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...

For McCain, PDP Beckons!

No matter who is announced winner of the American presidential election after November 4, what would never remain in doubt is that this is one election that would be far-reaching in redefining the political and social scene of the United States...

Why The Nigerian Project Must Succeed

If Nigeria cannot find the will or ability to do the right thing by its own citizens, why should one dream or expect it to do the right thing by folks outside of its borders? As the saying goes, charity begins at home...

Latin America And Africa: The Need For Closer Cooperation

Critics and dissenters may be right in terms of some of the predatory nature of international trade and globalization, but it is hard to ignore the fact that trade and globalization is the source of much of the world’s prosperity...

True Heroes of Africa

The darkest thing about Africa has always been the huge ignorance and misconceptions of this aptly termed cradle of civilization...

Farewell President Mbeki

We live in strange times. A prophet is indeed without honour in his own home. One moment a man is being lauded for brokering a ground breaking deal that holds the promise of peace and stability in a neighbouring nation, and the next moment he’s receiving short shrift from his own party...

United States Financial Meltdown, A Special Report

No jaundiced writer should talk about a” Black Monday, week or month,” when referring to the current financial crisis because I do not see how the colour black contributed anything to proven white-collar incompetence...

United States Financial Meltdown, A Special Report

No jaundiced writer should talk about a” Black Monday, week or month,” when referring to the current financial crisis because I do not see how the colour black contributed anything to proven white-collar incompetence...

My son left for Iraq today…

Can America single-handedly stop terrorism? What are the costs to the wives, children, and parents - and especially to the young lives of husbands, sons, and daughters who sacrificed their life for yet another cause. Perhaps I am just now speaking as a mother who dearly misses her son...

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Our Children, Our Future

My parents taught me early in life that beyond and above all things, my siblings and I were the reasons they toiled, they worked or even bothered to wake up every day of their lives. The philosophical concept of children hits home in our society in the absence of social security and other government buffers for ageing...

Christmas Bombings: A Nation Courting Death

Last Sunday, Nigeria made another bloody bid for global infamy as bombs detonated in churches in Abuja and elsewhere in the country. At the time of this writing, the death toll stood at more than twenty-five, and was expected to rise. That’s a staggering loss of live...

Past Regimes And The Future Of Democracy: Reprehensible Or Comprehensible?

Lack of accountability and transparency, the hallmark of various administrations in the past, can to a large measure be held responsible for the level and intensity of corruption in the country...

Bode George, God, and a Priest

Bode George, ex-military man and ex-chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, left Kirikiri prison last Saturday – having served a two-year sentence for corruption and earned the addition of ex-convict to his CV. From prison, Mr. George headed straight for the Cathedral Church of Christ in Marina, Lagos...

Plight Of Foreign Attorneys In America (2)

What is the essence of licensing Foreign Attorneys only to turn around and deny them the opportunity of proving their worth? It is a shame to have a law license and end up being a security officer or a Certified Nursing Assistant...

Wanted for Nigeria: Good Leaders with Sacrificial Mien!

"Nigeria is 59 while United States of America is...

Nigerians Are Objective & Brutally Honest!

Africa will receive respect when we have nuclear power, when we have money and when outsiders perceive dire consequences and a heavy price to pay for being politically incorrect about Nigeria and Africa...

Who sings to Mothers of the Damilola Taylors of the World?

Who sings the songs of consolation to millions of unknown mothers whose Children are plucked off the face of the earth, who slump and die daily...

Femi Fani-Kayode May Be Right!

In the blind rage to throw FFN under the bus, in front of the train, and later into the River Niger, all of us have conveniently forgotten to address the more salient points he made...

All Niger Delta Peoples’ Congress: Another Nonsense…Another Charade

What are the attendees going to talk about that a slightly educated Niger Deltan doesn’t already know? The solutions do not lie in the heavens or in the nicely-worded statements of policy wonks crossing the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean.