The Senate on Wednesday 27/4/22 passed a bill to amend the Terrorism (Prevention) Act, 2013. This comes as the Senate source for ways to prohibit the payment of ransom to kidnappers in Nigeria. According to the senate, the bill will help tackle the terrorism in the country. Senate set to make paying ransom a crime.
READ MORELagos State Government on Monday has announced the immediate shutdown of all Chrisland schools in the state. This after a viral video, showing some minors, who are students of the school, engaged in a group sex during a trip to Dubai to participate in the World School Games. The disturbing viral video has left many
READ MOREIn the early hours of Tuesday 12/4/22, about 16 people were confirmed injured, after an unidentified man opened fire at the subway station near Brooklyn’s Sunset Park in New York City. However, police officials confirmed they have a name of interest as regards to the shooting. New York subway shooting: Police name person of interest.
READ MORERussian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov on Monday 25/4/22, accused NATO of engaging in a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. He further noted that a threat of a nuclear war should not be underestimated. He warned, there’s a possibility of nuclear war in Ukraine. Sergei Lavrov speaks on the possibility of a nuclear war in
READ MOREFormer President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has given his opinion on ways to tackle insecurity in the land. He stated that the creation of state policing would be a better option than community policing in fighting insecurity in Nigeria. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo insists on state policing. The former president made this known on Thursday
READ MOREThe All-Progressive Congress (APC), at its National Executive Meeting held in Abuja on Wednesday 20/4/22, has fixed its presidential nomination and expression of interest forms at the sum of N100 million. APC sells presidential ticket for a N100,000,000. The APC Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, stated that the nomination and expression of interest forms for governorship
READ MOREMoskva, a missile cruiser, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, sunk on Thursday 14/4/22, in the process of being towed to port. According to a Russia spokesperson, the Moskva sank into the Black Sea after severe fire explosion occurred onboard the previous day. Moskva sinks into Black Sea. The Russian warship had sunk into
READ MOREThe Senate yesterday (Thursday) confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court of the United State of America. This will thus ensure she becomes the first black woman to serve as a justice on the US high court with a final bi-partisan confirmation vote of 53-47. Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed to serve
READ MORETwitter on Monday 25/4/22, announced it is in agreement to sell the microblogging platform to the world’s richest Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk for the sum of $44bn. According to Elon Musk, Twitter had “tremendous potential” that he would love to unlock. The market reacted to the news with a tepid outlook. Can Elon
READ MOREIn Nigeria and other societies, religious leaders are held in high esteem. They enjoy certain rights and privileges that are not accorded to ordinary citizens. Clergymen are highly respected and are seen to belong to an exclusive club of special citizens that are almost untouchable. Religious leaders in Nigeria and their biases This view is
READ MOREThat President Muhammadu Buhari rode to power in the 2015 general elections on the then-popular mantra of change is to say the obvious. He was seen to possess the requisite leadership qualities, integrity, credibility, and uprightness to turn around the dwindling fortune of the most populous black nation on earth. President Muhammadu Buhari’s last days
READ MOREThe supposed purpose of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) is to “manage traffic in Lagos State, Nigeria”. In other words, LASTMA is traffic wardens tasked with the sole purpose of managing the free flow of traffic. But, as a lot of Lagosians will observe, the agency has morphed into a money-making machine both
READ MOREWhen we talk about race, we talk about an ideology that says all human populations are divided into exclusive and distinct groups – that all human populations are ranked and not the same. In what Charles Darwin called Evolutionary Ladder, white Europeans are considered more “advanced” than other human races especially the black race. This
READ MOREYahoo plus phenomenon is the latest trend in our society. Yahoo plus is the advanced form of the popular Yahoo Yahoo which is a form of online fraud which is carried out in cyberspace with the intention of defrauding unsuspecting victims. It is the use of fetish substances and mystical powers by cybercriminals to charm
READ MOREThough gambling is not new in Nigeria, the advent of the internet has revolutionized the demographics and landscape. Sports betting has become easier, faster, and more accessible. While the elderly favoured the betting pools in the past, online betting has become the pastime of many youths in the country. Sports betting menace in Nigeria It
