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It was a black that police shot watching TV in his house. Another black woman was shot by police while playing a game at home with the nephew. This una America Taya me o. Texas woman shot dead by police in her home remembered as dedicated aunt, 'peaceful woman' A family lawyer said Atatiana Jefferson, who was with her nephew, was fatally shot while investigating a noise in her backyard. These are ritual killings pure and simple. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/videos/us/2019/10/13/fort-worth-police-shooting-nr-pkg-vpx.cnn |
Wondering What Pierre Taught Justin Trudeau Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada has been outed for hypocrisy. When he was in high school he wore costumes as a Black Face, then as a teacher, a Sheikh with Brown Face in Arabian costume. While it is common to dress up during Halloween in different costumes, these actions by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, even as a youth was out of line and painful to many. It is one thing to forgive, another to forget. Justin Trudeau comes from a privileged class as the French Canadian son of a grassroot fighter. Pierre his father, fought for the Union and later became the Prime Minister. He was accused of being a hypocrite during his time because he was born into a privileged class himself but vigorously fought for equal rights with the English, promoted bilingual and Multi-Culturalism. When the Union blasted him as a sellout, he reminded them that during his time as Union Champion, they were fighting hard just to be recognized. He dared the Separatists in Quebec and won there as a Liberal Party Prime Minister. Rascal, he was. Racist, most of us would doubt it. Could his children get confused between rascality and racism? Many of us would doubt it. How the son of this great man could become the image of a black face or turbaned as a jest may be looked at as that of spoilt brats that have never suffered. Privilege is very intoxicating and may make our children explore the unthinkable like drugs, get drunk, sex and yes, racial intolerance. The wondering here about Justin has to do with the age and time he delve into such racist behavior that would be condemned by those around him and that knew his father. Pierre as Prime Minister, was generous to the poor and immigrants. Rascality does not merge with racism. If you have a father like Pierre Trudeau that once told some 600 former employees of a private contractor who had delivered the mail in Montreal picketing Parliament: "Mange de la merde." Eat shit. One might wonder. This was not what you would expect from a Prime Minister but Pierre was a rascal that did not mind pirouetting behind the Queen of England. Look, even many children of core racists turned out to be very good citizen fighting against the racist culture of their parents. The problem here remains that Justin Trudeau did these racist display as a full grown man. He could not have been mad at those taking or competing for his privileges. So, we are baffled about what his problem was. Yes, the father said: what mattered most was to do justice in our own time. Some people took that to mean, Pierre was not ready to blame others for past mistake or past racism. This writer must confess that while Justin was generous to women (half of his cabinet) and Sikhs, no African Canadian made his Cabinet the first time around which was contrary to his stand and that of his father. But he later made up for that. Indeed, it was not clear why his Cabinet had more Sikhs than that of India. We can now say he was trying to make up for his youthful misdirected exuberance on them. After all is said and done, there is a greater focus here. Most of the people condemning Justin were really disappointed. But we have to be careful about hypocrites that will do anything to hound him out of politics when we know they are the worst racists. Not only that, these days racists are bold, audacious and unapologetic. Some of them use all types of reasons to justify their insidious actions. Yet, they cannot wait to call out the mistakes of our more liberal friends. Senator Moynihan was a US Democrat champion of African American causes. Some on the Left, disagreed with his remark or his Report. He was immediately jumped on by Republicans. What they do not understand was why African American would tolerate differences with some of their friends that bear no ill-will or actually made no smear on Africans. People are not fools, we know our friends and even friends do have disagreements and differences sometimes. Justin Trudeau may have stumbled. Nobody should sacrifice a good one. We can call him in and tell him our minds but never should minorities in Canada leave Justin, the son of Pierre Trudeau to the wolves. There are many cries around the country and around the world about the action of Justin Trudeau. Friends are disappointed, while foes are happy. They see an opportunity