"AU leaders had an agreement that facilitated peace in Liberia. It's shameful how Obasanjo threw Charles Taylor under the bus after pressure from the Europeans and America (not a signatory to the so-called UN court). For four years Iraq went through a wave of brutal ethnic cleansing, I don't see the UN Court going after the Iraqi Cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr and Co. as well as those brutal Afghan tribal war lords; all of whom the US States Department and other foreign powers struck deals. I believe African leaders need to grow more "spine", there will be more ridiculous demands by western countries and the UN to change some part of our constitution in a few years."-- Yele Odofin-Belo.
A new form of government is slowly being introduced to the world by the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The test run for this new, innovative and unique system of government was introduced to the world from a sick bed in a Saudi Arabian hospital two months ago by Nigeria's ailing President Umaru Musa Yar'adua and he will soon establish it and make it fully operational when he returns back to Nigeria to his newly-built, designer and specialist ground floor hospital bed (with state of the art and modern life saving and sustaining machines et al) in the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja.
What ancient powers did the beautiful Cleopatra possess that made the most powerful world rulers of her age, Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, fall hopelessly in love with her one after the other. She was Queen of Egypt and the most precious gem of the meditarranean sea.
I have dedicated my life to Africa, I love Africa and I am very proud to be an African but the truth is this: that, generally speaking, Africans do not love themselves or love their own. Our continent, as beautiful and blessed with human and mineral resources as she is, is plagued with more bitterness, frustration, envy, hatred of self, hatred of others, backbiting, wickedness, deceit and evil than any other that I know.
I will never forget the land of the black star. The land of the watchers and of the early morning intercessors. The land that brought me so much joy. The land of the Kente cloth. The land of "Action Church." The land where joy abounds and where peace abides. The land where the people have a different spirit and where they bear an uncanny faith in the power of the Living God.
As times and seasons change, so do the thoughts of mortals and lesser men. Yesterday's heroes become today's villains and today's villains become tomorrow's heroes. Men worship the powerful and mighty and those that have been blessed with good fortune yet they despise and pour scorn and contempt on those that have fallen by the wayside and those that appear to have no future and no tomorrow. Yet the bible says "rejoice not my enemy that I have fallen, for I shall rise again".
Forty years on, I am missing the Hill. For our time there was a great time. Our days there were great days.
Julius Malema, the President of the Youth League of the South African ruling party, the African National Congress, has become a topic of heated discussion throughout the capitals of the world today mainly due to his deep hatred of the white South African Afrikaneer population and for his resurrection of an old ANC war song that was very popular amongst black South Africans during the days of the struggle against apartheid and white minority rule. The song openly calls for the mass murder of the white population in South Africa, and is indeed titled, "Kill The Boer".
PointBlank News, March 16, 2010
Born 16 days after Nigeria’s independence to Chief Remilekun Adetokunbo Fani-Kayode and Mrs. Adia Adunni Fani-Kayode, also a chief, Femi Fani-Kayode means different things to different people. In the early 1880s, when very Nigerians could boast of the ability to scribble A,B,C, Femi’s great-grandfather, The Reverend Emmanuel Adedapo Kayode had already acquired a Master of Arts Degree from Durham University. By 1920, his grandfather, Victor Adedapo Kayode had obtained a masters degree in law at the prestigious Cambridge University. By 1941, Femi’s father, Remilekun Fani- Kayode took after his father by enrolling in
According to Sheik Ishaq Akintola, the leader of a well-known Nigerian islamic organisation called MURIC, no less than one million muslims intend to march to Abuja and storm the National Assembly in order to register their strong protest against the "persecution" of Senator Ahmed Sanni, the Yerima of Bakura and the man who introduced criminal sharia law into northern Nigeria when he was governor of Zamfara state approximately ten years ago.
There is none like you......a great soul and a beautiful spirit. In all things and in all ways you are wonderful. There is none like you. I will love you until the end of time.
This morning I wish to raise an issue which most people may not be too interested in and which they may not want to talk about or even comment on. Nevertheless, and despite this, I shall still raise it here simply because I believe that it is of vital importance for so many reasons, not least of all because the very liberty and life of a fellow Nigerian is clearly at stake. I also think that it is an issue that we should all find a little time to ponder on, do a little soul-searching about, pray about and perhaps do our own research on and look into.