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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 Unraveling of the Great American Scam…where is CNN Now?

How to rob a bank? Well, not quite. In Houston, Stanford Investments not Nigerians are the ones robbing the bank. Millions of American dead beat consumers, leveraged to their eye balls are the bank robbers...

Iran's Unchallenged Progress to the Nuclear Club: A Threat to World Peace

Iran has now a presence in space! She has launched her first two-stage satellite into orbit. A situation that has put the new administration in Washington on the defensive...

President Obama’s 2nd-Day Anniversary

Americans can be exasperating. They just don’t know how to do things. Americans have a whole lot to learn from Nigerians. Their inability to do things the proper way cost me a lot of money on January 23, 2009...

Martin Luther King Writes Barack Obama

Here in heaven, we are still celebrating your historic win against all odds. Before and after the election we had prayer vigils for you. And it is astonishing how prayer said in faith could move mountain. A toast to you my dear boy!

Re-examining Nigeria’s Relationship with Other Africans

The Government of Botswana in January 2008 banned the employment of Nigerian health and other professionals in their public sector, including doctors, pharmacists, lecturers, etc., on the grounds that Nigerians are crooks...

What can President Obama do for Black America?

Past inspiring, Mr. Obama during his presidency must commit himself to tackling the important areas of concerns to African Americans if he wants his name in gold...

President Obama: ‘Yes You Can’ Make a Difference

It is difficult to imagine the sort of emotions going through Barack Obama’s psyche at this time. Without a doubt he must feel waves of excitement and exhilaration, effusive emotions, which are perhaps only tempered by a competing sense of apprehension...

Before President Bush Dies Politically!

This is wishing the 43rd president a safe and sound retirement and the 44th a safe and sound presidency. Both are great men in their own rights, history will remember them for good or bad...

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It is very disturbing that in the last two months, Nigerian politics has been full of “sound and fury” signifying stalled governance, near bankruptcy, proliferation of new political parties opposed to the ruling party...

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Experts have predicted that COVID-19 may remain a crisis much longer...

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In a report credited to Robert I. Rotberg, the...

When Nigeria Won Her First World Cup In 1977

Not many Nigerians know that the country won a...