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ALHAJI. ATIKU ABUBAKAR Why  # ATIKU ? # Buhari  Changed parties uncountable times, no one complained. Buhari was barred for 15 years from travelling to the USA, thanks to #ATIKU most of us would've known. Let's assume that Atiku is the first man on the planned earth to have ever changes political parties several times, so what? Is that a crime? Does that affect his leadership qualities? If the United States of  # America  chooses not to give him a visa into their country, how is that a problem? Was he denied visa on the basis of being an anarchist or a supporter of a known terrorist group? When he becomes a president will he be governing Nigeria from America? You unfair  # Critics  of Atiku, I have a question for you:  Just because you married the only man/man you've ever dated does it;  1. Mean that you are a better man or woman? 2. Is that a guarantee you will maintain absolute fidelity in marriage?  3. Does that...

    Martha O'Donovan was arrested in the Zimbabwean capital Harare on Friday       Police say she tweeted 'we are being led by a sick and selfish man' on October 11        They claim it was a crime of subversion against President Robert Mugabe                    It came from a Twitter user who tweets under the handle @matigary           Officials say they tracked its IP address to O'Donovan's home in Zimbabwe            The woman's lawyers say she is not behind the account which posted the tweet          The 25-year-old NYU graduate faces up to 20 years behind bars if charged           On Saturday, she was held in custody after a brief court hearing in Harare           She will next appear in court on November 15 for a bail hearing ...

Background story: Mohammed Bin Salman, Saudi's new appointed Crown Prince, since his appointment in June 21st has promised to lead Saudi Arabia into what he called "return to moderate Islam to destroy extremism" He said Saudi Arabia does not need to spend decades dealing with "destructive ideas" The News: First with the driving ban on women lifted and now this; Dubai (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia for the first time will be allowing women to attend sporting events in three approved stadiums starting early next year according to the statement released by the General Sports Authority. The approved stadiums are; the Jeddah, Dammam and Riyadh. These stadiums are currently being prepared to accommodate families (meaning male and female) by early 2018. These steps are said to be in line with the Crown Prince’s Vision 2030 which seeks increase the participation of women in social and economic activities as well as diversify the heavily oil ...

A great dilemma indeed. Yesterday A Ghanain friend called me and ask that I turn on my tv, I asked why and he said Ghana is playing Nigeria in a WAFU tournament, I said ok. I turned on my TV but could not capture the only station airing the match so I had to move to his house to view the match. On getting there Nigeria scored the second goal and I was happy, so happy that I jumped off my seat, then I remember my people in Umuahia who were being swallowed by the pythons in the military uniforms, I remember the government that labeled my entire race Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) without lebeling the entire Arewa as a (Boko Haram) terrorists. In the midst of that state of #LoveTred, in that deep state of melancholy, I remember with great relieve friends that makes being a Nigerian worth it. Rotshak Golmut from Pankshing Plateau state, the land of my infancy and the land of my dream, I remember Shagari a.k.a Shaguy, from Kurgwi in Qua'an Pan LGA of Plateau state. I a...

THE NATIVE SONS OF NIGERIA The West African Examination Council, WAEC recently changed its literature syllabus. Among the newly introduced texts for African and non African prose are two important and interesting novels. Faceless is an African prose written by Amah Darko a Ghanaian author while Native Son is a non African prose written by Richard Wright an African American author. However, both books deal with serious social issues which inspire this article. While Faceless deals with vices ranging from broken home, sexual abuses, thuggery, street life and child labour among several others, Native Son deals with issues that are psychologically far worse than those aforementioned. Native Son is the tragic story of Bigger Thomas, a poor, uneducated, twenty year old black man in 1930s Chicago, wakes up one morning in his family’s cramped apartment on the South Side of the city. Having grown up under the climate of harsh racial prejudice in 1930s America, Bigger is burdened with...

As promised in part 1, " In  Part 2  of this article, we shall fast-forward to the time of the great flood (the flood of Noah) and look deep into the family that repopulated the earth after the flood. BETWEEN 3740 B.C and 2500 B.C Continued. Noah  and  His  family  repopulated  the  earth  after the flood. * * * * * Father Noah and his wife, Japhet, Ham and  Shem with their wives. Now this is where we are really going to start, since the flood had destroyed the entire population except this great family that later made up the entire nations of the world as currently constituted. It will therefore only make sense that we start here. HAM: It is generally accepted that Ham is the father of the black race for many reasons we shall latter write write about, in that article we shall dive into the biblical trace and justification of slave trade and why it took place in Africa, but for now we wil...

Why this topic in the first place? 1. To help us develop a sense of help 2. So like others, we could see our natives in the Scriptures. 3. To clarify the confusion about race as presented my most christian churches. So often the  depiction we see in the most biblical publication indicates white (except in the case of Satan), you see a white person in this or that situation and you seldom see people color and at times that caused the blacks to feel there is no place for them in the bible. Or in the extreme it makes them feel that the bible is simply another tool of colonization and perpetual slavery (of the mind) of the blacks in the guise of religion, thou such is not the case but more work needs to be done on the part of ALL to unravel this and this article seeks to achieve that. WHO IS A "BLACK" PERSON? 11,608,000 Sq. Miles  (30,065,000 Sq. Km) Africa presents the most dynamic mix of colors we often group as "black". *The blue-black peop...

                                         President Robert Mugabe and His wife Grace JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has granted diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwe's first lady, Grace Mugabe, allowing her to return to Harare and avoid prosecution for the alleged assault of a 20-year-old model, a security source said on Friday. South African police had put border posts on "red alert" to prevent Mugabe fleeing and indicated she would receive no special treatment in the case involving Gabriella Engels, who says Mugabe whipped her with an electric extension cable. A security source, however, said immunity had been granted. The source also said Grace Mugabe had failed to turn up at a Johannesburg court hearing on Tuesday, as agreed with police, because of concerns she could be attacked. The alleged assault -- Engels said it occurred on Sunday evening as she waited with two ...

He is the owner of the largest cement producing company in Africa. The Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote was worth a cool $12.2 billion as of March 2017,  according to Forbes . Dangote's  fortune, which amounts to almost 3% of  Nigeria's total GDP , has made  him the  richest person in Africa  by a huge margin. That's pretty impressive, but it's almost a half of His worth in 2014, when he was worth a  fortune   $25 billion. So what happened? Why is he still the riches in the Continent? Where are others and  what are they doing? Is something wrong? Dangote's investments  span several African countries. He owns cement plants in Zambia, Senegal, Tanzania, and South Africa. And he is set to build a $12 billion oil refinery in Lagos Nigeria which will be opened in 2019.

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Kenya opposition presidential candidate Raila Odinga has said the electoral commission's IT system has been hacked to manipulate the election results in favor of the seating presidnet , President Uhuru Kenyatta. Mr. Odinga said the partial election results being released by the electoral commission was fake. "They (results) are fictitious, they are fake," said Mr Odinga. He further alleged early results from Tuesday's vote indicating a strong lead for President Uhuru Kenyatta was as a result of a system hack. The electoral commission is yet to respond to Mr Odinga's accusation, but politicians and statesmen/women have called for calm. It would be remembered that the election violence of 2007 which cost the lives not less than 1000 Kenyans and left over 700,000 displaced is still fresh in the minds of many affected families as well as every Kenyan and the world at large. He (Mr Odinga) alleged that the hackers gained access to the Independent Ele...