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...

Laurent Gbagbo, the Miserable: Lessons  for Political Desperados

Happily, the ugly dramatic idiocy of Mr. Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast has tragically ended in his utter disgrace...

African dictators and logic of the ballot box

As I write this on Sunday, the results of Nigeria’s parliamentary election held on Saturday are streaming in. There is excitement in the newsroom the same way it is felt in all nooks and crannies of Nigeria. Change is here...

The colonial pact – international robbers, France et al

It is funny how the world is viewing Africa from a distance, while African themselves aren't even considering the quagmire they are now in...

European Financial Seismic Wave

In the last ten years, there has been Euro-American national expenditure on wars, armament production, nuclear research, in pursuit of the democratization of ancient regimes around the globe...

Libya, Ghadaffi and The Fate Of A Tyrant-Leader!

Political power without the support of the people cannot endure. The Libyan strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, has carried out indiscriminate slaughter of his own people, just because they feel the game is up for him...

The 2011 London Conference on Libya: The International Community, minus Africa, Asia and Latin America

In the Era of the Gentiles, there will be attempts to attack the principle of order and intelligibility in the world. International relations will be subjected to universal unreason in order to distort human destiny...

Is Africa Being Invaded?

No matter what has been going on in Libya, it was wrong for a Nation to back rebels and declare a no-fly-zone on another sovereign nation - Libya...

A Political Dream about a No-Fly Zone

Until the African Union sets up a mega information organ, misinformation, disinformation and lies, must continue to be the way information about African affairs will be dealt with by the Western media...

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Kojo Annan's Indiscretion

The Scriptures tell us the sins of the father shall be visited on their children up to the fourth generation. Those who now link the indiscretion or the poor judgment of Kojo Annan to his father, the Secretary-general of the United Nations may have parted ways with the Scriptures...

Defining Fundamentalism

With  the current and past political challenges in Nigeria, a more Nigerian model of terrorism has gained prominence in our political, economic and social dynamics...

Koran Burning Epitomizes Islamophobia In America?

An obscure pastor of an equally obscure church in Florida is leading efforts to burn copies of the Koran throughout America and perhaps worldwide, on September 11, 2010. The charlatan is the latest cannon fodder in latest upsurge in attacks, against Muslims in America...

A Look at Nigerian States’ Slogans

Some States have adopted somewhat desperate slogans for their number plates. Nassarawa is ‘Home of Solid Minerals’, but so what? The minerals are mostly mined by individuals who never make any returns to the Federal Government. Their resources are almost irrelevant to the rest of the country.

Where Have We Gone Wrong?

One finds it befuddling that our fathers who supposedly lived in the Dark Age are surprisingly healthier and seem to have a better shot at longevity despite our claims to better ways of living and doing things...

Could this be the End of Tompolo?

One person of interest, an Aso-empowered militant, Government Ekpemupolo,...

France: Homophobia and Booby-mania

With Soddom and Gomorah historically in mind, this 'homo' nonsense must not break our resolve and will to live in a decent world inhabited by decent human beings capable of reason...

On the Epidemic of Greed in Nigeria

Like the British Psychologist, Oliver James put it in...

Dim Ojukwu and Peter Obi’s Re-election Campaign

Former Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has reportedly vowed to return Peter Obi to the Government House, Awka, after the February 2010 polls...

Offerings are for the Poor, not for your Pastor

For my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge....