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Aug. 30, 2005 - WHEN AMERICA SUFFERS, WHAT DO WE DO? OUR URGENT APPEAL TO THE REST OF THE WORLD TO COME TO THE AID OF AMERICA IN THE CATASTROPHE OF HURRICANE KATRINA. Tuesday,August 30,2005. When the catastrophic Tsunamis struck Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the other countries in the Indian Ocean, America rushed to the rescue of the terrified victims and till date there are more American emergency Aid workers still doing their best to save precious lives and rehabilitate the homeless thousands. But when natural disasters happen in America, the rest of the world will not rush to help Americans in distress. Why? Because, they believe Americans can take care of themselves? But, this is wrong and inhuman. Because, death is no respecter of persons. Scores of people have already died from the collateral damages of Hurricane Katrina and the worst hit millions of people are in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama with the death toll of over 55 precious souls who are innocent of the wrath of the

ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR. ALJAZEERA just reported that the FBI raided the American residence of the Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar wants to be the next President of Nigeria in 2007. And his only rival is the former head of state, the retired General Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babaginda who is also a northerner. Both men have enough ill-gotten wealth to rig the Presidential Election in 2007. They are leaders of the corrupt Nigerian oligarchy. Alhaji Abubakar has many wives and concubines. And he is also very queer. The full report is published below. FBI raids Nigeria official's US home Sunday 28 August 2005, 22:24 Makka Time, 19:24 GMT Vice President Atiku Abubakar's home was searched (file) The FBI has raided the Maryland residence of the Nigerian vice president as part of an investigation into whether a US legislator made or approved payments to officials in West Africa, a US newspaper reported. A US State Department spokeswoman confirmed

The greed for American dollars and to get rich quick have driven thousands of young Nigerians to the Internet for the sole purpose of Scams. What they now now "Yahoo-Yahoo" in Nigeria. They use chicanery and flattery to deceive, hoodwink and to rob their foreign victims in America, Europe, Australia, Asia and the Middle East. No day passes without seeing these Scam spam in the e-mails. But, mostly in free e-mail accounts. The best advice is to delete them immediately you see unsolicited spam mail. Oil pipelines run through Nigerian villages. But, the billions of dollars Nigeria makes daily from crude oil and gas exports have been stolen by corrupt Nigerian rulers and their contractors. Over 200 billion pounds have been stolen by the corrupt civilian and military rulers in Nigeria since Shell struck oil in the country in 1956. The greediness and wickedness of these Nigerian tyrants and power brokers of the Nigerian oligarchy have left the majority of the over 135 million Nige

I am publishing more recent reports on the critical situation in the Niger Delta of Nigeria where 40% of the oil and gas supplies for America comes from. But, the US Government has been ignoring the emergency in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. And I will keep on reminding the whole world of the emergency untill I see the positive responses from the United Nations, the United States of America and Europe, because they are the largest beneficiaries of the resources in the Niger Delta and I sincerely appeal to you all to address this emergency, because when the crisis shall erupt, the gas suppy to the US will be drastically reduced and you will pay more than you have ever paid for gas since the war in Iraq started. A word is enough for the wise. But, I will not stop reporting the news from Nigeria to the rest of the world, whether good or bad. PIPE DREAMS: Conflicts, Participation, Transparency. July 29, 2005 Second installation of the WAGP series: Oil and Gas Conflicts in the Western Delta G

Picture: African refugees on the move. It is good news to see that Nigeria is going to help Niger. Well, they are actually neighbours and have a common river, the Niger from which they draw their source of power supply and the river Niger provides drinking water and other things of which the most common is fishing. The only difference are their different languages. Niger is French speaking, because it was a French colony whilst Nigeria was a British colony and English is the official language of Nigeria. They are what I will call unidentical twins. When Nigeria Rallies for Niger Republic Daily Trust (Abuja) OPINION August 24, 2005 Posted to the web August 24, 2005. By Salisu Na'inna Dambatta The establishment and actual inauguration of a highly visible and active National Committee on Famine Relief for the Republic of Niger by President Olusegun Obasanjo and his directive that each member of the Federal Executive Council should donate N20, 000 to the Famine Relief Fund is both a di

