Africa

World Cup Tragedy Of South Africa

The urge in the beginning had been to entitle this piece “The Death of African Solidarity”. It took no time at all for me to...

South Africa: We Are All Victims

South Africa has pursued post-apartheid policies, the consequences of which we are seeing today. The country has a terrifying, soft underbelly which is now...

Manufacturers of Coups and Bandits   

Coups and bandits are all the rage these days. Just the other day, December 7 to be exact, there was the hot news that soldiers...

Africa and the World: Responding to Paul Adujie

Our leaders have poor judgment and make bad decisions: they go around the world with their heads bowed currying favors; they go from one corner of the world to the other, with cap in hand, begging for financial crumbs. Africa has been a collection of beggar nation states right from the early years of political independence...

Dicey Loops

As the world was celebrating the 'downfall' of the 'monster' of Baghdad, the news came that the invasion was a superfluous venture...like killing a fly with a sledgehammer...

Africans: The Way The World Works

The worst twin-evils of human history are slavery and colonialism, those who committed or perpetrated slavery and colonialism were and are the first terrorists, they committed the worst acts of terrorism, they were those who snatched and enslaved Africans, those who killed, maimed and brutalized Africans, those who branded Africans as if Africans were of less value...

Africans: The Way The World Works

The worst twin-evils of human history are slavery and colonialism, those who committed or perpetrated slavery and colonialism were and are the first terrorists, they committed the worst acts of terrorism, they were those who snatched and enslaved Africans, those who killed, maimed and brutalized Africans, those who branded Africans as if Africans were of less value...

Liberty, G8 and Poverty

The West has an obligation to help Africa because in 1884 the West officially caused the initial African mess: Currently, in the world economy, a chain is as strong as its weakest link...

Do They Really Care for Black Africans?

Even if Bob Geldof and his cohorts have genuine concerns about the ordinary people in Africa, they are going about it the wrong way because they are not actually addressing any problem by wining and dining with presidents and making headlines in the western newspapers...

Real Leadership

Students of leadership do not need to look much further in this generation for a leader; for I have found one in George W. Bush, the President of the United States of America...

Lobby: Between Nigeria and Britain

The word lobby is a notion commonly used among politicians or in political discourses. The process of actualizing lobby is conditioned by various local peculiarities in such a way that those of us who are not members of the legislative or the executive arm of government, are oftentimes confounded...

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Rail Modernization Project: Viewing The Collapse From The Lapses

The purported 25-year national plan for railway development initiated four years ago appears tardy and unrealistic and therefore should be scrapped. A proper decision must be taken on whether the rail mode should be public service centred, commercialized or privatized…

One Nigeria: To Be Or Not To Be? (5)

Our fathers, grand fathers and great grand fathers got independence for us from the British, but the North recolonised us immediately before the British even lowered the Union Jack...

The fallacy of the Nigerian Cassava Bread

When the news first hit town a few months back that the Federal Government under the leadership of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has a plan to  soon roll out an indigenous special  bread for the mass population of hungry Nigerians, the first thought that raced through my curious mind was that of bewilderment...

Will Nigeria ever wake up from this bad dream?

Nigeria definitely has never had it this bad. When in the history of Nigeria, even under Abacha has the Federal Government been so broke it cannot pay state allocations? This was not even a possibility under the military. Now under this administration, states are owed 2 months arrears.

Nigerian Ex-Dictators Parry Prosecution, Ambush Democracy

The Youths of Nigeria have never really known and may never know true democracy...

Football as a Microcosm of Nigeria's National Problem

From all possible indications, it looks like Nigeria has crashed out of this year's world cup after losing two out of a possible three of the group matches. It seems the stage is set for the topping of the progressive degeneration of Nigerian football...

The evils of complacency in politics

Oftentimes, intrigues exist in political matrixes. Concepts such as...

AFRICOM: Self-Serving Western Interests or African Security?

America's establishment of the so-called African Command should be seen for what it is. This is America's self-serving armada of protection for America and her allies...

Democratic Rights And The Basic Rules Of Politics

Changing the basic rules of politics is a risky venture that is hardly resorted to unless they become imperative. As a rule the changes are the outcome of circumstances or the result of a scenario where people lose their faith in the existing system...

Hooray for democracy! Hooray Nigerians! But…

In all my adult life, there have been precious few incidents that have made Nigerians from all walks of life unite in celebration and joy...