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...

The United Nations: Restatement Of Purpose

I disagree with some Western International lawyers who argue that international law was unknown to Africans until their independence in the late 1950s and early 1960s...

Obama Is Not Taqiyya

The direction in which the issue of World Peace is moving is very interesting to those who know what the Jewish Scripture says is coming...

Republican Party Infighting Deepens

Tea Party fringes of the Republican Party have now won elections in Alaska, Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, etc. The ultra right conservatives in the Republican Party are pressuring and pushing the party into a corner!

Ambassador John Campbell Is An Undiplomatic Loud Mouth!

There is nothing to know or learn about and from Ambassador John Campbell. If there is at all, it must be that he is not a friend of Nigeria!

The Two West African Narco States

Nigeria is a haven for drug barons and drug purveyors and some are still making it big despite courageous modest efforts by the NDLEA to nip the trade in the bud...

Democrats, Timid, Timorous Tentative; But Why?

Obama as candidate, always appeared to be ahead of his opponents in ideas and responded to counter everything the opponents conjured up, or hurled at him, but now, President Obama and his Democratic team have been on the defensive since inauguration...

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...

SOARism-Africanism; Re-Defining Democracy In Africa

In our present political system, rhetoric and mediocrity have gained ground at the expense of true democracy...

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The Gospel of Materialism – Nigerian Pentecostalism and Hypocrisy

Our Christian men of God today have contributed in no small ways to the social upheaval the Nigerian nation is going through at the present moment. They laid the foundation of greed and social discontent...

If I Were President…

No child ever says that he or she wants to be vice president when he or she grows up. It is a useless office and the holder is often a source of irritation to the president. So, for the children, I would call the vice president into my office and 'eliminate' him...

Yoruba Roonu Dada…(2)

Unlike in Nigeria where  cases of human rights abuses, torture and murder of innocent and harmless Nigerians by the Police and Army, kidnapping, human-trafficking, etc., are rampant and have become the norm, Senegalese co-exist...

Lepa Shandi or Orobo?

To crucify Oluchi or Agbani Darego – ladies who are simply trying to make a living - for looking the way they do or the way their creator created them because it doesn't fit your bill is simply ludicrous...

Who is Tafa Balogun?

Mr. Obasanjo, it is now time for this IG to be allowed to go home to Ila Orangun to a nice retirement...

Wannabe Politician

I don’t know what to make of this unsolicited email from someone I do not know but whom I choose to call a ‘new breed’ politician, though not in the mould of IBB’s original thinking when he unleashed the phrase on Nigerians...

Day Dele Momodu Made Me Live Above My Means

These are dangerous days of gross shamelessness in totalitarian...

On Countering Terrorism in Nigeria

It is no longer news that the Nigerian State...

On the State of the Nigerian State

WHAT is the state of Nigerian State? This tasking,...

2027: A Crossroads of Choice

We are at midterm, which means that the next...