Author: Anthony Ademiluyi

As reported by the BBC, A group of lawmakers in Niger has supported a motion seeking to criminalize same-sex relationships in the country. The vast majority of Niger’s population is Muslim, but it has a secular government and there is currently no specific law on same-sex relationships. The MPs say same-sex relationships are against the religious and cultural beliefs of the people. The proposal was presented to the Speaker of Parliament by Nana Djibou Harouna, a lawmaker from the southern region of Maradi. She told a press conference in the capital, Niamey, that the move was meant to protect the…

By Tony Ademiluyi The words of the legendary Dr. Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah at his Independence Day speech on March 6, 1957 ring true today. He told the world that political independence was meaningless without economic liberty. The independence leaders from Nkrumah who was arguably the continent’s greatest Pan-Africanist as the African Union and then Organization for African Unity was largely his brainchild, his mentor, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kenneth Kaunda, Madiba Nelson Mandela, Jomo Kenyatta, etc all jointly failed in one regard – they focused all their energy on the battle to liberate Africa politically from their Caucasian Overlords but failed…

As reported by LifeNews.com, A judge has ordered Southwest Airlines to reinstate a flight attendant who was fired because she’s pro-life. Flight attendant Charlene Carter, 56, of Aurora, Colorado, worked as a flight attendant at Southwest for nearly 21 years. In 2017, she was fired after sharing her pro-life beliefs on Facebook and speaking out against the Transportation Workers Union of America (TWU) Local 556 spending members’ dues on pro-abortion activities. In July, a federal district court in Dallas, Texas awarded her $5.1 million, but she pressed on with her legal battle because of her love for her job and…

by Tony Ademiluyi As reported by Ifamnews.com, In an interview with the Russian National Line, Father Maxim Obukhov, head of the Orthodox Medical and Educational Center Life and a member of the Parental House alliance, said the following regarding the bill banning surrogacy for foreigners: The bill banning surrogacy for foreigners will be signed into law; Drafting of the bill was sabotaged by reproductive technology agencies; Surrogacy is related to in vitro fertilization, including all the accompanying ethical problems; Surrogacy is a billion-dollar business that is not subject to control; The business of surrogacy causes irreparable damage to the health of women who resort to…

Former world’s richest man and Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos divorced his writer wife, Mackenzie Scott in 2019 in a famous divorce that fell nothing short of their celebrity status. As part of the settlement terms, she got a whopping 25% of Amazon’s stock valued at about $35.6 billion at the time automatically making her one of the richest women and persons in the world. She went on to marry their children’s science teacher shortly after she left Bezos and her second marriage also hit the rocks shortly after. Obviously bored and with so much money to play around with, she…

As reported by Lifenews.com, The multi-billion-dollar tech corporation Microsoft has been complaining about a workforce shortage while at the same time promoting the killing of unborn babies in abortions. In a column at The Christian Post, financial economist Jerry Bowyer exposed the company’s contradictions after he participated in the annual shareholders meeting recently. Microsoft is one of dozens of companies that began offering abortion “benefits” (travel, lodging, meal expenses, etc.) in response to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. “It’s good that Microsoft recognizes that we have a demographic crisis,” said Bowyer, the president of Bowyer Research. “It’s not…

By Tony Ademiluyi Former US President, Donald Trump  so impressed  this conservative and pro-life forum with his stellar pro-life records while in office that he was chosen as the debut personality of the week about three weeks ago. It is highly disappointing that at close to 80 – an age where he is on the Biblical departure lounge having lived more than the famous three scores and ten, he has decided like King Solomon to openly court the enemies of God thereby causing dismay among his supporters and highly scandalizing the young. As reported by Lifesite News, Just two days…

The startup culture in Africa has come to stay as youths creatively seek to aggressively push their big and small ideas forward to permanently banish unemployment and poverty from their lives. What is prevalent among these startups irrespective of the sector is that they constantly seek funding from investors to adequately scale. According to Disrupt Africa, African tech startups raised about $2.7 billion in the first three quarters of 2022 and $2.1 billion in 2021. This is extremely huge and a clear testimony of the deep interest in the startup scene especially the tech in the African Continent which is…

