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Scavengers of the Dead Ransack Bellview Air crash Site in Nigeria The news that looters were the first to get to the rural jungle of Lissa where the ill-fated Bellview Airlines plane had crashed did not surprise me. Because, I knew that the human scavengers would have invaded the site of the crash before the law enforcement authorities would have gotten there. That is the common practice in Nigeria whenever there is an accident. The desperate hoodlums and antisocial urchins would have rushed to rob the wounded or the dead before even alerting for help. They rob helpless victims wounded or dead in emergencies and even mutilate the bodies of the dead if nobody stops them. The human body parts are sold to cultists and ritualists who use them for their fetish voodoo or mumbo-jumbo juju. These heartless devils would have robbed the victims of their personal effects before the law enforcement agencies got to the site of the air crash on that fateful day. Who do we blame? The inefficiency of ...

JAPANESE FANS AT THE LIVE AID CONCERT IN TOKYO. Do stars really aid the cause? You bought the wristband, went to the concert, joined the march and rejoiced when a deal was struck to save Africa. But don't be fooled - nothing has changed By Stuart Hodkinson reports Published: 26 October 2005 I read the report just published on THE INDEPENDENT On Line Edition of 29 October 2005 10:42. And it is the subject of discussion on Black Looks . I have already posted my rejoinder and here is the full text of it. Most NGOs are always in dire need of funds for their various humanitarian engagements. And all these efforts are commendable. And they need the endorsements of rich celebrities and most of the rich celebrities are not in Africa. They are in America and Europe. Sir Bob Geldof can donate $1 million with or without Band Aid. Bono can do the same.Recently Jon Bon Jovi donated $1 million to Oprah Winfrey's charity fund without any charity concert. But most of the so called African cel...

Last week I reported the news of Olamide Elizabeth Adeyooye the missing Nigerian student in America who was also a popular blogger on My Space. And we all prayed that she would be found alive and well. But, unfortunately the latest news on her case is negative. Olamide was found dead in Mississippi. And her body was even burnt. Here is the full report below. Olamide Adeyooye: Dental records confirm body is ISU student October 26th, 2005 @ 4:41 PM by News Director Dental records confirm the body found in Mississippi is that of Olamide Adeyooye. She had been missing since Oct. 13th. The location of her car is unknown. It is also not known at this time who murdered her. Rt.55 in Mississippi goes through Normal, Ill. as well. JAN DENNIS Associated Press NORMAL, Ill. - A body found in a burned-out chicken house in Mississippi is that of missing Illinois State University senior Olamide Adeyooye, who was last seen two weeks ago at a video store, authorities said Wednesday. Dental records wer...

The Guardian Newspapers of Nigeria quoted the words of a very reliable Nigerian personality, the Chief Executive Officer of the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA),Mrs.Peace Anyam-Fiberisma when she said that Captain Imasuen Lambert was suspended some time ago for refusing to fly a faulty Bellview aircraft.She added,"He was recently suspended for two weeks for failing to fly an alleged faulty Bellview aircraft." (THE GUARDIAN,Tuesday October 25, 2005,Page13.)So, this reliable source has it that Captain Imasuen Lambert of the ill-fated Nigerian Bellview Airlines Plane of flight 210 that crashed was actually suspended two weeks ago for refusing to fly a faulty Bellview Airlines aircraft. Because, he always insisted on high standards of air safety. So, if he was suspended just two weeks ago for refusing to fly a faulty aircraft, then what made him to fly the Bellview plane that crashed. Again, if Bellview Airlines has been flying faulty aircrafts, why has the company passed thro...

LISSA: THE SITE OF THE PLANE CRASH. The coverage of the catastrophic Bellview Plane Crash has been too poor in Nigerian newspapers on line. The African Independent Televison (AIT)website does not know what a TV news website should be doing at such a time as this tragic period in Nigeria. The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) website which is like a poor copy of the AIT website is pathetic. Yahoo, BBC and one Japanese website have better coverage of the air disaster. Yahoo News has the best coverage so far with over 50 photographs on the plane crash. Of course Associated Press and Reuters provided most of the news feeds for the Yahoo news. And they are available on line. But, you cannot find the facts on all the Nigerian media on line. This is an international disgrace for the Nigerian media that should be the flagship of the media in Africa as the largest media in Africa. Imagine the NTA that is always boasting that it is the largest TV Network in Africa cannot boast of any modern we...

