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Written by Lucas Anuforo Email: peter.lemachi@yahoo.com Lydia Smith has cut niche for herself. Her dark brown skin that glows like an elite model with her beautiful smile and creative craft of handmade cloths, I can imagine her being flaunt on cover page of fashion magazine. She’s a Liberian from the Bong County, in the central region of Liberia. Lydia started very early in life as a young school girl who lost both her parents, mother died of cancer during the early years of the war in 1989 while her father died during the cause of the Liberian civil war of the 90s.  She moved into a refugee camp in Ghana with three of her younger siblings under the tutelage of Agnes Ducker a Liberian until she became 18. “There was no good medical service in place, even before the war started so the war made it worst. Though I know that if there were good medical care, may be enough drugs at the time of the war my old ‘Ma’ would have at least stayed more three years.”  She...

Nigeria needs a leader without prejudice: Written by Lucas Anuforo Email peter.lemachi@yahoo.com Dublin, Ireland. “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."...Edmund Burke. It’s never too late for President Jonathan to make a change despite the evil men that surrounds him coupled with those from other parties that is plotting his downfall. As it is right   now there’s not yet credible leader from any of the political parties that can salvage Nigeria situation. All Progressive Conference (APC) weakness started right from the early days of its formation which the party is tailored with tugs, rogues, charlatans and reprobates. Am not living in Nigeria but with the information age distance is no longer a barrier for access to information and its dissemination therefore Nigerian news is at the finger tip.   The purpose of creating All Progressive Conference (APC) was to cut down the excesses of PDP and to plot its downfall in 2015 genera...

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                                            “It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred”   ...   Isaac Asimov .   Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. ... James A. Baldwin .   Governor Babatunde Fashola’s action by deporting the Igbos to their states will live indelible and painful memories in the hearts of many Nigerians for many years to come more especially the Igbo tribe. His action has once again reminded the Igbo about their painful path they’ve journeyed in the last 46yrs of the (Nigeria/Biafra) civil war. History has repeated itself. It’s time Ndigbo should have a rethink and start to withdraw their investments back to the East. I...

Nigeria is a State; where evil are being paid for good. A society where charlatans,reprobates, rogue, criminals and rascals are rewarded for the evil well-done.The recent release of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha former Chief Security Officer(CSO) to the late former iron fist leader; General Sani Abacha is raising an eyebrow. Mustapha who served a lengthy period of incarceration (15 yrs) at Kirikiri Maximum prison for murder charges against him over the death of Kudirat Abiola the wife of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election late Chief, MKO Abiola. Mahatma Gandhi an Indian noble leader who warned the tyrant leadership of this evil world... saying “Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end,they always fall. Always.”  On 30 th  January 2012 he was sentenced to death through hanging by the Lagos state High Court Judge Mojisola, Lateef Sofolahan under section 319 ...

  I’ m so delighted on the recent remark made by the former US President Bill Clinton on how Nigerian leaders have not done well with the oil revenue. What I, was even much delighted was that President Clinton made this statement at the very presence of some of the so-called past and present leaders of Nigeria. It is very dishearten when some of these foreign Statesmen who’ve made mark in leadership come around instead; some of these reprobates’ leaders who’ve stripped and looted the our country’s wealth to repel themselves from these visitors they continue to showcase their foolishness as if they still have something to offer. Nigeria as a country has immense resources but unfortunately both past and the present leaders never deem it necessary to utilize the opportunities of these God-given endowments to better the life of average Nigerian. There’s an adage which says” if you want to be praised like a lion you must dance like a lion.” Today it is no longer how many years a l...

As I was busy doing my Christmas shopping in the mall today and I met an old woman who called my attention and told me that this year will be her 97 Christmas. And why this years’ Christmas is so special to her is because she has seen many ups and downs of life which never deny her the measures of living a fulfilled life. She said that Christmas is the celebration of the living.   It is time to ref lect on our union with Christ, a time of stocktaking and period of sober reflection. She finally handed me a box of chocolate and ask me to share it with my neighbours, she insisted and tasked me that I must share the box of chocolate with neighbours reason because she said, that it was same way Christ shared His love to us. And finally as she was going, she waved good bye to me and whispered to my ears that this might be her last Christmas to celebrate. I came to realize that life is not all about how long you lived but on how fulfilled you've lived life. Wishing all my friends Mer...