UK Oversea AID Is Waste Of Resources; Liam Fox Is Right

Although I come from a developing country, it seems completely a waste of resources and money for the UK and other international donors to continue to operate international funding to developing countries in the way it currently does.

The Defence Secretary, Liam Fox is absolutely right in disagreeing that the UK should pursue to meet the 0.7% of GDP target the government wants to see aid money reach. It beggars belief that the government gives aid at all, let alone up to that amount.

The evidence in our face shows that these monies given to the various the crippled and kleptomaniac governments of the so-called developing countries are diverted into the accounts of individual officers running these governments. Take my country Nigeria for example, for the last 4 decades, all the heads of state and ministers have left office as billionaires and none of these men can show how they made their money.

Back into that country, roads are death traps, electricity is a luxury, education is a wish and hence still heavily paid for, school libraries are just skeletons and the concept of public libraries is an imagination.

Lets go to Niger Republic just north of Nigeria; housing is rocket science

Uganda Is Defying The World To Pass Anti-Homosexuality Bill Into Law This Week!

There is fire on the mountain. Uganda is hell-bent on passing the devilish Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law. And that is happening as I write this; in fact, the next you may hear is that gay & lesbian people in Uganda are being sent to jail (if not to the gallows) using that Bill-turned-into-law.

Please act now!

Sign a petition here with us. And please pass it on to friends, contacts and anyone you know!!!

This must stop! And there is no time to wait let alone waste. The Bill was discussed today in Ugandan parliament and there is a rush to pass it into law before that parliament goes on break by end of this week. Please, dont hesitate; sign here now!

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The role of faith groups in promoting homophobia - A tribute to David Kato

This is a speech I gave at Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York on 5 May 2011 on the above subject. Thanks to the organisers for inviting me to speak.


Thank you for inviting me to participate on this very important topic of discussion; and at this very crucial time, nothing can be more important than keeping the exchange of ideas alive and on-going.

David Kato

Before I go on, I would not fail to honour the memory and pay tribute to the life of David Kato, whose pre-mature death has continued to inspire us even to this discussion. I must acknowledge that I did not know David in person, but in spirit and emotion. We have many connections and almost knew each other in such world as only understanding can settle.

On 26^th of January, due to my small involvement in the fight for equality for black and African people of different sexual orientation, especially gay and lesbians, I got a call that David has been murdered. This is why I feel that I knew David somehow. After that call, many texts and more calls followed; it was a harrowing experience.

He is a man of immense brevity. Although I never met him in person, he was and still is one of my inspirations. And in death, I couldn’t have been more challenged.

This is a man who fought for what he believed, for who he is, for others who are oppressed even unto death. As this discussion focuses on faith, let me borrow a quote from the bible in the book of John 15: 13 where Jesus said, “greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends”.

Could Locating Osama Had Began The Downfall Of Gaddafi?

Gaddafi and Blair: when the going was romantic

Right up until 2010, the UK and USA praised and cheered Colonel Moumar Gaddafi as one of the only few rulers in the Middle East and Arab world. The relationship, records had it that the US funded Gaddafi’s military to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

So what went wrong? Where did it go sour and how have we ended up where we are today?

Gaddafi was seen as the best to checkmate terrorism hence the military funding. His style of government was a fallout of that money. He ruled with iron fists and kept his people, especially the youth well under control through oppression. But there is always an end to every honeymoon.

The locating of Osama bin Laden in August might have been the turning point. According to President Barrack Obama of the United States, American has tracked Osama for near 4 years but last August, it had the final confirmation of his main location and identity.

Osama Killed: Should We Worry At The West's Trend Of Killing Without Trial

The show of excitement this morning by the United States of America on the announcement that it has killed Obama brought most of us in the West out of sleep in a jiffy instead of the slumber of waking up that characterize us.

Although some news report (see last paragraph) has it that the actual news took place over 24 hours ago (Sunday morning, Pakistani time), it was only on Monday morning (UK time) that we heard it.

My first question is the identity. But then if it has been kept for 24 hours, it seems likely that identity has [hopefully] been ascertained.

However, while most politicians in the West went on about a day of victory, great relief or comfort for families affected by 9/11, what bothered me so much was the absence of any thought on this style of killing. Even worse was the absence of any objective thinking on that pains [of the 9/11 affected family] and if truly the killing of another, duly assuages and wipes that pain. Far from it.