I am tired of hearing and reading the news of villagers in the Niger Delta harassing and embarrassing officials of the multinational oil and gas companies to extort financial settlement from them all the time. Because, that will not solve the wide spread damages done to our environment and these collateral damages have been causing the deprivations we suffer daily in our communities where the majority of us are paupers harrowing in the misery of our penury. I am from the Niger Delta of Nigeria and I am very much involved in the agitations of my suffering people who have been wallowing in polluted waters and choking from polluted air. Our waters are polluted daily by oil spills and the emissions from gas flares have polluted the atmosphere of our environment. The Niger Delta is an environmental disaster in dire need of remediation. The Niger Delta is a time bomb and only God knows when it will explode. And Nigeria and the multinational oil companies are sitting on the keg of gunpowder

The NIGERIA LNG on Bonny Island. Aug. 22, 2005, 11:33PM Nigeria work prompts subpoena Chicago Bridge, Halliburton joined to do project By DAVID IVANOVICH Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - The Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoenaed documents from Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. as part of an investigation into Halliburton Co.'s business dealings in Nigeria, the company said in filing. The SEC and the Justice Department have been examining Houston-based Halliburton's role in the construction of a $5.5 billion liquefied natural gas plant at Bonny Island in Nigeria's Rivers State. Chicago Bridge, an engineering and construction company based in the Netherlands, with its worldwide administrative headquarters in The Woodlands, served as a subcontractor for a Halliburton affiliate on the project. When the company's participation in the project was first announced in December 1999, Chicago Bridge officials estimated the contract's valu

Saddam Casts Self As Martyr Life is full of agonies and ironies. The agonies and ironies of life can make you dumb and numb. This is the reaction of most people to the latest Associated Press report on an exclusive letter written by Saddam Hussein who is awaiting trial and possible execution for his crimes against humanity. In a letter to his unnamed Jordanian friend, Saddam was quoted as follows: “"My soul and my existence is to be sacrificed for our precious Palestine and our beloved, patient and suffering Iraq," Saddam wrote his letter in a defiant and unrepentant tone coated with characteristic flowery Arabic oratory. The letter was published in two Jordanian newspapers last Sunday and made available to the Associated Press. The letter was taken to the friend through the International Committee of the Red Cross. The Red Cross confirmed the authenticity and said the American authorities holding Saddam Hussein censored the letter. The Baath Socialist Party Secretary General

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Nigeria's Senate Moves to Cancel War Crimes Pact with US By VOA News 19 August 2005 Nigerian lawmakers have called on the president to cancel a pact with the United States that prevents Nigeria from surrendering suspected American war criminals to the International Criminal Court. A resolution passed by Nigeria's Senate says the agreement violates the country's constitution. Lawmakers reminded President Olusegun Obasanjo the pact has failed to meet a constitutional requirement that parliament must enact international treaties into law. Senate resolutions are non-binding. The United States has negotiated treaties with many nations to keep its citizens from falling under the International Criminal Court's jurisdiction. The Bush administration has refused to ratify a treaty creating the Hague-based court, asserting U.S. troops abroad could be targeted for politically motivated prosecutions.

The above picture shows the threat of spamming on the on line media. The good news is that the future of modern journalism is already on line. Both Internet Scams and Spam-mails cannot stop the boom in on line news and marketing. Here are some facts from the On Line News Association. Defining Citizens' Journalism and Participatory Journalism CJR attempts to define and draw a distinction between participatory journalism and citizens' journalism: First, there's the move of established newspapers and news sites to solicit and publish material, such as photos or personal accounts, from their readers -- that we'd like to call "participatory journalism." Then there's the creation of blogs and unedited news sites that allow users to write and post their own content. That one we'll call "citizen journalism." Online salaries higher than other media industries Online publishing salaries of recent graduates are higher than broadcast or print media salar

THE SUPER COMPUTER GENIUS OF OUR TIME (Above picture shows Philip Emeagwali in our traditional African royal regalia.) Who is the most respected Super Computer genius from Africa? A billion dollar guess? But all the search engines will only come up with the name of PHILIP EMEAGWALI! The 48 years old super computer genius from Nigeria. Here is an interview with this highly gifed Super Computer Genius of our time. Interview with Philip Emeagwali. Part 1: Early Life of Philip Emeagwali - Supercomputers Interview By Mary Bellis. Nigerian born Dr. Philip Emeagwali first entered the limelight in 1989 when he won the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for his work with massively parallel computers. He programmed the Connection Machine to compute a world record 3.1 billion calculations per second using 65,536 processors to simulate oil reservoirs. With over 41 inventions submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Philip Emeagwali is making big waves in the supercomputer industry, amazing

