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...

America Must Break With Israel as Good & Just Middle East Policy

President Obama must inform Prime Minister Netanyahu that peace with Israel's neighbors is in Israel's best interests, and as a consequence, it will no longer be business as usual...

The Royal Wedding: America fought a war to be free of a crown – really?

The Americans fought a war to be rid of the English Crown, their overlords but you would hardly realize it these days not only from the royal wedding-mania that has gripped the former colony but in the many ways that Americans continue to cede supremacy to their former overlords across the big pond...

America's Afghanistan Withdrawal Should Be Accelerated?

Osama Is Dead, Al Qaeda is in disarray, and other extremist groups are probably fearful. Bring the troops home, save money, and save the long suffering and now harried American troops...

Obama Is Calm, Not Boastful, Bashful or Gloating, Giddy or Gleeful

President Obama, Mr. suave-savvy himself, came to New York City to commiserate with families and survivors whose loved ones were lost to the September 11, 2001 attacks...

Osama Is Dead At Last, Dead At Last, Thank God Almighty Osama Is Dead At Last?

President Obama announced the demise and disposal of Osama Bin Ladin a few days ago to a stunned world, and as I listened to Brian Lehrer's  radio show, one of his guests' comments cemented my feelings about the end of the Osama saga...

NATO, No Fly Zone for Syria, Yemen, Bahrain?

Syria is using tanks and heavy weapons to crackdown on peaceful protesters and this is egregious and should be condemned by all lovers of democracy and freedom...

Laurent Gbagbo: Quel Gachis!

Presidents Obama and Sarkozy deserved commendation for their principled stand against the sit-tight machinations of the Gbagbo clan while the 'fire' lasted. Sarkozy always maintained that for France the only legitimate and legal President in Cote d'Ivoire was Alassane Ouattara...

Laying the theoretical and practical foundations for a new world economic order

We need profound scientific thinkers who will not violate the people's trust. We do not need thugs in political office, who are afflicted by Mormonism. There are faithful, God-fearing citizens, who pray for national resurgence...

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Road Maintenance: Government Task Or Citizens' Tax?

The recent proposed 5% user tax on petroleum products as a means of sourcing funds for sustained road maintenance activities in the country deserves second thought...

Emir Sanusi: Kings as Subjects

If there is any credence to the notion that...

Freedom Within A Cage…

For every animal, a trap exists to catch it however big or ferocious it might look. Hence we have lions and other wild animals "domesticated" and held captive in cages and zoos worldwide. However, there is no known trap that can capture the wind because it is invisible as much as it is invincible...

Still On Acho Orabuchi’s Desperate Smeer Campaign on Imo

As one of my friends will say, the greatest affliction is a self-chosen blindness just because it cannot be cured unless the person so afflicted decides to free himself from the type of self denial that visited him with such affliction...

Abubakar Atiku: The Betrayal of President Obasanjo

There is something about rats, snakes, leeches and anopheles mosquitoes that I can’t stand. Damn, they make you sick. The more I think of Mr. Atiku, the more I think of these lowly creatures; the more I think of these creatures, the more I think of Mr. Atiku...

Deliver Us From IBB, Oh Lord!

It is expediently imperative that every well intentioned Nigerian should cry to God to deliver us from the impending danger of Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida’s second coming...

Tragedy Of The Unknown Nigerian Beauty

One is tempted to say that we are back in the days of the French colonial policy of Assimilation right here in Nigeria, where there is deliberate, sustained effort to brainwash black people, Nigerians, and make them aliens to their own ways...

Sex, AIDS & Bigmanism

Sex is a three letter word that acts like a wayward child. It is the art of copulation that was intended for committed married persons. It is one of the most abused creations of God in Nigeria. Almost everyone is having it...

Is Enough Really Enough?

The crowd of Young People had gathered at Eagles Square and with placards they chanted "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" and marched towards the National Assembly Complex but they were cordoned off by fierce-looking Policemen...

Verifying Abacha Loot distribution in the land of the White Horse

Some years ago, the Federal government of Nigeria and...