to deny him reelection without coming even coming close to his ideas and programs for Canadians. Canadians must keep their Eyes On the Prize. Justin Trudeau remains their best option in this coming Election. It is too late for the Social Democrats to catch up and give the Conservative a good fight. Since this is a close Election if the polls are right, all Canadians including minorities offended must forgive Justin Trudeau but keep good eyes on him in view of this unexpected revelations during his younger days. Justin comes from a good family that had fought for the common man regardless of the privilege they were born into. He has been able to show by his action despite some unenforced political errors on his part. Watch out very well for those using the latest embarrassment against him to clinch the positions they would not have gotten but for a few disappointments. The best option would have been for him to resign as the leader of his Party if there is enough time. He could then contest again as the leader. If the Party and Canadians were comfortable enough, they could then reappoint him for the Election. It is too late now. This is not the time to take chances. We must keep our Eyes On The Prize. It might remind some of us of how Canadians got fed up with Pierre Trudeau and Joe (Who?) Clark was elected as the Prime Minister then. It was not too long before he lost the following Election to Pierre Trudeau in less than six months. They called it Pierre Trudeau Rope A Dope! Justin Trudeau must move on and emphasize his progressive ideas to the voters across the Country. The conservatives have mastered plans on how to distract voters from their inward and selfish agenda pretending they are fighting for the masses. When we know, as David Lewis explained to us eloquently in those days; that they goal is always to fatten the "Corporate Bums". Farouk Martins Aresa, © 2019 https://www.modernghana.com/news/957017/wondering-what-pierre-taught-justin-trudeau.html |
CeterisXVII, I have been very careful with my language with you because reasonable men could agree to disagree. Moreover, I do not know you neither do you know me. The fact that we have Italian Mafia and every group has their criminals does not justify the amount and proportion crooks take out of Nigeria's economy. These crooks all over the world hardly make a dent on their countries' economy the ways these crooks kill Nigeria's economy. You seems to strongly believe that we are technologically so backwards that we are helpless and at the mercy of western technology. I will give that to you but only up to a point. This is why I pointed out ODENL.com As for Redeem University remarkable achievement in the diagnosis of Ebola, take the version or write up of those you want. But it does not negate reality. Professor Christian Happi I hardly know. Check out his publications and find out how he was able to convert his tools for diagnosis of Ebola. He did not have to rediscover a pin, he made do with what he had. This is what Americans did with British and Japaneses or China did with Americans as I stated earlier. Now, at the Conference at Harvard, one would think that it was the Harvard Researchers that influence Prof. Happi. By the time he mounted the podium, it was clear this was what he had been thinking about with other infectious diseases including Lassa fever. He and his colleagues worked hard at it and he got it right. As a result, he was invited to Harvard to lecture. In short at the Conference, by the time he finished, it was a standing ovation led by yours truly. Africans at the conference though few, were happy something good came out of Nigeria without asking for foreign aid. He went to Harvard to teach them his method and some of them went to Ede to train with him. There is a difference between "contact tracing and "diagnosis". Speak on what you know. I have to state all these to raise the confidence of Africans and Nigerians in particular. There is no enabling environment anywhere better than Africa. If we only work as hard at home as we do outside, Nigeria will be a better country. Africans work against all odds in these glorified foreign countries and we never heard about those who died in the process working hard. So with all respect, our salvation is in our hands, not in the hands of foreign profit and bribes. Hello, I do not want to engage in a back and forth exchange with you, because you are not saying anything tangible or different from what I have pointed out earlier. |
This is Fraud Upon The Court period. All legal analysis should focus on that. It must be started again that these are not reputable companies, they are treasure hunters and gold diggers putting investment together to drain developing countries. They locate Africans looking for profit in dollars and pounds. Do not make it look like a technical legal or technology matters. Common laws are based on English law inferred from the Greek and Roman cultures. They are written to favor their culture just like Islamic law or Sharia. BTW, Arbitration is not bidding on non-consenting parties. Even if they can produce any obscure or fine prints where it was written as binding, Fraud can destroy it. This is not going to be the last. There are many treasure hunters out there and naive, gullible greedy Africans are waiting for money in their foreign accounts. |
Ceteris XVII, [quote]Now, when it comes to manufacturing a gas processing plant, please tell me which Nigerian company can fabricate or manufacture one locally, and has done so from scratch successfully. /quote] We could have asked ODENL.COM the same question years back, yet we are still repeating the mistake we made at 3rd Mainland Bridge, at Eko Atlantic and 2nd Niger Bridge. You will not believe the skill, expertise and training acquired by local universities including MIT during Big Dig construction in Boston. What did our local universities acquire during the construction of Kainji Dam apart from being Egineer Managers? Pure and simple, Africans like their bribes, profits and inflated rewards paid into foreign accounts. They do not trust NIGERIANs. It has been said many times, we have the biggest laboratories in the world, WILD BUSH, that is why foreigners have to do another discoveries here to rediscover aspirin, antibiotics etc. Did you know a new tiny university in Ede of all places, designed and fabricated a machine that diagnosed and confirmed Ebola virus before CDC Atlanta and Pasteur and London School of Hygiene arrived? As for equipments, why does it have to be the same Petri dish, Bursen burner or robot? Better still why can't we strip open all the gadgets we have bought for 60 years, copy and break their patents like the Americans did to British; like there Japanese, Russians or Chinese did to Americans. Again, NIGERIANs like other African countries do not want their bribes and profit in local currency. |
Ceteris XVII, I like the awareness and knowledge you bring into this. But please do not underestimate yourself and Nigerians like you around the world. We have to understand that technology strive in US based on enabling environment that Nigerians always latch on to. But what produce technology are politics and policy. You can have technology and not implement it as shown by Japan taking technology from US. For a long time, US and Europe claimed Japanese could not make luxury and big cars. Japan came up with Lexus and other Asians follow. The point here is that Ajaokuta failure was not because of technology but because of politics and policy. Europeans and Americans did not want competition and knew it would lead to steel glut as we now have. We were forced to go to Russia. If the failure was lack of technology, are you saying Nigerians were too dumb in all these years after Independent to be on the job training in Ajaokuta and other industries like Eko Bridge construction. Eko Atlantic is going the same way. This lack of well trained Nigerians were pushed for too many year until we built our indigenous ocean deep oil rig. Yes, you are right, with the cooperation of foreign and local talents. http://odenl.com/ So please tell us what technology was so rare that Quinn, a car mechanic and a criminal that beat jail in Ireland and Nigeria, had that no Nigerian worldwide had, to convert gas flare? An old technology within the capability of International oil companies. |
Well said but to think that we just know foreigners are scammers only 30 years ago, is like hiding our heads in the sand. Ajaokuta Steel was not yesterday or 30 years ago. Let be frank, Nigerians prefer foreigners not because you cannot find Nigerians around the world but because we want our profit in hard currency. CeterisXVII: |
CeterisXVII, What is the difference between what I stated and your correction? I actually agree with you except on Danjuma. Nigeria already had gas flaring to power miniplants on paper even before Obasanjo tabled it. Nigerians were not so daft waiting for Danjuma's ideas that late. You are right that Quinn stole Danjuma project as one of his consultants. But he was already conspiring with big oil companies to frustrate Nigeria's ambition. Yes, Danjuma funded the project already known and implemented worldwide. Give him that credit. But he could have gathered Nigerian scientists worldwide and locally with that project and money rather than these foreign scammers defrauding us over and over. When are we going to learn. I still like your point. |
