Nigeria @ 47: Laughing Off the Grief

By Hakeem Babalola

They are both Nigerians but one picture symbolizes wealth, corruption and deceit while the other depicts poverty, hunger and anger. The picture on the right was taken by Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye of The Independent Newspaper in Nigeria.

I have this silent believe that every citizen does love his country in a certain way even though critics are always branded unpatriotic, because they expose all what is wrong in their land. But how can I keep quiet when the government that is responsible for the growth of its citizen is ironically the one that stands in the way of such growth? The highest form of criminality is when a government deliberately uses the instrument of state to crush its citizens – from development... click and read more

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Address By President Yar'Adua to the 62nd Session of the UN General Assembly

Nigeria is wholly committed to the Global Counter Terrorism Strategy in the fight against international terrorism. As a follow-up to that commitment, Nigeria has established four counter-terrorism centres in the country in addition to the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit which, together with the Central Bank of Nigeria, monitors banking transactions as part of the mechanism to locate and terminate the illegal transfer of funds for terrorist and other criminal acts including money laundering. Nigeria reiterates its condemnation of all acts of terrorism and calls upon the international community to muster the necessary political will to confront and check this menace...read more

Robert Mugabe's Speech at the 62nd Session of the UN General Assembly, New York, 26 September, 2007

Once again we reiterate our position that the Security Council as presently constituted is not democratic. In its present configuration, the Council has shown that it is not in a position to protect the weaker states who find themselves at loggerheads with a marauding super-power. Most importantly, justice demands that any Security Council reform redresses the fact that Africa is the only continent without a permanent seat and veto power in the Security Council. Africa's demands are known and enunciated in the Ezulwini consensus...read more