In the colonial days of yore, the British possessing few personnel adopted indirect rule which necessitated the use of the natives to uphold the tenets of their administration. This made them to invest heavily in education as the locals needed to have basic literacy and numerical skills to be able to easily communicate with them and faithfully execute their public policies. The education that they gave them wasn’t designed to make them critical thinkers as that could make them question the legitimacy of the sinister regime; it was rather to make them surreptitious enablers to further accentuate their divide and…

I read ‘Ghosts of the Empir’e written by the then newly elected MP for Spellthorne in Surrey, Kwasi Kwarteng and I was struck by his brilliance and deep knowledge of history especially economic history. There and then I predicted that he would end up as the Chancellor of the Exchequer because of the predilection of the British for historians to hold the second highest office in the realm. Historians Gordon Brown and George Osborne to mention a few were previous holders of that office and so my prediction which came to pass on September 6 2022 was perfectly in order.…

The 19th century United States was characterized by the era of Robber Barons – Ruthless Capitalists who used their immense influence to surreptitiously form monopolies which represented a huge threat to the wonderful idea of competition and free enterprise. Notable poster boys of the Gilded Age Capitalism included John Davidson Rockefeller of the Standard Oil Trust, Andrew Carnegie, the Steel Magnate, Leland Stanford the railroad tycoon, Gustavus Swift, the meat packaging baron, Cornelius Vanderbilt, J.P Morgan the banking mogul amongst many others. Their enormous economic clout ensured that they had the political elite and decision makers in their pocket as they…

The scramble for and partition of Africa which had the sinister chairmanship imprimatur of the then German Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck is still largely responsible for many of the wars and conflicts plaguing the African Continent till date. The ill thought out partitioning fuelled by greed and mindless avarice saw many strange bedfellows being lumped together. These hastily created nations lacked one of the key attributes of a nation-state – autochthony which is the sturdy grundnorm for which nations are built as mores like a shared history, experiences and even clauses like secession, referendums and constitutional evolutions are clearly decided…

When the battle against the sinister force of apartheid in South Africa which was dismantled with the emergence of black majority rule led by Madiba Nelson Mandela in 1994 is told, one name will forever remain prominent. That name is Desmond Mpilo Tutu. Tutu initially wanted to be a medical doctor but his parents’ abject poverty threw the spanner in the works of that noble dream to save lives. He then turned his attention to the teaching profession and qualified as a teacher in 1951. He spent four years there and encountered his first brush with apartheid when in 1953…

There has been a clamour for professionals and technocrats to join partisan politics in order to salvage the country from ruin which the professional politicians with no second address have brought it to. When Rotimi Akeredolu SAN contested for the governorship of Ondo State in 2012, his supporters and political pundits alike were glad that the former Nigerian Bar Association President threw his hat in the ring and confronted the then incumbent, Dr. Rahman Olusegun Mimiko who had long abandoned his medical calling for the juicy lucre of politics. Akeredolu lost but recontested in 2016 and triumphed against all odds.…

1945 was the defining year for the United States of America when she emerged the world’s most powerful nation after the end of the Second World War where she led the allied forces to victory. She has maintained that position since then with the downside being her poking her nose into the affairs of hitherto Sovereign Nations thereby making a mockery of their supposed independence. She has been a nightmare in Africa – the world’s most raped continent where she strives to maintain a stranglehold on the grip of the continent’s affairs so as to perpetually massage her over bloated…

Popular Nigerian ‘Journalist’ Dele Momodu a.k.a Bob Dee means different things to different people. To some he is the archetypal grass to grace story whose palm kernels were broken for him by a benevolent spirit apologies to the late Professor Chinua Achebe. To others he is a mere glorified, competent hustler who managed to pass off public relations as journalism. His Saturday Column in Thisday on November 6, 2021 captioned ‘‘The Unsolvable Jigsaw of the Ikoyi Tragedy’ was the zenith of insensitivity and sycophancy – the latter for which he is infamously known for. Hear him “I had known Femi for…

One of the best novels I read while at the University was Chinua Achebe’s ‘Anthills of the Savannah’ which made the 1987 Booker Prize Shortlist. It is an evergreen political satire as the germane issues it addressed during the military rule are still with us in our so called democracy. Well educated Professor Reginald Okong, who studied political science up to doctorate level in the United States and the Attorney-General who was educated in the United Kingdom were reduced to sycophants and bootlickers who spewed out nauseating garbage which goaded the Military Head of State President Sam to his eventual ruin.…

