Tag: Dennis Onakinor
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President Putin and the resurgence of global geopolitical gangsterism – By Dennis Onakinor
Even in the face of credible intelligence reports from Ukraine’s US-led NATO allies, Russian functionaries, especially Putin’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, branded all related information as US-orchestrated anti-Russian hysteria.
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Ukraine crisis: War is not inevitable if preventive diplomacy is on the cards – By Dennis Onakinor
While noting that President Putin has tactfully left the door open for a negotiated settlement by refraining from issuing any form of ultimatum to Russia’s adversaries, he calls on all parties to the conflict to work relentlessly towards a diplomatic solution as the option of war is rather unthinkable.
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Amnesia, Credulity, And Echoes Of June-12 Amidst Tributes To Late Interim President Ernest Shonekan – By Dennis Onakinor
Amnesia, Credulity, And Echoes Of June-12 Amidst Tributes To Late Interim President Ernest Shonekan – By Dennis Onakinor
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Arch-Bishop Tutu: Memories Of Apartheid As Curtains Fall On the Life Of A Liberation Theologian – By Dennis Onakinor
The late Arch-Bishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of the South African Anglican Communion, who transited to the great beyond on December 26, 2021 at the ripe age of 90, was an avowed enemy of Marxism due to its atheism, although he acceded in thoughts, words, and deeds to the often-misconstrued Marxian saying: “Religion is the sigh…
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Like a Mamba of the Blackest Dye, By Dennis Onakinor
Being citizens of a football-loving country, there is a high probability that a lot of Nigerians have heard of the term “Mamba” only in connection with the Mozambican national football team, “The Mambas,” named after the black mamba, one of the world’s longest, fastest, and deadliest snakes that inhabits the wilds of sub-Saharan Africa. While…
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Nigerians, Be Afraid of the Hell Called War – Dennis Onakinor
Politics is widely viewed as the acquisition, consolidation, and use of state power, hence relatedly, Carl von Clausewitz, a 19th Century military general of the Prussian Empire (later-day Germany), theorized that “War is a continuation of politics by other means.” His idealization of war was apparently due to the fact that during the period of…