ROSA PARKS ON THE BUS. Rosa Parks Dies at 92. The celebrated heroine of the American Civil Rights Movement who inspired Martin Luther King Jr., died Monday evening at her home in Detroit. Rosa Parks was the fearless African-American Amazon who defied the Jim Crow Laws of the American south when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white racist and preferred to be arrested. The arrest of Rosa Parks triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system organized by a then little-known Baptist minister, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who later earned the Nobel Peace Prize for his work. ROSA PARKS IN COURT She was born Rosa Louise McCauley on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Ala. Family illness interrupted her high school education, but after she married Raymond Parks in 1932, he encouraged her and she earned a diploma in 1934. He also inspired her to become involved in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP.) Rosa Parks was the heroine of not only her own people, th...

The shocking tragic news of the sudden death of Mrs. Stella Obasanjo the official First Lady of the President of Nigeria hit me like a tornado as I returned from Church this aftertoon. I was totally ignorant of the breaking news until I called my cousin The popular Nigerian actor Emeka Enyiocha who broke the terrible news of the double tragedy of Nigeria. First, Stella Obasanjo was dead and next a Bellview plane crashed after taking off from Lagos enroute Abuja and all the 117 people on board died!My younger sister and I were speechless. I just confirmed that President Olusegun Obasanjo even visited the site of the plane crash near Lagos. President Olusegun Obasanjo grieving for his wife, Stella, who died early Sunday in Spain was personally overseeing search and rescue operations and asked "all Nigerians to pray for all those aboard the plane and their families," his office said in a statement. This man is brave. Once a brave soldier always a brave soldier. Nigeria mourns. ...

Chief. Olusegun Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria. Your Excellency, “Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.” Thomas Jefferson "The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." Thomas Jefferson "Only the best is good enough for us." Bishop Ajayi Crowther. I am the Publisher of the NIGERIAN TIMES web site and weblogs for the promotion of public enlightenment on the current affairs in Nigeria in relation to the rest of the world and reporting the current affairs from the rest of the world in relation to Nigeria. I believe that enlightenment is the vital instrument for human development for the advancement of human civilization. And lack of enough enlightenment has caused collateral damages in the world. To ...

"International development agency ActionAid welcomed the Paris Club move for "a country which has been crippled by the burden of external debt." That quotation from the HoustonChronicle.com is the WHITE LIE OF THE YEAR. Nigeria was not crippled by any external debt. But by corruption and tyranny. I am neither dazed nor fazed by this so called debt relief as I have already stated on the Nigerian Times even yesterday. The Paris Club can fool the President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, but they cannot fool me. There are more critical issues bothering Nigeria than the Paris Club, London Club and Baba Iyabo and the 40 Thieves. Let us go back to a letter I sent to news@sky.com some months ago on the catatstrophic political crisis in Anambra State over the illegal governor Dr. Chris Ngige and the criminal Chris Uba. Two criminals who should be arrested and prosecuted. But, they are still going about with business as usual. And we say we have a democratic government in Ni...

I have already addressed the case of the "RIP-OFF OF THE MILLENIUM" on the fraudulent debt relief given to Nigeria by the imperialistic Paris Club. Here is the reminder for those who did not read it when it was published last July and I have also provided a link to a very comprehensive documemt on the same case that anyone who is serious about finding out the truth should read. The full text of the article written by Simon Kolawole is in the archives.Then you can read the news report from Reuters below. I have to post this very important and significant article by Simon Kolawole published on the back page of the THIS DAY newspaper of Nigeria on July 11, 2005. It faulted the much publicized debt relief given to Nigeria by the Paris Club after so much pleading by the President of Nigeria at the last G-8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland. It is very important for the international community to be well informed on how the World Bank, the Paris Club and the London Club have been ch...

I have always loved Kenya since the golden era of the national hero of the Independence of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta (1889-1978)and I still love Kenya. But, since President Mwai Kibaki came to power, I have been receiving letters of protest from notable Kenyan political and human rights activists. And I have not published any of the letters until now that I decided to publish this one distributed by Mapambano Kenya:mapambanokenya@gawab.comwww.kenyasocialist.org They are asking for the removal of their President Mwai Kibaki. And they must have included me on their mailing list, because they believe I am also a revolutionary activist who will support their democratic agenda. Since, I am well known on Ukraine.com as a champion of the Orange Revolution. But, I will not endorse any violent revolution in Kenya. Dear, friend! REASONS WHY PRESIDENT KIBAKI'S GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE OVERTHROWN BY KENYANS "Since the President has lost the support of Kenyans he had when he took overpower, the...

