NASHUA, N.H. With a strained voice and trembling hands, a New Hampshire woman stood in court Tuesday and compared her former Valley Regional Hospital doctor, Eric Knight, to cult leaders Jim Jones and Charles Manson. “They all used God to control.
BY AKIN OSUNTOKUN
“By 1914, modern Nigeria came into being under an autocratic Governor, Sir Frederick Lugard, who succeeded in isolating one Nigerian group from the other….It was Charles Temple, the senior resident in the North and his racist fellow traveller, Sir Richmond Palmer, who indoctrinated Northern emirs about their total difference, not only politically, but even racially from their Southern compatriots. Sir Theodore Adams went as far as to say, in 1941, that the emirs considered the Northern provinces as a separate country and that enforced cooperation with the South would lead to a demand for ‘Pakistan”
–Akinjide Osuntokun
“With Lord Lugard’s arbitrary conception of Nigeria in mind, one can begin to see the many and varied problems colonialism created in Nigeria, across West Africa, and around the world. Not least among these problems, for Nigeria in particular, was the problem of a unifying national identity. It is no wonder that diverse peoples, forcib
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Pete’s Auto Body; because we care about our community……
When Walter Gretzky passed away in early March it was a fitting testimonial to the man that so many people had kept, and then posted photographs through the years with Canada’s favorite and most beloved hockey dad
Everybody had an encounter. Everybody had a story.
Here’s mine…..
In 1982 I was the Coffee Boy for a CBC TV Show called ” MacLean At Large “, an interview program hosted by Bob MacLean.
As Coffee Boy, you could imagine how low on the corporate totem pole I was.
Still, it was exciting to meet so many prominent people from that era who made stops on the show; Burton Cummings, Charles Templeton, Hall & Oates and many more….