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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...

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...

Politics, Politicians and Military Adventure

The psyche of an average Nigeria has been programmed to react and respond to situations in such a manner that reminds us of the long years of military rule and dictatorship...

Royal Baby

There was nothing funny about a bloodied up grown man weeping hysterically in public, and complaining to whoever cared to listen that they robbed him of the 10,000 naira he wanted to use to fly to London to see the royal baby...

International Law of Armed Conflict in a World In Crisis

In a world in which wars are now regarded as instruments of national policy, there is absolute need to set down and follow rules that regulate armed conflict...

The Military Coup in Egypt (2): In the light of Truth

Why must Egyptians die because of a conspiracy by eminent political malcontents? In Egypt, the truth will prevail?

Detroit in Bankruptcy: What and who killed Capitalism?

If the Minister of Finance was quoted correctly, salaries may be hard to come by sooner than later and that will not be a pleasant story for our feral and marginalized under-class...

Hate is No Excuse: A Cursory Review of the Trayvon Martin Case

The reason for Zimmerman’s curious acquittal is said to be hinged on self-defense. For self-defense to be admissible in a criminal case, I submit that the danger to the person claiming self-defense must be intimidating...

My Application For The Post Of Secretary-General Of The United Nations Organisation: My Greatest Story

The military coup in Nigeria in 1966 was incited by foreign interests. Their governments found it very difficult to manipulate our well-educated, nationalist politicians...

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Any Hope for a Black British Prime Minister?

It is easy to imagine the discomfort suffered by many in Britain following Barack Obama’s historic victory who had to endure a debate in the national media, about the prospects of such a replication in Britain...

National Security In Nigeria

We are a nation where the rich incessantly engage in gaieties and social festivities. These stoke the envy of the underprivileged, who occasionally visit their abject frustrations on civil society, especially the underprivileged like themselves...

The Nigerian Jobseeker Pays for Every Job Application

Sadly, Nigerian employers have turned their recruitment exercises into income-generating ventures. In all, poor jobseekers pay for every job application, with no assurance that the most qualified or exceptional will secure the job!

2007 And The People’s Rights

Almost every Nigerian of voting age is aware of the atrocities committed by the various military leaders who had unleashed their autocratic reigns on our nation in the past. IBB was just one of them and it will be unfair to single him out for "punishment"...

The Call for Women Governors

Nigerians needs to embrace a new generation of state governors…specifically women. They are often more forthright, they seek answers to questions not for the personal financial benefits it may bring but for the goodness it may have on the masses...

The Global Arms Race: Profit, Power, and Perpetual Conflict

In an increasingly polarized world marked by ongoing tensions...

To the Wannabe Governors who would be President

A 'good' political record is a relative item and term that can be bought and sold in the supermarket of politics. The good records that these presidential aspirants parade is bait, carefully disguised all of these years to programme us into swallowing their hook...

Poor management bedeviled refuse disposal in Onitsha and Anambra state

Governor Obi cannot afford to give lip service to the issue of refuse collection and disposal because the wellbeing of the residents of Onitsha and Anambra State will be greatly impacted by environmental degradation due to incompetence and dereliction of duty...

An Open Letter to President Umaru Yar’Adua 2

Mr. President, we have a model to show us the way. It is not Dubai, as some commentators on the Niger Delta have suggested. It is Venice. It is Venice, not Dubai, because like Venice, the Niger Delta is in the main a collection of islands and marshy terrains...

The Withering Of Civilisation?

Since my limitations on the subject are obvious, I am going to restrict my comments to how contemporary world leaders insist on using force as an instrument of national policy and in the process, waste scarce national and human resources...