It is sad how African perspective, no matter how justified may not make sense, not only to foreigners but to their court of law Africans hold up as the golden sign of democracy. Since the 70s, successive Governments in Nigeria, in spite of our shortcomings and faults, have tried every possible ways to convince International Oil companies to stop flaring gas because of the environmental damages to Niger Delta where most of the oil come from. But even more important is the benefit of providing Electricity to the population of Niger Delta and 200 millions Nigeria. Nigeria, despite our greedy politicians have passed regulations, employed consultants from different countries to convince these International Oil companies to help us provide Electricity since we have gas flare wasted that could be converted. All to no avail. Indeed, these international Oil companies have continually disregard our laws, international laws and moral judgment to continue flaring gas. While the $9 Billion judgment have capture the attention of Nigeria, the real problem of gas flaring to electricity has not. Quinn, the Irish criminal that was supposed and boasted that he could bring the International Oil company around, not only conspired with them and sabotaged us as other foreign consultants in Ajaokuta Steel, HIV Kit factory, Nano Silver for Ebola did. Quinn and co. sued Nigeria and won. If you can Please read London Guardian perspective presented in London Tribunal Court that included our former AG. that it was Nigeria that failed to provide Gas to its poor people and the good Samaritan Quinn that had no expertise whatever could have: The intention was to convert wet natural gas to dry gas to power the country’s national electric grid, improving supply. P&ID would sell 15% of the propane, ethane and butane by-products on the international market, with an expectation of generating “$5bn to $6bn in profit over a 20-year period”. In return, Nigeria would receive 85% of the gas at no cost for generating electricity.https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/aug/24/nigeria-must-pay-9bn-damages and Nigerian perspective of how they have been screwing us since slavery days and never stops: Nigeria tried persuasion, incentives, tax breaks, bribes, law and regulations to get oil companies to convert gas flaring to power and failed since the 70s. The same Lobbyist Quinn that was paid to lobby and convince International Oil companies to use their capable expertise to capture gas flaring from the oil they got, conspired with them for years to sabotage Nigeria’s need for gas fired electricity projects.https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/281369/9-billion-judgment-against-nigeria-by-a-court-of-no-conscie.html |
$9 Billion Judgment Against Nigeria By A Court Of No Conscience Watch out for notorious con men from high places at work again in all African countries backed by their governments, court of law and politicians. Canny lawyers, Lobbyists, Foreign Portfolio Investors, Equity or Hedge Fund manager facilitated. Consultants use fake news to convince the world that our meager foreign income is theirs. It doesn’t matter what we call them: Ponzi Schemes, Yahoo-Yahoo, Mercenary or 419; they aid and abet financial crimes against Africa. Usually, most court of law would never bankrupt one opponent to pay the other so that companies and countries can still function as an entity. A financially viable opponent in court stands a better chance of paying out whatever they incur in judgment. If you kill a country or opponent financially, the chances of recovery are dim. It does not work to the benefit of the creditor or debtor. However, African countries are free games created to be taken advantage of. Unfortunately, these scams and fraudulent judgements against poor African countries are still active: facilitated by speculators on Broad and Wall Street in Europe, America or African cronies. This $9 Billion scheme was masterminded by a late Michael “Mick” Quinn (P&ID) Process and Industrial Developments Ltd Chairman. A conman saved from jail in Ireland by Prime Minister Albert Reynolds and the fear of Irish militia. He rose as a car mechanic to a billionaire scammer in business, law, sciences and arms dealing. Became African Consultant in Nigeria since the 70s. Quinn was charged with espionage and handling secret military materials, with his son Adam, a close associate from Ireland named James Nolan, three Nigerian officials, and three individuals from Israel, Romania, and Russia in October 2006. Another order came from the top as Ireland: that a case against Danjuma’s Consultant be dropped. The same month and year, Quinn formed P&ID and began exploring opportunities in gas flaring power he knew Nigeria needed for years. Simply put, faceless offshore companies of no known address, expertise or capability still sell arbitration judgments without authorized signatories to investors and speculators because international oil companies repeatedly refused to capture flaring gas. Nigeria is the victim here. Paid to change oil companies’ refusal to convert gas flare to energy: Quinn dared not sue them! Nigeria tried persuasion, incentives, tax breaks, bribes, law and regulations to get oil companies to convert gas flaring to power and failed since the 70s. The same Lobbyist Quinn that was paid to lobby and convince International Oil companies to use their capable expertise to capture gas flaring from the oil they got, conspired