READ MOREBola Ahmed Tinubu’s name is synonymous with vision, equity, justice, fairness, accountability, transparency, probity, integrity, tolerance, kindness, diligence, honesty, compassion, broad-mindedness, fairness, generosity, humility, resourcefulness, purposefulness, sincerity, tactfulness, truthfulness and reliability. Tinubu should be allowed to rule Nigeria in 2023. Born Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu on the 29th of march 1952 in Lagos. He had
READ MORESeventeen years of hindsight should offer an empirical basis for greater optimism about the durability and performance of any democracy, but for Nigeria, maybe we are unsure. What can be attributed to the devaluation of democracy in Africa’s most populous nation if not systemic electoral riggings? The bad effect of rigging in Nigeria democracy. Democracy
READ MOREThe fear of kidnappers/kidnapping is the beginning of wisdom for an average Nigerian. This dastardly act is arguably the biggest security threat in Nigeria today. It is one of the biggest organized or gang crimes in Nigeria and at present a major national security challenge. Kidnapping in Nigeria The act of kidnapping takes place in
READ MOREWhen it comes to currency devaluations in Nigeria, the policy approach seems to be the bigger the better. The devaluation of the currency is usually sudden and sharp, wreaking havoc on people and businesses. One might wonder what qualifies as a sharp devaluation. I derive this by taking the inflation differential between the US and
READ MOREThe rate of drug abuse and substance addiction is becoming increasingly alarming amongst Nigerian youths. The use of hard drug is illegal in Nigeria, yet some of these drugs are easily accessible. Drugs abuse now occur in every nook and corner of our towns and cities. Nigeria is under a drug siege. Hard drugs is
READ MOREQuite often, I get responses to the contents of this column through emails sent to me by readers. For the most part, these emails are positive, they are complementary. But sometimes, I do get emails that take me to task either for the views that I express and the positions that I take or for
READ MOREI suspect that people like me were the main force driving the end of Apartheid. Let me try to give you a top picture. Although Apartheid was originally seen as avoidance of Cultural Imperialism by proposing that the various Black Tribes of South Africa Govern themselves according to their own cultural norms and traditions in
READ MOREMany years ago, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi asked the European Union for five billion Euros to stop people leaving Africa from his native Libya. He warned, “Europe might no longer be European, and even black, as there are millions who want to come in. We don’t know what will happen, what will be the reaction of
READ MORENigerian immigrant Henry Williams Obotetukudo, aka Henry Bello, opened fire with an AM-15 rifle at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, killing one doctor and injuring a half-dozen others. I would prefer to leap right in and offer my ideas for stopping these immigrant shooting rampages, but first I’ll have to tell you the facts the media won’t.
READ MOREIn 1842 Thomas Babington Macauly wrote my favourite poem titled ‘Horatius at the Gate’ and made a point that we can all learn from in Nigeria today. He wrote: “Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: “To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die
READ MOREThe former Minister of Aviation, who served as the Spokesperson for former President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential campaign, has called for drastic revolution in the country. Fani-Kayode took to his Facebook page to state that Nigeria had been impoverished over the years due to bad leadership and a sleeping citizenry. Nigerian leaders and the fight to kill
READ MOREThe debate on ‘white monopoly capital’ has some blind spots as it omits the role of the state in ownership and control of the means of production. The state also controls the means of coercion and administration, writes Lucien van der Walt. White Monopoly Capital The debate on ‘white monopoly capital’ has some blind spots
READ MOREAnyone who believes there’s a quick fix for South Africa’s political and financial malaise when President Jacob Zuma leaves office needs to think again. His successor will inherit an economy that slid into recession in the first quarter, mismanaged state companies that are bleeding cash and a network of officials implicated in looting taxpayer funds.
READ MOREDespite a larger economy and a much bigger population, South Africa’s political uncertainty and failure to draw cost-sensitive investors has given way for the rise of Mauritius as the top investment destination in Africa. Investors will rather put their money in Mauritius. Bravura’s executive director, Soria Hay, said Mauritius is fast-gaining the reputation among investors
READ MOREWhen the president’s estimates of the share of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) owned by black people jumped from 3% to 10%, a South African commentator took notice. “Something rings wrong,” Allan Greenblo, editorial director of retirement publication Today’s Trustee, stated.In response to the debate on his 2015 State of the Nation Address, President Jacob
READ MOREWhen CNN released video footage of a live slave auction in Libya, captured by journalist Nima Elbagir, shockwaves were sent around the world. Libya’s suffering and slavery didn’t just happen. Starting the bidding at $400 each, buyers purchased 12 African migrants at an undisclosed location outside the capital city of Tripoli in a matter of minutes.
