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...

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...

The American South as Warning to the Nigerian North

Nigeria’s northern elite are clinging to a vocabulary of oil at a time when the national budgets of the oil states in the Arabian Gulf are evolving towards oil independence; at a time when Moloch Yaddie is in Brazil, a country that has left oil behind and now runs on ethanol; at a time when President Obama’s main agenda in office is to secure America’s independence from oil; at a time when China and India have also joined the race to a future without oil...

Obama and New American Diplomacy (4): Strategic Concerns In The Middle East and North Korea

Israelis and Arabs cannot share the fireside for now. US impartiality and long-time support for Israel, which has remained the corner-stone of American diplomacy in the last fifty years, lingers as an impediment to true negotiations...

An Open Letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Mr. Prime Minister, the impending military campaign and the state of anomie in the Niger Delta are totally avoidable, if you and other leaders of goodwill will step up the diplomatic work and help solve the Niger Delta Problem once and for all...

An Open Letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Mr. Prime Minister, the impending military campaign and the state of anomie in the Niger Delta are totally avoidable, if you and other leaders of goodwill will step up the diplomatic work and help solve the Niger Delta Problem once and for all...

An Open Letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Mr. Prime Minister, the impending military campaign and the state of anomie in the Niger Delta are totally avoidable, if you and other leaders of goodwill will step up the diplomatic work and help solve the Niger Delta Problem once and for all...

An Open Letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Mr. Prime Minister, the impending military campaign and the state of anomie in the Niger Delta are totally avoidable, if you and other leaders of goodwill will step up the diplomatic work and help solve the Niger Delta Problem once and for all...

African American Experience and Lessons for Africans Caribbean Immigrants

It is almost taken for granted these days that life is good for African Americans in the United States. This is assumed, even though life is still full of racial impediments and obstacles for a majority of African Americans...

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A Postponement Unlikely to Reverse the Imperative Mood

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Election Rigging And Other Atrocities: Obasanjo Is NOT Guilty.

Obasanjo has decided to turn the country upside down for being denied the opportunity to rule us till death. He has decided to get his revenge for not being allowed to own and run Nigeria like his private property...

Get Rich Or Die Trying

Poverty and a crippled economy have forced hundreds of thousands of children out of Nigerian schools into the streets to fend for themselves and their families...

Gov. T.A. Orji operates a cult-like government

Whenever I want to leave Gov. Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State alone in order to see if he will change the compass of his stranded way of governing that once glorious state of ours, something in me tells me that if others and I do, the governor will continue to live in a fool's paradise...

As This Government Continues To Drift…

Because Yar’Adua never won any election, he is sorely scared of his own shadow and in this state, has formed a fetish of seeing treason in every move aimed at questioning his scruples...

The “Wide Brimmed Hat” Is Almost In Vogue

It can be excruciating to discern the politics of appearance in an aesthetically varied political landscape such as Nigeria. I take the challenge very seriously...

Buhari: Hitting the Ground Lurching

Muhammad Buhari has been campaigning, running for the office...

An Apologetic Presidency

The perceived cluelessness of the Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is about as old news as Ex-President Obasanjo’s assertion that the nation’s politicians are crooks. It was patently obvious that from the very first day GEJ stood close enough to power, he lacked the very gusto and presence of mind to lead a nation this complex, complicated and tasking...

Uniben Campus Killing Exposes Deadly Collision Of Cultism, Fraud, And Security Failure

Fresh fears over insecurity, cult-linked violence, and the growing...

Deportations of Nigerian Citizens by Governments Foreign and Domestic

Recently, I became aware of the kidnapping, bundling and dumping of Nigerian citizens who are afflicted with one disability or the other, including destitution and abject poverty. Nigerian citizens with disabilities who resort to meager subsistence through requests for alms or street begging...