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...

Revisiting the Ahmad Al-Assir Saga

Today’s piece re-examines the wider security implications of the arrest of radical Muslim Cleric, Ahmad al-Assir, by Lebanese authorities at the Beirut’s Rafik Hariri...

From Kampala to Abuja

Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo was the former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor who did many great things during his years in the apex bank...

The Ghost of Sankara and June 12

October 15th 1987 will forever remain indelible in the annals of political history in both Burkina Faso and Africa, for on that day of...

Lampedusa: The Exodus

During the colonial days more than a century ago the White men that came to Africa never bothered themselves with passports, visas or 'yellow...

The Strong-Man Syndrome!

When the US President Barack Obama visited Ghana in his first mandate some years back he had famously declared that Africa, the blessed land...

Humans + Materialism

‘’He gives twice who gives promptly.’’ -Publilius Syrus (1st century BC) The current refugees’ flight from Syria and other parts of the earth have once...

ISIS: Satanic Is This Daesh ‘Allah’!

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL), known as Daesh in Arabic, has come to be known generally as the most...

President Obama’s Historic Message to Nigeria

This piece goes beyond political expediency or a sense of self-interest. Rather, it is with a profound sense of fulfillment to receive an appreciative...

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April Elections – Welcome Happy Mornings

Listen to the presidential aspirants; all their speeches are littered with God's name. Since the Almighty Father is a consensus candidate, let Him take over our presidency...

The Loneliness of the Expired President

It’s not only drugs that expire; presidents also expire....

Economic transformation, the Chinese way

The truth is that every great people must first lose their direction several times before finally finding the right direction. That's how every fallen great nation can rise to greatness...

53 Years of Leadership Failures?

Nigeria has experienced 53 years of leadership failures. This is evident in the huge external debt, high rate of inflation, high level of poverty, bad monetary policy, high government spending, lack of fiscal discipline, increasing national debt, low foreign exchange reserve, high level of unemployment, stagnant income growth, high budget deficit and bad exchange rate among others...

The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance

Here was a President who had taken the easy way out of a combat experience in Vietnam now telling the world and the nation that John Kerry with all his service to the nation in the same war, is a cartoon character who is not fit to be a Commander-in-chief in times of War...

Niger Delta: Sitting On Oil, Hungry For Bread!

Ever since oil drilling got under way in the Niger Delta’s Oloibiri in the early 1950s, the communities that surround this stormy body of “oil-hood” have lived in dread of an environmental failure...

Bart Nnaji, Okey Ndibe & African Commentary Magazine

“Publishing is a cruel and shallow money trench, a...

What Do APC, Nigerian Leaders Stand For?

The All Progressives Congress is now frequently called Nigeria’s main opposition party or group. Which designation raises the question: what exactly does the APC stand for? Or—a different question: In what significant ways does the APC represent an alternative vision for Nigerians?

Omoyele Sowore's Saharan 'Rebellion'!

For an ill-informed first-time visitor to the 'SaharaReporters' website, the conclusion may be drawn to the effect that 'SR' has a standard editorial policy that wilfully and maliciously prescribes chiefly the embarrasment of the President...

Anambra and the Politics of Propaganda

Last week, Governor Peter Obi of Anambra received unflattering epithets when he intruded on a rally where state workers were discussing his unpopular proposal on the implementation of the new minimum wage...