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...

WikiLeaks Julian Assange As Person of The Year Nobel Prize Candidate (1)

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...

Dick Cheney, come to Nigeria!

Before his tenure as vice president to George W. Bush, Cheney became chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Halliburton, a Texas-based oil prospecting firm. He continued to hold this position even as vice president. Perhaps that is why he is being criticized...

Bill Gates or Matt Ridley: Whose ideas are right for Africa?

Africa must embark on the area of trade specialization where she has the greatest comparative advantage. It seems that agriculture is the best possible for Africa...

WikiLeaks Julian Assange: Heroism, Courage, Visionary of Our Time

The world now knows that western nations are hypocrites, constantly spewing platitudes about their much advertised beliefs in accountability, transparency, freedom of the press, the rule of law, democracy...

Julian Assange – The Criminalization of Journalism

Julian Assange has insisted that these allegations of sexual harassment and rape are part of a U.S orchestrated smear campaign to undermine the growing popularity of Wikileaks – and Assange. He sees in these allegations also the intent to use his case as a reference point to discourage potential leakers and whistle blowers...

World Diplomacy and the Limits of Human Intelligence

Men and women who get into political office, either by hook or crook, quickly adopt counter-insurgency measures to remain in power. These measures  range from military intelligence operations, diplomacy,  geo-politics, realpolitik, dirty tricks, scheming, intrigues and subterfuge...

The Rise of African Obama; Hope for the World

Men were never made by mere accident, situations, circumstances, or vicissitudes of life. All over history, ‘the unseen hands’ have always determined the course of man. Providence has always provided the means, the ends and timing...

Africa in the shadow of colonialism

Colonialism is not an exclusive preserve of Europeans nor is it restricted to a specific time or place; from time immemorial stronger societies have always subjugated weaker societies into newly conquered territories...

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Chief Gani Fawehinmi and a Devalued Honours System

Considering the depths to which the institution of government in Nigeria has sunk and the reputational damage suffered as a consequence of its descent, it does seem strange that our governments continue to place great value on their stock of national honours...

Life in America: Rising Sun

My father died for somebody's dream of one Nigeria. Every morning he would go out to fight. And every morning my mother would cry. One day my father did not return, felled by the bullets of the thug that has Ikeja International Airport named after him. I am the new warrior, ashes born of the massacre in Asaba...

Readers' Responses to a Labor of Love

There are times when I think I need a personal assistant to help with responding to the emails I receive from readers on a daily basis. In all, one can never tell how readers will respond to any given essay...

Wike’s Unnecessary Diatribes

It is becoming a kind of ritual for the...

Impact of Cultural Changes in Nigeria Politics

The new breed of rogue politicians exploited the goodness and kindness of Nigerians, and ran the country like ‘moolue bus’. They consolidated their grip on the power and resources of the country, and introduced a scare tactics to force a compromise on our integrity...

Thirty days of blessings and simple hopes

In the next thirty days of fasting, Muslims are also asked to be generous. As a people, one thing Nigerians, rich or poor, can rarely be accused of is tightfistedness...

2009 World Aids Day: Nigeria’s Journey So Far

There are uncertainties and extensive inter-collegial disagreements over the first HIV/AIDS case in Nigeria but the fact remains that the virus is here, and is eating deep into our nation, way beyond what our governments are aware of...

The Failure of the Colonial Legal System in Nigeria: A Rhapsodic Passacaglia on a Legal Theme

Recent unbecoming developments in the Nigerian judiciary have proved me right in my long contempt for the British Colonial legal system that was foisted on Nigeria by British colonial authorities...

Ndi'Igbo, Looking For Good luck

It is palpable today that the South-East zone of Nigeria is looking for its good luck in the political equation of President Goodluck Jonathan...

Who cleanses Nigeria’s ‘House of Dregs’?

It is highly disappointing, and irresponsible of some NASS members with a clear mandate to make good laws for the socio-economic and political well-being of Nigerians while carrying out other legitimate oversight functions...