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Nigerian International lawyer (LL.M Harvard),based in Lagos, Nigeria. My career spans the United Nations Geneva, Switzerland (World Health Organization, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), Nigerian energy sector(Shell Petroleum, Conoco), Human/Women's Rights and Education (Secondary and Tertiary). Oped writer for the Guardian Nigeria and contributor to the Global Policy Institute, Loyola Marymount University,California. My work has also appeared in The Hill, Washington DC, Women in leadership, London, UK and European Network against Racism, Brussels, Belgium.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2022
The Lady Street Walker "Walking the city's highways, byways and mean streets Clearly, never mistaken for a no-nonsense, uniformed cop on the beat Scantily clad, my tired, wracked mind and body, bared Tricks of the trade; all the better to ply, barter, sell my wares."
Wednesday, January 19, 2022The Lady Street Walker "Walking the city's highways, byways and mean streets Clearly, never mistaken for a no-nonsense, uniformed cop on the beat Scantily clad, my tired, wracked mind and body, bared Tricks of the trade; all the better to ply, barter, sell my wares."
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Wednesday, January 12, 2022
A Big World "Decks are stacked, the weighted dice turns, rolls, spins Dastardly deceit and greed triumph, the crappy rat-house always wins Rules are for losers; the wild, joker-trump-card, madly grins and mocks The powerless blocked, left in debilitating states of ruination, and perpetual shock."
Wednesday, January 12, 2022A Big World "Decks are stacked, the weighted dice turns, rolls, spins Dastardly deceit and greed triumph, the crappy rat-house always wins Rules are for losers; the wild, joker-trump-card, madly grins and mocks The powerless blocked, left in debilitating states of ruination, and perpetual shock."
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Wednesday, January 5, 2022
The Force of Life The cresting and fading of giant, proud waves The lightning and lava of volcanic eruptions The midnight sun and green flickering northern lights.
Wednesday, January 5, 2022The Force of Life The cresting and fading of giant, proud waves The lightning and lava of volcanic eruptions The midnight sun and green flickering northern lights.
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Saturday, December 25, 2021
The Coming New Year "Shakespeare's ugly, bearded, witchy-hags cackle, into their evil cauldron, 'Double, double, toil and trouble' Assuring, Macbeth a bloody, kingly throne; every tyrant's darkest, depraved, self-indulgent dream. Imaginably, humanity will awaken, ere long, and burst out of its somnolent, sinister, hostile bubble." .
Saturday, December 25, 2021The Coming New Year "Shakespeare's ugly, bearded, witchy-hags cackle, into their evil cauldron, 'Double, double, toil and trouble' Assuring, Macbeth a bloody, kingly throne; every tyrant's darkest, depraved, self-indulgent dream. Imaginably, humanity will awaken, ere long, and burst out of its somnolent, sinister, hostile bubble." .
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Saturday, December 11, 2021
The Fraternal Order of Cain "Inquired of, by the Divine Creator, for Abel, his unjustly, murdered brother. Cain, the killer, remorseless and scornful of repentance, is loath to bother. His mark, visible today, in hardened, hateful hearts; destined to never join the ranks of, phileo-lovers."
Saturday, December 11, 2021The Fraternal Order of Cain "Inquired of, by the Divine Creator, for Abel, his unjustly, murdered brother. Cain, the killer, remorseless and scornful of repentance, is loath to bother. His mark, visible today, in hardened, hateful hearts; destined to never join the ranks of, phileo-lovers."
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Tuesday, November 30, 2021
The world at midnight "Fearful of Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma and Omicron. Absent, a supra-national, virus-defeating hero, like Fleming's: 007 - James Bond."
Tuesday, November 30, 2021The world at midnight "Fearful of Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma and Omicron. Absent, a supra-national, virus-defeating hero, like Fleming's: 007 - James Bond."
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Monday, November 22, 2021
Thanksgiving, Crimes, and Democracy As a global citizen, my profound, heartfelt Thanksgiving is for the true US patriots, who voted against tyrannical, autocratic rule, and took a stand for democracy and the rule of law. .
