while those stories still exist and might still be relevant, they shouldn’t exist as the only lens through which the entire African continent is viewed. Over the past few centuries,…
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In the past decades, African visionaries and progressive thinkers have not stopped calling out to African nations to break free from Western prescriptions to cure their problems. Sadly, Africa continues to swallow these Western pills even to overdosing, thereby creating new problems for themselves, while the continent continues to get sicker by the day. Without mincing words, if Africa wants to achieve prosperity and gain an identity of its own, beyond being the former colonies that depend on their ex-colonial masters for survival, the time to wake up is now. It continues to be shocking how Africa, being the second largest continent…
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Over the last two decades, gubernatorial elections in Lagos State have offered ethnic chauvinists the opportunity to engage in ethnocentric gymnastics to score cheap political points. At every election curve, candidates of major political parties are forced to pick a side and engage in needless debates on whether Lagos is a ‘no man’s land’ or a land belonging to the Yorubas. This needless debate, has, on the flip side, continued to offer Gubernatorial candidates an avenue to escape scrutiny concerning their manifesto and what they have to offer the state, which, in turn, exposes the state to ill-prepared leadership and…
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It is one thing to brazenly steal a mandate to lead people, and it is another to acquire legitimacy to complete the heist. Just as clearly stipulated in social contract philosophies, the agreement has to exist between the ruled and their rulers for governance to happen. It is now weeks since the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu committed one of the most organised electoral heists in Africa which saw him snatching an underwhelming victory in Nigeria’s Presidential elections. Tinubu’s triumph at the crooked elections did not come as a startling surprise to keen observers who…
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Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has advocated the probe and removal of the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Director of ICT, Mr. Femi Odubiyi, owing to his closeness to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. George, the Atona Oodua of Yorubaland, said that INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, should explain to Nigerians how Odubiyi, a former Commissioner for Science and Technology in Lagos State, who is loyal to Tinubu, found his way into INEC as head of ICT. He, however, called for a…
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In the absence of conditions for peace, military action is required to achieve Russian goals, Putin’s spokesman has said. There are currently no conditions for a peace settlement in Ukraine, meaning Russia has no other option but to keep fighting, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has argued. “The absolute priority for us remains and will always remain reaching the goals that we’ve set for ourselves. At this point in time, they can only be achieved through military means,” the official told journalists on Monday. Peskov was reacting to an article penned by veteran German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger, who served as chair…
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The former US president blames bank failures on Joe Biden’s economic policies. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was the fault of US President Joe Biden’s administration, Donald Trump has claimed, warning it could lead to a new Great Depression in the United States. SVB, a major lender focused on tech and startups, which was the 16th largest US bank with over $200 billion in assets only a few months ago, imploded on Friday after what analysts called “a classic case of bank run.” Alarmed over the state of the bank, depositors rushed to withdraw funds, which saw SVB’s…
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Predictions are a notoriously painful exercise. In the world of geopolitics, especially during a time of seismic global transformation, they are nigh near impossible to make. In West Asia, a depressed and neglected region that acts as a punching bag for Great Power competition elsewhere, much relies on the settlement of major power battles in the realms of economy, politics, and (proxy) war. Rather than outright predictions, it might be more useful to characterize the trends likely to develop further in 2023. I’ve asked some of my fellow writers at The Cradle to weigh in with their own takes. But let’s first jump in…
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My first post on Corporatism described the nature of the disease from an analytical point of view, the ingredients from left and right which make it so virulent and hard to fight and how it is a destroyer of the basic pillars of a civilised society – democracy, truth and prosperity. In fact it is even more dangerous than that! Here we deal with the power of corporatism to destroy humanity itself. In wars, by corruption and by disease. Big Pharma One of the chief characteristics of an anti democratic corporatist society is the way parliament and people become the…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday said over 170,000 polling unit results of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections have been uploaded on its Result Viewing Portal (IReV). The Commission also said the reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems (BVAS) would be completed by Tuesday in preparation for the March 18 governorship and state assembly elections. “As at the last time, over 170,000 of those results have been uploaded,” INEC National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, stated on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. “As you are aware, we are reconfiguring the BVAS for purposes of the governorship and state…
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Nigeria and Nigerians will be known all over the world for corruption. Your name – Nigeria will stink of corruption. But after a while; a new phase will come – a phase of righteousness. People from the Nations of the earth will hold a Nigerian and say, ‘we want to follow you to your Nation to go and learn righteousness.’ Pa. S. G. Elton The declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of All Progressive Congress (APC) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the President-Elect in the just conducted Presidential Election of 25 February 2023; fulfilled this given word of…
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The conduct of the 2023 presidential/National Assembly polls on February 25 has once more stirred deep questions on the credibility and integrity of the Independent National Electoral Commission. A host of domestic and international observers agreed that the polls grossly fell short of minimum global standards. It is a shame that after seven election cycles, balloting in Nigeria remains riddled with inefficiency and tainted by accusations of result falsification, vote buying, voter suppression, calculated disenfranchisement, and violence. Just like the previous general elections that were defiled by malpractices, Nigerians are traumatised by the first rounds of balloting in the 2023…
