Author: Farouk Martins Aresa

There is a dangerous Nuclear Power Plants war game in Ukraine that will not stop there. It can only be stopped by Palace Coup. Swahili proverb says when the elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. It’s a shame that after the overthrow of Lumumba in Congo, Gadhafi in Libya, regime changes by three Superpower’s occupation of Afghanistan, we are back to Russian occupation of Nuclear Power Plants in Ukraine. The Non-aligned nations lost their moral authority to expose hypocrisy after the overthrow of Nkrumah. So, there are no fervent debates and action at the United Nations against Nuclear…

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The world was warned about the coming of Putin’s reign to restore the Russian Empire beyond the old Soviet Union. Though Russia is not as wealthy as the Western countries, Putin appealed to some Western greedy instincts by financing their business, giving and promising generous contracts inside Russia. While African countries do worse for greener pastures abroad, like Ajaokuta Steel, Putin does this to capture Western Democracy for the Russian Empire. All evidence pointing to the breaking of Western alliances were ignored, suppressed and used to elect governments hostile to the building base of Western Democracy: suppression of votes and…

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Most countries have enough problems with crimes without creating abject poverty. Nigeria created abject poverty. Ironically, while earning an unprecedented amount of foreign income. There is no fund, allocation or loan that is safe once released into the care of these privileged individuals. Their first instinct is to embezzle it and justify their actions later. They see every fund or allocation as finders keepers depending on who got the first access. This repulsive behavior is not limited to direct payments or local resources. Foreign Aids, goods and services have been converted to personal use. Food, medical supplies and technical personnel…

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Please note, this writer has never been a fan of Tinubu, the conqueror of Lagos State. We were taught at home never to kick a man when he is down. The bathroom accident some Nigerians are making a mockery of is common to all the leaders at that age. Most of them have hidden it very well. If you decided on an old over-the-hill leader, you should not be surprised. It was only a couple of years ago that a similar picture came out about a powerful world leader on the golf course. It did not make a dent.…

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If you cannot learn from past relationships and you keep on making the same mistakes based on beauty, endowment or bleached skin, blame yourself not your partners. There are sober men and women that have not learnt their lessons. The hype that men can handle more women than women is a myth based on some cultural prowess of men. They rely on this sexual prowess past their boisterous age as a young man taking multiple ladies as wives or girlfriends. Other ladies trap rich or powerful men by one-try.  They know their captives cannot meet their sexual needs. Both take…

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The end of great countries and Empires usually come after the coronation of a leader with insatiable greed or obsession for money and power in disguise for common good. These leaders campaign as if they are godsend to revitalize and clean up their domain. When elected, they crush the Opposition and repress any dissenter that sees situations differently. You may then realize why they desire power and money so desperately. They want control of both in their mischievous ways. Yet, there is nothing more beautiful and gratifying than Money or Power separately. Each has been used to rectify injustice, poverty,…

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Nigeria has not recovered from any coup d’etat. Buhari could have been the best President Nigeria hardly had until he came back as a civilian President to demonstrate how clueless he is. One factor Buhari had on his side then, was patriotism. A fake leader of a whole nation is worse than a fake doctor or lawyer on an individual basis. Nigerians refused to blame themselves for abdication of responsibility for governance to terrorists, bandits, looters and fraudsters. When Funso Williams was killed, we wondered why a man of such integrity would even venture into politics. It is the attitude…

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There was a man that loved his family, village and country so much he almost sacrificed his life working to death anywhere he could find jobs. Even in the mines outside his country. Luckily, he accomplished all he could for his family, village and country. No matter how gifted a man, family, village or country is in talents, wealth and natural resources, only good character can manage and keep them in place, productively. Otherwise the wealth will be lost to those that are smarter. We know that charity begins at home. Contrary to popular assumption, wealth is not limited to…

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African money and talents launderers know exactly that they are getting 2nd class status abroad before they leave. They comfort themselves by convincing their families, it is their personal sacrifice to get them a good life while killing the same opportunity at home for most Africans. Only to find out that with less diligence, they could have built a better country and more opportunities at home where they are more influential and effective. Most of them actually toil harder abroad than they do at home, working against all odds to survive with all their money and talents. Despite the money…

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What would Plantation owners do without workers? It has never been a mystery that workers create wealth. But in order to give impetus to big business, they call themselves job creators. Technology and automation demand for educated labor has not changed needs for workers. Big businesses hijacked the credit of small businesses and papa or mama businesses providing essential services. Small businesses usually start from their family before expanding to outside workers; if they can no longer cope with more demand for their goods and services. However, salaries for workers affect profit. The more money you pay for workers’ welfare,…

