By Chris Onuoha
Popular Cameroonian International female Master of ceremony (Mc), Mc Charlene, the Energy Goddess, has berated fellow Cameroonians who are rejoicing over the canceled February 14 valentine’s day concert.
The Norwegian-based Mc who has always called for collaboration between Nigerian and Cameroonian artists, DJs, entertainers, Filmmaker, and those in the entertainment industry find it hard to believe that some Cameroonians are rejoicing because a show to be headed by a Nigerian artists and superstar Naira Marley was canceled.
In a Facebook post, Mc Charlene made it clear to her fellow Cameroonians that a fight with Nigeria would not help Cameroonian entertainment industry grow. She also said those rejoicing over the canceled concert should know that it is the Cameroonian promoters that suffer a loss because Naira Marley has already been paid.
On mercenaries: 2014 private military contractors’ advice to end insecurity not implemented
‘2 trillion arms industry creates wars to sell weapons’
By Chris Onuoha
Professor Khalifa Dikwa is the Dean of the Borno Elders Forum. In this interview, Dikwa pointedly says moles in the military are working for Boko Haram terrorist group that has been fighting to take territories in the North-East.
There have of recent been renewed attacks by the Islamist group which lays ambush for travelers on major roads in the embattled region and even troops while unleashing terror on soft targets at will after being ‘technically defeated’ by the armed forces. Dikwa says he stumbled on secret document on potential terrorism in Africa as far back as 1984, saying the problem could have been stopped from blowing into the monster it has become. Excerpts:
By Chris Onuoha
A founder of a nongovernmental organisation (NGO) ‘ED. SayNo2Slavery,’ Damilola Falodun has decried an attempt by some online media organisation to malign her name in a criminal case involving two young girls who sought to kill their parents.
In a recent publication by some of the online platforms, titled, “See the Two Girls That Sent Assassins to Kill Their Rich Parents” , Falodun lamented how the bloggers allegedly placed her photograph alongside the criminal girls as an accomplice in the matter without her knowledge, thereby, connecting her to the crime.
Speaking in Lagos, Falodun questioned how her photograph that was totally different and separately taken as a single picture was attached to that of the two girls who committed the crime, noting that the insertion of her photograph contradicts the story headline that reads “Two girls that sent assassins to kill their rich parents”
DHQ bungled opportunity to end Boko Haram war Retired Col Stan-Labo
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Says new Chiefs must avoid predecessors’ pitfalls to succeed
By Chris Onuoha
Col Hassan Stan-Labo is a veteran and retired officer with a wealth of combat operational experience spanning his duty tour of Liberia, Sierra Leone, The West Darfur and Bakassi Peninsula as part of the Army’s Elite Infantry (Special Forces) Corps. Now a security consultant, defence strategist, resource fellow and Convener, ‘FIX NIGERIA NOW!’, Stan-Labo speaks on the replacement of Service Chiefs.
Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina described the exit of the former Service Chiefs as timely, contrary to the views in many circles that it was long overdue considering the level of insecurity in the country. Adesina quoted President Buhari as congratulating them for their efforts to bring enduring peace to Nigeria. What is your view of that assessment?
By Chris Onuoha
Bioresources Development Group (BDG) chairman, Prof. Maurice Iwu has restated the efficacy of herbal medicine in the treatment of the COVID-19 cases as the virus enters variant stage globally.
The former chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and eminent Professor of Pharmacognosy, Iwu, in a chat with Vanguard said that the effectiveness of special herbal drugs produced in the country, stands the chance of combating the disease at an early stage, but noted that the slow pace in acceptance and approval hinders its feasibility.
Iwu also pointed that herbal extracts from a plant, “Andrographis Paniculata”, commonly known as green chiretta, already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Thailand is on its way to serve as an alternative treatment to the severity of the ailment.