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...

The Apt Censure from London!

Recently London played host to a host of countries in an elaborate well-attended Global Anti-Corruption Summit. The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari was among the...

Sadiq Khan has Made History In the United Kingdom

The recent electoral victory of Sadiq Khan in London, the city with the largest population in the United Kingdom, is a welcome development. Sadiq...

President Dilma. Rousseff vs. the Senate of Brazil

The former President of Brazil, D. Rouseff should be discharged and acquitted for the following reasons: That incompetence is not a crime but is...

Why Donald Trump Shouldn’t Dare the Smiting Power of Women

Donald Trump should be advised not to thread the uncharted territory of women. He should be admonished to read a book titled: "Anatomy of...

Much Ado about Nigeria Being “Fantastically Corrupt”

The recent description of Nigeria as a “fantastically corrupt” nation by the British Prime Minister, David Cameron on Tuesday, has become subject of contemptuous...

Vote for Quintessential Hillary Clinton!

Apart from Secretary Clinton's quintessential self, she is versatile with a fertile mind. She is very presidential in her demeanor, and she is more...

Hillary Clinton and I

From December, 1991 to December, 1992, I was a Visiting Research Fellow to the prestigious University of Michigan, Faculty of Law, at Ann Arbor,...

Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Speech

Donald Trump should fire his Foreign Policy team after reading this piece. The reasons for this are as follows. In International relations, foreign policies are...

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The Unraveling of the Great American Scam…where is CNN Now?

How to rob a bank? Well, not quite. In Houston, Stanford Investments not Nigerians are the ones robbing the bank. Millions of American dead beat consumers, leveraged to their eye balls are the bank robbers...

Senator Aliyu's '419' Bombshell!

Last Thursday almost all national dailies in Nigeria reported the '419' bombshell dropped by Senator Nuhu Aliyu on the floor of the upper legislative chambers the previous day...

Shamble Education Can't Save Young Nigerians!

The collapse of the education system in Nigeria is indicative of the general collapse and retreat of the state. A strong influence of the state's political and economical affairs!

Ohakim as Imo Governor: The Pains Behind The Pay!

Governor Ohakim assumed office with such pomp and panache that reinvigorated hopes and enthusiasm in the minds of Imo people who had been cruelly short-changed in the immediate past; but the present nostalgic feeling of that forgettable past is a testament that the governor has performed more in words than in action...

Drinking From Our Diverse Well

A multinational society like Nigeria can reconcile unity and diversity only if it does not confuse unity with uniformity and seek comprehensive cultural uniformity among its ethnic nationalities. It should evolve its unity out of its diversity by encouraging its cultural communities to evolve a plural national culture...

The Nigerian National Anthem And Flag

As long as the basic problems in Nigeria are not addressed, I see no compelling reason for any rational and well-meaning Nigerian leader to be taking our people on a wild goose chase to Space. What of simple things like educating our people and children to appreciate the symbolism of our National Anthem and National Flag?

Vice President Atiku Abubakar Must Resign Now!

There are abandoned, neglected and decaying public infrastructures in Nigeria, but public officials of Nigeria are greedily amassing mansions upon mansions in America and Europe, where public infrastructures do work and perform efficiently…

The African Hypocrites (4)

The problem of Africa is not a failure of the social, political and economic institutions. It is of the decadence in the souls of Africans. The African worshippers of foreign gods are soulless moronic opportunists…

Expectations Of An Eligible Spinster…

Part of the reason why a lot of my sisters are not married and are unlikely to find that Mr. Right who would occupy that special place they have reserved for him is that a lot of them are unusual fans of the Rev Martin Luther King: they are dreamers...

MLK: A Tribute to a Quintessential Black American

"We must learn to live together as brothers or...