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“GO TO COURT” seems to have become the new mocking refrain for the brazen and foolhardy. In Nigeria, sacred institutions are treated with utmost contempt. Sadly, the courts are not exempt from this attitudinal dissonance. Check out the many instances when fundamental rights and inalienable freedoms of the citizens are trampled upon or when a highly placed person is oppressing the poor or less privileged. The most severe complaint for redress in this respect will be met with the insulting or condescending remark- “GO TO COURT!” “GO TO COURT” has become a taunt statement or jeer phrase which the unscrupulous…
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The Governors of Rivers and Benue States, Nyesom Wike, and Samuel Ortom, have challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to expose governors responsible for stealing local government funds. The governors who were part of the five Integrity Governors among the governors of the Peoples Democratic Party threw the challenge to the President during the inauguration of the Mgbuosimini Internal Roads in Rivers State. Channels Television reported that President Buhari in a speech at the presidential parley for members of the Senior Executive Course 44 (2022) of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) at the State House, said that state…
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For Immediate Release, March 8, 2023 A group of Nigerians led by Govindex Leadership, Empowerment and Development Foundation have sued the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over its failure to comply with Section 160(I) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As Amended) and Sections 60(5) and 148 of the Electoral Act, 2022. Govindex in the suit filed before the Federal High Court Abuja by its solicitors, Ifeanyi Nrialike Esq. on behalf of Ikechukwu Ezechukwu, SAN & Co., is demanding the criminal prosecution of INEC officials who compromised the integrity of the Saturday, February 25, 2023 Presidential…
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An open letter to Joe Biden By Olivia DiNucci Dear President Biden, My name is Olivia DiNucci and I am the anti-war activist who interrupted your dinner in DC the other night. You, the most powerful man in the world, were sitting right in front of me. Normal people like me don’t often have access to people like you and I couldn’t resist addressing you knowing we are in such a pivotal moment in history, one year after the horrific Russian invasion of Ukraine. I know that it was President Putin’s decision to illegally and inhumanely invade Ukraine but I believe you…
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When former US President George W. Bush and his neocon regime launched their anti-terrorism campaign after the September 11th attacks, he declared that “Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” Western threats against the Global South continue today. In the recent Munich Security Conference 2023, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that “Neutrality is not an option, because then you are standing on the side of the aggressor,” she continued “and this is a plea we are also giving next week to the world again: Please take a side,…
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This was originally published in October 2015. People these days look at you like a weirdo if you talk about the healing properties of plants or any other holistic practices. Much like anything else, there is a lot of politics and money behind our modern medical system. It all starts with John D. Rockefeller (1839 – 1937) who was an oil magnate, a robber baron, America’s first billionaire, and a natural-born monopolist. By the turn of the 20th century, he controlled 90% of all oil refineries in the U.S. through his oil company, Standard Oil, which was later on broken up to…
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[NATO’s goal is] “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” Lord Ismay, first NATO Secretary-General (1952-1957). “Near-term-thinking [by political and business decision-makers] is not only deeply irresponsible—it is immoral.” Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, (in a speech to the General Assembly, Monday February 6, 2023). “Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.” Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017), Polish-born American political theorist. (In his book ‘The Grand Chessboard’, 1997). “Peace is the virtue of civilisation.…
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Chief Martin Agbaso is a Nigerian economist, politician and was a one time winner candidate for Governor of Imo State. Agbaso popularly called Ochoudo which means The Peacemaker or one who seeks peace, has played significant roles both in the corporate world and in politics in Nigeria especially in the south eastern region of Nigeria.. He was a special assistant on Ecology to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Olusegun Obasanjo. Early life Chief Martin Agbaso was born on April 5, 1959 in Emekuku, Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State. The first son of Chief…
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The one thing that is worse than being a slave is being a slave that loves his chains. For many decades, southern Nigerians have often through their actions and inactions, shown that they love their chains and don’t seem interested in welcoming any idea that bears some semblance of genuine freedom. Despite the carefully-orchestrated scenarios created in recent times by the Fulani Oligarchy in Nigeria, the truth remains that to date, they still own Nigeria and are not prepared to give up an inch of their stronghold on the country for any reason. The Lugardian contraption and geographical expression called Nigeria is…
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Growing up, two proverbs stuck out for me, one by my father, and the other was a Pidgin English saying. One was: “If one person buries himself, one hand will stick out”. Young, impressionistic, and inquisitive, I asked for an explanation. My father explained it away both as an idiomatic expression and a literary saying. According to him, if one person tries to bury himself, certainly the hand that covered his body with sand would need another hand to cover it. And left that way, the man wouldn’t be fully buried. The other was: “If a cunning man die, a…
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Lagos has been a cosmopolitan, global destination with a modern seaport at Apapa since the mid-1800. It became a Crown Colony in 1861. I did a research for the Nigerian Customs, went into the Federal Archives at the University of Ibadan and discovered records of the Customs Administration of Lagos since 1877. Could have been earlier. Lagos was developed by people from diverse parts of the world. The British contributed their bit, ditto indigenous people, as well as other West African groups like Dahomians, Ghanaians, Togolese, etc. From within Nigeria, you have early settlers like the Bini, and the Tapa,…
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At some point the war in Ukraine will end, and when it does, the resulting influx of mercenaries will send shockwaves through Africa. As the current conflict grinds toward its grim one-year anniversary, experts disagree on what might happen next. But eventually one side will win, or the fighting will morph into a low-intensity conflict. At this point, thousands of former soldiers with combat experience will hit the open market. These soldiers will find limited job prospects in Ukraine or Russia, as both armies cut down on active-duty troops. The Wagner Group and other private military companies from South Africa, France,…
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Chief Martin Agbaso (Ochoudo) has joined the race for Imo State governorship election under the Labour Party. Agbaso, the former Imo governorship election winner whose election was illegally cancelled and fresh elections conducted during the 2007 elections, revealed this via a tweet on Wednesday evening. He said the move is “In response to the overwhelming call by Imolites, well meaning Igbo leaders and the global Obidient family.” Agbaso a former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) said he has “stepped forward” and the “journey to fix Imo has began.” This comes as very refreshing news for the…