Monday, November 22, 2021Thanksgiving, Crimes, and Democracy As a global citizen, my profound, heartfelt Thanksgiving is for the true US patriots, who voted against tyrannical, autocratic rule, and took a stand for democracy and the rule of law. .
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Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Education Unanchored "Gates of higher education, shut tight, opening only to the chink,clank and ping of cold, hard coin. "Allowing the monied and creditworthy to pass through their ivory towers, others deemed just dross. "Student loans, an albatross, for which would-be scholars, must gird their loins. "To shoulder and carry through varied vistas and for many moons; like a weighted, cruel iron cross."
Tuesday, November 9, 2021Education Unanchored "Gates of higher education, shut tight, opening only to the chink,clank and ping of cold, hard coin. "Allowing the monied and creditworthy to pass through their ivory towers, others deemed just dross. "Student loans, an albatross, for which would-be scholars, must gird their loins. "To shoulder and carry through varied vistas and for many moons; like a weighted, cruel iron cross."
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Saturday, October 30, 2021
Thursday Thursday and Friday, an enduring marriage, made in heaven. Though, only days four and five, neither a perfect six nor a sacred seven. Weekend fun and games, on the horizon; some surprising. Cheers, jeers, thrills and spills; everyone buys in. I.Fowler
Saturday, October 30, 2021Thursday Thursday and Friday, an enduring marriage, made in heaven. Though, only days four and five, neither a perfect six nor a sacred seven. Weekend fun and games, on the horizon; some surprising. Cheers, jeers, thrills and spills; everyone buys in. I.Fowler
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Guns and Roses "Bloody roses; oceans and aeons apart, yet forming one ghoulish, dripping-wet tapestry. Grim offerings to countless, human tragedies of truncated, stolen, brutalised earthly paradise." . "Guns reveal themselves as being central to white supremacy.......Until Americans fully understand and reconcile their past, they have little hope of addressing the epidemic of gun violence in America today." - Thom Hartmann
Tuesday, October 19, 2021Guns and Roses "Bloody roses; oceans and aeons apart, yet forming one ghoulish, dripping-wet tapestry. Grim offerings to countless, human tragedies of truncated, stolen, brutalised earthly paradise." . "Guns reveal themselves as being central to white supremacy.......Until Americans fully understand and reconcile their past, they have little hope of addressing the epidemic of gun violence in America today." - Thom Hartmann
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Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Daffodils "Daffodils, a seamless, standing army of flaxen trumpets; brassy and bright." - I.F "Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils." - William Wordsworth
Wednesday, September 29, 2021Daffodils "Daffodils, a seamless, standing army of flaxen trumpets; brassy and bright." - I.F "Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils." - William Wordsworth
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Friday, September 10, 2021
Afghan and Texan Women: More - Not - Less Prized, placed on pedestals, or pilloried; yet pinioned. Targets of eons-long, domination and control. Woman, thy names are: Trouble, Temerity, Triumph ! .
Friday, September 10, 2021Afghan and Texan Women: More - Not - Less Prized, placed on pedestals, or pilloried; yet pinioned. Targets of eons-long, domination and control. Woman, thy names are: Trouble, Temerity, Triumph ! .
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Monday, August 23, 2021
America The Great by Irene Fowler & Blair Gelbond Spare a thought for fragile Democracies: Ceaseless onslaughts mounted against the ramparts of democracy, which characterize factions of the body politic, and a significant portion of American society, will undoubtedly have existential implications for global democracy - I.F While there are other centers of military might and financial prowess on our planet - for now"as American "leadership" goes" so goes the world - B.G
Monday, August 23, 2021America The Great by Irene Fowler & Blair Gelbond Spare a thought for fragile Democracies: Ceaseless onslaughts mounted against the ramparts of democracy, which characterize factions of the body politic, and a significant portion of American society, will undoubtedly have existential implications for global democracy - I.F While there are other centers of military might and financial prowess on our planet - for now"as American "leadership" goes" so goes the world - B.G
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
The Rose Garden If we have learned any timely, valuable, costly or painful lessons from the ongoing global pandemic, they should be overlaid with the irrefutable reality that we are inextricably interconnected. Humanity and lesser creatures will sink or swim together. .
