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...

Papacy, the Occults, America and New World Order

Until the anti-Christ comes the Papacy remains the worst institution and the most anti-Christian outfit in history...

Papacy, the Occults, America and New World Order

Until the anti-Christ comes the Papacy remains the worst institution and the most anti-Christian outfit in history...

Obama’s Senate, Soldiers-Horses mating and New World Order!

The year 2011 closed with the gruesome issue of same-sex marriage. Obama and the West were poised to horn down Africa for not going insane with them...

Mandela and the Parable of Leadership

As president, Mandela was far from a perfect leader; some critics charge that he failed to drive a harder bargain to attain economic empowerment for the long-oppressed black majority. Still, he did not set out, as most Nigerian “leaders” do, to destroy his nation for the sake of personal benefit...

The World could come to an End

This is a fiction which could become frightfully real if those who are given to belligerency have their way. In this essay, I will use hyperbolic polemics to present my narrative...

The Writer as a Thinker: Charles Dickens Lives 200 Years On

It is a conviction that I have strongly held for a long time that those social humans, who think deeply and constantly reflect on the deeper things of life, live long and become anointed...

How Chinese Leaders Emerge: Lessons for Nigeria

No President, governor or other political office holder should think that he is superior or better than his compatriots. If you search, you will find millions who are far ahead of their leaders...

International Law and Diplomacy in the Syrian Crisis

In classical international law, the events in Syria should have been treated as “within the internal affairs of Syria”, which the UN Charter disallows other states from interfering in...

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Some Mothers Do Have Them…

General Ibrahim Babagida attempted to perpetuate himself in power. Abacha employed all strategies to achieve the same thing. Today, all we speak about is Obasanjo staying longer in power. Some mothers do have some funny children...

Of Kingsley Ayodele Moghalu  and  China: Looking beyond Nigeria

Kingsley Moghalu, then presidential candidate of the Young People's...

Africa’s elite and the Western media

I see no reason why the tide of bad news in Nigeria can not be stopped. Perhaps all it takes is a change of heart that begins with a radical rejection of the thought that the West is only interested in grubbing in the African compost...

Supreme Court Silence: A Judgment Without Words?

The silence of Nigeria’s Supreme Court over the Certified...

NGF: Can This Economic System Be The Best?

Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State is revealing something new to us. His clamour for more funds for the states in the name of reviewing the Revenue Sharing Formula is like a cry of a family man raising his family without any budget...

Nigeria: Where Cometh Our Help? (1)

When the future of a nation is left swathed up in warts in the hands of platoons of tomfoolery and retrogrades, a double-edged sword of endemic and pandemic automatically become the results, and the entire citizenry feel the effect of the quotidian lancination that did not emerge in paroxysm...

Ohakim’s Rattled Snake Condition

Nigerian politicians are not worth dying for. They take us for granted. This is why we must not take our lives for granted for the ascension of any political contender...

Yar Adua Cannot Lead Nigeria Anywhere

Nigerians are the worst of dysfunctional optimists in the world. But shock awaits their timidity. Umaru Musa Yar Adua will never lead Nigeria anywhere. He is grossly ill equipped for that...

Uncle Sam Is In, But Let’s Not Pack It In

Now that the United States, Britain, and some European countries may be stepping in to help rescue the Chibok girls, I hope that Nigerians won’t fold up, reach for their beers and pepper soup—and go into snooze mode...

General Olusegun Abacha

The most ardent of the critics of the Obasanjo administration have now agreed that Nigeria is worth dying for. This newfound faith in the polity is being demonstrated by those young, patriotic, energetic and highly dependable youths of the Niger Delta...