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...

Israel Prepares to Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran?

When will Israel bomb Iran and lead the world into a conflagration and World War? When seems to be the only unanswered question, not if Israel will bomb Iran...

Muslims Islam; Under Siege, Pressures In America, Still!

Some in America seem to be subscribing to the silliness, that  those who are not Christians and not of our ethnic group, are not entirely human...

The Withering Of Civilisation?

Since my limitations on the subject are obvious, I am going to restrict my comments to how contemporary world leaders insist on using force as an instrument of national policy and in the process, waste scarce national and human resources...

The Abandoned ECOMOG 'Bastards' In Liberia

The echoes of the Liberian civil war and the ECOMOG 'sexploits' reverberated recently when it was reported that over 250,000 children were fathered by the Nigerian contingent during their sojourn in Liberia...

Us Operational Security In Jeopardy?

There is a problem with understanding American self-imposed commitments to Iraq, Afghanistan, South Korea and other diplomatic/military support for some Middle East states...

Political Stalemate In Iraq

World leaders like Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Pinochet and others may not know that they were in the service of the Luciferian hierarchy by destroying cities, innocent women and children...

Race Relations In America: A Snapshot

It is a rotten shame that in America, there are still many people, who embrace racial intolerance, without understanding the disastrous consequences of such racial outbursts...

Obama And Dodd Re-Shape American Financial System

There is a consensus that some Americans are more priviledged  than others. Some can borrow more easily to start businesses, repay loans and enjoy the good life...

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I Will defend the right of all citizens…

President Jonathan seems to have hit the ground running. This is so because Nigerians unanimously gave him the mandate to be the president for the next four years...

The Most Corrupt People In Nigeria?

Men in their late 40s and 50s begin to think seriously about retirement.  In Nigeria when you retire, you are on your own and everything is in the air.  You live in a state of perpetual uncertainty.  You are never sure if you will get your regular entitlements or whether some civil servant thief will make off with it or stick it in his account for a few years...

Corrupt People Cannot/Do not Make Good Leaders!

This statement by the late great Madiba, Nelson Mandela,...

Short changing the Ndigbo: Victims and Perpetrators

When it comes to pain and joy, no one is different. Like the rest of the country, the people of the southeastern part of Nigeria need politics to deliver good governance that will facilitate the creation of safe neighborhoods, good roads, decent schools, efficient health system and of course stable electric supply...

Rejuvenating Nigeria’s Collapsed Educational System: The Roles Of Alumni And Old Students’ Associations

It has long been recognised that the survival of the Nigerian state as a viable, progressive and democratic society will depend on the state or health of her educational systems...

700 Days in Office: “Wetin Gov. Fashola Dey Do Self?”

Majority of the people do not see government property as theirs. Otherwise why will people willfully damage public property so callously? They do not even know that these are procured with taxes collected from them...

Oodua Republic: To Be Or Not To Be?

Fellow brothers and sisters, it's very important for us to understand that Nigeria is a 'trap' that was set up by the British in order to make us independent and hold back our economic and cultural development...

Fuel subsidy: what’s really going on?

I am an angry Nigerian and those who know...

Nigerians Attending Universities In Ghana

It is important to state that with Nigeria’s fabled human and natural endowment, we have no business whatsoever sending our students to any school within the West African sub-region for tertiary education...

Don’t Hang Saddam Hussein

The killing by hanging of Saddam will not resurrect those he ordered to be buried alive. Hussein's hanging may rather inflame the current tidal waves in Iraq. It will exhume the buried anger of Saddam's kinsmen and jeopardize the instituted democracy...