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...

A Treatise on the Historical, Theoretical Issues in the Middle- East Crisis

The Middle East has been a theatre of constant religious, ideological and struggles against ancient regimes...

Normandy was a brave act of valour and military intelligence

I lived and studied in Europe for ten years. During the period, I travelled extensively, cross-crossing the continent from  the Soviet Union to Britain. Each time I remember the history of the Second World War...

Alemu: The imprisoned and exploited Ethiopian journalist

She was arrested on June 21, 2011 from the school that she taught and was oppressed before she was thrown into the prison. She was later charged with arson and teaching and organizing terrorism...

The Cogency of Military Intelligence

The concept of intelligence is undeniably a very important subject for social humans. Military intelligence is crucial to state security and statecraft. It involves the meticulous gathering of relevant information, analysing them to see where they lead to for military operations to commence...

Wasila Umar’s Fatal Protest Against Child Marriage

The practice of forced marriage of underaged girls by some parents to shameless, paedophilic men old enough to be their fathers or even grandfathers, plagues Northern Nigeria, some other parts of Africa and Asia...

The Mis-Education of the African People (3)

A sizable number of educated Africans rarely speak positively and confidently about African cultures.  Instead, they tend to claim that they are Christians and or Moslems...

The Mis-Education of the African People (2)

Due to educational systems that deny and reject African existence, an increasing number of black people are bleaching their skins in order to become lighter.  Women lead the men in bleaching their skins but the men are gradually catching up in the rush to be lighter...

Checking USA and UK’s spiteful comments against Jonathan on insecurity

Since the killings and bombings by the radical Islamic sect called Boko Haram intensified in the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, many people are counseling that there is a conspiracy theory against the president by northerners and some of their international collaborators...

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Active Governance With Nothing To Show: Why Is It Here?

It is generally the poor that suffer from bad governance. If anyone were to challenge that claim, it would be difficult to present them with overwhelmingly convincing factual evidence...

Days Of Our Lives

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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...

Before the National Dialogue Begins…

A political cultist group emerged after military rule. A man-made god reverence dominated our political space, whereby a few men dictated their subject ideas about how Nigeria must be governed...

Nigerian ‘Japa’ Trend And The Issue Of Brain Drain

If you are to ask the average Nigerian today...

Unwarranted & Unsolicited Calls & Text Messages: Open Letter To The Chairman, Nigeria Communications Commission

Sir, UNSOLICITED AND UNWARRANTED CALLS AND TEXT MESSAGES TO OUR...

#SARSMUSTEND: How Government Can End Nationwide Protests

As protests against police brutality and calls for the...

Key Points for Our Acting President

The making of Goodluck Jonathan, the Acting President, is a true evidence of how Nigerians can exercise their powers. Power belongs to the people...

Going Through the Immigration Process to Bring Your Nigerian Husband to America (Part II)

The immigration process is not for the “light of heart”, for it takes endurance, trust, faith in your spouse, and a thick shell to ward off the doubtful darts of others who deem you foolish for waiting for such a long period of time or marrying a foreigner in the first place...

Help, My Baby Can’t Sleep!

He just turned one, a couple of months ago. I have been at pains trying to make him realise that where he was born and lives is called Nigeria, and that in his country, at this time, virtually every facility that requires government’s input to function appears to have either packed up or grossly under-performing...