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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The Isle of the Living Dead

Wole Soyinka, that brave and brilliant Nigerian of unassailable...

Alliance of Nigerian Leaders and Igbo Dropouts

All that any Igbo charlatan needs to hoodwink many...

Endgame

Home, where is home? Look, now England is home. I will NEVER go back to that hopeless country and be ruled by idiots. Never! Don’t you see the point? Don’t you see the kind of people running that country and the beasts who are getting ready to run it again, after running it aground...

New York State of Mind

I thank God for my country, Nigeria. I thank God that my country is so "Third World" that we have not been able to make an enemy big enough to plan a Sept. 11...

That Shehu Shagari Interview

I think that Shagari and his likes should go and bury their heads in the sand. It was their mismanagement of our economy that opened the back door for the military to come in and pillage our national treasury...

The Basis for Ojukwu's Greatness

Where exactly is the basis for Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s greatness? That question sounds rather blasphemous coming from me, a young post-colonial Igbo who fancies himself a historian of some sorts...

Crazy School Days at Great Ife

My studies at Great Ife under Prof Wole Soyinka...

Nigerians are also Dying from Prescription Medications

Africa is besieged with numerous unexplained deaths. Many could rightly be attributed to the consequences of poverty and dearth of a well organised and non-epileptic healthcare and social infrastructures. The reality is that we also have our own deaths from medications...

Resolving the ASUU Debacle – Once, and for all

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has become a perpetual nuisance to the education wellbeing of the Nigerian student. A union otherwise created as a platform to elevate education, has since the dark days of the military era transformed itself into a powerful lobby dedicated to undermining the wellbeing of Nigeria’s future...

Money, Kudi, Owo

Chief MKO Abiola, it is already seven years since death took you away from us to somewhere far away where we cannot reach or hear your voice; to where we cannot share from your reservoir of proverbs and aphorisms, your sound intellect, your obsession for sports at both able and disabled levels, your capacity to obtain and merge several chieftaincy titles.You came, you saw and you conquered!