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...

The Development of International Human Rights Law since 1948

I have gladly accepted the invitation of the Strasbourg Conference on International Law and Human Rights because since I spoke here in 1989, there has been a decline in respect for human rights world-wide...

Africa: A Dumping Ground For Substandard Electrical Wares

The importers of substandard electrical wares do not want to give up on the business given the high margin of profit accruable from it. It is estimated that the value of counterfeited electrical products is in the region of $250 billion per year...

World Diplomatic Crises, Afghanistan, Iran: No Turn-around

Seneca’s view that government is more or less a makeshift remedy for human evil, has remained a truism...

A Limitation to Papal Liberalism: the UN vs The Catholic Church

This is the Era of the Gentiles, the era of spirit consciousness. It is also a period when the anti-Christ devotees have become more active in promoting debaucheries unknown in the 1930s...

A 2014 Message to Activists and Prisoners of Conscience

As 2014 begins, many challenges lie ahead. Human rights continue to be violated on a massive scale, from Syria to the Central African Republic...

The United Nations Organization and Failed World Leaders: Juridical Responsibility for Failed State Syndrome

There are immediate and compelling reasons why the United Nations Organization, though very ineffective in regulating world crisis, should review its domestic jurisdiction clause...

Shinzo Abe Re-kindles Bitter Memories of Japanese Militarism

Shintoism is the Japanese official religion. The Japanese emperor is their god on earth. Under that innocent smile that radiates and spreads on Japanese faces, lies a steely disposition...

Samuel Colt, Alfred Nobel, Max Planck and A. Kalashnikov: Destroyers of the Human Race

Those who do not know often raise their busy eye-brows, when they hear the truth. Thinkers are encouraged to ignore the ignorant and spread the word...

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S.O.S! Bring Back Sani Abacha!

I am thinking that when the soldiers come back to loot, er, rule, we now have something to keep them in line. If they start misbehaving and stealing, we will say to them, if you are not careful, we will invite the pro-democracy movement back to Aso Rock! Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh! That should put the fear of God in their thieving heads! I still have my placards...

They Call Me A Fag…But Am I Really Gay?

A cult of boys who grew up into men overnight. A group of boys whose psyche and sexuality has become transformed. Angry at other men, and abhorrers of women but lustful of some men. A strange world that I found myself in...

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...

Dear President Obasanjo et al…

While trying to build an empire for our families, we should remember that the persons on whose behalf we build will have to live among their peers...

Strategic Factors and Options: The Credibility of the Ijaw Nation

The lack of political responsibility, accountability,  transparency, development and performance, in terms of delivering goods and services to the people is leading to questions, both internally and externally, about the capability of Ijaw political leaders to captain the ship of development and modernization…

Wasting Nigeria’s Graduates and School-Leavers!

Nearing 50 years after independence, Nigeria has not reached far in the intellectual world of books. How much can we truly claim to be our own and not a pale imitation of the left-over of the Anglo-American world?

Funsho Williams: Another Senseless Killing

Dele Giwa. Alfred Rewane. Marshall Harry. Bola Ige. Jerry Agbeyegbe. The list goes on and on and on and on. It never stops. Will it ever stop? And now, Chief Funsho Williams, killed in the comfort of his home. Why?

Naming the Unnameable: A Memorial For Ebereonwu

The story of Ebereonwu who was born as Paul Obinali Ebereonwu is one that reads like a classic legend. It is the story of a young man who sought to conquer the world by pursuing his professional interest in remarkable ways...

Interview With Lamidi Adedibu, Formerly Amala Politician…

The setting is in limbo, a GRA  for  both the important and unimportant, those that the cosmic master himself has placed on a waiting list of cases yet to be decided. As the latest entrant to the semi-humid classroom, Adedibu is convinced that he deserves a place with the greats...

#30PercentOrNothing? Not This Generation…At Least Not Yet

The #30PercentOrNothing hashtag is one of the newest to...