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Pandora Papers only confirmed what Africans knew all along. Political leaders, pastors, business cronies have always hidden under their believers to steal and launder money outside. While most of us at home demand accountability, those infuriated abroad have taken the law into their hands by assaulting looters. There was an innocent French speaking African beaten in France by a few demonstrators. He told them he was mistaken for a politician. Another Nigerian politician was also hit as well as one of the president’s entourage. Anger among Diaspora Africans and hunger at home forced activists abroad to question their values…

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International organizations for Peace, Trade and Sports after World War I and II and later Organization For African Unity urged by Kwame Nkrumah at Addis Ababa, created avenues for amicable relationships around the world where we can resolve our differences before resorting to wars. However, extremIst forces looking for domination worked against Peace in order to gain Advantageous Economic powers within and outside their countries. Violence in order to gain power and control the destiny of others has spread to areas reserved for serenity. Violence in children’s schools, house of worship, hospitals, family, work e.t.c. It is getting almost impossible…

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Love is a beautiful cure for all evils while money can be the root of all evils. Humans live and survive on love by amicable relationships to sustain civil societies. Others prefer a miserable life with money than a happy life without money because they think it is much easier to buy happiness with money. They do not believe those lottery winners that wished they could go back to what they were, because they became miserable with their money. Unfortunately, it is also true of countries whose problem is how to spend income from natural resources and endowment that became…

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Public Enemy Number One wastes Africa’s most populated and unrealized potential. Who would believe that men are so hungry for power that we are ready to sacrifice honor, dignity and reputation for a mirage of grandeur in our old age. If Buhari never came back, historians could have paved his name and that of Idiagbon in Gold as fearless and bold disciplinarians. How did Buhari graduate from Operation War Against Indiscipline to become the most wanted Terrorist in plain sight? The only time Police show up is when innocent people are defending themselves against herdsmen invaders of their farms and…

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If you have superior judgement, appeal to voters’ intellect not their primordial instincts for violence so that the silent majority could vote against their own self-interests. There is no country, no matter how powerful, that will fight for you if you refuse to fight for yourselves. Super Powers have their prices. They demand arms, legs, land and economic subjugation in return. This is how Africa, the richest continent, harbors the poorest people in abject poverty. The former President of the United States, a Republican conservative, discerns similarities between domestic and foreign terrorism as “children of the same foul spirit”.…

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Dating has become a puzzle. Men are actually confused by the new etiquette that dictates amorous relationships. So are ladies that have to tread carefully before they step on sharks. Yet, sexual harassment have to be enforced at work and in colleges. We cannot allow young ladies seeking promotions and education to be taken advantage of by unscrupulous men. No, no longer means maybe. There are some basic needs like food, shelter and sex at matured age. By the time most people attain working age or are old enough to attend college sexual attraction between men and women are…

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What has the world learned from the Taliban 2020 Agreement to gain Power in Afghanistan and the 1932 German Election that crowned Hitler? Both demonstrated the use of the most popular minority party, not majority, to gain control of the country by fragmented coalition. We are seeing more of it not only in European countries but in the United States where Independent voters decide their Presidents. They are a good part of the silent majority. The biggest minority party elected Hitler and he was appointed as the Chancellor since his party was ” successful also in the sense that they…

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Are we going backwards into World Wars or moving to a more civilized atmosphere of solving our differences? The Olympics has taught us that the world can come together in the spirit of universal goodwill and compete successfully without privileged class or volatile behaviors leading to war to secure advantageous relationships. As usual, the spirit of the just concluded Olympics demonstrated that man can still compete worldwide peacefully based on an equal playing field. Though African countries did not do as well as expected, our brothers and sisters that had the opportunity of an enabling environment excelled in each of…

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Fraudsters are so bold these days, they invade constituted authorities like Police, Army and Politics. They announce themselves in a big way on social media as conspicuous spenders, ostentatious displays of vanities without added value to their lives. We cry and complain about bandits, terrorists, thugs and cyber crimes in low places. What do we do about crime fighters, constituted authorities in high places that kill subordinates for fear of exposing those at the top? Many of us are at a loss or baffled at the celebrations of the poorest among us trying to understand why they celebrate criminals. There…

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Is it easier for money and talent launderers, treasure hunters and missionaries to go through a needle’s eye than for their exploited refugees in Africa to get into Europe, America and Asia? If you do not want any more refugees, stop exploiting their gold, diamond, uranium and cheap labor. Establish factories in these countries producing finished products to world tastes and specifications and pay fair market prices the same way you do in rich member countries. How can any country in good conscience, by religious beliefs or in the name of goodwill send African refugees back into the desert and…