Nuhu Ribadu, the head of EFCC. Nuhu Ribadu, the head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC)of Nigeria has warned that the EFCC will not retreat in the current pursuit of corrupt state governors in Nigeria. Because, most of them have been looting the national treasury with impunity under the cover of immunity. Because, they are immune from prosecution while in office, he told the BBC. The President of Nigeria.Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. If the EFCC needs the cooperation and support of the Nigerian Times in the war against corruption in high places, I am ready to assist the commission locally and internationally in the thorough investigation of the suspicious activities of these Nigerian public officers and their foreign collaborators. But, before I can do that, the Federal Government of Nigeria should remove immunity clause from the Nigerian Constitution, so that we can prosecute all the public officers, including the President of Nigeria. And anyone found guilty should be d...

El Dorado: Illegal African Immigrants On A Wild Goose Chase In Spain The news of illegal African immigrants deported from Spain is no longer alarming. Because, it has become a common case circulating the Western media everyday. The news reporters should even be tired of reporting it. An AP report perfectly captioned the photograph above: “CHASING A MIRAGE?: Two illegal African immigrants, who have walked 550 km from the Algerian border in southern Morocco through the desert, sleeping in the open and being fed by shepherds, take rest on the road to Oujda, Morocco, on Friday.” I watched a CNN documentary on the harrowing nightmares of these desperados wandering in the scorching desert in their do or die journey from Morocco to Spain. And the desert is now the graveyard of hundreds of the unfortunate ones who collapsed and died from exhaustion, dehydration, sunstroke and starvation. But, what are they fleeing from? From the poverty in Africa? For the greener pastures of Spain? The Eldo...

Is this the Spanish Prisoner? The scandalous reputation of the notorious Nigerian Internet Scammers is no longer news. Because, every John Doe and Jane Doe on line knows about the e-mail scams of these 419 Internet Scammers. And I have reported on them several times on the Nigerian Times. The latest news is on how Microsoft and Nigerian authorities have agreed to cooperate to eradicate the Internet Scam originating from Nigeria. Now you are wondering who is the Spanish Prisoner? Well, to find out, follow my lead

I am becoming convinced that President Olusegun Obasanjo is serious about the war on corruption and he is even ready to surrender himself for prosecution if found wanting as he said corruption has no immunity in Nigeria. And I love that. As much as I have been very vocal in crying out against his questionable acts, I am also very vocal in approving the laudable acts of His Excellency President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria. The only credible legacy he can leave in Nigeria would not be his so called Presidential Library Project or his private university, but the solid foundation for the nation building of a New Nigeria where corruption would no longer be the toga of Nigeria. The good news from News 24 is a good topic for your comments. Nigeria winning corruption war 14/10/2005 09:38 - (SA) Abuja - Nigeria's government under President Olusegun Obasanjo is making progress in fighting corruption, a senior World Bank official said on Thursday. Daniel Kaufmann, head of global program...

The recent report on the letter that Ayman Zawahri the second in command to Osama bin Laden wrote to his own top deputy in Iraq Abu Musab Al- Zarqawi with the following quote: "Things may develop faster than we imagine.The aftermath of the collapse of American power in Vietnam — and how they ran and left their agents — is noteworthy. ... We must be ready starting now." makes an interesting study of the intelligentsia of the Al Qaida as a very well organised ideological Islamic power with well articulated goals and objectives. The letter shows the high level of the military intelligence of Al Qaida. I have already elaborated earlier in some notable American political forums that you cannot defeat the enemy if you do not understand the psyche. The first assignment in warfare is "Know your enemy first before you confront the enemy." Because, to ignore the intelligence of your enemy is to ignore your own intelligence.. And the ignorance of your own intelligence is the ...

"Things may develop faster than we imagine," Ayman al-Zawahri wrote in a letter to his top deputy in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. "The aftermath of the collapse of American power in Vietnam — and how they ran and left their agents — is noteworthy. ... We must be ready starting now." In the name of God, praise be to God, and praise and blessings be upon the Messenger of God, his family, his Companions, and all those who follow him. ................................. The gracious brother/Abu Musab, God protect him and watch over him, may His religion, and His Book and the Sunna of His Prophet @ aid him, I ask the Almighty that he bless him, us, and all Muslims, with His divine aid, His clear victory, and His release from suffering be close at hand. Likewise, I ask the Almighty to gather us as He sees fit from the glory of this world and the prize of the hereafter. 1-Dear brother, God Almighty knows how much I miss meeting with you, how much I long to join you in you...