Eyes on how Nigeria’s President-elect Bola Tinubu will deal with Boko Haram insurgency
By the time he is sworn in on May 29, President-elect Bola Tinubu should be fully aware that the Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria presents an immense challenge to his government. After being declared winner of the February 25 presidential election, he has likely started working on the transition, including...
US Vice President Kamala Harris visits Africa as Russia and China deepen roots on the continent
US Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Africa later this month, her office announced on Monday, becoming the most senior Biden administration official to visit the continent. Her trip comes as the administration seeks to bolster its relationships with African countries, as competitors like Russia and China have made...
Ukraine war: There’s good reason to worry ugly history is repeating itself today in Eastern Europe
For nearly a decade in the 1980s, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and the newly founded Islamic Republic of Iran waged a merciless war against each other. The fighting saw the return of World War I-style human-wave offensives, trench warfare, and chemical weapons attacks. Although it dragged on for years, the Iran-Iraq...
Pfizer Covid vaccine revelations: In the jab group there were more deaths than in the placebo group
In November 2020, Pfizer claimed its Covid-19 shot was 95 per cent effective against Covid-19, but this was highly misleading and based on flawed methodology. One trick used to get this misleadingly high efficacy figure is to ignore people who got Covid-19 within 14 days after their first shot. In...
New details emerge of how Pfizer made $100 billion, covered up Covid vaccine that killed patients
Details continue to emerge about coverups and fraud that took place during Pfizer’s Covid-19 shot trials. Die Welt, a mainstream media outlet in Germany, revealed that numerous subjects who suffered adverse events, including deaths, were removed from the trial data. Meanwhile, trial data were manipulated “to create the illusion” the...
Barcelona in dock on allegations of referee bribery, breach of trust and false business records
Barcelona have been charged with corruption over payments made to a former referee official. The Spanish giants face charges of corruption unexplained payments to the head of Spain’s refereeing committee for 17 years. The Catalans are said to have syphoned more than £6 million to a company owned by Jose...
WhatsApp fights bill that compels tech firms to use non-existent ‘accredited technology’ to rein in child abuse
The head of Meta’s WhatsApp messaging service is currently in the UK to whip up a row with the government about end-to-end encryption. Speaking to journalists in London on Thursday, Will Cathcart, did everything but compare the UK’s proposed new internet law to the erosion of online privacy in countries...
Big Pharma tyranny: Hungry US corporates are now bullying Mexico into buying GMO maize
Today under a new – free but not fair – trade agreement, the US aims to force Mexico to not only accept genetically modified corn but also to overturn their ban on the herbicide Roundup (glyphosate), a probable carcinogen. Corporate money has always corrupted the political process in order to...
BBC’s push for neutrality turns into unscheduled Match of the Day as pundits support legend Gary Lineker
The Match of the Day controversy unravelled so quickly on Friday night that its presence on television screens this weekend is a long way from certain. It was last removed from them 30 years ago because of a strike by technical staff, though this is something more visceral and elemental,...
Ivory Coast defender: It takes sacrifice and strong mentality to get results in football, fend for family
“My brother was murdered but two days later I played for Tottenham before flying home to comfort my grieving mother,” are words that provide a peek into Nottingham Forest’s right wingback Serge Aurier’s strong mentality and filial connection. Never more so than when he put his own personal pain and...