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How long is it going to take to restore and reset African’ mental slavery after the days of Herbert Macauley, Kwame Nkrumah, Albert Luthuli and other freedom fighters? It is apparent that colonial mentality has eaten deeper despite constant reminders by scholars of it’s injurious effect on our well-being and economic salvation. If African Youths abdicate lessons hidden in books after their studies, they become captives of other cultures looking for slaves. Tales of personal tragedy abroad are not a deterrent. Even worse, are planted outsiders: Afrikaners in South Africa, Fulani in most West African countries to displace us from…

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Kidnappers may be missing their target if they think some children at home and abroad would sell their father’s house rendering the whole family homeless. A video of a man instructing his children and wife to sell the house to save him from more torture in the hand of kidnappers was too heart wrentching to watch. Under such vicious treatment and duress, most men would say the same: please sell the property and pay the kidnappers! It is difficult to sell a house so quickly, even in an auction or short sale. But the kidnappers are willing to wait until…

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Why are people of all colors surprised that Dereck Chauvin was found resoundingly guilty on all charges? There have been six Police shootings of Blacks in 24 hours after the verdict. The Western and Eastern legal systems are reflections of their community’s religious and cultural values that are unfair and indifferent to minorities. Many of the laws have become arcade, repulsive and distasteful in today’s civilized world. Some Conservatives have already pushed back that Derek Chauvin could have been acquitted on all charges but for the fear of the “mob” of protesters. Imagine one of these extremists as a member…

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There are proven facts that ladies are better managers than men. Recently, most of the countries managed by ladies had lower Covid-19 deaths than those managed by men. Grandma’s traditional medical preventive Covid-19 success in Africa still baffles outsiders. History never undermined the power of women even in close African or British Royal Families. Ladies, on their own, run better hospitable businesses in Africa from our grandma days in informal economic markets without beating their chests; many taking care of extended families more than their own to a fault. But distraction of sexual glorification mainly from the Western world was…

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A growing number of young men are becoming leery of marriage, not only in Africa. Some parents are wondering if they are ever going to become grandparents. These young men feel threatened, thinking the institution of marriage has been captured by the new women power of feminism to dominate them in their houses. This fear has worked to the disadvantage of serious young women that are willing to support and encourage loyal partners. Do not ask of others what you cannot give back in return in cash or kind. Otherwise, you create a deficit with no fulfillment on the other…

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We must ask ourselves repeatedly why our African Youths with all their talents and our politicians as useful fools, would rather squander and launder the wealth or talents that freed Asians from abject poverty? The next generation and history will take us to task about how the richest Continent God created abandoned its children like absentee deadbeat parents to the whims and Salvation of those that only see them as instruments of cheap labor. These children of Africa are no longer sold by Chiefs into Slave Ships. African Youths use their first million, all their savings or borrowed money to…

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Most decent people detest violence in any guise but nobody has a monopoly on violence. This is why we must pray for peace in Nigeria regardless of who or where you are. War has never been the best answer and it may not be the answer to the problems in Nigeria. The Country has not even recovered from the last civil war that produced Nigeria’s most incompetent rulers in history. The children are still suffering from the vestiges of that war. The people of goodwill that prefer peace at any cost fail to realize that the only power that brings…

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A country spending more of its income training foreign students than local students cannot prosper. We rightfully levy financial burden and enough stress on ourselves to make sure our children turn out better than we do. Times have changed and we complained that there are very few good schools like we used to have based on what we disproportionately spend on local compared to foreign students. Many started in Mission or Government primary schools in Lagos and moved on to Achimota College in Accra or vice versa. Out of these, others proceeded to Fourah Bay College or Makerere University without…

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The yoke of slavery used by Fulani, Arabs and Berbers from the Middle East was rejected by Zanj Bantu East Africans since the 9th century; it destroyed Songhai Empire in 1591. The ugly head reared recently in Sudan and today it is boiling in other African countries. Though denigrated in the Middle East, Europe or America; the game plan is to make Africans believe they are Fulani, Arabs, Berbers and African Europeans. It is enough to divide, rule and conquer Africans’ Political Economy. The Zanj are the 9th century Bantu of East Africa enslaved in ancient Iraq. They staged several…

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There are few reasons to believe Black men in dire situations would encourage their children or other kids. Many Black older men abroad with insufficient money for comfort are neglected and disrespected since he makes less money, no matter what. Africa hard o. But our older men abroad share the same life expectancy with African countries. The ugly sight of tattered old black men picking bottles, begging in a cold weather or traffic is too disgusting for children. We must start talking about solutions to climb out of the moral decay in our communities. Fortunately, our villages have not gone…

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