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8th March 2023 The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, gave the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the nod to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, it used for the presidential election. The court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of Justices, held that stopping the electoral body from reconfiguring the BVAS would adversely affect the impending Governorship and State Assembly elections. It dismissed objections that the Labour Party, LP, and its presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, raised against INEC’s move to reconfigure all the BVAS. According to…
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Take it like this. You make a transfer from your bank account to another. Once you’ve done this, between the time it leaves your account and hits the other account, nobody can interfere with the process.It’s technology. The algorithm of that software incorporates block-chain technology and does not give room for interference once the process is initiated. This is to ensure tamper-proof transmission of results. INEC deliberately shut down the server on election day, after their supervisors gave most polling unit agents fake passwords. When the polling agents tried to upload at the PU’s, they couldn’t log in. Very few…
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8TH OF MARCH, 2023 The present situation in Imo state especially as it concerns reasonable and effective social dialogue has become so toxic that it is almost impossible to engage the government in any decent conversation. Hobbesian state of nature has become prevalent exposing not just workers in the state but institutions and individuals to the most horrendous of scare, fear and violence in their daily activities. A state that once prided itself as the Eastern Heartland which provided weekend rendezvous to those looking for relaxation and comfort by the deliberate actions of this government has become heavily terrorised. Citizens’…
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Prof. Femi Olufunmilade writes : ‘Tinubu and his minions like the Elegushis sold the better part of Lekki, Ajah etc to whoever had money. That was how Igbos came to own lots of property there. They paid to the jeunsoke former governor and his front estate companies. What Tinubu wouldn’t share is power. It must be in his hands. But he can sell Lagos to anybody at the right price. Go to Eko Atlantic City. You must be a millionaire in dollars to own a plot there. Again, the Yoruba who own properties there are mainly in the Tinubu circle.…
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( Published on May 3, 2017 By Ṣeun Opejobi) The Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, has claimed that Lagos State is not part of Yoruba land. In a statement from Akiolu’s Palace, the monarch traced the historical background of the state and why it should not be regarded as part of Yoruba land. The statement reads: “Coming from the Palace, with what I was told by my late paternal grandmother, who was a descendant of Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi and also reading from factual historical books, let me share this knowledge with you all on Eko/Lagos. “Modern day Lagos was…
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Introduction According to a video published by the World Economic Forum in 2016, by 2030 ‘You’ll Own Nothing. And You’ll Be Happy.’ See ‘8 predictions for the world in 2030’. Clearly, if this prediction is to come true, then many things must happen. Let me identify why the World Economic Forum believes it will happen and then investigate these claims. Among other questions, I will examine whether those who will own nothing will include the Rothschild, Rockefeller and other staggeringly wealthy families. Or, perhaps, whether they just mean people like you and me. In fact, a primary intention behind the Elite’s…
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US Investments in Nazi Germany. Rockefeller Financed Adolf Hitler’s Election Campaign Incisive historical analysis. From World War I to the Present: Dollar denominated debt has been the driving force behind all US led wars. Wall Street creditors are the main actors. They were firmly behind Nazi Germany. They financed Operation Barbarossa and the invasion of the Soviet Union. The Rockefellers funded Hitler’s election campaign. Wall Street also “appointed” the head of Germany’s Central Bank (Reichsbank). World War II: More than 80 years ago was the start of the greatest slaughter in history. If we are to approach the problem of “responsibility for the war”, then we first…
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Of relevance to the current crisis, this carefully researched article was first published more than ten years ago on June 1, 2011. (Part one of a four-part series) The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths. But their monopoly over the global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch. According to company 10K filings to the SEC, the Four Horsemen of Banking are among…
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First published on May 10, 2022 77 years ago Germany surrendered to allied forces finally ending the ravages of the Second World War. Today, as the world celebrates the 77th anniversary of this victory, why not think very seriously about finally winning that war once and for all? If you’re confused by this statement, then you might want to sit down and take a deep breath before reading on. Within the next 12 minutes, you will likely discover a disturbing fact which may frighten you a little bit: The allies never actually won World War II… Now please don’t get…
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Amid incessant NATO aggression and escalation of hostilities within Russia, now also including US-backed Kiev regime terrorists targeting schoolchildren, Moscow has started revamping the doctrinal approach to the use of its strategic arsenal. Rather curiously, the new document, published by the “Military Thought” magazine run by the Russian Ministry of Defense, attracted little attention in Western media. It should be noted that such changes are made only once in several decades or even longer. The strategic posturing of countries, particularly superpowers, is usually “set in stone”, meaning that changes are prompted only by major events of historical proportions. It was only a week…
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This is an important article. The statements by Blinken reported in the WP by David Ignatius remain to be confirmed. There is a complex decision-making process. It is not the US Secretary of State who ultimately decides. (M.Ch, GR) David Ignatius (lead image, left) has been a career-long mouthpiece for the US State Department. He has just been called in by the current Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) to convey an urgent new message to President Vladimir Putin, the Security Council, and the General Staff in Moscow. For the first time since the special military operation began last year, the war party in…
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The world over, politicians try to win elections by fair and foul means. That tendency is the reason institutions and laws exist and are operated by men of honour and integrity, who are sticklers to rules and unyielding to pressures from partisan interests. The February 2023 Presidential election in Nigeria is a watershed and a new low in the kind of life Nigerians live as human beings who deliberately refuse to grow up and join civilized societies. Our leaders lack honour and integrity, and have now added impunity by refusing to obey the laws of the land. Nigeria’s problems are…
