The good deeds that you do for others is the rent that you pay for occupying space on Earth.//Onye IGBO//Catholic//
//Arsenal//The One that let you go//
In life, if you cannot be a bridge to connect people, then do not be a wall to separate them. If you cannot be a light to brighten people's good deeds, then do not be darkness covering their efforts. Similarly, if you cannot be water to help people's crops sprout,
Dickson, you're my guy so I'll say this with the utmost good faith:
The strategic purpose of those countries to U.S. foreign policy is COMPLETELY different to the strategic purpose of Nigeria or any sub Saharan African country as far as U.S. foreign policy is concerned.
Yes, they relate a certain way with the UAE and Bahrain - because that relationship is useful to their bigger strategic goal of waging war on Iran, which they euphemistically call "containment."
They relate a similar way with Japan and South Korea - because that is part of a wider strategy for waging war on China, North Korea and eventually India too. We do not have any similar circumstances in Africa.
U.S. foreign policy for Africa (which is available as a PDF document you can download) states very clearly that the American vision for Africa is for it to "maintain the flow of resources to the global market" (that's a direct quote). The only "threats" to this goal as far as the U.S. is concerned, is "terrorism," hence even their defence partnerships are always about countering terror *where it threatens the flow of natural resources to the global market.*
In other words, American foreign policy sees the Uranium in Niger as the valuable asset the country has - not the 21 million ni**ers that inconveniently happen to live there. It sees the oil in Escravos and the lithium in Kogi as the valuable assets in Nigeria - not the 200 million Dicksons and Miriams living there.
A U.S. military base anywhere in Africa serves EXACTLY the same purpose that the old colonial military bases did - to protect the flow of African resources, and not the lives of African people which America considers to be less than worthless. There's a reason why despite multiple U.S. military involvements in every African conflict you can think of, the conflicts only got worse.
In case you've forgotten, when the country they literally created in West Africa fell into civil war, they simply watched from their ships for years, until Nigeria sent Nigerian men to go and die for that country to have peace. They could have ended that war in 5 days if they wanted, but that was not their mission. African resources have more value than African lives. They're in Africa to protect their strategic foreign policy interests and not your life.
We're not Japan, UAE or South Korea. Never, ever forget that.
If you remove the supporters of the Labour Party from Nigeria’s political space,we will all have the peace and tranquillity we want and the tyranny we don’t want.
so little is said about how bad Antony's been. Nicolas Pepe got 39 G/A in his first two seasons at Arsenal and won a major trophy (being a key player in the final) and he got cooked every week. The brazilian is probably the most one footed player in the league as well.
Today, Bauchi State massively welcomed our incoming President, Peter Obi.
Thank you Bauchi State OBIDIENTS for this massive love.
A new Nigeria is Possible with Peter Obi and Yusuf Datti.
#VoteLP
God answered the prayers of Ukrainians a lot faster than He answered the prayers of Sierra Leonians, Liberians and Congolese (in a similar situation).
I think it was Napoleon who said, "God is on the side of big battalions" - but you get my point.
We've barely survived the presidency of a man who was contesting for 16 years, and some of you are pushing a man who has been contesting for 30 years. De play
To whom it may concern:
For my security, I have been admitted into the Forbidden Stories international network made up of 60 news organizations and more than 150 journalists from 49 different countries and 5 continents.
Getting rid of the journalist won't get rid of the story.
I believe that one of the reasons Peter Obi is contesting for the presidency is to prove to us that we are our own problem.
Don't ask me what I mean by this
I've told this story a couple of times, but I'll tell it again.
I'm 2019, myself & some boys from my ward contributed money, hired a cooling van, bought drinks, & took to the election venue on election day.
We manned the polling units personally, while gisting & drinking beer.