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...

Black Conservative-oxymoronic? A Response to Mr. Paul Adujie

Whether you want to believe it or not Mr. Adujie, your support, tacit as it may be, for abortion, homosexuality, infanticide, puts you in the same category with the abusers of children and the abusers of power that you complained about in your piece!

Afromatics I: Goals We Can Believe In

Who among us has had to battle the headwinds of cynicism and pessimism from our fellow African brothers and sisters on the issue of how to improve the African condition? Raise your hand if you have ever been personally beaten down by such dialogue. I thought so!

Obama’s Victory and British Immigration

Barack Obama’s victory scored a rebuke on the cultural foundations of our own immigration policy. Here immigration is seen as a means of bringing people as fillers for vacancies of jobs we don’t do...

Dr. Femi Babalola on Obama, Abortion Gay Rights in America

I read with considerable irritation and consternation, "The flip side of Obama" an article by one Dr. Femi Babalola, on how his favorite political party in America, the Republican Party, lost the elections...

America’s Africa Policy President Obama

With the recent election of Mr. Barack Obama as president of the United States of America, it is my view that America is finally living up to its constitutional promise of equality...

A Black British Premier is Hallucinatory Disorder

Barack Obama was lucky. His Luo father made the most profound decision of his life by rejecting Britain for America. By now, Obama would have been a mere London inner city duff solicitor on a nine to fiver with fading jackets, worn out shoes, hire purchase BMW and a mortgaged three-bed house...

A Black British Premier is Hallucinatory Disorder

Barack Obama was lucky. His Luo father made the most profound decision of his life by rejecting Britain for America. By now, Obama would have been a mere London inner city duff solicitor on a nine to fiver with fading jackets, worn out shoes, hire purchase BMW and a mortgaged three-bed house...

Further Reflections On Obama’s Victory

Obama and Abiola’s elections showed that a strongly-willed people desirous for a change can really make change happen. On June 12, Nigerians buried their historical differences and voted for Chief Abiola...

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Yar’Adua, Please, Fix This Road!

The Lagos-Shagamu-Benin Expressway is in a very horrible state. Although it has deteriorated quite beyond what anyone could have imagined was possible in a country ruled by human beings, no one can recall any meaningful attempt made in the past few years to halt its progressive decay...

Gen. Ihejirika: The Silent Transformer

Lt Gen Onyeabo Azubike Ihejirika,  a well-known student of The Art of War, adopting the powerful Sun Tzu strategy of silence, is fast transforming and repositioning the Nigerian Army into a 21st century army...

FG/ASUU’s endless industrial dispute

The current Administration should learn to honour agreements with individual Nigerians, groups, associations, or professional bodies by shedding the toga of official irresponsibility and destructive divide-and-rule tactics...

Belgore Committee: Another Jonathan’s Salutary Team?

Jonathan has a way of tapping hands perceived to have capabilities to deliver. And he may well know where to put them too; round pegs in round holes that is. But why things seem not to be working as expected despite his search for quality remains a mystery...

Nigeria Needs Unity!

The historical development of nation states have proved that we can not develop as a nation unless we condition ourselves to be able to engage each other in a more civilized and logical manner...

Decoding the Bini-Yoruba Creation Stories

One has to be intrigued by the long-standing feud between the Ooni of Ife and the Oba of Benin as to which city-state preceded which, and to whom did another contribute a royal genetics. At the center of this feud is the ego of ancient grandeur...

Naija Notes: Paid Mourners And Rented Crowds

“Bad people” set Buhari up to contest for just one reason: to make OBJ look good...

A Message to the National Assembly

The frosty relationship between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku Abubakar has taken a dangerous turn. As at this moment the Presidency is not only divided but literally at war with itself...

Gov. Fayose’s Misplaced Priority and Nothingness 

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A Review of Lugard’s Amalgamation Diplomacy

The ungovernable nature of the Nigerian state point to...