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...

Hugo Chavez: A tribute

Hugo Chavez understood the psychology of the rich Venezuelans. The bible says that the poor you will have with you always. Chavez decided that it would be good to reduce the number. He tried and succeeded...

Chavez: Dominus Vobiscum!

Last Tuesday the whole world was informed of the transition of Comrade Hugo Chavez, the ailing President of Venezuela who passed away in a military hospital in Caracas two weeks after returning home from months of battle with cancer in Havana...

Senator John Kerry and American Diplomacy of Rational Judgment

Senator John Kerry, who will take-over from Mrs Hilary Clinton later this month, has no choice  but to steer American diplomacy away from  diplomatic  hard attitudes  usually attributable to ego-political  and Geo-political designs...

A State Of Anomie: The Tragedy At Sandy Hook Elementary, CT

The right to bear arms remains.  The state of anomie persists.  Unfortunately, until something drastic is done to stop the carnage from gun violence and better attention is paid to mental illness, and the alienation that goes with it...

Anatomy Of Naked Power

The tactics of naked power consist of catchy slogans, pretentious patriotism, pitching groups or tribes against each other, creating in-group–out-group divisions while putting on a façade of unity...

Whose Mouth Will You Have To Stop Feeding?

Contrary to what our Nigerian and African minds might tell us, the fiscal cliff is not just an American problem, something that only actual Americans have to deal with...

Further discussions on the Future of Africa (4)

Positive reactions to the outcome of the International Seminar on the Future of Africa and the New World Economic Order are overwhelming...

Further Discussions on the Future of Africa (3)

The Seminar condemned the rising tide of racial abuse of Africans, who play professional football in Europe. The Seminar held that any racist postulations that are degrading  and inhuman  are  retrogressive steps  in human relations...

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Tackling Unemployment In Rivers

Governor Chibuike Amaechi might mean well in his Rivers State-led government. This could be the reason why the government is often praised for some laudable achievement. But before one could go to Eleme Junction and return, those projects the government is praised for have dilapidated...

Jonathan and the Security Challenge

The spate of insecurity under the Jonathan administration has been alarming. Most Nigerians will agree that the president lacks the capacity to ensure the protection of lives and properties of the citizens...

Nigerian Lobbyists: To Support or Condemn Nigeria?

Debates, occasional dissent and even protests, all form parts of some of the essential elements and ingredients of vibrant and vigorous democracy. This is welcome in Nigeria...

Let us form a group to honor Rashidi Yekini

Rashidi Yekini is dead. He died on Friday. Yekini was by all accounts a devout Muslim and was quickly buried the next day, in accordance with Muslim rites. Going by reports we have, the mode in which he was buried is however unacceptable. No need to mince words here, the burial given to Rashidi Yekini is unbefitting of the man and his country...

Are Diaspora Nigerians Ashamed of Nigeria? Pt 2

After landing, we were not allowed to leave the plane for 4 hours. Passengers argued that we were being treated with neglect because the flight was from Africa and full of Nigerians…

Be at peace with all people

Our actions may have far-reaching consequences in time beyond...

Conspiracy Theory And The Banking Sanity

The problem with the banking industry is not new. It’s been ongoing for the last decade or so. While the politicians and the officials of government business covertly pillage the national treasury with impunity, the bankers and allied workers in the financial institutions defraud the banking institutions

Anthony Enahoro: Icon of Yoruba ‘Ponbele’ (1)

'Ponbele', to those who are yet to catch the radical fire, is the art of speaking your native-born language without dilution of English language. Simply put: speak Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Fulani, Ijaw, Edo, Igala and Efik in such a simplistically raw mode as to create cultural utopia that shames the old imposition of English language...

Nigeria May Become Somalia, Ivory Coast, Then Iraq

Some Nigerians do not want anarchy and disintegration of Nigeria, but on the contrary, some other Nigerians believe that the only end to their suffering and bondage is anarchy and disintegration...

Gender Roles in African Relationships

He told me an African woman is not worth visiting if she can't cook… yet he himself can't cook, and he wouldn't cook even if he could. His "shopping list" for a potential mate is one who will take care of him just as his mom took care of his dad, but one who is also financially independent...