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The war in Ukraine is not about democracy, freedom, human rights, or Ukrainian peoples. It is about the destruction of all of the above, and the main perpetrators are the usual suspects: Washington and the West. It is the West and its agencies, that revived and emboldened nazism in Ukraine since the end of WW2. It is Washington that conducted a blatant and violent coup against the democratically-elected Ukrainian government in 2014, thus destoying democracy and freedom and even the pretense of democracy and freedom for all of Ukraine at that moment and for years to come. The on-going coup…
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According to a newly published safety report on the incident, the pilot thought the instructor was pretending to be asleep as the pair flew a circuit near Blackpool Airport in Lancashire, England, on June 29, 2022. Shortly after takeoff, the instructor’s head rolled back. The pilot knew the 57-year-old instructor well and thought he was just pretending to take a nap. However, when he landed the plane and his co-pilot was still resting on his shoulder and not responding, he realized something was amiss. A post-mortem examination concluded that the instructor died from acute cardiac failure. He had passed a medical four months earlier. The…
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In the past, I have expressed my opinions on many subjects concerning the World Economy: Climate Change, Deforestation, Desertification, Population Control, Abject Poverty, Cleaning up our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Streams, and Creeks, Human Slavery, Over-fishing of our Oceans, Recycling of Plastics, Basic Education for all of humanity, Restoring Trust, Honesty, Respect and the rule of law for all peoples of the earth, Stop killing wild animals for profit, Stop invading countries for their resources and negotiate fairly, Eliminating World Hunger Potable water for all living things on Earth to name a few. These are truly noble goals that we are going…
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This incisive article was written on April 30, 2003 in the immediate wake of the war on Iraq, by renowned historian and political scientist Dr. Jacques Pauwels, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). The article largely pertains to the presidency of George W. Bush. A timely question: Why Does the Biden administration need war, including a $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program? War against Russia and China is currently on the drawing board of the Pentagon. The US has conducted numerous wars since the end of what is euphemistically called the post war era: Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen… It’s what the Project for the…
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The 2023 presidential election in Nigeria is not the worst in human history. That dubious reputation belongs in Liberia where, in 1927, the then President Charles D.B. King scored 234,000 votes out of a total of 15,000 registered voters. The victor was also kind enough to give his opponent 9,000 votes as a mark of fairness and justice. That uncommon feat is naturally in the Guinness Book of World Records. We in Nigeria have not reached that enviable height. We will get there one day, soon. But we had a presidential election last Saturday in which the person who was…
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THE intimidation, threats, and harassment of non-indigenes after the February 25 presidential/National Assembly elections in Lagos State speak to the primitive nature of politics in Nigeria. There have been reports of physical attacks, threats to evict non-natives from the state, and denial of access to social services because the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, who is from Lagos, lost the state to Peter Obi, the Labour Party candidate from Anambra State in the South-East. The security agencies and leaders of thought in Lagos and throughout the South-West should defuse this incendiary trend with urgency. This tendency does not…
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The 2023 elections that many Nigerians have always talked about, prayed, dreamt, prophesied, hoped, and campaigned about finally came and passed over the weekend leaving most of them bruised and mentally defeated. In the aftermath, a good majority of them have resorted to prayers ignoring the fact that if prayers and good wishes were prerequisites for a prosperous country, Nigeria will be far richer than China. Indeed, they have refused to acknowledge the fact that repeated idiocy has never been known to produce different outcomes notwithstanding the frequency of attempts. After casting their votes on Saturday, anxious Nigerians waited patiently for the…
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The Nigerian contraption has remained a classical case of ‘the more you look, the more you see’. As presently constituted, Nigeria is no doubt a political invention that is in urgent need of divine intervention. The unwilling union of the forcefully amalgamated southern and northern protectorates has continued to trudge on and secure validation at any major turn while shying away from the reality of Fulani control and domination. An election cycle has just ended and a number of southerners in Nigeria are in a jubilant mood about the outcome that saw the emergence of a Yoruba man from the South West…
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Since the return of Nigeria to the current democratic dispensation, the judiciary has increasingly made incursions in determining electoral victories and outcomes. In many cases, their judgments are based on technicalities, like the case of Senator Ademola Adeleke in 2019, in which a judge failed to do the needful and Adeleke lost as a result. Each time such judgment is handed down, it rapes democracy by usurping the democratic rights of the citizens to directly choose who governs them. It is a sort of civilian coup. Many may claim this to be a global practice, but the Nigerian experience is…
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1)Birds don’t urinate. 2)Horses and cows sleep while standing up. 3)The bat is the only mammal that can fly. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk. 4) Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids. 5) Despite the white, fluffy appearance of the Polar Bear’s fur, it actually has black skin. 6) The average housefly only lives for 2 or 3 weeks. 7) For every human in the world there are one million ants. 8) A small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make…
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In my opinion, Lagos is not a NO MAN’S LAND. If for nothing else, for the mere fact that it is located in the Southwest of Nigeria establishes it as a Yorubaland. However, Lagos is cosmopolitan. After Calabar it became the colonial capital and later the federal capital of Nigeria before the capital was moved to Abuja. Lagos houses the biggest seaports in Nigeria, local and international airports, foreign missions, multinational corporations, massive industrial estates, Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies and so on. It is a potpourie of sorts and the commercial capital of West Africa. These attracts Nigerians from…
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One year ago Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat to Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 presidential election. Femi Aribisala, a scholar, international affairs expert and iconoclastic church pastor in Lagos, takes a very different view regarding the last year elections. He claimed that long before Jonathan lost the election, he had been defeated by the machinations of Jega and INEC. The innovation of the permanent voters cards is designed to permanently disenfranchise the south. If this is not redressed immediately, the north will always determine the winner in Nigerian elections. If you did not see my column last week, it was because I did…
