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...

He who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing: Nigeria turns East?

All those with an entrepreneurial mindset would applaud the news that Nigeria is going to China to intensify our international relations...

The Coup in Egypt: The End of the Notion of Democracy in the Arab World?

The military intelligence operations in Egypt, which purportedly terminated the democratically elected government of President Morsi, was a coup d’état...

The Strong Merits of International Law in the Conduct of International Relations: A Note to the Security Council Members (2)

International law operates on the principles of equality, respect for the territorial integrity and political independence of states, non-intervention in the internal affairs of other states, restraint in the use of force, peaceful co-existence...

The Role of Military Intelligence and Diplomacy in the Era of World Terrorism: A Note to the UN Security Council Members

The world is divided amongst states with different worldviews, which are irreconcilable. China has increased its military budget. Japan has freed itself from the impositions put on its constitution after the Second World War...

Sino-American Diplomatic Rapprochement

There were scholars and policy bureaucrats who, for decades, benefited from anti-communist hysteria and in the process, hindered the positive development of Sino-American relations...

The Power of Social Media over Man-made Gods: Mediaocracy Vs. Democracy in Turkey

The Rubicon between democracy and dictatorship is crossed unwittingly, silently and without proclamation...

The Proposed Geneva Diplomatic Conference on Syria: Obvious Impediments

Things have changed dramatically since Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq and Russia are backing the Syrian Government. The prospects of the success of the Geneva Diplomatic Conference on Syria are remote for the following reasons...

Would CAN elect Desmond Tutu President?

Long after Tutu showed the world how the church can help people against tyranny and bad governance, Nigerians had to deal with brutal military regimes and corruption, and we are yet to discover the positions of many of our most prominent men and their women of God against those that oppress and abuse power...

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Freedom Coalition: $250m fund to elect Abubakar Umar…(4)

If Jonathan eventually clinches the PDP nomination - which we should pray for, but eventually loses the 2011 elections to a Northerner from the opposition parties, neither Jonathan nor any Southerner will be given the opportunity again to contest in 2015 on the platform of the PDP...

Man’s Survival: Way out of Food and Energy Crisis

It pops up in the media regularly. A hydra headed monster which has posed serious threat to man’s survival. Generally referred to as food and energy crisis, one wonders whether there is no more land to grow food...

The Paradox Of Corruption And Patriotism

To say that the country called Nigeria is a conundrum is a gross understatement. To both its people and foreigners, it is a country that is, in its extremity, baffling, frustrating, annoying and uncivilised...

Orisirisi

The rulers of Nigeria have transformed orisirisi into a curious philosophy of governance. Orisirisi leadership plus orisirisi followership equals orisirisi country. Thus, we are the world’s most prolific supplier of farce...

Making Nigerian Football Attractive in the Digital Age

Oftentimes, I get too excited about how digitalization has...

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...

Ignorance, Confusion, Hidden Facts, and Speaking for the God in her Mirror

Often times as Africans, we are betrayed by some of our own in their ignorance or limited understanding of concepts that are significant to our survival. Some of us are so confused by our changing culture and our history that we are captivated by all things foreign and all things white...

Why the Government May Be Wrong on The New ‘Minimum’ Wage

No one will dispute that our workers deserve decent wages that will guarantee social self-reproduction without recourse to moonlighting, bribery and corruption or primitive accumulation...

‘Focus on Policies aimed at making life Better for Nigerians’ – Bishop Tells Tinubu

Nigeria's president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been advised to...