Yesterday we lashed our President for telling "Presidential Lies". But, today, we have to commend him for saying the bitter truth about the violations of human rights by the Nigerian Police. We are proud of President Olusegun Obasanjo whenever he does the right thing. But, we must call him to order if he does the wrong thing.We are not here to lick any jackboot or kiss the arse of any tyrant. We say the truth even if the truth convicts us. We want the best for Nigeria and we want the President of Nigeria to do his best for the benefit of Nigeria. No more.No less. Finis. Obasanjo says Nigeria police torture, kill suspects... 18 Aug 2005 18:08:27 GMT Source: Reuters By Camillus Eboh ABUJA, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Nigerian police have tortured and illegally killed criminal suspects, President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Thursday, accepting some key findings of a damning report by Human Rights Watch. Last month's report by the New York-based group found that torture and extra-judic

We are getting tired of hearing the lies of President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria. Because, it is no longer news that the President is a liar. In fact, I don’t know if he is as bad as the President of America whose own lie I prefer to call the famous American White Lie or American slip of tongue. Because, I don’t have the right to call the President of America a liar. He is not my President and George W. Bush has not lied to Nigerians. But, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria has been telling what I want to call “Public Relation Lies” for his image-laundering project.Imagine him claiming that the last National Political Reform Conference was “a mission from God”? Then he went on to lie that the conference was held in an atmosphere of harmony, love and brotherhood? When the major economic region of Nigeria, the South- South left the conference midway and never returned? President Olusegun Obasanjo hosted conference delegates at a lavish banquet in the Presidential Villa in Abuja, an

Obasanjo - Africa's Powerful, Credible Voicefor the Black World (2) Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra) OPINION: August 16, 2005. Posted to the web August 16, 2005. The United Nations has not quite met the full aspirations of its founders. It has not ended wars and conflicts between and within nations. But no one can doubt its relevance in global politics and the conduct of international relations. It has been involved in the onerous task of forging and sustaining global peace and development in virtually every continent of the world. The various organs of the United Nations such as the UNICEF, UNESCO, UNDP, UNHCR, UNIDO, FAO, etc, have been actively involved in policies and programmes aimed at addressing and enhancing human living conditions throughout the world. Without the United Nations, relations between and among nations and peoples would be characterised by chaos, violence and destruction. Indeed, without the United Nations, the world would be a nastier and more brutish place to liv

From the Vanguard (Lagos) August 15, 2005 Posted to the web August 15, 2005 Godfrey Ikhemuemhe AT four years of the introduction of GSM in the country, Nigeria has again scored another first in the fixed wireless segment of the telecommunications market. Chief Regulator and CEO of the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), Engr. Ernest Ndukwe, has revealed that Nigeria leads the whole of Africa in fixed lines service penetration. Ndukwe who spoke last week at the seminar on Corporate Governance in the Telecommunications sector, indicated that with the number of fixed wireless lines in the country today, the nation ranks favourably with developed countries of the world in terms of fixed line penetration. He attributed the giant strides recorded by the country in the telecommunications sector to the innovative approaches to policy regulation on the part of the regulator and the innovativeness of the service providers in service delivery. The NCC boss, however, contended that the gai

Nigeria and Iran discuss military cooperation LAGOS (Reuters) Above, we see the President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo hand in hand with George W. Bush, the President of America at the last G-8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland. But, later the same queer President of Nigeria agreed to have a military pact with Iran whose newly elected younger President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shown above is very ambitious and stubborn with futuristic plans to make Iran an Islamic super power to challenge the authority and supremacy of the United States of America in the world. An Iranian military delegation is visiting Nigeria with a view to signing a defense cooperation pact, Nigerian military spokesmen and an Iranian diplomat said on Thursday. "The Iranian delegation is in the country to visit military formations," said a Nigerian navy spokesman, adding that the two sides planned to sign a military cooperation agreement shortly. The five-day visit by the representatives of the Islamic repub

IBB the "Evil Genius" Wikipedia noted that this former military head of state of the most notorious military junta in the history of Nigeria is called the "IDI AMIN" of Nigeria. General Ibrahim Badamosi Babaginda wants to come back in 2007 to complete his Islamic agenda for the rest of Nigeria and when the "evil genius" sneezes the present President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo catches cold. Because, IBB knows the skeletons in his cupboard. That is why this "evil genius" is the most sacred cow in the political history of Nigeria. Read the classic article below for the full details. This is another Nigerian Times classic written by Uche Nworah. Nigerian Politicians as Gangsters American Films and Nigerian Political Culture   ~ By Uche Nworah My favourite all time movie is The Godfather trilogy by Francis Ford Coppola. Back then growing up in Nigeria, if you were a guy and you had not seen any of the Godfather movies, then you we