Archive for December, 2009

The Voice of Mutallab, the Hands of the Dead

ShareBy Pius Adesanmi
Terrorist Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab is the ill-bred scion of privilege that was perhaps destined to be the instrument through which the dead would visit the comeuppance of sleeplessness on a certain vicious establishment that is responsible for the greatest heap of corpses in Nigeria’s history. Let’s be clear from the onset: I am [...]

December 29, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Pius Adesanmi  Comments

Nigeria’s terrorism notoriety??

Shareby Okey Ndibe
Nigerians received a bizarre Christmas gift Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, a 23-year old man from a privileged background, tried to pull off what could have been the bloodiest suicide bombing in the US since September 11, 2001. Umar Mutallab had planned to detonate explosives strapped to his body in order to bring down [...]

December 29, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Okey Ndibe  Comments

Beyond the Nigerian Terrorist Bomber

Shareby Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo
When you strip Nigeria of all its borrowed and illusive attires, what will be left is a wretched half-child-half-man nation on the verge of implosion. Nigerians and the rest of the world are beginning to ask themselves serious questions in the wake of a Nigerian man’s attempt at bombing an American airline [...]

December 28, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo  Comments

Mutallab: The Nigerian Agent Of Al-Qaeda

ShareBy Reuben Abati
Once upon a time in this country, it was fashionable to consider certain things impossible, indeed un-Nigerian. Before the 1960s, many Nigerians considered military intervention in Nigerian politics impossible. Even when the first military coup in Africa occurred: not here, was the refrain on the lips of Nigerians. But then it happened. In [...]

December 27, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Reuben Abati  Comments


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