My Heart Goes out to Farouk

Shareby Simon Kolawole
Let’s briefly discuss the story of a young, independent boy with religious zeal and a fertile mind, delicately torn between the two worlds of extremism and liberalism. No, I’m not talking about Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab. I’m talking about myself. I embraced the Christian faith at the age of 20 during my national youth [...]

January 4, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments

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

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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