In Defense of Race Relations in America Part 5

Is it really necessary to begin to tag African children “Ebola kids” and adult Africans as “Ebola,” when we sight an African in any city in Texas or in other places in America?  In most of the media in America as we speak, on any discussion on Africa and about Africa starts with Ebola. This is done in a derogatory manner and in a manner mocking the people of one of the most prosperous regions of the world.  It is certain that the improperly tagged “Ebola” disease has become one of the most dreaded killers of all previously known killer diseases on Earth, at least for now.  It is becoming a man-made contaminant that resists being contaminated, killed or eliminated by human as it kills many of its afflicted victims including some health providers who attempt to “contaminate” or confront the virus to submission.      

In Defense of Race Relations in America Part 4

The first part of this series began in November of 2008.  In it, we called for a change of racist attitude and behaviour of the Cable Network News, CNN towards other nations, their leaders, and their people. The second part published in September of 2012 called on the citizens of the United States to call a spade a spade in the then political climate that has continued non-stopped to this August day, 11, 2013 in the country.  The edition in reference at that time described all the acrimonies, of lies, divisiveness, and all sorts of blackmails, deceptions, and slanders coupled with disrespect to the President of the United States, Barack Obama and his Office, the White House, as nothing less but racism.  The Concerns of Part III in the series was the descriptions of the outcome by some Rightwing political observers of the Presidential Debates between President Barack Obama and Mr. Mitt Romney who eventually lost that election woefully to the appreciation of the overwhelming majority of the citizens of the United States.    The Edition also dealt with the awful conduct and attitude of Governor Romney towards the President, during the second of those debates and the comments of some Right-wing media observers and the general feelings and comments of the public.

In Defense of Race Relations in America Part 3

In the first part of this series which began in November of 2008, we called for a change of racist attitude and behaviour of the Cable Network News, CNN towards other nations, their leaders, and their people. The second part which was published in September of this year calls on the citizens of the United State to call a spade a spade in the current political climate in the country.  The edition also describes all the acrimonies, of lies, divisiveness, and all sorts of blackmails, deceptions, and slanders coupled with disrespect to the President of the United States, Mr. Barack Obama and his Office, the White House, as nothing else but racism.

In Defense of Race Relations in America Part 2

Fellow citizens of the United States, let us call a spade a spade. The current acrimonies, of lies, divisiveness, and all sorts of blackmails, deceptions, and slanders coupled with disrespect to the person holding the highest office in the land, President Barack Obama and the White House is not politics but pure racism. This is done deliberately by those we thought should know better in Washington.  If we must preserve and guide our rights and freedom to speak and speak freely, think, associate and hold an opinion, the current cloud of uncertainty hovering over our nation must be made to disappear by our collective behaviors and attitude towards one another in the name of what is not politics. Pure politics is that which fosters progress amongst humans and not man’s inhumanity to man and retrogression. The Republican Party’s attitude and designs towards everything President Barack Obama has done since day one, and is still doing with best intention, are unholy, and it is very unfair to the people of this great country who are suffering from the unwholesome racist attitude.

In Defense of Race Relations in America Part 1

If race relations must improve in this country, the Cable News Network CNN, a division of the Turner Broadcasting Systems might need to change its attitude towards other nations and their peoples.  The documentary, “How To Rob A Bank” which the CNN aired again in the afternoon of Saturday, November 15, 2008 was very much in bad taste to say the least.  The documentary was first aired in May 2006 and several times thereafter, and yesterday in 2008. 

What the CNN wants people to believe it is doing, is exposing “Identity theft” and working to stop the age old crime in America.  But the CNN knows that its real intention and focus, is not about exposing or stopping “identity theft” but at will, to damage Nigeria’s image and turn Americans against the whole of Nigerians in this country out of racism and victimization.  How fair is this slave-master-mentality attitude towards Nigeria and Nigerians in this 21^st century when considering the history and origins of Identity Theft” in America; and considering the few bad eggs of Nigerians as against the multitude of decent Nigerians contributing to the great advancement of learning and civilization in this country; how fair is CNN airing again “How To Rob A Bank?

