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...

Islamophobia in America: Islam And Muslims Under Siege

In her hurry to excoriate Islam and Muslims in New York, Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska and former presidential running mate of Senator John McCain, created a new "word" as she demanded that Muslims in New York City should "refudiate" plans to build a mosque...

China Bashing Foreign Investments in Africa

There is cut-throat competition between America and Europe on the one hand and China on the other, and there is no hiding the revived scramble for the resources on the African continent, especially resources of the hydrocarbon type...

Spying, Geo-Politics And The Satanic Order

Next time you are requested to vote for a political leader, check him out accordingly. Otherwise, our misery will continue to result from governance by guess-work and misadvise...

Nigeria Disbands Sports Team, Cameroon Banishes Beggars…

During these past several days, there were newsworthy events in Nigeria and the Cameroons, two events with national and international consequences, including adverse publicity for both nations with common borders...

Africa has a market size worth over $900 billion

As opposed to the tag of poverty that is traditionally slammed on Africa, Africa is a rich continent, richer than people think...

Nigeria and G20: Making the case for membership

Nigeria is not an official member of either G8 or G20, but an invitation to the summit was given to her along with other important emerging markets of Southern hemisphere. South Africa was also at the meeting as an official member...

The World Economic Crisis; Remote And Immediate Causes: A Reminder To G-8 Leaders

Massive investment in Africa, which lead to prosperity, will enable African governments to clean up their societies and not wait for wild, hope-raising promises at G8 meetings that are never meant to be honoured...

BP = Big Polluter = British Pensioners = Big Problem = Bankruptcy Probability

It is good news that President Obama is demanding and insisting that BP establish an escrow account for the clean up and compensation in the aftermath of the BP disaster...

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Debt Cancellation For Who?

Most of our debt is owed the Paris Club which is made up of mostly governments of the developed world which are democracies and also face the challenges of providing health care and employment for their people and are under no obligation to Nigerians...

Babangida’s Belligerent Sense of Entitlement

In spite of all the filth that his hired army of revisionists are churning out, to erase his infamies from our memories, we are still solid in our knowledge and conviction that Babangida is one of the greatest rapists of our commonwealth...

Prosperity, Eternity (11): Giving and God’s Yardstick of Approval

How does God expect us to give? It is not according to how you wish or will; it is according to His wish or will and according to His needs and the needs of His children. How does God score what we give? What is His yardstick of appreciation? Is it according to what we give? No!

Beyond the Nnamdi Kanu Rhetoric and the Igbo Question

This issue of Biafra agitation and the Igbo question...

South African Secret Laws: A Clear Hop, Step and Jump into Fascism and other Woes in the World

This engagement with the analysis of the woes of the world was the result of the energy unleashed at 11am on the eleventh day of the 11th month of this year, 2011...

Is This the #Change for Which I Prayed and Voted?

Your APC government has increased the official pump price...

NDLEA and Buba Marwa’s burden

There was a time in Nigeria when the name,...

In The Name Of The Son

The Igbos have a saying that a woman’s place in her husband’s house is only cemented after the birth of a baby boy. You wonder sometimes the sense in the saying, or belief and the psychological scar it leaves in the hearts of Igbo women...

National Redundancy and Expensive Political Afterthoughts

From the bothering bordering Lake Chad up north to the overflowing Atlantic Ocean in the south, it is evident that Nigeria cannot even contend with natural events; what should we expect of man-made challenges?

Sustain the Aluta, Combat the Lies

In the next few days, our patience will be tested. This government and her sympathizers will begin to plant moles in our midst to create chaos and then kill the protesters. The idea is to discredit the movement...