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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Trashed Probe: A Service Fee Crash Or The Due Process Casualty

From the look of things it appears that we don't have the will power to move a nation from economic and political obscurity to the luminous progress of the present global dispensation...

What We Lack

What JFK had was leadership ability. He himself cannot operate a bicycle but as a leader, he was able to inspire the mind of people who can do things that he cannot do. The greatest problem Africa has today is leadership...

Nigerian Youth, ‘Shine Your Eyes’

The rescheduled elections will soon be here with us....

Federal Republic of Thuggery

Shamelessness is the vilest disease of the Nigerian establishment. The...

Atiku’s Increasing Mischief and the APC

For quite some time now, former Vice President, Atiku...

The State of Affairs In The Ijaw Nation

Again, of all the major groups in Nigeria, the Ijaw elite have, for the most part, been the least useful to their own people. And in fact, account of their uselessness is very common within the Ijaw community...

Yinka Odumakin: the storm is over!

'Abiodun, stop crying; the storm is over!' Those were the...

Memo To The Electoral Reform Panel

I don’t think much of the intention of the Yar’Adua government to reform the electoral process. Although he had empanelled a body, with a sprinkle of some credible personages, he and his government have showed disturbing streaks of abhorrence towards reforming the rouge system...

Emeka Offor: Whose Front is He?

If he were American or European, he would be on the Forbes list of the 400 richest people in the world. He estimates his net worth at $3 billion, although a recent report puts his net worth at about $6 billion.  This former "Julius Berger truck driver" claims to have been a former petty contractor until fortune smiled at him...

The Nostalgia Of Unshed Tears

Two young men leap into the rectangular hole hewn out of the red earth to receive the white coffin that housed the bodily remains of my beloved aunt. As family members pay her final respects, the young men shovel heaps of red earth to cover the glistening white coffin till it's shut out of our view forever...