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...

The African and Power; Power and the African

Proverbs. 3:27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act. I am neither a...

Fake News is not New: Pioneering African Women versus the Naked Native

Ah! A picturesque tree of old world languages...Now what is bizarre about this picture? It has left out languages spoken in Africa, where there...

Why we welcome Pidgin: It is our thing

I am not sure if I should be excited about the BBC News initiative in launching a "pidgin" feature for a West African audience;...

Nigeria still longs for its own Barack Obama!

Barack Obama is the epitome of grace, graciousness, class, and humility. Given Obama's laudable accomplishment of rising to arguably, the most significant office in...

Nigerian Youth: A Reassuring Lesson from France and the Defeat of Populism in Europe

The attention of the world was on France last week. In Nigeria, for some time to come, we will subsume ourselves in the political...

Osbornegate and Rumourmongers

On Wednesday, 12th April 2017, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), acting on a tip-off, found $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 hidden...

On Trump’s $600m Fighter Plane Sale to Nigeria

The international media has being agog, in recent weeks, with reports that the Donald Trump administration was close to closing a mega $600M deal...

A Season of Anomie in Nigeria

The current tragi-comedy in Nigeria gives credence to Prof. Wole Soyinka's book titled: A Season of Anomy. The above article's title is borrowed from...

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Okiro’s Name Honours this Corruption

Apart from armed robbers - and perhaps kidnappers - it seems that the only other class of people feared so much by most Nigerians are the Police...

The Masses as Instruments

Politics, ultimately, is about the people. Policymakers always allude...

Posterity, Eternity (3): Between Need and Excesses

How many brethren today are keeping things and monies they can do without? Lest you allow your flesh to answer that question lets rephrase it for the attention of your spirit! How many a brethren are keeping things and monies God knows they can do without?

Christmas Gifts Africans Should Avoid

Your teenage son already sees you as that strange man with the funny accent from Africa who just doesn’t understand him. So, don’t make matters worse by buying him a Sony Walkman. That was cool in your day. Get him the Ipod Nano instead. That should work. Be warned though…an Ipod is different from the Ondo cocoa pod you are familiar with…

The Challenge is Great; The Goal is Clear: Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s Inaugural Speech

This is a historic day for our nation, for it marks an important milestone in our march towards a maturing democracy. For the first time since we cast off the shackles of colonialism almost a half-century ago, we have at last managed an orderly transition from one elected government to another... - Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

What We Don’t Understand About “No”

Self esteem plays a lot into so many things in life. It plays a much larger role than we care to admit. It exacerbates many other emotions that might more readily be kept under control with sound reasoning...

We Must Impeach Obasanjo And Atiku NOW!

President Obasanjo has committed every impeachable crime in the book. He has abused his office so many times that we cannot even keep count any more...

Days of Reckoning for Thieving Governors

Whether you like OBJ or not, the EFCC is one beautiful gift he gave to Nigerians. The Commission will not catch all thieves, but it will catch some and deter many...

July 29 1966 On My Mind: Did General Aguiyi-Ironsi Deserve To Die? (3)

QUASHING THE COUP OR CARRYING OUT A COUP? In recent...

The Problem with African Men

For the great majority of Africans in the Diaspora, we cannot go back home. Some are economic refugees, while others are shame-induced refugees. We cannot go back to a continent that does not know what do with us...