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...

President Laurent Gbagbo in an Extended Universe

Gbagbo wants all men and women on planet Earth to accept his multiversity theory that he won the recent elections in Ivory Coast. But  this is false. He lost.

A Call on the British Prime Minister

I have chosen to write you as a result of the anarchy that was unleashed by many students who were protesting the planned increase in fees for college and university students in Britain...

Anarchy as a weapon of power

I was wondering if Nigeria should out of fear calmly succumb to the glorification of Atiku’s destructive self ambition. Perhaps, we should simply call the forthcoming (s)election a no-show and simply ask Jonathan to hand over to Atiku without even a pretext at voting...

Terrorism and the Conspiracy Against Nigeria

By simple commonsense and deductive reasoning going by the profiling of apprehended or known ‘terrorists’, everybody knows that international terrorism is now a major problem of the 21st century and that terrorists can come from any family, community, country or religion...

Gov. Adebayo Alao-Akala And The Adedibu 'Curse'!

Governor Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State is a 'special' Chief Executive in Nigeria indeed. Akala is 'special' in many ways! He is very unique when it comes to Governors who want to turn their natural black skin to white using bleaching chemicals to achieve this objective...

Cote d'Ivoire: Open Letter To President Goodluck Jonathan

Mr President, you would agree with me that the Ivorian problem is rooted in identity and nationality complications arising from the huge foreign presence in the country. It is a politico-social tragedy without majesty!

The Real Problem With Africa

The saying is well known that the first step in solving a problem is understanding what the problem really is. As long as Nigerians and Africans in general do not understand what the real problem is with their so-called countries, there will continue to be hopelessness and despair...

WikiLeaks Julian Assange As Person of The Year Nobel Prize Candidate

This Julian Assange-WikiLeaks controversy is the greatest battle for Free Speech and Press Freedom! We all should support Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, it's collaborators and facilitators...

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Corruption and Buhari’s Perfect Storm

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari will inherit something of a perfect...

Strong Nigeria, Wrong Impression!

The effort to rebrand Nigeria may appear fruitless if public trust remains in the dark corner. My home-country, Nigeria embarked on a course of liberal economic reform that was impressive by developing-country standards and remarkable by its own. Four years later, much remain to be done...


Press Statement in Defense of the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Gbenga Ashiru

Over the years, I have patiently observed with pity the regular ignorant assertions by some persons who appropriate to themselves knowledge of things they know little or nothing about in Nigerian public affairs...

Osun: Progress in Spite of Fractured Politics

In the last three years, the alleged hostilities between...

Corruption And New Frontiers Of Press Freedom

The methods used by leadership to muzzle speech and cover up crimes against the state and individuals vary from regime to regime but it is in the military setting that the crudest form of repression has taken place. Some have said that Nigeria has been much better of than most African countries on this matter just because journalists and others were not disappearing or being murdered...

A Congolese Proverb

If we examine some aspects of specific African cultures in a rigorous manner, we can find explanations for the most sober and even the most trivial events in contemporary society...

­Missed moments and the search for nationhood

A critical tactical blunder in Nigeria’s chequered political history...

Oga to Pack Dog Sh*t?

Please just leave me alone this morning; are you just noticing that oga doesn’t respond to greeting from us?

The African Hypocrites (3)

The problem of Africa is not a failure of the social, political and economic institutions. It is of the decadence in the souls of Africans. The African worshippers of foreign gods are soulless moronic opportunists…