Tuesday, July 13, 2021The Rose Garden If we have learned any timely, valuable, costly or painful lessons from the ongoing global pandemic, they should be overlaid with the irrefutable reality that we are inextricably interconnected. Humanity and lesser creatures will sink or swim together. .
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Thursday, June 10, 2021
Mother Earth - Gaia - Bundu 'Mankind's cash-cow nearing exhaustion, skirting ruination Yet, not done chiding, clamouring, protesting, messaging Humanity joins Mother Earth to lament and weep Together, wail and sob, cry out from the deep Reverse our course, lest life in all forms Be damned, to eternal, lifeless, sleep.'
Thursday, June 10, 2021Mother Earth - Gaia - Bundu 'Mankind's cash-cow nearing exhaustion, skirting ruination Yet, not done chiding, clamouring, protesting, messaging Humanity joins Mother Earth to lament and weep Together, wail and sob, cry out from the deep Reverse our course, lest life in all forms Be damned, to eternal, lifeless, sleep.'
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Sunday, May 16, 2021
Summer Camp With Denmark's Princess Benedikte ll Princess Benedikte II was born during Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark. Awareness of the contemporaneous, inauspicious state of world affairs at the time she was born,likely helped to shape who she is today. She heads the Scout/Guide organisation in Denmark. She also plays an active role in the worldwide movement.
Sunday, May 16, 2021Summer Camp With Denmark's Princess Benedikte ll Princess Benedikte II was born during Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark. Awareness of the contemporaneous, inauspicious state of world affairs at the time she was born,likely helped to shape who she is today. She heads the Scout/Guide organisation in Denmark. She also plays an active role in the worldwide movement.
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Monday, April 26, 2021
God's Own Children A sonnet: "God's own children taught to revile Shared humanity of another hue Joint-heirs of sun, air and dew White eyes and ears imbibe the bile."
Monday, April 26, 2021God's Own Children A sonnet: "God's own children taught to revile Shared humanity of another hue Joint-heirs of sun, air and dew White eyes and ears imbibe the bile."
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Guns, guns and more guns A nation rag-doll-like in a tsunami of guns Law-makers exalt greed, immorality, death Brooking neither dissent nor debate Contemptuous of reason and good faith Guns do not kill, people do.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021Guns, guns and more guns A nation rag-doll-like in a tsunami of guns Law-makers exalt greed, immorality, death Brooking neither dissent nor debate Contemptuous of reason and good faith Guns do not kill, people do.
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Saturday, February 20, 2021
My memorable moments with Queen Elizabeth II The Monarchess has been able to sail adverse storms, and withstand fresh and unexpected challenges admirably. Her herculean ethos of personal sacrifice above all else is legendary and unyielding. She evinces nobility of character and symbolizes time-honoured values, in an age of turmoil and widespread depravity. Long live the Queen!
Saturday, February 20, 2021My memorable moments with Queen Elizabeth II The Monarchess has been able to sail adverse storms, and withstand fresh and unexpected challenges admirably. Her herculean ethos of personal sacrifice above all else is legendary and unyielding. She evinces nobility of character and symbolizes time-honoured values, in an age of turmoil and widespread depravity. Long live the Queen!
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Friday, February 5, 2021
Election Fraud - A Sonnet A Prince of darkness wails To the loser belongs the spoils War on truth and reality Reality and truth decapitated A solution in search of a problem No problem, election fraud will do!
Friday, February 5, 2021Election Fraud - A Sonnet A Prince of darkness wails To the loser belongs the spoils War on truth and reality Reality and truth decapitated A solution in search of a problem No problem, election fraud will do!