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	Theo I Ogune, Esq. International Lawyer and Public Policy Analyst  Chevy Chase Maryland, USA
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UNSHACKLING NIGERIA: WHAT A DIFFERENCE THE MIND MAKES by Theo Ikes Ogune, Esquire March 30, 2012 By now, everyone knows, or should know, the legacy of slavery.  Obviously, the thing that made slavery slavery was the system-wide technique used to control the slaves.  Without it, slaves would not have been submissive to their so-called masters.  Slaves did not just stand there and take it. Apart from the very successful Haitian revolt and the revolt on the Spanish Amistad, there were sporadic slave revolts particularly in the Americas.  Of course, slaves did not want to be slaves and individually could have easily killed their masters.  They were not spineless.  They were pragmatic.  So some ran away, and others did other things.  NigerianNews Special   PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN: THE TWO SIDES TO THE STORY AND THEN THE TRUTH by Theo Ikes Ogune, Esquire January 03, 2012 Before you read the two sides to the story, you should recall the background.  There was a time when former President Obasanjo was hailed as the hero in Nigeria for showing the so-called “Maradona” that he was “Pele” and “Dunga” combined -- that was when we hailed him for taking the ball from Babangida and dribbling around him to score Goodluck Jonathan for us.  Even despite the mud on Jonathan from wrestling with Atiku or being tossed around at a time when he was trying to fill the shoes of a dead president whose shoes contained plenty pebbles when he died, the hope in him led some of us to lay down our arms against Jega’s pretense that the elections after Iwu were free and fair. NigerianNews Special