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...

Reserve Currency Supremacy: Why Euro Lost to Dollar

Being a carefully orchestrated dollar coup against the Euro, it is understandable why rather than Europeans celebrating, it's now Americans who are celebrating the euro crisis. Not by ordinary Americans and British, but by respected Washington insiders...

Now that Obama Has Spoken…

This September, the United Nations General Assembly will meet. It is time to return the UN to the path of strict application of international legal rules in the conduct of international affairs...

Sino-Japanese Territorial Dispute

Chinese diplomacy is firing on all engines in forcefully defending its territorial sovereignty and national integrity. The current Sino-Japanese dispute over the Diaoyu islands and rights over the territorial sea has taken on serious dimensions...

Before Obama Speaks

I start with the consideration that what happens in America should concern all of us since what happens in the world concerns America, according to Lady Clinton's doctrine...

The Assange Affair 2

I wish to add another footnote to the Assange Affair, on which I commented briefly in  an earlier  dispatch...

Lessons from the 2012 London Olympics and the Assange Affair

The success of the 2012 London Olympics is ineluctably linked with good organisation and the application of human intelligence at the highest level. There is evidence that there is no end to the ingenuity of men and women...

Hillary Clinton in Africa: Safari or Policy driven Trip?

If you have not heard, Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of States was in Senegal on her official 11-day African trip that will take her to Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Ghana...

Reflections on Generations without a Future and Their Slide into Cultural Illiteracy

A generation has grown up in Europe in which a “feral underclass” is sliding into hate-based, racist-driven cultural illiteracy. As victims of cultural degeneracy, hooked on the hip-up mind-set, the young people of Europe are on down-ward slide...

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The Preferred Evil (Part 3)

Perhaps the people of Oyo State are now realizing that the integrity of the law has been eroded by political expedience and that not all of their judges could be trusted with the sacred role of dispensing justice...

Open Letter To Lagos State Police Commissioner

We know you are new to the job, expectedly there will be lots of Initial Gra Gra. But your policy of arresting and arraigning our Lagos ladies for skimpy dressing is absurd...

There Was A Sage Called Chinua Achebe

A Review of There Was A Man - Chinua...

Francisca Yetunde Emmanuel (Nee) Perreira

With Francisca Yetunde Emmanuel, what you see is what you get, because there are to pretenses about her. She would tell it like it is, no matter whose horse is gored...

Reforming Police and Policing Reforms

I agree with most of the recommendations of the police reform committee since it is aimed at improving the security situation in the country. Security is paramount for any venture including the sustenance of our democracy...

INEC Acted Constitutionally

It is now settled law. INEC has the authority, through the Electoral Act and the Constitution of Nigeria, to determine who qualifies as a candidate for elections in Nigeria...

Haiti and Nigeria: Case studies in failure of Human Management of natural resources

Haiti remains a constant site of catastrophe because of its heart-tugging social ills. Poverty remains the chief, also including deforestation, unstable governments, poor building standards and low literacy rates. Or as Professor Richard Olson of the Florida International University puts it, “there is a whole bunch of things working against Haiti..."

Besieged by the Police

President Goodluck Jonathan is notorious for moving at slower than the speed of a snail when called upon to address issues that rather demand alacrity. Yet, Nigerians are besieged by a terrible plague that Mr. Jonathan can—and should—address immediately...

Rebranding and Redefining the Nigerian Culture

With the current spate of things in Nigeria, our trademark cultures are fast going the way of dinosaurs as extinction is imminent, and imbibing foreign culture is fast becoming the order of the day. Is it a good way to re-brand?

Global Malaria Control: It’s Time To Cast Down The Net

Maybe as her own demonstration of love during the Valentine season, the First Lady of Nigeria – Dame Patience Jonathan on Sunday 13th day of February 2011 turned a portion of Aso Rock into a repository for insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) that were subsequently distributed to some categories of Nigerian women...