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Barrack Obama-President While Black (PWB) by Tunde Adenodi. August 09, 2010 Let me state the fact as if you did not know it: President Barrack Obama has been black (apartheid definition) since he was born in 1961. His father was an African blackman from Kenya and his mother was white from Kansas, in middle America. He was born in Hawaii, one year after that state became part of the United States of America. This makes Obama a citizen of the United States and consequently, a legitimate president of the United States of America. His birth certificate has been posted on line for all to see NigerianNews Special   Zoning: Only when we are not in power! by Tunde Adenodi. July 06, 2010 Zoning of political offices in Nigeria has been part of political calculation for as long as the nation has been in existence. You can even call it “federal character”. It has not just crept into political lexicon. At independence, Tafawa Balewa (Hausa) was the Prime Minister of the Federation while the Speaker of the House of Representative was Nwafor Orizu (Igbo). Obafemi Awolowo was the leader of opposition. He was Yoruba. But while there is no question of northern** support for this political device for political offices, they refuse to allow for the office of the President of Nigeria to be zoned especially when and as long as they are in power! NigerianNews Special   Babangida’s threat to run for President. by Tunde Adenodi. May 24, 2010 There he goes again, threatening us with a run for the presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He did the same thing four years ago under Gen Obasanjo who told him in no ambiguous terms to stay away from the elections of 2007. He tried to save some face by insisting that he had merely withrawn from the race in deference to Yar’Adua who was his junior brother! NigerianNews Special   Northern Presidency: The Jinx Continues by Tunde Adenodi. May 11, 2010 I had hoped that the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was poised to break the jinx on the leaders of Nigeria of northern extraction not serving completely their terms in office. But I was wrong. He did not break it. So the jinx continues: No Nigerian Head of State or President of northern extraction has ever completed his term of office without being forcibly removed, killed in a coup or dying in office. NigerianNews Special   Turai’s Victims by Tunde Adenodi. May 10, 2010 It is customary to be charitable to the sick and even the deceased, any sick or deceased, let alone the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. And Yar’Adua will not be an exception. His death is a loss to Nigeria and all Nigerians. It is not a loss to his wife alone, nor his family alone. We are all mourners of his death. And since he was the number one citizen of Nigeria, his successor, Goodluck Jonathan, is the official chief mourner of his death. NigerianNews Special   The "Northern" Political Game Plan by Tunde Adenodi. March 25, 2010 The “north” in this article will be defined as the Gideon Orkar excised north, the sharia states of northern Nigeria, the original seven Hausa states of of Daura, Gobir, Kano, Katsina Rano and Zaria also known as Zazzau; named after the seven children of Bayajida who was said to have killed a mythical snake that had terrorized villagers in Daura. For the benefit of all who do not know much about the history of the Hausa people, myself included, let me make life a little easier. The “north” comprises the following: Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto, Bauchi states; under the 19 state structure of the second republic. If the truth is to be told and I think that it is about time someone did, this distinct geographical area of northern Nigeria is our collective burden. Like it or not! NigerianNews Special   President Goodluck Jonathan: "The fierce urgency of now" by Tunde Adenodi. March 01, 2010 In 1963, Dr Martin Luther King made his famous “I have a dream speech” on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. He talked about the ‘fierce urgency of now” in the context of segregation, discrimination and economic emancipation of the black race. I do not expect Jonathan to be a Martin Luther King. His antecedents do not support such a conjecture. But he cannot afford to be a … uhm… a Shehu Shagari or Tafawa Balewa or indeed, Umar Musa Yar‘Adua.  NigerianNews Special   NIGERIA: A terrorist Country? by Tunde Adenodi. February 16, 2010 As if to prove them right, there was yet another ethno-religious riot in Jos-Bauchi axis of the periodic theater of mayhem in northern Nigeria so soon after the attack of the under-pant airline bomber: Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab. And they are hoping that no one, not even the United States government of President Obama, would notice the nexus in these two seemingly unrelated events. On the Northwest airplane, the attack was directed at 300 innocent multinationals, Nigerians included and on the Nigerian attack, against hundreds of innocent Nigerians; in the name of the Almighty God.  NigerianNews Special   Nigeria: How our leaders destroyed the country by Tunde Adenodi. July 22, 2009 What started as a dream of the trio of Zik, Bello and Awo has now become a nightmare of our generation. Sometimes, I call it a “daymare” for my generation and the one that follows. It is an embarrassment to all black people of the world and a source of shame and odium for black people of the USA, particularly the President of the United States, Barack Obama. And if it means anything, I am now ashamed of Nigeria just like millions of Nigerians in Diaspora. NigerianNews Special