That recent Afuze confab of witches and wizards: A Welcomed Development in Nigeria first published in July 2014

The Saturday Sun of July 19, 2014 in Lagos Nigeria, has it that members of the Witches and Wizards Association of Nigeria (WITZAN), met recently at Afuze in Onwan (Owan) East Local Government Area of Edo State.  The meeting which its focus was on the frightening state of affairs in the country; the political and socio-economic challenges facing the nation was called for by the Witches and wizards of Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states.  And top on the agenda was the horrifying menace of the murderous Boko Haram, according to the Saturday Sun.  According to the Newspaper report, the spokesman of the Witches and Wizards, “people with knowledge,” borrowing from the Russians, Dr. Okhue Iboi revealed that Nigerian Witches and Wizards “are deeply worried by what is going on in the country especially Boko Haram,” and that “As stakeholders in the Nigerian project,” they, the Witches and Wizards “can no longer afford to fold our hands while the nation burns.” Other important revelations by the spokesman include, that the fate of the leader of Boko Haram, Shekau is sealed by the Witches and Wizards; that his days are numbered; that in collaborations with Witches and Wizards of Tanzania and India, intercessory spiritual work was done to preserve Nigeria; that Nigeria’s Witches and Wizards in this international collaboration, the Witches and Wizards have resolved that Nigeria will not break up, but that there would be election related pockets of crisis here and there in the country.

Nigeria can stop the wave of kidnappings in the country: An Open Letter to the Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan

“The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that make rebuilding.”

The Right Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, late and First African Governor General of Nigeria.  In his “Development of Political Parties in Nigeria, (London: Oxford Printing Press, 1954), p. 50.

The war on corruption started by the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCON was revolutionary in nature in the history of Nigeria since independence.  We are now speaking of a serious need to complete that revolution by putting a stop on the current wave of kidnappings in the country.  The President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to whom Chief Obasanjo is equally a mentor must do all in his power to put an urgent stop in the insecurity of life and property as it is being experienced now in our country for quite some time.     

Nigeria, Boko Haram and Human Rights Law: Have Nigerians the Right to Live?

One is unable to understand what Nigeria and Nigerians are going through at this time in our lives.  In May 2014 it was kind of a national debate as to whether Nigeria should dialogue and negotiate with Boko Hama.  There were those who wanted government to dialogue and negotiate with the criminal gang. There were many who opposed government negotiating with the faceless terrorists.  This author, in a title: “No Negotiation with Hardened Criminals,” published on May 12 2014, aligned with those Nigerian patriots who opposed surrendering Nigerian sovereignty to Boko Haram and Nigeria’s other enemies.  Before going any further, I need to ask: Have Nigerians not the rights to live under the International Human Rights Law (IHRL), like others on this Earth?  Understandably, this was a law meant to ensure that everyone was treated fairly without any prejudice.  Are Nigerians who are dying en-masse and untimely from the bombs of Boko Haram given fair treatment, and are the horrifying deaths of innocent citizens of Nigeria justified and fair?

It is Imperialists Urge to Depopulate Africa: To Poison African Bush Meat is Not a Surprise

The current senseless human deaths ravaging in West Africa brought about by the Reptilian Virus called “Ebola” is one that Africans, young and old, man and woman should consider very seriously. African rulers need to sit up and abandon their unwholesome act of greed in ignorance that compels them to betray the confidence of the people. African rulers need to abandon the senseless looting of public funds that gives them false hope and satisfaction; they need to stop because as things are now, they are standing on the threshold of death which African adversaries are senselessly willing to unleash on the continent and its people. If they can create a virus with the desire to kill Africans to infect the meat Africans eat should not be a surprise. African development is not in their plan. This Reptilian Virus is just a part of what is waiting to-happen reading between the lines of their covert plans. When it does happen, this current “Ugbokho” ravaging part of the sub-region will be a child’s play.  “Ugbokho” is a plague that kills chickens en-masse; when it gets to poultry sheds, the sight is usually horrifying to the owner of the poultry.  The Liberian, it seemed they refused to treat and allowed to die in Texas is a good example: A whole Church in Texas with all members of its congregation prayed and prayed nights and days that the man may live, but the prayers came rather late; the reptilian virus never heard the prayers; the hands of death snatched the man away.

Wake Up Africa, Nigeria Wake Up, Wake Up Africa Part 2 - First published Sept 2013

Anyone who runs from what he or she is will become what she or he is not.  The case of Africans or Nigerians becoming Chinese, Indians, Europeans or Americans is made more difficult due to differences in the nature of the people of the world we live in today.   Even though one becomes what he or she is not if he or she runs from what they are, Africans who may want to become Europeans, Americans, or Chinese will not be accepted for racial reason and culture. Africans who want to be Europeans or Americans would be like bats that are neither birds nor animals because they are never allowed to assimilate into those societies due to discrimination.  Bats are the only creatures that are neither birds nor animals.

