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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...

On the Eliot Spitzer Affair

Why is Abati and many of the mainstream American media scissoring from public discourse the illegality of big brother wire-tapping with which Eliot Spitzer was caught that would have made the case not travel far in court?

Encounter With a Melody Woman that 'Stole' my 'Heart'

South Africa, to be sure, has many potentials. Apart from being the only sub-Saharan African nation with world-class economy and infrastructures the rainbow nation has given Africa a rich culture...

Idi Amin His Monumental Mosque @ 36

Though Idi Amin in his time demonstrated how a man could be a barbarian in power the mosque and its eventual completion represent an evergreen legacy he left behind...

4000 Dead: A Grim Milestone One Moment

Let us wait for John McCain to remind us of the altruistic notion of squandering a quarter of a trillion Dollars every year on a nation filled up with certain groups that loathe our civilization so much but yet at war with one another; while our schools decay, our bridges crumble and our homes are seized by failing banks...

The Element of Eliot Spitzer in Some of Us

There is an element of Eliot Spitzer in some of us and we rarely accept or acknowledge this fact for fear of repercussions...

Empirical And Theoretical Means In X-Raying The Nitty Gritty Of International Institutions In The Light Of Social Transformation of The LDCs Within Africa

It is important to note here that Globalization is not a new phenomenon, and while inevitable, was propelled to its present proportions by deliberate policies in the areas of trade, finance and investment...

Empirical And Theoretical Means In X-Raying The Nitty Gritty Of International Institutions In The Light Of Social Transformation of The LDCs Within Africa

It is important to note here that Globalization is not a new phenomenon, and while inevitable, was propelled to its present proportions by deliberate policies in the areas of trade, finance and investment...

Governor Eliot Spitzer: A Setup or Self-Destruction?

Aesop was a Greek fabulist who had intoned “we often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.” For reasons best known to him and him alone, Spitzer offered his head and his spine, on a platter of Gold, to his critics and his enemies. Why would a man who knew he was being hunted make the job of his hunters easy?

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The Rich List 2012 passed the test of prediction. I am yet to be formally declared a prophet. My confident intuition paid off. Pages after pages, I saw smiling white faces. Some caressing their yachts moored on the Pacific oceans. They look robust, real and ready. They look beautiful, bouncy, bright and brilliant. Why not? They are the risk-taking, movers and shakers of this sceptre isle called Britain...

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The recolonization of Nigeria is a clear and present...

Rivers’ Free Medical Health Care?

Due to people’s different beliefs, it is evident that many do not take the issue of the health of their children seriously, and the health centres do not take seriously those who do...

A Case For Canceling The 2015 Elections

Once again, Nigeria has entered an awful, familiar season. The country’s air is rent with talk of power. Not electric power, no; we’re talking raw political power! And the general elections of 2015 seem to have concentrated the mind of every politician in Nigeria...

Obama's Health Reform: The Anathema To Change Is The Fear Factor!

Healthcare Reform efforts have met with a deluge of noise and permeating fear-mongering. This fear-mongering is being perpetuated by those opposed to change and reforms of the currently antiquated, discriminatory and lopsided healthcare delivery system in America...

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The Remains of the Day

I did not vote in the last Nigerian elections. I couldn't have from my abode in Europe where we tried to mobilise the Nigerian diaspora for the Pat Utomi for president project. Though the results did not go the way we had hoped, I am still a happy man knowing that we tried our best to effect change in our country...

I, Alien

I write to commiserate with you as we approach the first anniversary of the harrowing events of September 11, 2001. I also write to share with you some of the fears that have made home in my heart since that dastardly morning. Things have changed sir…or madam…

Education in Nigeria under Dr. Sayyadi Abba Ruma: Challenges and Possibilities

The federal government has played a limited role in education. The Constitution gave the state governments the authority and power to fund education and thus the primary responsibility of educating its citizenry...