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Here is the deal: 1."NO COLLUSION" BUT: Son-in-law was allegedly exploring back door communication channel with the Russian government during the election. 2. "NO COLLUSION" BUT: Son had a meeting with a Russian operative during the election in a building that belongs to his father and lied about it multiple times. 3. "NO COLLUSION" BUT: Campaign manager at some point shared demographic data with a known person with ties to the Russian government. The same person is going to jail for lying about this, and he is known to be a friend of Russian Oligarch. 4. "NO COLLUSION" BUT: Three people in the campaign were convicted of lying to the FBI about their contact with the Russians during the election. 5. "NO COLLUSION" BUT: Personal attorney is going to jail for lying about a Russian deal that continued till the month of the election. 6. "NO COLLUSION" BUT: The first senator that endorsed him and later became his first Att...

The greatest dis-service Obama did to Africa while in office was that he ignored Africa, especially Nigeria, the most populous black nation in the world (one in every five black men in the world is a Nigerian). Obama refused bluntly to visit Nigeria in his eight years. Obama missed an opportunity to use his star power as the first African to occupy the most powerful seat in the world to influence and inspire the nation that sends the highest number of best brains across to the ocean, not like the time of slave trades. As of 2011, according to Obama, there were over 24,000 medical practitioners of Nigerian descent working in the US - that is one of the highest of any group in American - this is aside dentists, nurses, engineers, professors, athletes, musicians, actors, journalists, scientists, Obama's argument, I heard, was that he was not happy with the backward position of Nigeria and the corruption of its leaders. So, because of this, he ignored visiting Nigeria. W...

I do not subscribe to the politics of ethnicity. It is not the best but in the context of Ngierian politics, it is what seem to work. Unfortunately, the political clime in Nigeria is not mature enough to stand on the personality of the candidate. The main parties zone everything from the presidential candidate to, vp, senate president and the speaker, even the service chiefs until Buhari's last 4 years where he broke Presidential politics of 2023 will be very dramatic. I am just thinking of how the Igbo factor will play out. If neither of the main political parties who have produced an Igbo presidential candidate, and there is no formidable Igbo candidate from any of the other parties, it will be exactly 53 years that the Igbos have be excluded from the top job in Nigeria after the civil war in 1970, and 57 years after the last Igbo leadership. Tinubu is gearing up to be APC candidate in 2023 from the information being peddled. Maybe PDP will field an Igbo candidate with ...

There are so many myths about life abroad for immigrants that many here are ashamed to tell their families and friends about.  Many erroneously believe that the moment you come abroad, all your problems are solved and life is a bed of roses - it is true for some, but it is not true for many, especially if you are a student pursuing a graduate degree and you are not on scholarship. Even when you are on scholarship, your stipend classifies you as living just above the poverty line. You are just scraping by. Money does not grow on trees abroad, it is not picked freely on the street, it "no work no money", nothing is free here - you pay to do "kaka" in the toilet. There are "idols" (bills) that you must worship every month, if not, you will be thrown on the street - this includes paying for sewage, i.e. paying to do kaka. For upward of 6 years when I was in graduate school in Canada, I did not have a cell phone. I had one for two years bef...