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Brown, who served as UK Prime Minister in 2007-2010, shared his views on the future of the COVID-stricken country in a Daily Telegraph column late on Sunday.

Sunday January 24, 2021 - 03:05:00 PM Several weeks ago, I was invited to participate in my first podcast—an event hosted by World BEYOND War. WBW is a global organization devoted to promoting peaceful alternatives to local and geopolitical conflicts. WBWs concerns have been voiced by none other than Martin Sheen, who appears in a number of WBW videos. Heres one example:  Martin Sheen Talks to World Beyond War    The participants (myself included) were all members of the WB...

Sea Change), and even the political-satirical side of Charles Stross ( Dead Lies Dreaming). Climate change, international business/poli­tics, and an alphabet-soup artificial-intelligence/virtual-reality computational-communications infrastructure all contribute to the environment in which Ava Arnette operates. Ava – ex-army, ex-Honolulu police department – works as a security officer for the Kahanamoku Coastal Authority (KCA), monitoring a Waikiki tourist zone rebuilt and reinforced after ...

By David Odama WORRIED by the spate of insecurity in the country, Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State last Sunday took a sweep on the APC-led administration saying that he can’t score the current government ”excellent” especially in the area of insecurity. Governor Sule, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, made his feelings known when he appeared on a Channels television interview on Sunday night. According to Governor Sule, ‘Nigeria is about to become a failed state...

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SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service Nigerian President Buhari Exposes Renewed Nigerian Destabilization Efforts Dec. 28, 2020 (EIRNS)—International elements are again looking at Nigeria—Africa’s most populous country, with one of the most advanced and ambitious Chinese-built standard gauge (SGR) rail networks and also the leading member of the vital Transaqua project to replenish Lake Chad—as a destabilization target. This week, led by a signal hit piece in London’s Financial Times, a...

Punch Newspapers Sections Kayode Oyero Nasawara State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, says those claiming Nigeria risks becoming a failed state under the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), don’t mean well for the country. The governor, who is a member of the President’s ruling All Progressives Congress, stated this on a television interview on Sunday night. He said the ‘Nigeria is about to become a failed state’ statement was not new in democratic Nigeria as the ...

TODAY December 27, 2020 The All Progressives Congress has dismissed claims by the Peoples Democratic Party and other commentators that Nigeria was tilting towards becoming a failed state. The party noted that despite claims by naysayers and partisan doomsday predictions, Nigeria was nowhere near a failed state. This was contained in a statement titled, “Nigeria Nowhere Close to a Failed State – APC,” signed by the Secretary of the Caretaker/ Extra-Ordinary National Planning Committee, S...

By Davidson Iriekpen and Dike Onwuamaeze The presidency yesterday dismissed an editorial in Financial Times, an international daily newspaper based in Britain, which described Nigeria as a country that is gradually inching closer to becoming a failed state. Reacting to the editorial following a THISDAY inquiry, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Mr. Femi Adesina, said: “Who makes Financial Times a ruler and judge over us?” In the editorial, The Financial Times said Nig...

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