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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Cutting Corners on Civil Liberties

Behaving true to his military credentials, dictatorial tendencies and inability to accept defeat as a gentleman and statesman and just move on, President Obasanjo has orchestrated the greatest assault on freedom and democracy in the past one week...

Clinching a Scholarship via the SAT

I am writing this to shed light on the heavy shadow of ignorance among students who wish to obtain a scholarship to attend university in America and expect to do so via other exams apart from the SAT...

Who’s Really On Trial At The Presidential Election Tribunal?

Permit this controversial entry. For you see, I'm one...

British Law Lords, Tony Blair and International Law

It was widely reported in the ebullient British media, that the Committee set up by parliament to examine the activities of the former British Prime Minister; Mr. Tony Blair in the Iraqi crisis would summon him to appear before the Law Lords...

Kalu, Ohakim, Orji and Carnival of Misery

Ohakim did not do any better during his reign in Imo State. This was not caused by Kalu, but by his gluttonous and ill-fated perceived approach to politics and governance...

Mr. President’s Profound Ineptitude

Needless to say that we’ve had enough of this political naivety emanating from Aso Rock mixed with gargantua sized ineptitude masquerading as leadership. It seems that President Jonathan’s problem is not particularly terrorism but lack of courage...

The Age of Stupid in Nigeria

Every day that this nation flares its gas, it blows about $4million. Juggle that number by 30 days and you get $120million...

Lessons from the US Bridge Collapse

According  to reports, it was like a script carved out of a Hollywood horror movie when suddenly, the bridge which had hitherto not shown any sign of being under distress went down...

Hurricane Bouazizi

The middle-east is known to be the bastion of corrupt and repressive regimes that have always found allies in western governments that look the other way while the citizens of these countries suffer...

Budgeting with a Bunch of Zeroes: A Budget of Change that need Changes

If Nigeria had any serious opposition, the budget speech...