READ MORESouth Africa’s richest man Johann Rupert said “radical economic transformation,” the policy championed by the country’s President Jacob Zuma to reduce racial inequality, is no more than theft. What is Radical economic transformation? “Radical economic transformation is just a code word for theft,” Rupert said on the sidelines of Richemont’s annual general meeting in Geneva
READ MOREThe belief that humans came out of Africa millions of years ago is widely believed. But it might be about to be entirely re-written, according to the authors of a new study. They claim to have found a footprint in Crete that could change the narrative of early human evolution, suggesting that our ancestors were
READ MOREI suspect that people like me were the main force driving the end of Apartheid. Let me try to give you a top picture. Although Apartheid was originally seen as avoidance of Cultural Imperialism by proposing that the various Black Tribes of South Africa Govern themselves according to their own cultural norms and traditions in
READ MOREOppression, when written about, is often reduced to one layer of suffering. Yet when one unpacks the lives and narratives of the poor it becomes clear that their struggle to survive takes place under many layers of oppression. Layer One: The History of Racial Oppression The most obvious layer of oppression is that of a
READ MOREAfrica will simply be (no) more or less like Europe or the Middle East is today. Political Geography: A number of folks think the modern political geography would simply align with the ethnic groups in existence today. But this is unlikely. How would Africa be today if colonialism never happened? At the time the Europeans
READ MOREDov Lior, a popular chief rabbi in Israel, recently called Obama a Kushi, which is Israel’s equivalent to nig*er. Most Americans are completely unaware of the general contempt that many Jewish people have towards blacks, as Max Blumenthal found out when he interviewed dozens of young people in Israel who reiterated the Rabbi’s sentiments about
READ MOREEuropean slaves were cheaper but Africans readily sold their own. Affecting millions it showed the horrors of forced labour in the 20th century. Using a new approach to DNA analysis, the 17th century bones of three African slaves have been traced to their countries of origin for the first time, researchers said this week. The
READ MOREThe African continent has the second largest population in the world, at about one billion people. Well over one thousand languages are spoken by the people of Africa. Some estimates put this number closer to two thousand. The largest religion in Africa is Islam, followed by Christianity. The African population is approximately 14.72% of the
READ MOREWhen we talk about race, we talk about an ideology that says all human populations are divided into exclusive and distinct groups – that all human populations are ranked and not the same. In what Charles Darwin called Evolutionary Ladder, white Europeans are considered more “advanced” than other human races especially the black race. This
READ MOREThere is no doubt that the recent social media posts by white supremacists referring to black people as animals and the uneducated, dirty masses are mere symptoms of an entrenched phenomenon of racism. Anti-black racism has been the order of the day in South Africa and our 22 years of democratic rule have dismally failed
READ MOREFirst, he thought it was a mouse, then a rat—and then the rat shot him in the face. That is how André Brink, one of South Africa’s most famous novelists, described the recent killing of his nephew Adri, at home at 3am in the morning. The young man was left to die on the floor,
READ MOREIs South Africa finally maturing to the point that the economic – not just political – compromises of the 1990s democratic transition can be reconsidered? When engaging student activists, for example, University of the Free State rector Jonathan Jansen frets that “If [former President Nelson] Mandela gets any mention at all, it is as a
READ MOREAfrica’s 21 years of democracy. Although having lost much of its appeal today, it’s an ideology we’ve been force-fed. It’s based on the fact that South Africa is one of the most diverse countries in the world, and we need to embrace this diversity (all very happy-clappy, wishy-washy and fairytale-like). Despite this, it still feels
READ MOREThe issue of wealth and people’s response to it has created a clear divide in the body of Christ. While some preachers believe that God’s ultimate plan for His children is to prosper in this world and live eternally with Him in heaven quoting ‘I wish above all things that thou prosper …’ Others disagree
READ MOREVladimir Putin, the Russian president, said on Monday he would move nuclear-capable missiles closer to Europe in response to NATO’s expansion in the Baltic states. In a bold display of force against Western allies, Russian S-400 surface-to-air missiles and a ballistic Iskander system will be deployed in Kaliningrad, which is situated between Lithuania and Poland.
READ MOREHistory matters. Historical events can sometimes have consequences that last long after the events have finished. An important part of Africa’s past is its history of slave exporting. Although Africa is not unique to the trading of slaves, the magnitude of slave exporting rose to levels not previously experienced anywhere else in the world. Between
READ MOREA country in severe financial trouble, unable to pay its international bills, poses potential problems for the stability of the international financial system, which the IMF was created to protect. Any member country, whether rich, middle-income, or poor, can turn to the IMF for financing if it has a balance of payments need—that is, if
READ MOREThere are bulls in china shops and then there is Donald Trump. Charging in where every US President before him had feared to tread, he announced yesterday his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Why Jerusalem is considered a dangerous flashpoint. Israelis, naturally, were delighted; Palestinians appalled. In Gaza, Hamas pledged that the decision would
READ MOREThe story of the slaves in America begins with Christopher Columbus. His voyage to America was not financed by Queen Isabella, but by Luis de Santangelo, who advanced the sum of 17,000 ducats (about 5,000 pounds-today equal to 50,000 pounds) to finance the voyage, which began on August 3, 1492. How slaves were brought to America.