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The words of a public crusader has it that “an immoral and unjust system would always breed contempt for its laws and regulations.” Sometimes, a government disavowing itself from the indictment of civil society organizations can be likened to newspapers which are only a poor shadow of reality. Their information is only relevant to the crusader not because of the truth it reveals, but because it discloses the biases and perceptions of those who produce it and those who read it. I read about the decision of the Nigerian Labour Congress led by Comrade Joe Ajaero, to shut down economic…
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I wasn’t born in the First Republic (i.e., 1960 to 1966) and hadn’t come of age in the Second Republic (i.e., 1979 to 1983), so when I say this year’s presidential election represents the most toxic brew of ethnic and religious chauvinism Nigeria’s democracy has ever had, I’m talking within the limits of my experiential reality. The three major candidates in the election exploited, to varying degrees, Nigeria’s primordial fault lines to enhance their chances of winning. We’re now contending with the aftershocks of this fact. But what has kept me awake these past few days is the creeping normalization…
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In 1966: Nearly 1,000,000 of them were massacred in the North as revenge killings for a coup that was plotted by a young man that bears their name but had never been to their land. They escaped back to their homeland and wanted a country of their own, but they were told that they must belong to one indivisible Nigeria For three years, they resisted and lost another 3,000,000 of their kith and kin were fed to the vultures. Their entire homeland was a killing field, they were killed, and they were starved. Kwashiorkor finished up their starving children. Many…
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‘Tinubu’s victory stands’ was the declaration of the Presidency as it replied to PDP, LP, and others on 9th March 2023, in a press conference. The Presidency has said despite the alleged shoddy and shady conduct of the presidential election and the harsh criticism against the Independent National Electoral Commission it generated, the result of the February 25 Presidential election stands. This is coming on the heels of President Muhammadu Buhari’s foreign tour where he drummed support for a Tinubu presidency. Both actions seem to put finality to the presidential election and make any court process a mere academic exercise…
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Hope Uzodinma is Chief Executive of Imo State. He controls the formal institutions of the state. It is his reaponsbiiity to ensure security and well-being of the people by articulating and implementing policies. He is assisted by the State Assembly and other regulatory institutions in the state. Comrade Joe Ajaero is the Chief Executive of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). His responsibility is to ensure that workers in Nigeria who are affiliated to the NLC enjoy their democratic rights to the fullest. Governor Hope Uzodinma is not a king. Comrade Joe Ajaero is not a king. Each has a work to…
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— Let Oba Rilwan Akiolu Tell Nigerians his Ethnic Ancestry and Leave the Igbo Alone The English man Francis Bacon, the First Baron Verulam (1561-1625 wrote: “He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils: for time is the greatest innovator.” I am looking forward for the day when an Awori will become the Oba of Lagos, a Yoruba the Oba and not Emir of Ilorin, the Hausa Serikin Gobir not the Sultan of Sokoto, the Emir of Suleja returning as Serikin Zauzau (Zaria), a Nupe man of Tsuede ancestry taking over his ancestral Etsu Nupe throne in…
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Even as the world’s billionaires grew in number from 793 in 2006 to 946 this year, major mass uprisings became commonplace in China and India. In India, which has the highest number of billionaires (36) in Asia with total wealth of $191 billion, Prime Minister Singh declared that the greatest single threat to ‘India’s security’ were the Maoist-led guerrilla armies and mass movements in the poorest parts of the country. In China, with 20 billionaires with $29.4 billion net worth, the new rulers, confronting nearly a hundred thousand reported riots and protests, have increased the number of armed special anti-riot…
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In America, we have an oligarch problem, and it’s much bigger than the oligarch problem that Putin faced when he became president in 2000. The entire West is now in the grips of billionaire elites who have a stranglehold on the media, the political establishment and all of our important institutions. In recent years we have seen these oligarchs expand their influence from markets, finance and trade to politics, social issues and even public health. The impact this group has had on these other areas of interest, has been nothing short of breathtaking. Establishment elites and their media not only stood…
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First published on July 9, 2020 The idea of the Great Reset derives from the New World Order which is still alive in the minds of the establishment or who we can call the globalists from people like Henry Kissinger to the current US president, Joe Biden. Of course there are many others on the top levels of the pyramid whose ideas range from establishing a police state, to implanting microchips the day we are born to track and trace us, to depopulating the planet. I know it all sounds insane but that’s what the globalists have planned for us for a very…
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We are being accused of “spreading disinformation” regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. The Reuters and AP media “trackers” and “fact checkers” will be out to smear the testimonies of parents who have lost their children. “Once the Lie becomes the Truth, there is no moving backwards. Insanity prevails. The world is turned upside down.” Let us be under no illusions, the Covid Jab is not only “experimental”, it’s a Big Pharma “killer vaccine” which modifies the human genome. The evidence of mortality and morbidity resulting from vaccine inoculation both present (official data) and future (e.g. undetected microscopic blood clots) is overwhelming. The official…
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Important article first published on October 11 2022 “We are not threatening anyone.… We have made it clear that any further NATO movement to the east is unacceptable. There’s nothing unclear about this. We aren’t deploying our missiles to the border of the United States, but the United States IS deploying their missiles to the porch of our house. Are we asking too much? We’re just asking that they not deploy their attack-systems to our home…. What is so hard to understand about that?” Russian President Vladimir Putin, YouTube, Start at :48 seconds Imagine if the Mexican army started bombarding American ex-pats…
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Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab’s so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or his claim to having invented the notion of Stakeholder Capitalism a product of Schwab. Klaus Schwab is little more than a slick PR agent for a global technocratic agenda, a corporatist unity of corporate power with government, including the UN, an agenda whose origins go back to the beginning of the 1970s, and even earlier. The Davos Great reset is merely an updated blueprint for a global dystopian dictatorship under…
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