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Gender Equality Agenda And Women Rights Human Rights 100 Years On
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Women suffer disproportionately more than the rest of the world’s population, whether at a time of peace or at time of war. In essence, women suffer, in peace time and at war times. Women suffer from physical-mental abuses and brutalities, horrors and displacements and dislocations at times of war and social upheavals, as well as denial and deprivations of economic and political powers and opportunities at times of peace. Even at earthquake aftermaths as well. Women disproportionately suffer worldwide, relatively and comparatively, women suffer more
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CHILE QUAKES: THE PARABLE LINGERS ON FOR NIGERIA
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The earth has been so violently raped that it is angrily fighting back with the resultant effect being severe weather, earthquake, flooding, desertification, ocean surge, cyclone, tornadoes and a host of others. This is not to say that there were no such experiences in the past but the rapidity of the occurrence calls for a more concerted attention especially on the part of the Nigerian government.
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Democracy Is Not A Spectator Sport Or A Siddon Look Matter
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During the past 100 days, since November 23rd 2009, when Mr. YarAdua’s health debacle foisted political power schemers and power mongers upon Nigerians and Nigeria, something additional have since become clear. It is that a majority of Nigerians, even among those with college degrees and hence, high literacy in the western education sense, are, unfortunately ignorant, totally, of the contents of the Constitution of Nigeria. This is similar to a so-called good Christian or good Muslim, with complete and total ignorance of the contents of the Bible and the Koran respectively, and that is clearly astoundingly shocking! The Constitution of Nigeria is available for free on the internet! Nigerians should read it and become familiar and conversant with its provisions.
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THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND ITS PERSONALITY DISORDERED MEMBERS
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This article delineates what personality disorders are and says that the Republican Party seems taken over by persons with personality disorders. It says that this disturbing trend must be reversed and if not that it does not bode well for these United States of America.
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Illogicality and Absurdities: Open letter to Turai Yar’adua
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In many respects, you
share the attributes of Eva Peron in your unbridled lust for power and
your unpatriotic refusal to let go, even when the hand writing is so
obvious on the wall. However, unlike Eva Peron, you have made such a
pejorative use of power characterised by voracious lust and
insensitivity. Your matriarchy has nothing for posterity to remember
other than nepotism, arrogance and corruption.
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President Umaru YarAdua Of Nigeria Is Back Home To Presidential Duties?
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President YarAdua and his supporters must realize however, that, so much transpired while his absence from presidential duties persisted. And millions of Nigerians, at home and abroad, and millions of people around the world, were aghast, some prayed, some were worried sick and some others, feared chaos, anarchy, war and disintegration, as a result of the power vacuum created by his absence, induced of course, by his ill health.
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REPUBLICANS ARE BULLIES; BULLIES ARE COWARDS
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This essay points out that American conservatives, despite their outward seeming toughness, are really scared little children. It says that they are scared children acting as bullies; it says that bullies are healed by been attacked when they attack you, or if you are the spiritual type, since it is the absence of love that makes folks act out, all acting out behavior is a call for love, that you forgive and love the bully and in so doing heal him. However, under no circumstances should one tolerate the bully’s efforts to intimidate one by arousing fear in one and thus controlling one through ones fear of harm and death.
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General Danjuma, A Thunderous Applause Or Scathing Rebukes?
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All these entities and persons are merely parasitic opportunists., but, perhaps Danjuma is arguably an opportunist with a human face/heart/conscience or remorse? Is having a human-face, heart, conscience and or remorse not better than unrepentant impunity? The point is well taken about preferred emphasis on insisting on Best Business Practices, and the decent and morally outstanding idea, of not entrenching and or, encouraging a culture of Robber Barons and actors who frequently act impunity.
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American Terrorists Suicide Bombers Are Engaged In Terrorism Or Protests?
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Considering this MOSSAD efficiently executed assignment in Dubai, and the benign act of this tax protester in Texas, I have come to realize that I need a brand new definition for the term double standards as well as the definition for the word known as obfuscation. All of these also makes me wonder, what exactly, by way of heinous murders, violence, malicious destruction of property, private and public, can be determined to be terrorist acts?
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Obama Is Wrong On Nigeria, On Visit Snub, On Agents Meeting Babangida, & On Terrorist List
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Why the preference to meet with thugs and enemies of the electorate? Are these in efforts to undermine the electorate and democracy? Nigerians should be very alert, and awake and if a coup does occur, as Nigerians now know, must know, on whose doorsteps we lay the consequences. I personally find the Christian/Muslim, North/South comments by Ambassador Campbell, provocative and inflammatory. And perhaps meant to stoke the fires and to incite segments of our national population in Nigeria, in an already volatile time such as Nigerians and Nigeria have been experiencing recently.
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PHYSICAL SCIENTISTS ARE NOT SMARTER THAN NON SCIENTISTS
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This article says that the belief that those who are good at the physical sciences are more intelligent than those in the non-physical sciences is not based on facts. It correlates ability to study science with the level of somatic arousal and suggests that if we can calm down those who are somatically over excited that they would do as well in science as scientists.
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The Option Of Military Attack On Iran by America And Or Israel
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Is the United States engaging in a needless hegemonic and imperialistic war mongering, and thereby unwittingly dissipating and decimating the United States itself? Consider the fact that the US has spent approximately a trillion dollars on foreign wars, since invading Iraq in March 2003, coupled with the war against Al Queda in Afghanistan soon after September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. Why would any president, congress, political leadership appear to be rather animated and in gyrations for yet, another foreign war in Iran?
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Michael Aondoakaa Former AGF Should Be Investigated And Tried
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It would have been anathema to logic, law and good sense, to allow Mr. Aondoakka to remain Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister for Justice, bearing in mind that he advocated and defended the constitutional violations, breaches and infractions which were committed by President Umaru Musa YarAdua, the president who it was, who foisted power vacuum and power void upon Nigeria for 80 days, due to his neglect and continued refusal to obey the laws of Nigeria and comply with clear and specific sections of the Constitution of Nigeria. He would have had the singular misfortune of arguing both sides
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Finally Nigerian National Assembly Acts But Is This Constitutional?
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1. A letter which shall, be properly transmitted from the president regarding his or her absence from presidential duties, upon which the National Assembly shall trigger the assumption of office by the vice president as the acting president, until the substantive president returns to president duties and or, other determinations are made in connection with the continuing capacity and fitness of the substantive president.
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ATTACK ON AFRICAN MARRIAGES BY WESTERNIZED AFRICAN WOMEN
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This article looks at the phenomenon of African women living in the Western world copying the worst of Western women’s behaviors. It equates radical feminism with the destruction of the Western family and says that the African family would also be destroyed if African women mindlessly copy radical Western women’s efforts to destroy their men for the historic injustice they believe that their men did to them.
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Obama's America Response On Haiti A Thunderous Applause! But…
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The cataclysmic and calamitous events of January 12, presents a wonderful opportunity, to rebuild Haiti and stand Haiti in good stead, a Haiti in renaissance is born, glory restored to Haitians and Haiti.
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THE DANGERS OF EXTREME IDEALISM
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This paper is an introspective look at my idealistic nature; building on my idealism, it points out that benign as idealism seems that it could degenerate to a point where idealists want to do away with those who do not seem ideal. It says that Hitler killed folks because he was motivated to transform his self, people, social institutions and the world into an impossible state: ideal. It points out the need to accept people as they are: imperfect, hence political realism.
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THE NIGERIAN TERROR SUSPECT: A CHALLENGE TO AFRICAN NATIONS
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Congruously, one can readily infer that if Abdul Mutallab of such aristocratic background could be recruited into Al-Qaeda with all his education abroad, it may not be out of place to say that for one Mutallab suspected, there could be other hundreds hibernating somewhere in Africa that are Al-Qaeda trained, which translates to mean that Al-Qaeda has penetrated Africa apparently.
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NIGERIANS SICK EGOS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES
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This paper points out that generally many Nigerians are egoistic and vain glory seeking narcissists, a disturbed mental state, and that that disturbed mental status is admired by Nigerians. It says that as long as Nigerians live this upside down existence where what is sick is seen as normal and pursued that Nigeria is going nowhere economically. It says that for Nigerians to move forward that they must shrink their swollen egos and become normal human beings who understand that humility is the mark of maturity and that arrogance is the mark of immaturity.
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Mutallab Terrorist Incident As A Teachable Moment Or Lesson To All Nigerians
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Nigerians should stop accepting, explaining and justifying maltreatment of Nigerians and Nigeria by airlines or credit card companies and all other entities, be they nations or corporate entities. Nigerians must get away and get out from the mindsets which allow some Nigerians accept discrimination as something Nigerians and Nigeria have earned and deserves! Nigeria is as imperfect as other nations of the world.
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Post Copenhagen Summit: nigeria in perspective
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The attitude of government playing lip service to the problem of climate change must end now. There is the need for them to take bold steps to tackle this problem - it is real. Whereas, decisive steps to remedy whatever problem the challenge is posing or may pose to our nation ought to receive some workable attention as it were. The policy of government must address this issue without holding back; otherwise, all will suffer.
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The Question of Rebranding
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However much we try to forget about Nigeria and its many problems, some of us are incurably Nigerian that wherever we are, we would always remain Nigerian. That said I know that it is not the same for everyone as there are many who actually reside in Nigeria but would rather not, especially because of its numerous and varied problems. The truth is that no country of the world is without its own problems, the difference is in how each country is dealing with and resolving its problems.
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Whose Interests Are You Serving? The Question for Nigeria’s Servant Leader
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The recent events or, better still, the current drama at the corridor of powers of the Nigerian government call for a critical examination of the interest that our president is intending to serve, either with his actions or inaction. Is he serving the interests of Nigeria, himself or members of his kitchen cabinet who are probably benefiting from his continued absence from Abuja the seat of power?
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THE SELF, HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY ASPECTS OF IT
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This paper is my yearend summary of what I have learned about the nature of the human self, its healthy and unhealthy states. The ideas summarized here have been elaborated in detail elsewhere. If the ideas appeal to you, it is suggested that you explore them in detail in my more elaborate writings. In a nutshell the paper posits that there is a self that transcends this world, a unified spirit self, a self that manifests in this world and finds this world utterly meaningless, purposeless and nothing and seeks to make it seem meaningful, purposeful and worthwhile.
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Generalizations Against Nigerian Muslims, Nigerians And Nigeria
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These unwarranted attacks, maligning and denigrations of Nigeria, have occurred despite the facts. The facts are that the father of the Nigerian citizen in question, acted forthrightly, as he took actions, he clearly and specifically notified the United States of America of his worry, regarding his son’s radicalization or extremism. A father acted against his son, that is profound and heroic! How is it possible for some, to still generalize about Nigerian Muslims and Nigeria, in the face such division between good and evil even at a nuclear family level?
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