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...

American Defense Budget; Biggest Corporate Welfare, Massive Cuts Are Overdue!

Cutting the American Defense Budget or Military Spending is panacea for economic recovery, budget balancing and deficit reductions...

30,000 Mexicans Killed In Drug War, Violence, Made in the USA!

This is a story about American appetite for drugs and narcotics which has and is still ruining many lives in America and many neighboring nations, particularly, America's southern neighbor, the nation of Mexico...

Sack This “diplomatic” Boxer

The specter of physical and emotional spousal abuse is, sad to say, a much-hushed scandal in our society. It would be bad enough if the perpetrators were only ignorant peasants...

Western Nations Are Bankers For Gadahafi, Dictators, Tyrants: The Pope As Bankers For Mafia?

$80 Billion Dollars of Libyan money is hidden by Gadahaffi in America and Europe. It has now been revealed that western nations and their institutions have been acting as Gadahafi's bankers...

900 Africans Drown As NATO Ignores Humanitarian Catastrophes In Near Libya!

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization with absolute military command, control and occupation of the area, continues to ignore and neglect the dire humanitarian disaster in and around Libya...

Some Reflections on the State of World Affairs

As the US President, Barack Obama undertakes diplomatic visits to Ireland, Britain, France and Poland, the nagging question that demands an answer is whether European states are losing their sovereignty?

Palestine Nationhood Imperative; As Israel Meets The World!

America will have to either support Palestine nationhood and democracy or America will be seen again as displaying biases in favor of Israel to "protect" Israel in the usual lopsided perennial way for the world to see...

The Libyan Case under International Law

There are rules of international law, which regulate warfare and which have been seriously violated by combatants during the Battle of Libya. It is the duty of a senior military officer to ensure that the Geneva Conventions on warfare are scrupulously respected...

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Physical and Emotional Slaughter

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Ekiti poll: If history be for BAO!

By Tayo Agbabiaka To the casual observer of Nigerian politics,...

Golden Eaglets: Congratulations for What?

I have been studying television footage and still images of members of the Nigerian Golden Eaglets team which won the FIFA U-17 World Championship in Korea last week. After careful observation, I now have the firm belief that there is still some sort of future for me in national football...

Infrastructure Concession in Nigeria: Challenges and Opportunities (2)

All over the world, the demand for infrastructure is outstripping supply and new strategies are being devised to address the deficit. In Nigeria, the situation is pathetic. Decades of poor maintenance, underinvestment and outright roguery have left the country with an outrageous infrastructure deficit...

The Facts And Fiction Of The January 15 1966 Coup

Awoyokun asserts that if it were not for the ‘Igbo’ coup of January 15 the massacres of the Igbo in Northern Nigeria six months later would not have occurred. This thesis arises from his criticism of Achebe’s location of the massacres in resentment and blame of the Igbo for any problem in Nigeria...

2027: The Ruthless Forces Peter Obi and the Opposition Will Be Confronting

By 2027, the presidential election in Nigeria may no...

The Africans Of My Youth

Forgive me if I profusely effuse over the Africans of my youth. Forgive me if I sound too nostalgic. Forgive me I idolize them and idealize a time that once was, but now seem to be on the passing...