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...

Libya and the Brutality of Nations

The theatre of global geopolitics has forever been an amoral jungle. It is a horrendous one. This is the arena, where men empowered by the force of their arms and the privileges of their station, take leave of their humanity in deference to their greedy ambitions...

India, Japan, Nigeria, Libya: Case Studies in Contemporary World Political Culture

One of the most demonizing legacies of colonial rule is that it etched indelible marks in the minds of ex-colonials that they must acquire wealth by hook or crook...

Nigeria's Recognition of Libya's Transitional National Council: A Hurried Diplomatic Eagerness or a Flawed Diplomatic Response?

Although traditional diplomatic law frowned upon encouraging rebellion, recent events in the Middle East and North Africa have thrown up new justifications for assisting people in rebellion against long-serving, non-performing, dictatorial regimes...

Nigeria Deserves UN Security Seat: Reasons, Facts and Positive Contributions!

This heavyweight status puts Nigeria in a natural leadership role, one that both its democratically elected and military leaders have embraced since gaining independence from Britain in 1960...

Britain in a peculiar mess

The British government, an amalgam of Conservative and Liberal politicians with unclear ideological orientation, may wish to find a new path through which the British society can meet the challenges of the 21st century...

US: Averting economic woes by raising debt limit

The economic impact of not raising debt ceiling and subsequent default by United States may have domino effect on Nigeria and Africa as a result of AGOA and NEPAD...

Africa is Leaving Nigeria Behind!

With mouth agape, a friend of mine, on a first visit to Ghana, narrated how efficient the country works and how far behind we have been left as a nation. On another occasion, he was with a top Ghanaian player in the Nigerian private sector and the story was how perfectly efficient sectors that fumble and wobble in Nigeria work so well in Ghana...

A Call for the review of the treaty of Rome

After the death of Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, the internal coercion of Yugoslavia could not meet the political demands by various nation-states within Yugoslavia, which  rightly demanded the Right to Self-determination, including full independence...

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Tajudeen Afolabi Adeola: An Enigma

One should utilize this opportunity to invite the Nigerian  Federal Government team in charge of her re-branding drive not look too far if they hope to achieve any success in the foreign aspect of the scheme. The man they should not tarry in consulting is Taju...

PDP vs. PDP: Tale of MDD-MRD and 2007

The third term agenda of the current administration has indeed ruffled some distinguished feathers across the nation. From civil society to human rights activist and to some journalists, the congregation has risen in unison to condemn the personification of politics and its attempt to change our lives through the backdoor by the Obasanjo administration and his cronies...

Africans Betrayed

Africans were justified in their expectations for a better life. However, those expectations and hopes were dashed or betrayed...

Nigeria Lives Abroad: Innocent yet injured!

Nigerians abroad are experiencing injurious threats against what they know nothing about. There’s no end to the bad news on the overseas workers’ front. Labour officials have said more Nigerians face deportation from countries cracking down on illegal aliens...

Is Nigeria a Terrorist Haven? Part 2

The presence of Cuba and Nigeria on the List demonstrates that the U.S. has used the Mutallab affair as a pretext to get even with countries that it has long standing historical grievances against...

My Darling Sunshine: A Love Letter

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Time to Deliver? Musings from the XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto

In 10 years' time Bill Gates might be remembered less for his role in the growth of information technology but for the public health issues he has chosen to dedicate the rest of his life to...

Déjà Vu (1): Their World Of Riches And Sprays

Buhari's intervention ended up making things worse because his successors shamelessly looted Nigeria blind. I hope Nigeria does not end up in an endless cycle of misrule by the same cabal either in uniform or out of it...