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...

Understanding Terrorism: A Nigerian Perspective

The debate raging in USA over the siting of a mosque near Ground Zero is a mark of a healthy society grappling with a painful problem. However, security concerns must not be taken lightly because of what extremists are capable of...

Lessons from Montecitorio and Madama

Italian politics and institutions do not enjoy the admiration and sympathy vote its people, country and culture are showered with...

SOAR’s Philosophy In Ending Violence In Africa

Cult pressure introduces young individuals to alcohol and drug abusers, instigating in them a psychopathological trauma of fear, and the need to seek for protection...

Hurrah As Obama's White House Summons Young African Leaders

One thing that President Obama, singer Whitney Houston and late Rt. Honorable Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe have in common is the appreciation and admiration of youths...

Aluta Continua, Victoria Acerta! A New Hope for African Youths

In the struggle for the realization of our people who have been long marginalized, we have had several prophets who amidst death, suffering and contemplative madness were intimidated by those who have perpetuated injustice for so long...

Tea Party for Africa?

Perhaps as a result of our faltered pre-independence history, or our near preoccupation in post-independence Africa with the inefficiency of our governments, we hardly ask ourselves whatever should be of the role of government in our daily lives...

Obama’s Difficult Presidency

President Obama has so far waged all the wars; with the Republicans, the Tea Party, a biased Fox news, Wall Street greed, Arizona immigration Laws, and the Taliban insurgents who are even more determined to spill American blood...

A Prayer for Africa

May we overcome the demons of ethnicity and religious strife; and recognize our common humanity as a people. May we come to regard difference and diversity as strength instead of weakness...

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Jonathan: Looking Back From the Future

Mr. Jonathan’s circumstances are as tricky as Mr. Obasanjo’s in 1999, and his prospects, on the face of it, seem just as unpromising as the former president’s...

My head swells, that is my country

Having sojourned in Europe for almost 10 years, I now have hopes that I may probably have a country to which I can return. It is glaring that my countrymen have decided to take their destinies in their own hands...

The Great Nigerian Delusion

The Nigerian Project, whose 50th anniversary would be elaborately celebrated soon, never ceases to puzzle. Unfortunately, for so long, Nigerians have not been able to come off this jigsaw, of sorts...

Love Is All That Matters

I observe people at funerals. All sort of people, it is indeed the gathering of the good the bad and the ugly...

Wike Could Turn Out Obi’s Judas – A Prophecy

A noted cynic and friend of mine provided the...

Nigerian Schools Are Getting Worse

In the opinion of several eloquent writers, the Nigerian government is to be blamed for the deplorable state of the state schools. We often mention the dilapidated buildings, incessant teacher strikes and several other popular excuses...

The Criminalization of Same Sex Marriage

Nigerian senate has just passed a bill outlawing same-sex marriage as well as banning public displays of affection between homosexual couples. Approval of the bill, which still must be voted on by the House of Representatives and signed by the President, stipulates a 14-year jail term...

Further and Better Assessment of Transformation in Nigeria 2

In the grammar of Nigerian politics, things are easier said than done. The declaration by this administration that it proposes to transform Nigeria tacitly implies that past Nigerian governments had failed to seriously confront political, economic and social development challenges in our country...

Nigeria Nation: Victim of Terror, Not A Terrorist State

By all definitions and with whatever measuring standard, Nigeria is not a terrorist nation. Anybody or any government that think otherwise is only exhibiting a fallacy of judgment...

Onemanocracy is Government of One Man, by One Man, for One Man

Let’s take a trip to a very strange country,...