Wake Up Africa, Nigeria Wake Up, Wake Up Africa Part 1 - First published Sept 2013

Africa and Africans, what are you doing to yourselves? Nigeria and Nigerians, what are you doing to yourselves? Why do Africa and its peoples devalue themselves; why do we refuse to accept ourselves as equal, if not better than our adversaries? Did I say our adversaries; oh no, we are our very own adversary.  We run away from our own cultural traditional knowledge, we abdicate from patronizing our home made goods, sometimes products and services. What we produce or manufacture does not attract us. The people discriminate our traditional herbal medicine; our elites also run from using our own hospitals; they run to Europe, America, and now India for their medical attention.  The prevailing idea in Nigeria particularly and Africa generally is that goods or products that come from foreign lands, is better than our home made, no matter how inferior the foreign made goods are.  We run-after and embrace foreign made goods, foreign culture and idea at the regret of our own superior culture, knowledge, and wisdom. Nigerians even runs from eating their own natural and purely organic food.  They run to eat fast foods that are nothing but junk food with names such as fried Rice and Indome.  Nigerians rush at Chinese oily foods which their ingredients are usually unknown, in Nigeria.  

NIGERIA: Deal With Boko Haram the Traditional Way

The leader of this band of murderers called “Boko Haram” reportedly to mean that “western education is a sin” are human beings having the same blood like other Nigerians; breathing the same air every Nigerian breaths in and out; they are susceptible to the Nigerian environment,  and are not immune or insulated from the vibrations and energies of the Nigerian soil.  These murderers can be dealt with in the Nigerian native ways.  It is shameful that Nigerian traditionalists who understand the language of the leaf, roots of plants, trees and vines are silent in the wake of current activities of the murderers.  Over 250 school children, girls are kidnapped by the band of killers and everyone is waiting on government to do something.  A government is as good as the people it governs.  Those who can toil with the lives of young girls have no hearts therefore they deserve no mercy from any government or people; Nigerians should rise up in unionism against a common enemy which Boko Haram has come to symbolize.  I heard Ruben Abati, the Spokesperson for government shouting on top of his voice telling a foreign Journalist  that American and British Intelligence are working with Nigerian Government to free the school girls from the abductors; what an embarrassment for Nigeria and its people?

Nigerians Abroad are Nigerians first published February 23rd, 2010

Nigerians abroad should not be referred to by any other name other than Nigerians abroad.  It is political pollution internationally among our race of human kind, and economically and sociologically, it is unwise for Nigerians anywhere to call Nigerians abroad, “Nigerians in the Diaspora.”  Many a time, I even hear some Nigerians abroad referring to themselves, as “Nigerian Diasporas” just because Nigerians at home now call them by a name to which they should not answer.  It sounds ridiculous.  Nigerians abroad should not and cannot assume any other appellation or be given another name just because they are living abroad unless Nigeria is willing to disown its own sons and daughters and their grandchildren abroad; all should be Nigerians abroad. 

No Negotiation with Hardened Criminals first published May 12, 2014

There should be no negotiation with hardened criminals like Boko Haram.  It is my candid advice that the Federal Government of Nigeria should not attempt to negotiate with Boko Haram over the abducted girls.  Boko Haram is willing to release the girls because the International community is now involved in the attempt to rescue the girls and it is not because Nigerians and the State have asked Abubakar Shekau to release the Nigerian girls.  This is an abuse and criminal insult on all Nigerians and the Nigeria State.  This is treasonable.  To show that Nigeria is an African power with all the necessary forces and competence to do what the people of Nigeria desire to do, there should be no compromise and, Military force or the force of modern weapons should not be dependent upon in the drive to get Shekau to release the abducted Nigerian girls.  Negotiation is a wrong route to take, and not with criminal murders.   The safety of the children is paramount.

The 2014 Midterm Elections: Was it a Plebiscite on Obama’s Leadership or on the Racism in America?

This mid-term election that took place throughout the nation on November 4, 2014 has come and gone. The Republican Party cleared enough seats to lead in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.  Most analysts, media and political commentators seemed to have missed the point in the verdict they seem to be passing.  Their seemingly inconclusive and incorrect verdict or assessment is that the Democratic Party lost the elections to the Republican Party due to what they called Obama’s disappointing low approval rating because of the direction the President is taking the nation.  They conclude that many of the President’s Party incumbents and the aspirant members lost their seats while the aspirants could not defeat those whom they have challenged because the majority of Americans saw President Barack and his party members as taking the country in the wrong direction.  This is why we are asking the question: Were the 2014 Mid-term elections a plebiscite on President Obama’s leadership or were the results of the elections not a referendum on the racism in America as it predominates while affecting many genuine and honorable Americans?

Nigerians are the Best Image Makers for Nigeria

It is a truism that Heaven helps those who help themselves.  Some of us may start re-examining this statement, but from whatever angle the re-examination may follow, the facts remain that he or she who must be assisted must make the first move.  Nigerians must resolve to assist themselves, in other words, Nigerian rulers must come to their bitter realization that it is the helpless Nigerians who will repair the image of Nigeria battered by their (rulers’) inconsiderate and faulty policies.