
WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?
The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.
A HERO IS BORN.
I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.
IT IS WHAT IT IS.
"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.
WORD!
A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.
NOW, YOU KNOW.
When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.
JUST THE FACT.
In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle
DO YOU?.
“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.
HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.
Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.
OUR SHARED HUMANITY.
Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.
WORD.
"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.
#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.
"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.
RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.
"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.
WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS
“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ
EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.
"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)
ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?
“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
TAM DAVID WEST SAYS, NO TO AMNESTY!

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Amnesty International yesterday said President Umaru Yar’Adua’s amnesty to Niger Delta militants will fail, because previous human rights violations in the country have not been addressed.
ReplyDeleteThe group said tackling the issues of environmental and social abuses arising from the operations of oil companies in Nigeria would mean more to the people of the region than the amnesty package.
Speaking at a press conference in Abuja yesterday, a researcher in Amnesty International, Audrey Gaugharan said the "Joint Task Force [JTF] should be held accountable to the various forms of human rights abuses in the region and the government should treat the causes and not the symptoms of the problem. I don’t think the Amnesty would work."
The group called the situation in the Niger Delta a "human rights tragedy," saying that the people of the Niger Delta have seen their human rights abused by oil companies that their government cannot or will not hold to account.
"The Niger Delta provides a stark example of the lack of accountability of a government to its people, and of multinational companies’ almost total lack of accountability when it comes to the impact of their operations on human rights," said Gaughran, head of business and human rights and co-author of a major new report, Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta, released yesterday at a press conference in Abuja.
"People living in the Niger Delta have to drink, cook with and wash in polluted water. They eat fish contaminated with oil and other toxins – if they are lucky enough to be able to still find fish. The land they farm on is being destroyed. After oil spills the air they breathe smells of oil, gas and other pollutants. People complain of breathing problems and skin lesions and yet neither the government nor the oil companies monitor the human impacts of oil pollution.
"The human rights impact of pollution in the Niger Delta is greatly under-reported. The majority of people in the Niger Delta depend on the natural environment for their food and livelihood, particularly through agriculture and fisheries.
"The Nigerian government is aware of the risks that oil-related pollution poses for human rights, but has failed to take measures to ensure those rights are not harmed. Despite the widespread pollution of the Niger Delta’s land, rivers and creeks – and the many complaints from people living in the region - we could find almost no government data on the impact on humans of any aspect of oil pollution in the Niger Delta.
"The Nigerian government is failing in its obligation to respect and protect the rights of people in the Niger Delta to food, water, health and livelihood. Some oil companies, for their part, have taken advantage of this government failure, and have shown a shocking disregard for the human impact of their activities.
"A government’s failure to protect the human rights of its people does not absolve companies from responsibility for their actions. Oil companies such as Shell are not free to ignore the consequences of their actions just because the government has failed to hold them to account. The international standard is not ‘whatever a company can get away with’ - there are international standards for oil industry operations, and in relation to environmental and social impacts that oil companies in the Niger Delta are very well aware of.
"Despite its public claims to be a socially and environmentally responsible corporation, Shell continues to directly harm human rights through its failure to adequately prevent and mitigate pollution and environmental damage in the Niger Delta,"said Gaughran.
Muslim leaders urge FG on Niger Delta
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Written by Zakariyya Adaramola, Lagos
The Federal Government has been cautioned on the need to quickly address the core issues that led to militancy in the Niger Delta rather than celebrating amnesty.
Secretary-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Dr. AbdulLateef Adegbite, National Missioner, Ansar-Ud-deen Society of Nigeria, Sheikh AbdurRahman Ahmad and the Lagos State coordinator of Conference of Islamic Organisations, Mallam Abdullahi Shuaib noted that it was not just enough to give amnesty but that core issues should be addressed.
They however described the Federal Government’s amnesty for the Niger-Delta militants as a step in the right direction.
Speaking at a 2-day conference of imams and scholars,the leaders urged the Federal Government to meet the demands of the people of the Niger Delta.
Dr.Adegbite urged the government to as a matter of urgency address the issue of resource control. He said 18 percent revenue was not adequate, urging the government to make it 25 percent and later 50 percent.
Sheikh Ahmad enjoined Nigerians to give government a chance to see how the amnesty would turn out. While urging Nigerians to support the process, Ahmad asserted that a peaceful Niger-Delta would lead to a peaceful Nigeria .
Shuaib said the rejection of the olive oil by the Movements for Emancipation of Niger-Delta (MEND) was likely to prolong the suffering of the people.
Uwazuruike Launches Biafra Passport
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 01:39
As part of activities to mark the tenth anniversary of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), September 13, 2009 the leader and founder of the group, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, yesterday, launched an international passport for the United States of Biafra.
Addressing a well-attended meeting of MASSOB members at his freedom house in Okwe, Onuimo LGA, Imo State , Chief Uwazuruike said the need the Biafran passport arose following requests by Igbos in the diaspora to use Biafran rather than Nigerian passport.
Uwazuruike, who had just returned from an overseas trip, said he was inundated with requests by Igbos in South Africa and London for the passport.
Sequel to that, arrangements were made and copies of the passport printed in a foreign country which he said falls within international standard.
While presenting the passport to his followers and journalists, the MASSOB leader appointed one Ambrose Anyaso as the Director of Passport Authority of MASSOB.
Uwazuruike, however charged his members to always use the passport whenever they are traveling to cities outside Igbo territory believed to be Nigerian State , pointing out that the passport authority will work out appropriate modalities for the issuance of the passport to all members.
The MASSOB leader also disclosed that the organisation's Satellite Television will soon be on air as arrangements to that effect had been concluded.
Commenting on the amnesty granted by the Federal Government to Niger Delta militants, he said President Yar'Adua had no basis for that action.
According to him, amnesty should only come in when guilt has been determined.
He enjoined the people of Niger Delta to fight for the Sovereign State of the Niger Delta and assert full control of their resources