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How Totalitarianism Is Designed to Ensnare Our Consent The real purpose of ninety nine percent of the available media out there is designed to help us ignore the truth. Not just mainstream media – all media. First for those who may be unfamiliar with the concept of unlimited hangout – a definition. That this Covid pandemic and the responses to it – and a whole host of hot button issues – were designed to manufacture our consent is the case. This is what this essay will address in the best shorter unlimited hangout I can manage. More complete descriptions of…
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At last week’s Rage Against the War Machine peace rally in Washington there was no shortage of speakers who denounced the Biden Administration’s hypocritical foreign policy, which essentially judges any violent action undertaken by the United States and its friends as good by definition while anything done by rivals or competitors, sometimes conveniently referred to as “enemies,” as “evil.” In the current context of Ukraine versus Russia, where the US is engaged in proxy warfare, speakers were able to cite and compare the formidable list of America’s armed interventions worldwide since World War Two ended. Neither Russia nor any other nation comes…
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This incisive article by Nauman Sadiq was first written on March 18, 2022, barely two weeks after the Russian invasion, provides a carefully documented portrait of President Zelensky and his links to the CIA. Contradictions: Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish. He supports the Nazi Azov Battalion, the two Nazi parties, which have committed countless atrocities against the Jewish community in Ukraine. He belongs to a Russian-Jewish family. He was brought up as a native Russian speaker, who until recently was not fluent in Ukrainian. And now his government is involved in targeting the Russian speaking population throughout Ukraine. Amidst Russia’s impending Ukraine invasion last…
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Opposition parties in Nigeria’s fiercely contested polls will attempt to do what has been described as the impossible – getting a court to overturn the outcome of a presidential election in Africa’s most populous nation. Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar, the second and third-placed candidates in the tightest presidential election since the end of military rule in 1999, are heading to court to challenge the result that saw Bola Tinubu of the ruling party declared the winner with 37% of the vote. While Mr Abubakar of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) called the result “a rape of democracy”…
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Pres. Buhari-led administration and his ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) colluded with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu and some elements in the electoral umpire, to effect the most audacious electoral heist ever perpetuated in Nigeria, with soldiers, policemen and other security personnel, playing prominent roles in the robbery. Democratic nations across the world should condemn perversions of the virtue of democracy and not wait until violent revolts/coups to express indignation. A rigged poll, as the one conducted by Nigeria’s INEC on 25th February 2023, is practically, legally and morally equivalent to a coup or violent and…
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The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), has called on the United States of America, United Kingdom and European countries to impose visa ban on the Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, and other 43 top INEC staff for allegedly rigging last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in the country. The group also called for visa ban on four state governors; Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, Hope Uzodinma of Imo State and David Umahi of Ebonyi State. The group made the call in petition to 31…
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Africa’s biggest economy is facing a deepening fiscal crisis, acute shortages of domestic and foreign currency, and widespread insecurity. The government’s ability to deal with those issues is being undermined by a gasoline subsidy that will drain 6 trillion naira ($13 billion) from state finances this year — about two-thirds of the revenue expected to be generated by oil and gas output. For overseas investors, Nigeria’s multiple exchange rates and moves by the central bank to ration dollars are also a big deterrent. “The next president will be tasked with a course correction anchored on sound economic policies, fiscal and…
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U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on Nigeria’s recent elections: “The ongoing electoral process in Nigeria is widely viewed as deeply flawed by election observers and many Nigerians. It is disappointing to see the administration rush to embrace the result while the full picture of what occurred during this electoral process is yet to be seen. “I’ve expressed similar concerns related to other areas of our relationship with the Nigerian government. I worry this rush to judgement will undermine our ability to be an effective partner to all…
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The Financial Times says Nigeria’s recently concluded presidential election was flawed and mismanaged. In an editorial published on Wednesday, the London-based publication said the results of the election failed to pass the basic message of democracy — that a nation can choose its leaders. “The election – which appears to have delivered the presidency to Bola Tinubu, a wealthy political fixer running for the incumbent All Progressives Congress – was badly mismanaged at best. It failed to set the example needed for west Africa, a region where too many national leaders have extended term limits or resorted to seizing power at…
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Since February 25, 2023, the day that the Presidential Election was conducted, most Nigerians have been in shock following the incompetent handling and mismanagement of the electoral process by the Independent National Elections Commission (INEC). In the process of trying to provide an explanation for its ineptitude, INEC issued a press release through one of its national commissioners, Barrister Festus Okoye, which claimed that its failure to transmit results from the polling booths across the country arose from the failure (or is it inability?) of its information technology infrastructure to handle the demands of national elections as well as it…
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The Guardian view on Nigeria’s election: A fresh start? Not this time It is perhaps unsurprising that many Nigerians are dissatisfied with the outcome of the presidential election. The winner, Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), ran on the slogan “It’s my turn”. It seemed to epitomise the uninspiring campaign of an immensely wealthy veteran powerbroker trailed by corruption claims, which he denies. The main opposition Peoples Democratic party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and the outsider challenger, Peter Obi of the tiny Labour party, want the results scrapped, citing problems with both voting and counting. On any account, Mr Tinubu hardly gained…
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Allegations of rigging may hamper his efforts to unite a divided country After a chaotically organised vote and messy count, Bola Tinubu, the candidate of Nigeria’s incumbent ruling party, has been declared the winner of the closest presidential election in decades. Mr Tinubu, a 70-year-old former governor of Lagos and longtime kingmaker in Nigerian politics, took 37% of the vote, the electoral commission said on March 1st. This placed him ahead of Atiku Abubakar (29%), a tycoon standing for the People’s Democratic Party (pdp), the main opposition, and Peter Obi (25%), a wildcard third-party candidate representing the Labour Party. Copyright © The…
