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THE MANCHESTER CONCERT TERROR: A MINUTE SILENCE FOR SAFFIE ROSE ROUSSOS & Others On Tuesday, 23rd May, 2017, I was in high spirit because it was Boluwatife's birthday. Boluwatife turned 9 and if anyone wants to know who Boluwatife is, she is the young girl on my display picture on Whats-app . She is my very good friend. But, it is quite unfortunate that something else happened on the same day - the sad news of the Ariana Grande's concert bomb blast which occurred the previous day at the Manchester arena shook the whole world in the most unimaginable and condemn-able manner.   Manchester Arena said the incident took place “outside the venue in a public space”. The attacker - 22 year-old Salman Abedi was believed to be carrying an improvised explosive device which he detonated, the resultant blast was reported to have hit the foyer of the building at about 10:30pm and multiple witnesses said they heard an explosion, with one telling the Guardian that the blast s...

    THE AFRICAN DAY CELEBRATION: SECURITY AND OTHER CHALLENGES OF THE PROPOSED AU E-PASSPORT “ The idea of an Africa with seamless borders is the way to go. Africa is endowed with vast natural resources, including minerals and rich soil. If we can combine our strength, then we could live without financial help from Western and European countries,” Yves Butera - Spokesperson, Rwanda Directorate General of Immigration and Emigration. So, last week Friday (the same day I published my article on the Lagos at 50 celebrations titled; Lagos is my success story: Land of Hustle (https://shegzsablezs.blogspot.com.ng/2017/05/lagos-is-my-success-story-land-of-hustle.html) ). I was thinking what this week's article should be about. I instantly concluded that it has to make a lot of sense. So, I decided to dedicate it to strive for African unity. On that note, this week's write-up which is a follow up to my previous article on the proposed African Union E-Passport and the Afr...

LAGOS IS MY SUCCESS STORY: LAND OF HUSTLE I made my first One Million Naira cash at the age of ---- in Lagos. - Oluwole Olusanya #LagosMillionaire. Lagos is unlike any other state in the country in so many ways. It is the only state in Nigeria with a Portuguese name. Part of what is today’s Lagos State once existed outside what eventually became Nigeria before 1906, but no sooner was Nigeria amalgamated than was it named as the capital in January, 1914. Actually, the debate among the British colonial rulers was whether it was Calabar or Lagos that should be the capital and Lagos won the argument. I sometimes wonder what would have been the story of Nigeria today if Calabar had been chosen. My guess is that Lagos, because of its great coastal resources, it would still have been a major economic and commercial center but not at the level that it is today. Much of what Lagos is today in terms of foundation structures owed mainly to its former status as the capital of Nigeria fo...

DONALD TRUMP'S FIRST 100 DAYS IN OFFICE: IS ANYONE SURPRISED? Donald Trump calls it "a ridiculous standard" to measure a president's accomplishments in the 100 days. - CNN (Tuesday, 25th April, 2017 - Day 96 of his Presidency) In the middle of October, 2016. I published an article titled; United States Presidential Election 2016: Donald Trump’s Presidency & U.S. Diplomatic Relations with Africa. (https://shegzsablezs.blogspot.com.ng/2017/05/united-states-presidential-election.html). In that piece, I prophesized that Donald Trump might be elected the 45th President of the United States against our wish and I was right. On the 9th of November, 2016, Donald Trump was named the President-elect having scored the highest number of Electoral College votes in the keenly contested election. Interestingly, my last article about Donald Trump's Presidency coincidentally coincided with his speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania where he told his supporters what h...

United States Presidential Election 2016: Donald Trump’s Presidency & U.S. Diplomatic Relations with Africa. " They're sending people that have a lot of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. " - Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign kickoff speech on June 16, 2015 (while referring to Mexican illegal Immigrants). According to updates on my darling CNN, the presidential election between the Republican candidate Hillary Clinton and Democratic candidate Donald J. Trump (the two leading contenders) has already started with over 5 million eligible American voters casting their votes for their preferred candidates over the weekend in some selected states in what is referred to as ‘Early Voting’. Interestingly, the main Election Day is slated for the 8 th of November 2016 (less than a fortnight) but the electioneering proces...