Korean poison needle plot - Cold War era spy practices alive and well!

Cold War style assassinations are still alive and well with the arrest of a North Korean on Friday, who attempted to kill a South Korean with a poison needle. This will look at two previous assassinations to show that a bullet to the head is often too messy and dangerous for the murderer, as well as his enemy government employers…

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France's Responsibility in Libya Begins after Sarkozy Is Given Warm Welcome in Benghazi

By now, it is stale news that French President Nicolas Sarkozy received a hero's welcome at Benghazi, the city which nurtured the revolution against Libyan dictator Gaddafi. Sarkozy and his political parties are no strangers to Benghazi, Libya or anywhere else in North Africa. In fact, France has had a bloody role in the history of the region, much of which with both the Africans and the French would like to forget. The French mistakes in Algeria hurt not only the people of Algeria, but also made France rethink its own policies concerning Africa, and the colonies that it once ruled.

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The world economic crisis - a Simpleton explanation

In order to pay for things like welfare services and their military, governments must tax people to pay for it. Like you do for your family at Christmas, so governments borrow money to pay for extra goodies. In order to pay their debts, so they need increased revenues from tax – and rely on people like you and me to earn more, and thus pay more tax. When the economy goes tits up, so some countries struggle to pay their debts.

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Speculation on Quaddafi's Whereabouts - Leave it to the Professionals...

The chief reason for media outlets saying they know where Libya’s former dictator is, is to justify their massive budgets being spent on the war in the country. As much as the likes of Rupert Murdoch would like to get him themselves, the only people who are likely to get him are the freedom fighters, or international intelligence agencies.

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THE FALL OF MUAMMAR Qaddafi: THE LAST EMPEROR OF MACHIAVELLIAN POLITICS.

Once again I’m compelled to write about Colonel GadHaffi, I remember I wrote a brief introduction of him in my African series, titled “Is there really a silver lining ahead of us”. There I described the rise of the Colonel along with his powerful cabal.

For emphasis sake I’ll recall some issues in that article, Colonel Ghadaffi took over power via a military coup, where King Idris was deposed for alleged corruption a vice known as a virtue by most African leaders and totally characterized the Colonel’s rule. His people got tired of such rule, because he was committing the same sin he fought against 4 decades earlier, they sought a change, mainly fueled by the success of the protest in Egypt and Tunisia, however if they knew the massive cost in terms of man and machine would they have venture? I can’t tell  for sure, but I know of a certain they were never going to rest until either the Colonel left office and faced charges or all the rebel movement are totally annihilated.

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Middle East on the Brink of a Fully-fledged War? Not Really

Just a couple of days ago, Israeli Major-General Eyal Eisenberg warned that one could expect a winter of radical Islam soon after the Arab Spring, referring to the revolutions that have swept across the middle east. Israel has reason to be worried, as unrest in neighboring countries could mean an increase in fundamentalism across the region. Israel's relationship with its Middle Eastern allies like Egypt and Turkey has particularly soured in the recent days.

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UK Riots Aftermath and Repercussions

A month after the riots that shook Britain and shocked the world the desperate search for answers, cause and effect continues. British Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke has made one suggestion after revealing that 75% of those aged 18 and over arrested during the riots had prior convictions.

The conclusion he reaches? There means the problem must be with the penal system, because if all the rioters, looters and violent thugs had already been behind the riots may never have happened.

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CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT AND 6YRS SINGLE TERM:- OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT GEJ

Some months back while reading a column in one of Nigeria dailies, a columnist described true leadership as “realizing the depth of challenges facing one's nation and challenging yourself to rise to the challenge". I ask a question, if this thought is way near anything called truth, do we call President Goodluck Jonathan a True Leader. I guess not. My reasons are simple and clearly visible, GEJ appears to be static always in a State of Inertia, wanting to be pushed and pulled around before he does something meaningful, all the above mentioned attributes are those of a confused man, not even a Bad Leader.

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You go, Gilbert!

Yeah, pimp daddy grand-daddy great-grand-daddy!

Sorry ladies, but the world's toughest bachelor to net if OFF the market! And good luck wrestling him away from his blushing bride...he waited 99 years to find his Mrs. Right, so chances are he knew what he wanted and found her. 

99-year-old Gilbert Herrick robbed the cradle recently, sweeping 13-years-younger Virginia Hartman, 86, off her feet (presumably metaphorically speaking of course, as they are both confined to wheelchairs), wheeling her across the threshold of their shared room at a nursing home in New York and into his never-before-married heart.

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MEN I THINK I’M GETTING PISSED OFF WITH CHIEF AREMU OKIKI

I’ve never in my life been so annoyed with anyone to the point of writing about it but recent events concerning a certain frm President of The Federal Republic of Nigeria Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, when Femi Kuti sang I sorry for Africa, little did I realize that he’s looked at a crystal ball and somehow predicted Africa’s future, but looking at past events one can foretell the future and that was simply what he did.

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