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On February 25th, Elon Musk tweeted “That election was arguably dodgy, but no question that there was indeed a coup.” By “That election,” he was referring to Viktor Yanukovych’s having won the Presidency of Ukraine in an election about which even the British Guardian newspaper had headlined on 8 February 2010, “Yanukovych set to become president as observers say Ukraine election was fair”, and it made clear that even Western international observers there were testifying to the authenticity of that electoral win by Yanukovych, such as by its reporting that, “Observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said there were no indications…
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Robert Gates, the former US Secretary of Defense, wrote in his memoirs that when the decision was made to launch a military attack against Afghanistan in 2001, that nobody in Washington had a real idea of how complex a nation it is. This included Afghanistan’s various ethnic groups and the rivalries between urban and rural areas of the country. It was a similar story with Iraq which the US, with heavy British support, invaded in the spring of 2003. Gates admitted “nearly always, we begin military engagements–wars–profoundly ignorant about our adversaries and about the situation on the ground” (1). Gates…
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The Twitter Files have lifted the lid on a secret alliance between Silicon Valley, intelligence agencies and the political establishment The US Congress last tried to grapple with what the country’s ballooning security services were up to nearly half a century ago. In 1975, the Church Committee managed to take a fleeting, if far from complete, snapshot of the netherworld in which agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and National Security Agency (NSA) operate. In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, the congressional committee and other related investigations found that the country’s intelligence services had sweeping surveillance powers and…
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Over the past year Ottawa has given Ukraine over $2 billion in weapons. The size of the arms donation is unprecedented in Canadian history. According to a February 17 Le Devoir calculation, Canada has delivered $2.26 billion in weapons to Ukraine. The paper costed 17 different announcements, which include 4 heavy tanks, 4,200 single-use rocket launchers, an anti-aircraft missile system, 4 howitzers with 27,000 shells, 76 drone cameras, 247 armored vehicles and more. On Friday the Liberals announced they were sending four more heavy tanks, an armored recovery vehicle and more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition. Since World War II, this quantity of…
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It is fundamental to state at this outset that there is no presidential election yet conducted in 2023 and that this is one moment when one would wish he were not a Nigerian. INEC started the process and there was voting but the collation of the results veered off the course of the law and has now ended in irredeemable and incurable deformity. Verification and authentication of results must first be done before collation and announcement at Ward, LG, and State levels and in the final stage at the national level. Results of elections from 176,846 polling units ought to…
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The All-Share Index closed trading at 55,508.61 points after opening trading at 55,806.26 points on the last day of trading in February. This represents a -0.53% drop day on day. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced in the early hours of Wednesday that the former governor of Lagos State Bola Ahmed Tinubu was declared winner of the controversial election that took place on Saturday February 25th, 2022. Most young Nigerians had showed support for the election of Labour party candidate Peter Obi as president, but he ended third with about 6.1 million votes despite also winning 12 states same…
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Nigeria’s political landscape has been dominated by a highly contested presidential election, with Bola Ahmed Tinubu declared as the president-elect by the Independent National Election Commission on Wednesday, March 1st, 2023. Tinubu secured a total of 8,974,726 votes, defeating his main rivals Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, who received 6,984,520 and 6,101,533 votes, respectively. This election has captured the attention of both local and foreign media outlets, as its outcome could have significant implications for Nigeria’s economy and social stability. As foreign investors closely monitor the situation, several major news organizations have provided extensive coverage of the election and its…
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Mr. Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos and the ruling party candidate, campaigned using the slogan “It’s my turn.” He promised to address widespread insecurity and economic woes, but he faced concerns about his fitness for office. The purported winner of Nigeria’s presidential election, Bola Tinubu, is a divisive figure in Africa’s most populous country. Mr. Tinubu is revered by his cronys as a political wizard and the man who turned around the fortunes of Lagos, Nigeria’s labyrinthine megacity. His supporters are hoping he can repeat that performance on a national level. Others deride Mr. Tinubu, the candidate of the…
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Chioma Agwuegbo was one of tens of thousands of young Nigerians who took to the streets in October 2020 to demand an end to police brutality in Nigeria. The mass movement, which became known as #EndSARS, called for the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad after a video of a man getting killed by the police went viral. As Agwuegbo protested in the capital city of Abuja, where she heads a women’s rights non-profit called TeachHerNG, she recalls police firing live rounds and tear gas at her. Agwuegbo says she was “heartbroken” by the government’s response to the protests, which…
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The election, which appears to have delivered the presidency to Bola Tinubu, a wealthy political fixer running for the incumbent APC, was badly mismanaged at best. It failed to set the example needed for west Africa, a region where too many national leaders have extended term limits or resorted to seizing power at gunpoint. Nigeria remains a democracy, but only just. The outgoing president, Muhammadu Buhari, had staked what remains of his tattered reputation on a clean contest. Yet the INEC badly misfired. Voting started late in many districts, depriving millions of the right to vote. The system to upload…
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(Published in New York Times on Feb. 28, 2023) Imagine standing patiently in line, waiting to vote, and suddenly men with guns arrive on motorcycles and start shooting. Imagine men dashing into your polling unit, violently seizing ballot boxes and taking them away. Imagine other ballot boxes being destroyed. Imagine being beaten to keep you from voting for a particular candidate. Imagine a crowd of people chanting “We must vote! We must vote!” when polling workers failed to arrive as expected. Imagine the police doing very little. All these things happened during the Nigerian presidential elections on Saturday. Through it…
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By James A. Lucas Introductory Note by Michel Chossudovsky Let us put this in historical perspective: the commemoration of the War to End All Wars acknowledges that 15 million lives were lost in the course of World War I (1914-18). The loss of life in the second World War (1939-1945) was on a much large scale, when compared to World War I: 60 million lives both military and civilian were lost during World War II. (Four times those killed during World War I). The largest WWII casualties were China and the Soviet Union: 26 million in the Soviet Union, China estimates its losses at…
