America RIP?

In my life time, I am witnessing an empire die. An empire does not dies with an event. There is no army yet formed that will or can trigger the demise of America. There is no economy big enough to squeeze the American economy. An empire dies when it’s people cease to believe in it. …

Britain’s Rwanda deal: a cruel, cynical pretence: by The Guardian Editorial

Priti Patel daughter of Ugandan Asian Asylum seekers Priti Patel’s ambition to send asylum seekers as far away from the UK mainland as she can has a history. Two years ago, the home secretary looked at shipping Channel migrants to processing centres from north Africa to the South Atlantic. Those ideas eventually bit the dust, on grounds …

Amaechi and his doomed quest for Nigeria presidency

Amaechi is a certified lier. He lied on Channels TV to Seun, claiming he was not running and that his supporters should give him the money. He took Nigerians for mugs. He throw his colleagues under the bus for his incompetent handling of the train service. He is not a team player, he was told …

The unique, damaging role Fox News plays in American media by Philip Bump

An advertisement for Fox News outside the News Corp. headquarters in New York on Feb. 6. (Bloomberg News) Obvious in broad strokes but now confirmed and with a sense of scale. But this top-line assessment of the face most associated with the right-wing cable network misses an important secondary assessment included in the Martin-Burns reporting. …

Buhari, declare state of emergency in KadunaPunch Editorial Board

File copy: The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) THE terrorists, who last week staged a series of attacks in the Northern states, including assaulting the Kaduna-Abuja train and ambushing and killing military troops confirmed that undoubtedly, Nigeria is at war. The country is assailed from within by expanding armies of well-armed terrorists and criminals,   …