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...

Africa At A Crossroads: From Resource Dependence To Industrial Powerhouse

If you haven’t listened to Dr. Akinwumi Adesina’s recent interview with Rufai Oseni on Arise TV, you are missing out on one of the...

USAID, Corruption, And Africa’s Aid Trap: Time To Cut The Strings!

For decades, billions of dollars in foreign aid have poured into Africa, yet the continent remains shackled by poverty, underdevelopment, and economic stagnation. The...

Ghana’s Democratic Beacon: Mahama’s Victory and the Maturity of a Nation

Ghana’s recent presidential election has sent a powerful message to the rest of Africa and the world: that democracy can thrive even in the...

Lessons from Ghana

Nigeria's self-proclaimed status as the 'Giant of Africa' is being questioned once again, and a recent example from Ghana highlights this reality. The ruling...

A Democratic Revolution in West Africa: What Ghana’s Elections Mean for Nigeria

Former Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has achieved an extraordinary political comeback, winning the nation’s presidential election after his opponent, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia,...

The Baltasar Endonga Saga: A Disturbing Insight into Abuse of Power and Public Trust

A recent scandal involving prominent Equatorial Guinean official Baltasar Ebang Engonga has sent shockwaves through the country and beyond, raising questions about accountability, ethics,...

UN-Nairobi Civil Society Conference 2024, Outcomes and Prospects

By Kelly Ovie Umukoro In the heart of Nairobi, Kenya, stakeholders from around the world converged for the annual United Nations Civil Society Conference. Over...

Challenges of the Presidential System of Government

This is a long essay on the challenges of the Presidential System of Government in general, how it is constituted in Nigeria, and why...

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End This Political Crisis Before It's Too Late

Mr. Acting President, you should proceed immediately to set up a Commission of Enquiry to look into the events that happened while our President was admitted in a Saudi Arabian hospital...

Ivan Snowden: International Law on Asylum and Espionage

A young American who was entrusted with national security duties, absconded with a trove of vital national intelligence materials and later surfaced in Hong Kong. He later slipped out of his hotel in the height of night and boarded a Moscow-bound Aeroflot. He landed on a Russian chess-board...

As The Deregulation Blues Resonates Again

The hounds are unleashed on this god-forsaken and raped country again. They are laundered in their legion to prey on hapless and battered Nigerians. They have dusted their cannibalistic writs and are spewing utter balderdash that supports the renewal of their strength against the sagging life line of Nigerians...

The Judiciary as Temple of Corruption

Nigeria, sadly, has not been particularly fortunate in its drive to evolve a functional democratic governance since 1999, which could deliver the oft-mentioned but elusive dividends to the people, principally because of the unspeakable greed of its political class, and the attendant impunity accentuated by a seemingly compromised and disabled judiciary...

Sex and the Catholic Church (2)

The Church has no more credible reason to hold on to her prohibition of condoms. Onanism, on which the prohibition rests probatur ex scriptura is a blatant ignorance of the findings of science. It is not sperm that gives human life. It is the union of sperm and ovum...

Welcome to Nigeria, Aunty

No our police don’t work for the government or the people. They are self employed. You’re thirsty? When we go out to change your Dollars to Naira, we will buy you pure water…

Buhari’s Major War

That the tasks before the incoming administration arrow headed...

Who Will “History” Honor?

Obasanjo by virtue of history and opportunity should stand tall among all Nigerian past leaders if he did right by the people...

All We Ever Ask For

I expend my energy in the hope that Nigerian leaders, political and military elite and power-holders will read some of these writings and hopefully examine their conscience, change their ways and re-commit themselves to improving and governing Nigeria the right, humane and considerate way...

The Centrist Manifesto of The New World Ideology

The Centrist Manifesto by Uchenna Nwankwo; Centrist Books –...