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25 February 2023 Covid, Capitalism, Friedrich Engels and Boris Johnson By Colin Todhunter “And thus it renders more and more evident the great central fact that the cause of the miserable condition of the working class is to be sought, not in these minor grievances, but in the capitalistic system itself.” Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) (preface to the English Edition, p.36) The IMF and World Bank have for decades pushed a policy agenda based on cuts to public services, increases in taxes paid by the poorest and moves to undermine labour rights and…
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25 February 2023 By Manlio Dinucci We are not on the first but on the ninth anniversary of the war in Ukraine, which was unleashed in February 2014 with the coup d’état under US-NATO direction. Speaking from Warsaw, President Biden promised to “stand by President Zelensky no matter what.” He is echoed by President Meloni who, reversing the position assumed in 2014, assured Zelensky that “Italy will be with you until the end”. These are disturbing statements, given the real possibility that the conflict could lead to a nuclear war, which would be the end not only of Europe but…
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This article was written more than six years ago, two weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20th 2017. (The author is based in Canada and is not involved in U.S. politics). In the light of recent events pertaining to the FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, it is important to carefully reflect on the history of the Trump presidency and its ongoing aftermath. According to reports: the FBI had a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago: Some 30 to 40 FBI agents and around 10 to 15 FBI vehicles. The FBI refused to allow Mr. Trump’s attorney or…
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The lightning visit of US President Joe Biden to Ukraine and the new military aid offered to the country aims to reverse the advances made by Russia in recent months. It also demonstrates that the US is desperately trying to prolong the conflict for as long as possible. However, to serve as a warning that the Kremlin is prepared to take every measure to ensure Russia’s security, Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended his country’s participation from START III (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). US President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kiev on February 20, a gesture of political, emotional and obviously military support…
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The Ides of March March 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the onslaught of the war on Iraq. The US-NATO led invasion of Iraq started on 20 March 2003 on the pretext that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). In March, we will also be commemorating the Vietnam War launched on March 8, 1965 following the adoption by the US Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which authorized President Lyndon Johnson to dispatch ground forces to Vietnam. Also in March we will be commemorating NATO’s War on Yugoslavia which was launched on March 24, 1999 under Operation “Noble Anvil”. All these wars, according…
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Welcome to the multipolar world of weapons exports, which is expected to grow even when the conflict is over. This is part of our weeklong series marking the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, February 24, 2022. Earlier this month, arms maker General Atomics made Ukraine a tempting offer. For the low price of $0.50 a pop, the defense contractor would send Kyiv two of its top-of-the-line MQ-9 Reaper drones, which are usually valued at about $30 million per plane. (Budget-conscious readers should keep in mind that shipping and handling — worth nearly $20 million — were not included.) While…
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The Invisible Victims of the War in Ukraine “It is the writer’s duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader’s civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one’s eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished.” ― Vasily Grossman. On 20 February Didier Reynders, the European Commissioner for Justice, announced that a new international centre will be set up in July of this year to investigate war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine over the course of the last year. Yet when Ukrainians are tortured by their own government the EU…
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Since the dawn of human civilization 5,000 years ago, ordinary people like you and me have been engaged in an endless struggle to resist efforts by elites, whether local, national, international or global, to assert complete control over us and the resources around us. And for 5,000 years, with some wins and a great many losses, we have managed to stave off the worst. Finally, in January 2020, the World Economic Forum launched its ‘Great Reset’: The final assault in the Elite’s long war against humankind and nature itself. As we pass the third anniversary since this final battle was…
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Author’s Update The conclusion of “No Evidence So Far” in the title referred to the strong suspicion that this horrendous quake was the result of an ENMOD engineered disaster. (Environmental Modification Techniques). Up to this day it killed more than 48,000 people, injured more than half a million, and still tens of thousands are missing. Will there ever be justice? Will the presumed perpetrators be brought to trial? The “no evidence” statement is wearing thinner and thinner, especially, when listening to Serdar Hussein, the Head of the Turkish Space Agency talking on Russian TV. He uses hyperbolic emblematic speech, when talking about…
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By Maxim Nikolenko It was 23 February 2022. By then, the Ukrainian elite knew that Russia’s military attack was imminent. Wealthy tycoons and politicians, including Secretary of National Security Council Oleksiy Danilov, already made accommodations to make sure their military-age sons would be out of the country. The only thing left was to prepare government agencies for war. There “was a huge meeting of Ukrainian tycoons with President Zelensky” and his cabinet on February 23, commented Taras Berezovets, a Ukrainian analyst and television host. “They all declared their readiness to” stand with the regime and therefore mobilize the rest of the population to fight for their cause. The…
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By Law Mefor Unitary Nigeria is essentially a military legacy for the country has always been a federal environment. Colonial Britain recognized this fact since the 30s. Thus Bernard Bourdillon, the Governor-general at that time initiated and laid the foundation of federalism in Nigeria in 1939 by creating three provinces. He later handed over the draft constitution to his successor Arthur Richards and it became the Richards Constitution of 1946. Federalism as a system of distributing power between national and state governments progressed in Nigeria since then, until the military coup of January 1966 when the military imposed a unitary…
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By Law Mefor The treasonable actions of some APC governors over the naira redesign, a matter constitutionally exclusive to the Federal Government, should worry all patriots who want the February/March elections to hold. These latter-day saints want the naira redesign policy halted or they truncate the election. The interests of these governors are varied. Apart from the need for big cash to push in their surrogates as successors, there could be other more latent issues that they need to keep the lid on even after office. For example, to date, nobody knows how the bandits were brought into Nigeria in…