with them for years to sabotage Nigeria’s need for gas fired electricity projects. Danjuma claimed he spent $40m for his idea. Haba, Allah dey O! Quinn that failed as paid Consultant and Lobbyist to convince oil companies, turned around and sue Nigeria! The con master himself admitted in court; it was the oil companies that abandoned gas flaring capture, but would not dare sue them! When Africans tried to use the International courts outside Africa to right injustice perpetrated on Africans on slavery or recent gas flaring of oil devastation in Niger Delta, chiefs and fishermen got stonewalled as contributing factors. Odious contracts are not new in developing countries, especially in African countries. What is new are courts of any jurisdiction outside Africa backing reckless and unfulfilled contracts. Since 2013, Quinn and partners decided that enforcing arbitration judgments in Nigeria’s court was unproductive, they must go outside Nigeria, ideally to London. If foreign companies failed to secure bids; Quinn would clone, usurp or sell the bids to obtain judgment as breach of contracts. They use foreign rule of law and courts to bankrupt Africa again and again. The company P&ID that got this enormous amount of money judgment has no fixed address or place of operation except as an off-shore shell corporation of a subsidiary of another company that was part of a global equity firm and speculators. If you are wondering now, this is how crooks do business in order to deny people, all governments of taxes and cannot be held responsible or accountable. Sounds familiar? It is like the colonialists establishing business Neo-Colonialism so that they are not held responsible for their economic exploitation. Even when their contracts look sincere as in the case of Enron, by the time suspicious countries in Asia and Africa tried to back out, it was too late. After all, they had the full weight of the American Presidents: Bush and Clinton with threats of denial of foreign aids as consequences. Cases in point: India and Mozambique . The study of odious loans and contracts have demonstrated that African countries are duped into inflated contracts by both foreign companies and the politicians holding our countries into perpetual debts. As Nano Silver was a scam during Ebola crisis; HIV test kit production factory failed because politicians wanted foreign bribes on imported kits. So was our famous case of $13 billion Paris Club debt; despite International communities’ pleas of too heavy a burden on us. The Odious court judgment was a contract that was no different from the odious loans. These are con men from all sides negotiating foreign loans and contracts for the benefit of their personal pockets. In most cases without adding substantive values to the infrastructure or economy of the recipient African countries. They all follow the same pattern since they know African politicians would latch onto any foreign contract for a cut into their pockets. Ironically, both European and American governments have taken it upon themselves to warn Africans about excessive Chinese debts from many of the loans signed for infrastructure. The reason African governments, approach and take Chinese loans is because of the more favorable terms in the contracts. The Chinese know the interest rates on Western loans and they always come up with a lower rate, even when African countries cannot afford to pay back. However, developing countries are perpetual debtors and most remain so for life in order for rich countries to feed on them for survival. The simplest example is that of the farm workers and serf that kept on working for farm owners and owing more, no matter how long they pay back. They may even take out loans to buy provisions from the farm owners’ stores. In order to soften or relieve some of the loans, wives and kids are employed into the same vicious circle. Taking your farm owners to court for relief is like asking to break your Visa or contracts you and your family had already signed. This is the case with developing countries. Some Asian countries have broken out of this circumstance by revolt, renegotiation, cancellation, forgiveness or outright renege on some of the contracts. China is now showing the same pattern of excessive inflated contracts. So, India renegotiated their contract with China recently on that point. Even the $6.6 billion original judgment was more than three times its original estimate of losses as the $9 billion debt is growing by more than $1 million a day, because of interest. This court judgment of $9 billion is so out of place and not congenial to the financial health of Nigeria, it would set the country back many years. Indeed, Nigeria like most African countries is still suffering from the enormous debts t aking up almost all their yearly budgets . Apologists of crime culture must be held accountable by international law enforcement agencies like FBI and Interpol to accept their responsibilities for the big boys they nurtured worldwide. Until then, Africa will remain their slave market. We then wonder why Lumumba, Nyerere, Nkrumah, Mugabe and Awolowo failed to complete their missions in each country. All the projects that were to be implemented to give African countries economic Independence were sabotaged for obscene profits by the very same foreign consultant experts we relied on. But Fraud Upon The Court proving chicanery can save Africa. If you want justice, go to heaven! Source: Farouk Martins Aresa Published: Friday, September 6, 2019 https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/281369/9-billion-judgment-against-nigeria-by-a-court-of-no-conscie.html# |