READ MORESalman Abedi, the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at a Manchester pop concert this week, started life advantageously enough: to parents who had fled Gadhafi’s Libya for a new life in Britain. But actually it was that kind of dislocation that would send him off kilter two decades later, says Olivier Roy, one of
READ MOREFive minutes into Frank Edozie’s presentation on the challenges facing Nigeria’s power industry, the electricity cut out in the Jasmine Hall at the upmarket Eko Hotel in Lagos. “Very timely,” Edozie, a former power ministry adviser and a senior consultant to the U.K.-funded Nigerian Infrastructure Advisory Facility, said over the low muttering and laughter of an audience
READ MOREThe former Minister of Aviation, who served as the Spokesperson for former President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential campaign, has called for drastic revolution in the country. Fani-Kayode took to his Facebook page to state that Nigeria had been impoverished over the years due to bad leadership and a sleeping citizenry. Nigerian leaders and the fight to kill
READ MORE“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”—Patrick Henry, Speech in the Virginia Convention, March, 1775. How Slavery Helped Build a
READ MOREEvery day, thousands of refugees head for Europe. Their hopes for a new life are greater than their fear of the passage across the Mediterranean Sea. It’s springtime, and again, refugees are making their way to Europe. The reasons are manifold: poverty – often abject poverty -, no education, no chance of a job. Then
READ MOREFor the first time in a quarter-century, the prospect of war—real war, war between the major powers—will be on the agenda of Western leaders when they meet at the NATO Summit in Warsaw, Poland, on July 8 and 9. Dominating the agenda in Warsaw (aside, of course, from the “Brexit” vote in the UK) will
READ MORENigerian immigrant Henry Williams Obotetukudo, aka Henry Bello, opened fire with an AM-15 rifle at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, killing one doctor and injuring a half-dozen others. I would prefer to leap right in and offer my ideas for stopping these immigrant shooting rampages, but first I’ll have to tell you the facts the media won’t.
READ MOREChina’s economy, long a reliable source of growth, is faltering, prompting concerns that are now shaking global stock markets. Companies and countries that depend heavily on trade with China are reassessing their strategies in the face of uncertainty. As China’s economy slows, countries with significant exposure to raw materials, like Australia and Brazil, are facing serious headwinds.
READ MOREAs I write this, I so very much desire to read Sam Selvon’s 1956 book aptly titled The Lonely Londoners, a chronicle and account of the lonely and sometimes frustrating life of people of Afro-Caribbean descent living in London. I will assume that Selvon’s analysis and descriptions also apply to later day immigrants to the
READ MOREYes I do believe that better governance, more productivity, a committed, hardworking and more patriotic citizenry will be very difficult to achieve with the current over- sized Nigeria- both in terms of population and geographical size. The break up for Nigeria into manageable units. And No I do not want the country broken into two-
READ MOREIn August, Exxon Mobil, once the largest publicly traded company in the world, was dropped from the Dow Jones industrial average after 92 years. Exxon’s removal is emblematic of the changing profiles of energy companies. In 2008, oil and gas companies accounted for more than 15 percent of the S&P 500; today they make up
READ MOREEver wonder how hedge fund managers think and how they are sometimes able to generate explosive returns for their investors? You aren’t alone. For years, hedge funds have retained a certain level of mystery about them and the way they operate; and for years, public companies and retail investors have tried to figure out the
READ MOREEthiopian Airlines is a unique symbol of pan-Africanism and definer of African Renaissance. It is currently Africa’s fastest-growing and most-profitable airline – serving a network of well over 113 passenger destinations. Headquartered at Bole International Airport Addis Ababa, this state-owned carrier spreads beyond borders, touches down in diverse international countries, and serves as the official
READ MOREWhile wind and solar power have made great strides in recent years, with renewables now accounting for 22% of electric energy generated, the issue that has held them back has been their transience. The sun doesn’t shine at night and the wind doesn’t blow year-round – these are the mantras of all those opposed to the
READ MOREMichael Sherwin, the federal prosecutor who previously led the criminal investigation into the Capitol riot, said former President Trump could be culpable for his role in the raid. Sherwin told CBS News’s “60 Minutes” in an interview that aired Sunday that it was “unequivocal” that the former president was “the magnet that brought the people
READ MOREYou most likely came across this article searching for ways to make money using Bitcoin. Maybe you want to learn effective ways to invest in Bitcoin. Crypto trading is one of the best ways to make money with Bitcoin. People have used Bitcoin for over a decade now. Some people have made a lot of
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