Tag: Dennis Onakinor
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Ominous dark clouds loom large – By Dennis Onakinor
As Nigerians, especially the helpless poor, groan in the pain and misery occasioned by the lingering Naira notes scarcity, the political environment is increasingly awash with rumours and allegations concerning an impending military intervention in the country’s political process. The situation is not helped by the palpable frustration and anger pervading the entire country, particularly…
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A tale told by an ATM cash withdrawer – By Dennis Onakinor
“Professor! Professor! Let’s hear the Professor!” chanted some youths as the bespectacled young man dished out anarchic social commentaries laced with unprintable invectives against what he described as “the ruling oligarchic buccaneers, who are strangulating the suffering masses of Nigeria through the diabolic combination of petrol scarcity and Naira notes shortage.” Others chorused: “Professor is…
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As Peace Eludes the Weak in a World of the Strong, Welcome to 2023 – By Dennis Onakinor
By midnight of December 31st, 2022, joyous sound of fireworks will reverberate through the skies of most towns and cities across the world in celebration of the dawn of 2023. But for the people of Ukraine, it will be the now-familiar sound of fire from machine guns, tanks, artillery, missiles, jet fighter
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New pry schools language policy: A national distraction of sorts – By Dennis Onakinor
With the notable exception of Africa’s second most-populous country, Ethiopia, nearly every one of Africa’s 55 Independent sovereign states is a creation of European colonialism. From British colonialism emerged Nigeria, the continent’s most-populous state – a patchwork of over 360 ethnic groups speaking an estimated 625 different languages with innumerable dialects.
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Musings on man and wars of madness – By Dennis Onakinor
It is a tragic irony that humans, who are endowed with unrivalled natural intelligence, are the only earthly creatures possessing the unenviable ability to deliberately destroy, in a matter of seconds, the developmental structures they had painstakingly built over the ages, using their vaunted weapons of war.
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Wanted: A “President Kennedy” To Avert The Looming Nuclear Armageddon – By Dennis Onakinor
Powerlessness tends to frustrate, and absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely. Unfortunately, a situation of absolute powerlessness is apparently enveloping the helpless masses of the world, as President Vladimir Putin threatens a global nuclear “catastrophe” should America and its NATO allies continue to militarily support Ukraine in its bid to repel his invasion forces and reverse Russia’s…
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Vladimir Putin: A nuclear-armed incarnate of Adolf Hitler – By Dennis Onakinor
As the Nazi German leader, who sought to impose on the world his totalitarian ideology rooted in Aryan racial superiority dogma, the story of the meteoric rise and ignominious fall of Adolf Hitler between 1933 – 1945 is well-known. What is not well-known is whether Hitler, who went by the title of “Der Further” (The…
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Nigerian politicians and their politics of immobilism – By Dennis Onakinor
Last Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) voter registration centre in Eti-Osa LGA office in Lagos, there was palpable anxiety among the hordes of intending registrants who had thronged the venue in order to beat the July 31st deadline for registration closure. Most of them had earlier visited one or…
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Vladimir Putin and the curse of swaggering militarism – By Dennis Onakinor
Until February 24, 2022, when he launched Russia’s ongoing brutal and bloody military campaign in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin had cultivated the admirable public persona of an astute intellectual with a predilection for populist nationalism and social liberalism.
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Putin’s Hellish War Upon Ukraine Evokes Memories Of America’s Anti-War General Tecumseh Sherman – By Dennis Onakinor
As the Russian war machine continues to unleash death, destruction, and misery upon Ukraine, following President Vladimir Putin’s February 24th “Special Operation” that has so far witnessed thousands of civilian casualties (especially children, women, the elderly and infirm), humanity is once again reminded that war,