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...

British Burglars: Who Dares Wins

The great British public is currently embroiled in a hysteric debate over the right of Mr Joe Blogs to kill intruding burglars who gained entrance in order to steal, maim or kill...

International Human Right Laws – the need for action in Equatorial Guinea

There is a grave act of injustice in Equatorial Guinea under the orders of President Obiang, and holding the AU Summit there is a pure irony to the demands of Amnesty International as regards Peace, Justice and human rights protection...

Anthony Weiner, Fallen Stars, Arrogant Powerful Men Sexual Entitlement

The fixation on sex consumes yet another powerful man and in New York City again. In the last sixty days, Dominique Strauss-Kahn the former leader of the International Monetary Fund or IMF was arrested because of sex and his career soon ended...

ZUMA, NATO and the Battle for LIBYA: The Libyan Case Under International Law 2

When the United Nations Organization meets in September 2011, in New York, the Organization must critically review the role of international law in modern international society and the application of international rules according to the Charter of the United Nations...

Hurricane Bouazizi

The middle-east is known to be the bastion of corrupt and repressive regimes that have always found allies in western governments that look the other way while the citizens of these countries suffer...

Land Grabs In New Scramble For Africa Global Food Security Implications

How can anyone, especially an African on the African continent, argue that Slavery and colonialism were beneficial to Africans, despite the immutable evidence of the horrors, brutalities and inhumanity meted upon Africans, victims of slavery and colonialism...

The End of the reign of Nebuchadnezzars in World  Politics

Two significant events have happened in the last few weeks in Nigeria, which are signs of hope; the signing by President Jonathan of the Freedom of Information Act. Secondly, the successful outing of the Green Eagles against Argentina...

The Italian Festa

Italians poured into their streets, took over their squares and yes that Italy, land of saints, poets and navigators, lately more known for its handbags, shoes, football and prime minister became the land of ravers of all ages last week...

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Corruption And New Frontiers Of Press Freedom

The methods used by leadership to muzzle speech and cover up crimes against the state and individuals vary from regime to regime but it is in the military setting that the crudest form of repression has taken place. Some have said that Nigeria has been much better of than most African countries on this matter just because journalists and others were not disappearing or being murdered...

Most Fathers Are Just Husbands

Not all husbands are fathers. That a man gave birth to a child legitimately or illegitimately does not make him a father. The man could be awesome, he could have all the aspects that are associated with men...

Fuel Subsidy Monsters Unmasked; Time For Action

Last week, President Goodluck Jonathan and his economic team finally ran out of excuses for inaction on the massive swindle of Nigeria by some crooked fuel marketers and their bureaucratic enablers...

Re: BBA: Debasing Self For A Fee

Shame and condemnation to Ofunneka, to her parents, to Nigerian federal and state governments, including Nigerian legislators, all Nigerian mothers who kept silent...

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...

Anti-Muslim Film: Free Speech or Hate Speech?

The line between free speech and hate speech isn’t always defined. What is hateful to one person may be legitimate to another. All societies place limits of free speech, and some are far more restrictive than others.  Irrespective of geography, however, drawing that line in the sand is never easy, and inevitably leads to intense, polarising debates...

North’s cornering of oil blocs

It is easy to understand that any Nigerian that knows what an oil bloc is will want one. Understandably not every Nigerian can get one. The question then is: In a country of millions, who gets the limited oil blocs that all want?

Different Denominations, One Church

Complete my joy by being of the same mind,...

Oyo State Is Deserving Of Its Leaders

Can Bayo Alao-Akala do it, or can the people around him let him do it? Does he have the idea at all of what needs to be done, rather than just playing politics with the lives of people, while playing to the gallery with speeches that were written for him by well-paid sycophants and hangers-on?

Nigeria’s Strange Business of Corpses

I’m deeply troubled by what appears to me to...