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...

Is Autumn Finally Here for Robert Mugabe?

Robert Mugabe, the 91-year old president of Zimbabwe – that beautiful but horribly impoverished country tucked away in the Southern part of Africa –...

70 Years of the UN: Critical Successes & Dismal Failures in the Era of the Antichrist (2)

Worldwide, the dismal failure of ideology in primitive societies, feudal societies, capitalist societies and the old socialist order in the 21st century, is responsible...

Humanitarian Security Management: Need for Paradigm Shift

This discourse interrogates the current humanitarian security management systems in the light of the escalating upsurge in the volume of attacks directed at aid...

70 Years of the UN: Critical Successes & Dismal Failures in the Era of the Antichrist

When Lucifer entered the hearts of Adolf Hitler, Mussolini and Hirobito from 1939-1945, the world witnessed the most harrowing destruction of human beings in...

Nigeria-US Diplomatic Relations Revisited

On October 1, 1960, Nigeria became an independent, sovereign state and the 99th member-state of the United Nations Organization. Shortly after, we entered into...

Boko Haram: Consolidating On The Sub-Regional Initiative

So much have been said and written about the Mohammadu Buhari led administration’s commitment to completely ousting Boko Haram from the remaining swathes of...

Nigeria-US Diplomatic Relations Revisited

On October 1,1960, Nigeria became an independent, sovereign state and the 99th member-state of  the United Nations Organization. Shortly after, we entered into diplomatic...

Semantic Denigrations of African States: Wake Up Africa! (2)

As a result of the idiocy and otiose disputations on race and skin colour, which has dominated Caucasian consciousness and which have affected that...

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Vivid Notes On Sam Egwu

This piece is about an uncommon fellow, a man popularly known for his political savvy, calm disposition and undisguised love for humanity.  This man is Dr. Sam Egwu who turned fifty-four on June 20, 2008...

The (Aborted) Meeting of the Igbo Political Forum

The recent blocking of a planned meeting of the Igbo Political Forum (IPF), which was to take place at the Banquet Hall of Hotel Concorde, Owerri, on Monday September 27, 2010, has generated headlines, editorials and condemnations...

Democrats, Timid, Timorous Tentative; But Why?

Obama as candidate, always appeared to be ahead of his opponents in ideas and responded to counter everything the opponents conjured up, or hurled at him, but now, President Obama and his Democratic team have been on the defensive since inauguration...

Dilemma of the Nigerian

Is the Nigerian in the Diaspora facing condemnation and alienation?

Sports Minister Enoh Charges Ezenwanne To Win Para-Powerlifting Medals For Nigeria

Nigeria’s Sports Minister John Enoh is poised to take...

The Need for Holistic and Altruistic Approaches to IGR and Taxation in Nigeria

This is not an academic or professional article about...

The Existential Threat of Britain’s Exit of the European Union

The shockwaves, the existential threat and exhaustion of the...

Open letter to Alhaji Sani Yerima

It is perhaps right to state that the last has not been heard about your unceremonious marriage to a minor and the consequent barrage of public criticism it generated. June 15, 2010 is your next date with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic Persons...

In Achebe's company 'the prison walls fell down'

In the couple of months following his death up to his burial, the world has risen in unison to celebrate Chinua Achebe as a man universally acclaimed to be the father of modern African literature and as the man who used literature to bring Africa to the world...

An Interrogation of the British Intelligence Records on the January 15 1966 Coup

The three-part series on the revelations from the British...