The late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo once described journalists as the floatsam and jetsam of society when he was asked about his experience as a journalist with The Nigerian Worker long before his famous 1944 sojourn to the UK to study law. Journalism all over the world is the easiest profession to enter. It is open to all professionals who either have a flair for speaking or writing. The idea of studying journalism in the University is a relatively recent one and it emanated from the United States in the 1960’s which later spread to all parts of the globe.…

The industrial revolution of the 19th century was one of the immediate causes of the abolition of slavery as the factory owners in Europe especially in Great Britain where it originated from needed a gargantuan market for their goods. Africa was the new frontier and so it made a whole lot of sense for slavery to be outlawed so that the inhabitants of the continent would have some economic clout to purchase the excess goods from Europe. The 20th century was also the age of the decolonization of Africa by many African nationalists who had studied abroad and were eager…

Professor Chinua Achebe was heavily involved in the Biafran project during the ill fated Nigerian Civil War. He resigned his plum job as a broadcaster in Lagos and headed to the East to be part of the Biafran propaganda machine where he sold Biafra to the rest of the world in collaboration with Senator Uche Chukwumerije and Nnamdi Azikiwe’s first son, Chukwuma Azikiwe. He didn’t write his next novel ‘Anthills of the Savannah’  a Booker Prize shortlist till 1987, 21 years after his last one. In the political satire, the protagonist Sam who was the Military Head of State vehemently refused…

I have never been an admirer of the Minister of the Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola. In my humble opinion, he was a gargantuan disaster when he governed Osun State by plunging the state into avoidable debts with his joke of ‘socialist’ and ‘welfarist’ programs that turned his people into mendicants. He failed to utilize the agrarian opportunities in the state which has what it takes to effectively compete with Benue State. Rather than think up strategies of how to export food items from there to the rest of the world and earn foreign exchange, he justified his needless borrowings…

The 1804 Jihad spearheaded by Usman Dan Fodio made the Fulani tribe the overlords of the Hausas. Dan Fodio departed from the norm in imposing Fulfulde as the new language of the court. Instead, he did the unthinkable by ensuring an adoption of the Hausa language as the lingua franca of the conquered territory. This linguistic affinity spread throughout the north which ensured that they spoke with one voice and were united despite their tribal differences. The British found this useful in their policy of indirect rule which made the northerners have a general apathy towards nationalistic activities that was…

In 1519 the Spanish Explorer and Colonialist, Hernando Cortez arrived the New World with about six hundred men. He was determined to set up a colony in America by conquering the local Red Indians but needed the maximum cooperation of his men in his quest. While his men slept, he burnt all their ships thereby making them burn their bridges and leaving no room for any alternative plan to go back to Spain. The men fearing death in a strange, cold land fought with all their might and defeated their adversary. World’s wealthiest investor Warren Buffett was once asked his…

Boko Haram which was founded in 2002 by the late Mohammed Yusuf assumed a militant and deadly approach in 2009 after his untimely death in the hands of the security agencies. Before now Nigerians were once referred to as the happiest people in the globe and the thoughts of suicide bombing in our shores seemed so far fetched. Borno, Yobe and Adamawa became theatres of war overnight as bombs were freely detonated with alarming alacrity. Abuja, the political capital wasn’t also spared as the United Nations building and Thisday were bombed with Boko Haram claiming responsibility for it. Goodluck Jonathan…

Michael Jackson was a legend in his lifetime and even a bigger one in death as he sold more records after he passed on than he did in his entire lifetime. He was a very controversial figure known for his morbid love for the Caucasian race which made him do a plastic surgery to look white which later added to his plethora of challenges. One recurring decimal in his life was his alleged sexual molestation of male minors. This haunted him throughout his chequered life and saw him lose a vast fortune to court settlements. It was only by a…

The Platform was conceptualized by Pastor Poju Oyemade to be the hub for intellectual discourse among the news and policy makers to tackle knotty national challenges plaguing the nation. Year after year, it offers robust interventions and each edition is usually a delight to watch by journalists as well as citizens both high and low. The May 1 edition for this year featured the Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of Nigerian Governors Forum, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi as one of the speakers with the theme: Is Devolution of powers the solution to Nigeria’s problems? In his speech, Fayemi stirred the…