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...

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...

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...

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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Nigerians: A People and Their Migration Pattern

Every now and then, I come across Nigerians who were men and women of substance and great intellect when Nigeria was a hopeful land. These Nigerians reminiscence about a country, a culture and a political space that once was...

Alliance of Nigerian Leaders and Igbo Dropouts

All that any Igbo charlatan needs to hoodwink many...

Ensuring Effective, Qualitative, Affordable and Accessible Health Care for All Nigerians Beyond 2007

Nigeria trains and develops human resources for health, but loses them to other sectors within the country and abroad due to relatively higher remuneration, welfare and motivation packages...

Let’s Tap into This!

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The Future is Orange

As the six authors posed for photographs holding their books, the magnitude of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's achievement struck me. She looked almost incongruous, out of place - this young black woman in the line up of largely white middle-aged women...

The Cinderella Story

"Remember Nkechi's wedding? You know how skinny and tall she is, right? Well against all reason, she wore a body-hugging dress. Nice dress, but she looked like a rake. I am taller than she is and I am not wearing a body-hugging dress!"

School Na Scam?” No—Ignorance Is The Real Fraud!

The boy at the bus stop had a smartphone...

Wike Could Turn Out Obi’s Judas – A Prophecy

A noted cynic and friend of mine provided the...

Afenifere – A Timely Renewal

The Afenifere Renewal Group has come at the right time in Yorubaland to fill the needed leadership vacuum. From what it pulled off on March 6, this year at Lagos City Hall, the ARG has posited itself as the ideological compass for the Yoruba Nation...

Baseless Optimism Will not Change Nigeria

Time is running out on the majority of genuinely concerned Nigerians to organise themselves and trade ideas on the way forward...