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With the Ukraine war now reaching its one-year mark on February 24, the Russians have not achieved a military victory but neither has the West achieved its goals on the economic front. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and its European allies vowed to impose crippling sanctions that would bring Russia to its knees and force it to withdraw. Western sanctions would erect a new Iron Curtain, hundreds of miles to the east of the old one, separating an isolated, defeated, bankrupt Russia from a reunited, triumphant and prosperous West. Not only has Russia withstood the economic assault, but…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the country’s temporary withdrawal from the New START Treaty. Moscow is suspending its participation in the last remaining nuclear treaty between Russia and the US, President Vladimir Putin has announced. During his key address to the Russian parliament on Tuesday, he noted that Moscow will not exit the New START Treaty, but is temporarily withdrawing. Explaining the decision, Putin stated that the agreement was initially drawn up under completely different circumstances, when Russia and the US did not perceive each other as adversaries. Now, however, according to the president, not only is the US…
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One of the most critical economic partners of Russia amid the unprecedented Western economic sanctions from Washington and the EU over the Ukraine war has been the Indian government of BJP leader Narendra Modi. In the past several years Modi, playing a delicate balancing act between alliances with Russia and also with the West, has emerged as a vital trade partner of Russia amid the sanctions. Despite repeated efforts by Biden Administration and UK officials, Modi has refused to join sanctions against Russian trade, above all oil trade. Now a series of suspiciously-timed and targeted events suggest that there is an…
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Though they are being fought in the confusion of a single catastrophic conflict, there are four closely related, but distinct, wars being fought in Ukraine. The first is the war within Ukraine. The second is the war between Russia and Ukraine. The third is the proxy war between NATO and Russia. And the fourth is the direct war between the United States and Russia. Deconstructing this single conflict into its four real wars may be necessary to understand the issues that must be resolved if a negotiated settlement is to be possible. The latent domestic problems that have been ripped…
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Nigeria desperately needs a new kind of leadership Nigeria has been cursed with bad rulers. A military regime gave way to democracy in 1999, but since then elections have offered voters an ugly selection of the ancient, the incompetent, and, most recently, a former military dictator. Parties have stoked ethnic divisions, intimidated their opponents, and bought votes. Many candidates—federal, state, and local—seek power to grab a share of the country’s oil wealth. Successive governments have been deeply corrupt. Turnout has steadily fallen. But as Nigerians go to the polls on February 25th, Peter Obi, a third-party presidential candidate, offers a…
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Russia on Sunday scolded Emmanuel Macron over remarks about wanting to see Russia defeated, saying Moscow still remembered the fate of Napoleon Bonaparte and accusing the French president of duplicitous diplomacy with the Kremlin. Macron told paper Le Journal du Dimanche France wanted Russia to be defeated in Ukraine but had never wanted to “crush” it. “About ‘Never’: France did not begin with Macron, and the remains of Napoleon, revered at the state level, rest in the centre of Paris. France – and Russia – should understand,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. “In general, Macron is priceless,” she said,…
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So, what we are asking our governments to do is to withdraw this killer vaccine! “This is why I am pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement with BioNTech-Pfizer to, once again, speed up the delivery of vaccines. 50 million additional doses of BioNTech-Pfizer vaccines will be delivered in quarter 2 of this year, starting in April….I want to thank BioNTech-Pfizer. It has proven to be a reliable partner. It has delivered on its commitments, and it is responsive to our needs. This is to the immediate benefit of EU citizens.” – Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission…
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The annual Davos Boys Club (it’s also open to girls as long as they know their place) is meeting Jan 16 – 20 in the Swiss Alps. The uber wealthy technocrats will discuss how to fix the fragmented world they broke. The promo for the event says it all, no need to dig for a hidden agenda: Canadian Deputy Crime Minister Chystia Freeland will be there sniffing and twitching like she just fell off the bus on East Hastings. The usual suspects will attend, basking in the glow of their mutual sociopathy. Hopefully, they will squeeze in some skiing, and maybe cruise…
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Secret Meeting Held on Hiroshima Day 2003. Behind closed doors at Strategic Command Headquarters Author’s Note and Update Of relevance to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Is the Biden Administration committed to the use of nuclear weapons as an instrument of peace? The cost of America’s “peace-making” nuclear weapons program is of the order of 1.3 trillion dollars. The focus of US military doctrine since the Bush administration has been on the development of so-called “more usable nuclear weapons”. George W. Bush’s 2001 Nuclear Posture Review, which was adopted by the US Senate in late 2002. envisaged the development of “a generation of more…
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Update: There Never Was a “Secret Operation” There never was a “Secret Operation” with a view to preventing that the act of sabotage of Nord Stream be “traceable to the United States”. The project had been discussed behind closed doors in 2021 as outlined by Seymour Hersh, but the actual planning of this so-called “secret operation” started in December 2021 extending to its execution in June 2022 and the actual sabotage on September 26-27, 2023. (see map below). In late December 2021, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan convened what was described as “a newly formed task force” (Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA, State Department, and Treasury) pertaining to Russia’s…
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz Gives “The Green Light” to Joe Biden Introduction There never was an effective “Secret Operation” to ensure that an act of sabotage of Nord Stream would be “untraceable to the United States”. The project had been discussed behind closed doors in 2021 as outlined by Seymour Hersh, but the actual planning of this so-called “secret operation” started in December 2021 extending to its execution in June 2022 and the actual sabotage on September 26-27, 2023. (see map below). In late December 2021, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan convened what was described as “a newly formed task force” (Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA, State Department, and…
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Introduction This morning I received an interesting document: Pfizer 2022 Full Year Financial Report, which in my mind as an economist trained in correlation analysis raises some important issues. There are two Pfizer reports One deals with Money, the other which is “confidential” deals with Mortality and Morbidity resulting from Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine. The Full Year Revenues Report is a public document. It assesses Pfizer’s impressive “financial performance” It is also intended to be consulted by potential investors, reported by financial analysts and the media. The second is Pfizer’s “Confidential” Report which gives you a glimpse of the “performance” of Pfizers’s Covid-19 Vaccine: i.e. mortality and morbidity. Released…
