Tag: Dennis Onakinor
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The Uromi mob action and the scourge of banditry in Nigeria – By Dennis Onakinor
Irrespective of the circumstance, the death of an individual or a group of persons is a painful occurrence, and it is even more so when it occurs in an extrajudicial violent manner. In this light, the death of 16 “suspected kidnappers” in the hands of a mob in Uromi town of Edo State, on March…
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President Tinubu gets high marks in ‘history test’ – By Dennis Onakinor
If the 19th Century English scholar and politician, John Dalberg-Acton, is right in his popular saying that, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” then it follows that powerlessness frustrates, and absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely.
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Hitler or Trump, every State gets the type of leader it deserves – By Dennis Onakinor
Globally, the story of Adolf Hitler is well known. His autobiography, “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle), is a 700-page verbose tome of unsubstantiated claims on the superiority of the German “Aryan” race, and why the German state must establish a global hegemony through unrivaled militarism rooted in fervent nationalism. Therefore, it maintains that there should be…
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State police and the trouble to come – By Dennis Onakinor
A sacrosanct responsibility of the government of any country, be it a democracy or an autocracy, is the protection of life and property. In apparent recognition of this irreducible fact, President Bola Tinubu recently decided upon the creation of “State Police” as a solution to Nigeria’s mounting insecurity problem.
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God and the evils of war – By Dennis Onakinor
“God is the Greatest!” chanted a crowd of traumatized Palestinian youths in the war-torn Gaza city of Khan Younis as they made futile efforts to dig through a pile of rubble with their bare hands in a bid to rescue their fellow men, women, and children trapped under it
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African military interventionism and the illusion of good-fortune [Part 2] – By Dennis Onakinor
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable,” said the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, in an address in 1962.
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African military interventionism and the illusion of good-fortune [Part 1] – By Dennis Onakinor
Amidst the spate of military coups that have roiled some African states in recent times (Mali in 2020; Chad, Guinea, and Sudan in 2021; Burkina Faso in 2022; Niger and Gabon in 2023),
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African conflicts and the lure of marauding mercenaries – By Dennis Onakinor
Irrespective of the causative factors, a military coup is an aberrant violent seizure of state power that is only legitimized by its success. Hence, most countries of the world consider it treasonable, and punishable by either life imprisonment or capital punishment.
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Sudanese civil war: When riders end up in the belly of their tigers – By Dennis Onakinor
Since the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on July 1, 2002, Omar al-Bashir of Sudan holds the unenviable record of the only serving head of state to have been indicted by The Hague-based court. And, not once, but twice: in 2009 and 2010.
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Can Nigeria’s President-Elect ‘Do The Difficult Things’ To Make The People ‘Proud’? – BY DENNIS ONAKINOR
In his famed military treatise, “The Art of War,” the ancient Chinese military strategist, General Sun Tzu Wu, advocated the deployment of stratagem such as deceit, tactical retreat, and temporary submission in warfare, rather than total reliance on sheer military might.