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...

John Bolton's Nomination Does Not Bode Well For America

America under George Bush is slowly and progressively boxing herself into a corner, as can be seen from the recent selection of the Pope where none of the several American Cardinals was considered fit to be Pope because America already dominates the world, and picking a Pope from America was simply inconceivable...

Taking An Opinion Poll…A Response to Sabella Abidde

What you are essentially disputing in your critique is not that some of the observations I have made in my write-up are totally wrong, but that you think it is too early to judge...

It is Premature to Hail the Chief

To say the current President Bush is “great” is premature. We don’t know. We simply don’t know yet! And we cannot know until a while into the future..

Hail To The Chief

G.W. may not have the verbiage and bulldog persona of a Ronald Reagan. But he sure brings to the Presidency a sure footedness and single-minded focus on promoting the cause of Freedom around the world...

The Illegality and Absurdity in Togo

Togo is a country that rivals Nigeria, Cote D’Ivoire, Somalia, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo and many other countries in terms of corruption, misrule, abuse of power and many other unsavory attributes that characterizes African politics. I guess great things come in small sizes, too!

Africa: A Chequered Past and a Damned Future?

What has Africa given to the world in terms of science and technology? What contribution have we made in the areas of philosophy, economics, political theory and political thought? And if the African continent was to disappear from the face of the earth, would the world miss us? Would the world notice our absence?

Kojo Annan's Indiscretion

The Scriptures tell us the sins of the father shall be visited on their children up to the fourth generation. Those who now link the indiscretion or the poor judgment of Kojo Annan to his father, the Secretary-general of the United Nations may have parted ways with the Scriptures...

The Campaign of Calumny Against Kofi Annan

The attempt by this Administration to incite the UN senior and junior staff to mutiny against their boss is part of the carefully orchestrated plan to blackmail and punish Kofi Annan for doing his job as a good and competent Secretary-general...

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The Foreigners Are To Be Blamed

The accusation in the statement attributed to Gana often provides refuge for the illiterates amongst us; the type of people that perpetrated the catastrophic destructions in Kaduna are as guilty as Gana who unknowingly is inciting Nigerians against Foreigners...

Much Ado about Nigeria Being “Fantastically Corrupt”

The recent description of Nigeria as a “fantastically corrupt”...

Spill Baby Spill: Of Private Profits, Public Burdens and Liability?

It is good thing that BP is suffering from the consequences of its environmental ineptitude. BP shares are being battered in American and European stock exchanges, and even amidst this pummeling, BP is declaring billion Dollars in dividends for shareholders and spending millions on public relations advertising while the house is on fire...

Nigeria, Revenue Poverty and Taxation Atrophy

When our forefathers came up with the wise saying...

International Slavery: Time for an Apology from Christian and Islamic Authorities

It is time for Christian and Islamic Authorities to...

Still On Nigeria’s Railway History – “Narrow Gauge In Nigeria”

Once, shortly after our independence from Great Britain, the whole world believed, and were never in doubt that, Nigeria was going to be a great, if not the greatest African nation in the world...

What Progress?

We concede that there has been established some institutional framework to fight corruption, the question is, has it been effective?  Has it lived up to the promise that ‘there shall be no sacred cows’? Has the state investigated in a clear and transparent manner...

Dr Umelobi Ihekweazu, Physician and gentleman – 1932-2007

Last week, the news came of the death of Dr Umelobi Ihekweazu, retired physician and former Deputy Director of Medical Services at the University of Nigeria where I had grown up. The news came as a shock...

The Battle of the Generals: Myths, manipulations and 2011

We seem to have defiled all political permutations and theories. 2011 election will not only mark our water shed but also will be an interesting political manoeuvre and battle of supremacy among some of the individuals who have played a prominent role in the making and unmaking of the Nigerian state...

Between Russia and Nigeria: of Vladimir Lenin and Gani Fawehinmi

In 2002, Google's co-founder opined that Russia is Nigeria...