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US Drone Strikes in Nigeria: More Bullying “Shithole” than Protecting Christians

Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

This is Trump exporting his White Christian nationalist worldview under the guise of protecting Christians. Nigeria becomes the target not because Christians are uniquely threatened, but because a Black country fits Trump’s “shithole” hierarchy and Project 2025’s moralized militarism. Drone strikes become theology by other means — power dressed up as piety. Never mind that… Read more.

The Silence of the Celebrities (Like Michelle Obama) as Terrorists Kidnap More Nigerian Schoolgirls

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Terrorists in Nigeria have kidnapped more schoolgirls… iPINIONS chastises celebrities, who once posed with hashtags demanding their return, for being silent now. Read my full take on Substack: Read more.

On South Africa, Nigeria, and Venezuela, Trump Makes George W. Bush Look Like George F. Kennan

Monday, November 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump’s foreign policy has become a grotesque mix of Musk’s ego, Fox’s fiction, and white grievance. iPINIONS chronicles who, from South Africa to Venezuela, it’s ignorance on parade and power without principle. What could go wrong… Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/on-foreign-policy-trump-makes-george Read more.

Nigeria to Smithsonian: ‘Give Our Benin Bronzes Back!’

Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 1:14 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Give our Benin Bronzes back The Smithsonian marked Indigenous People’s Day last week by holding a ceremony to give 29 Benin Bronzes back to their rightful owners. It wanted the ceremony to be symbolic and substantive in equal measure. The Smithsonian is the latest institution heeding Nigeria’s demand to return artifacts British forces plundered. Most notably, Germany agreed last… Read more.

Hey Michelle, Rihanna, et al, Boko Haram Has Kidnapped More Girls. I Care. Do You?

Monday, March 1, 2021 at 6:11 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

I am bemused and humbled in equal measure every time I read about Pied Pipers (aka social-media influencers) who have millions of people clicking on their pages, like Pavlovian dogs, every day – often many times a day. Because I’m all too mindful that, more often than not, the only thing people get from those… Read more.

Black Lives Matter Protests in Nigeria … for Nigerians (#EndSARS).

Friday, October 23, 2020 at 6:10 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, protesters around the world marched in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters in the United States. But it was always understood that protesters in predominantly white countries, especially in Europe, were also marching to protest police brutality against local Blacks. Overlooked, however, was that protesters in… Read more.

In Nigeria, Covid-19 Charity Begins with Public Shaming

Monday, May 4, 2020 at 6:40 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

It’s an oxymoronic feature of chronically poor countries that the politicians who govern them are often their highest paid professionals. Nowhere is this more the case than in Nigeria. Public shaming forced rich corporations in America to return millions from this country’s Covid-19 Payment Protection Program. Remarkably, the same forced rich politicians in Nigeria to… Read more.

Hey Europe, Wait Till Nigerians Get Tired of – Waiting…

Friday, July 12, 2019 at 9:41 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Because, if you think African migration is bad now, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule has said that only corruption is stagnating Nigeria from competing with other developed countries like the United Kingdom and the United States. … ‘Nigeria by all intent and purposes is not a poor country,… Read more.

Boko Haram (a la Chibok Girls) Strikes Again. So Where’s the Outrage?!

Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 12:13 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Terror group Boko Haram incited international outrage four years ago when it kidnapped hundreds of schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. In fact, no less a person than First Lady Michelle Obama led the viral protest #BringBackOurGirls. Yet, just two years later, you would have been forgiven for having no clue this infamous kidnapping… Read more.

#BringBackOurGirls Lost In Dustbin of Viral Consciousness

Monday, April 18, 2016 at 7:35 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Thursday marked the second anniversary of the kidnapping of nearly 300 schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria, by the Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram. This kidnapping incited universal outrage. Never mind that this outrage manifested in little more than people – most notably celebrities like Rihanna, Madonna, and Michelle Obama – posting #BringBackOurGirls on their social media pages.… Read more.