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...

Buhari is Dangerously Naive

“Those wanting secession, and restructuring of Nigeria, are dangerously naive”. -Muhammadu Buhari Nigerians screamed in disquiet, as a chicken ravenously pecked a mound of shit. Little...

John Pombe Joseph Magufuli: Requiem for a Fallen Hero

The gap in life expectancy between the average Africans and their leaders is indisputably wide. African leaders have better medical care, besides being insulated...

A Toast to my Auntie Okonjo Wahala

They no longer make women like my very own Auntie Ngozi. No, I have to be more precise: they no longer make men and women...

Buhari’s Nigeria Is Not My Nigeria

Things have fallen apart completely in Nigeria. Nothing has made many Nigerians lose faith in Nigeria more than the impunity reigning in Nigeria since...

Relevance of Elections to Representative Governments

It is not enough for us to assume the importance of elections to representative governments. If we say elections are one of democracy’s defining...

The Power of the Ballot

Not many things are as difficult to parse – and manifold in their aspects – as democracy. When melded with such concepts as representational...

Of Protests and Riots

Though often used interchangeably, a protest is different from a riot.  Whereas a protest is a nonviolent expression of dissent or disapproval or displeasure,...

Africa – A Continent on the Chopping Block

Africa has had very tragic intercourse with the world outside its borders. The continent was, for instance, besieged from the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian...

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Who Cursed Nigeria With Obasanjo?

President Olusegun Obasanjo has, once again, moronically and sadistically decided to exacerbate the agony and pain of Nigerians by gratuitously increasing the pump price of Petroleum products...

The Ruler-for-Life Syndrome in the Third World and the Danger of a Protracted Conflict in Libya (2)

The purpose of this write up is to briefly explore the ruler-for-life syndrome among leaders of Third World countries and the issue of whether NATO’s military intervention in the Libyan civil war is contributing to the elongation of the conflict rather than shortening it...

Of Supreme Courts and Electoral Outcomes

In choosing to retain the status quo, by keeping in office a president, albeit one devoid of the public acclaim of the Nigerian people, the Supreme Court appears to have settled upon the best possible outcome out of a number of ‘worse case’ scenarios...

Direct And Opportunity Cost Of Nnpc $5 Billion Mismanaged Fund: Forgone Conclusion

Suffering in the midst of plenty can only best describe the opportunity cost of the growing evidence of personal abuse of public trust and funds by our leaders on the scale that has now become a public knowledge...

Nigeria: To be or not to be?

If breaking up Nigeria will make you, your family and ethnic group live 'at least' 10 times better than now in the next 10 years, are you ready to support the break up of Nigeria now?

Nigerians In America: How (NOT) To Raise Our Children

What obtains in Nigeria obtains in the US, albeit with slight modifications.  You do not need monkey-like summersaults before raising your child in God’s ways.  You cannot allow your children to be so spoilt to the point that they become incorrigible and constitute permanent liability to you...

Rivers’ Poverty Enhancement Programme

The government should always reach an understanding and operational guidelines with the people in all its endeavours instead of operating largely without recourse to set rules...

Envy of the World

Today I am in the business of identifying some of the men and women that shape America with their brains and talents and the power of their pen. I simply want to explore the role of the News Media in making the new Canaan the envy of the world...

Have you seen this gate of hell?

Have you seen this gate of hell?
Forces beyond men compelling them:
Hence they so act, knowing not what they do!

Obasanjo and the Quest for Statesmanship

Why is our nation, home to brilliant minds, rich traditions, rich in natural and mineral resources and centuries of wisdom, culture and morality, withering in poverty while most other nations rapidly move ahead of us?