I HAVE JUST BEEN APPOINTED ELECTION TRIBUNAL JUDGE Akin – My dream just come true o! Bimbo – Na wetin happen? Akin – The thin wey just come my life, eh? Mouth nor fit talk am. Bimbo – Na wetin now, make you talk jare. Akin – You remember say I dey pray to God everday say: one day go be one day. Man must become billionaire. Abi no be so I talk am? Bimbo – Na true, I nor go lie. But I think say nay yeye talk be that. All the time wey you be judge I nor see the money wey you bring come home nao. Abi na Chinwe dey take am from you. Akin – I beg nor talk that kin thin. Chinwe na respectable colleague of mine wey nor dey mess around o. Bimbo – O.k o. That is why you dey mention her for your sleep. Akin – Which kin thin you dey talk. Man say God don hear him prayer, say them don appoint am election tribunal judge and you dey talk about Chinwe. Na Chinwe we go chop? Bimbo – You dey eat am too? I beg, make you no fex sa. My fear be say na Chiwe go enjoy all. Akin – Na proper craze, na him dey catch you. You hia abi you nor hia. The day way I see you with Abdu, I talk? Bimbo – Abdu na medicine man O. Him come sell us agumu dada ni. Akin – He nor ask you if kosobo dido le? Bimbo - Me, me me and that malam? Craze wey catch you no be small O. I beg make you get your head examine well well. Akin – Abdu get medicine for that too? Bimbo – I beg talk how we go spend our billion jo. Akin – You know say this judge job na wahala. Na soso wahala I get because I be fair judge and I nor dey take bribe from anybody. But as thins be, it be like say na only me nor dey go overseas for small vacation. Even housu, I nor get there for common London nor to talk say America. Bimbo – Where and how you think say your colleague dey get all those things now? Akin – If them tell you say I steal million naira or person take million naira bribe me. Na lie o. But for this election tribunal eh? Them go know say no be craze I craze, na poor I poor. Bimbo – If say we get money now, I for go look the kin house we want for London or America self. A whole judge like you. Your children dey go Jakande school. You nor dey shame self. Akin – Na potential billionaire, na him you dey talk to like that? Bimbo – Na joke na. Ah a! You nor dey take joke again? Abi na so billionaires dey behave? Akin – Commot jo. Make I go visit mama. He don tey wey I see am. Mama – Congratulations my son. I don see your name for paper. Me and your papa dey celebrate since. All the neighbors don come hia to celebrate with us. God don hia our prayer o. Akin – Mama weythin una dey celebrate na, no be wahala work? Mama – Make I warn you well well, I nor born craze pinkin. No be you be the only judge for this Niger. But na only you be the poor one wey I know. Na soso broke nahim dey you broke. Church self, armed robbers dey carry money commot. Weythin do you? Neighbor – Akin, Akin de judge. God don butter our bread o. Money don come. How you do am? Na who you know? Akin – I beg your padin! Neighbor – He don start with big grammar o. Na soso grammar na him he dey blow. All him colleagues get children and housu for Britain and America. Those wey nor go abroad, get children for international school. Na Jakande school him pinkin dey O! Akin – Na how much be dem pay wey them fit send children go international school for Niger not to talk about Britain? Neighbor – Mama, na craze don catch am. Me nor know who put craze for gari giv'am. He be like say na that stupid Bimbo. Mama – No be Bimbo, na Chiwe dey do am. Akin – Who be Chiwe? Papa – My son, my son. Just be careful. I never stole a penny in my life, never stole a thousand, never stole a million but a billion naira na good money o! Farouk Martins Aresa Farouk Martins Aresa, © 2011 This author has authored 501 publications on Modern Ghana. https://www.modernghana.com/news/321932/i-have-just-been-appointed-election-tribunal-judge.html |
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffered. |
Not one of these is African. May God save us from colomentality. Where are the Okrika and Ijebu mades. |
One would think Nigerians from all walks of life from academia to traditional chiefs, Obi and Emir would join hands and solve these problems with youth crying for attention and salvation. No they are still pointing fingers at one another. Your bad is worse than mine |