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As physiology, the science of life, has proven many times, all things, when driven to the limits of excess – and beyond – will collapse. History is living proof. Empires of the past disappeared because of greed for power and possession had no limits. It looks like we are reaching this point now quickly. This time on a worldwide basis. The western empire, led by Anglosaxonia, is intent on becoming a globalist One World Order (OWO). For that purpose, Mother Earth is literally being weaponized. This is clearly ignoring the limits of reason, the limits of nature – it enters…
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He has been celebrated for years by his army of acolytes as the grandmaster of political strategies. His reputation was further burnished, and his place atop the country’s political pyramid confirmed, by the historic triumph of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 general elections. He led the political forces that routed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, after 16 dominant years in power. And he ‘put’ Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock after serial failures in previous presidential elections. Then Tinubu himself became a god. Literally. He was transformed from the Emperor of Lagos and Political Overseer of the South-west…
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Western armies have been “hollowed out” over the last three decades, Ben Wallace said. After pledging to supply Ukraine with modern heavy tanks, many Western nations have now discovered that a significant part of their weaponry is not fit to take part in any conflict, The UK’s Secretary of Defence Ben Wallace has said. In a Saturday interview with Der Spiegel, Wallace noted that Germany organized a meeting with its NATO allies this week to discuss tank deliveries. “That’s when the problems became obvious. The political decision is there… The politicians sent their military to the depots only to find…
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The statement came in response to claims that China was ready to help arm Russia. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin has shot back at Washington’s accusations that Beijing is considering providing “lethal support” for Moscow in Ukraine. The diplomat said the US was in no position to tell China what to do. “It is the US, not China, that has been pouring weapons into the battlefield,” the diplomat said at a regular press briefing on Monday. He added that, unlike Washington, Beijing had been “supporting talks for peace” since the beginning of the Ukraine conflict. “The international community is…
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Sometime in 1967, a governor from one of the states in Nigeria chose to chart a new path by challenging the sovereignty of the leadership at the centre. He was quickly declared a rebel and a full scale war was waged against him and those who supported his rebellion. One of the things he did as a rebel was to print his own currency and a different legal tender was in circulation throughout the period his rebellion lasted. Today, there are two governors who have decided to rebel against the government of the day by insisting on the use of…
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The ALSCON privatisation controversy is still on. The privatization of the Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria, ALSCON, Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State may well be one of Nigeria’s longest attempt to privatise a public asset by the Federal Government. But, it is a transaction mired in controversy and steeped in executive intrigues and corruption. Here are some 14 facts Nigerians should know about ALSCON and its privatization by the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE and the National Council on Privatization, NCP. The $3.2billion (N480 billion) plant, incorporated in 1989, was closed mid-1999 after it was bogged down by operational problems including capital,…
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The Fulani to Fulani succession plot (from Muhammadu Buhari to Atiku Abubakar) is as ominous as the all-Moslem ticket of Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shetima. Both are plots of subjugation and must be equally condemned, given our circumstances. The frenzy of the 2023 general elections keeps exposing people you thought were sincere about the unity of Nigeria as pretenders. One of the most surprising victims is Mukhtar Shagari, former Deputy Governor of Sokoto State and former PDP Minister of Water Resources, who, on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today,’ on December 6, 2022, joined the ranks of those with the born-to-rule mindset…
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The West didn’t even want Kiev in NATO because of corruption concerns, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist says. The US and its allies should have attempted to reach an agreement with Moscow as their belief that Ukraine can win a conflict against Russia is “suicidal,” iconic American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has argued. Speaking in a YouTube interview with the Consortium News outlet on Friday, Hersh accused the Biden administration of making “so many bad mistakes,” adding that “it’s impossible to believe just how dumb this leadership was.” “It was suicidal to think you can win that war, that Ukraine can…
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By Law Mefor Unknown to most people, Election polls are of two kinds: Opinion polls and Push polls. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence intervals. A person who conducts polls is referred to as a pollster. Opinion polls are often conducted by nonpartisan pollsters who are out to gauge the standings of political parties and candidates at various stages of an electoral contest, from its beginning and to the end. The unbiased assessments help the public and the political…
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Attendees: Chief Simon Okeke Elder Ken Emechebe Ambassador Humphrey Orjiakor Arc Ferdinand Agu Prof Charles Nwokeaku Tagbo Okeke Meeting commenced at 4:01pm The delegation was warmly received by Leena Pylvanainen, Ambassador to Finland and we were later joined by Johanna Antila, Deputy Head of Mission. Leader of the delegation Chief Simon Okeke narrated the mission of the group which was essentially to express our concern over their citizen Mr Simon Ekpa, a self styled leader of the group IPOB, a dual national of Finland and Nigeria but residing in Finland, and who has been for a long time sponsoring a…
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…Says Unpatriotic Politicians Behind Naira Scarcity … Urges CBN Set Up Modalities For Swapping Old Naira Notes For Nigerian Masses Conference Of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has called on Nigerians not to fall for what it described as the antics of the Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as they are not fighting for the wellbeing of the people, insisting that the “opposing APC leaders are insincere and are only united in attacking President Muhammadu Buhari and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele because they are desperate to buy votes knowing that APC has failed.” CNPP is calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to call Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State…
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In the last few days, Nigeria has experienced a spasm of national discontent occasioned by the Central Bank of Nigeria’s pronouncement that the old Naira notes will be taken out of circulation and replaced by a new Naira especially for its N200, N500 and N1,000 denominations. This has caused a severe shortage of the Niara in circulation as the CBN has not been able to scale up its cash management policy to ensure that the new naira notes get to the downtrodden who are mostly financially excluded due to a lack of bank accounts in a cash-based economy like the…
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