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...

That ECOWAS position on Economic Partnership Agreement, EPA

One significant thing that took place at the ECOWAS ordinary summit in February 7, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, was that member-states decided to speak with one voice concerning the Economic Partnership Agreement, EPA...

Drug Trafficking, Emerging Threat To Ghana

Ghana is the hottest in West Africa where international drug smuggling is widespread because of its perceived stability...

I Am Not Anti-Obama, Its Just That Hillary Clinton Is My Babe

Senator Hilary Clinton is both a change agent and a steady and experienced hand. She also comes with a team full of vigor, vision, and foresight to tackle domestic and global concerns and challenges...

Canterbury Tales: The Archbishop of Controversy, the Church of England and the Anglican Communion

One of the reasons why the Church of England seems to have lost its religious fervour and spiritual direction has to do with its leadership. The current Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, is a highly controversial man too often mired in controversy...

Unity

It is also preposterous to say that black people would vote for a black man no matter how moronic the fellow is. That generally is an insult to the black people...

The Castro To Castro Transition In Cuba

The Castro to Castro transition in Cuba has surprised only a few given the fact that Raul was an insider in the revolutionary regime of Fidel. As powerful Defense Minister he provided the security network and blanket with which the Castro regime was covered...

Pan-Africanism: Challenges, Concerns and Constraints

Africa was supposed to be the Mecca for the Black race, but somehow, it has turned out to be a killing and chaotic field. And so, Pan-Africanism, at least for now and into the foreseeable future, is a dud, a fiasco...

A World Without Africa

Africa is vital. And like every other continent is essential to the earth's wellbeing, Africa is necessary for the smooth running of the world's cosmos. We are all interrelated and interconnected...

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A Season of Kettles and Pots

Nigeria is a country where anything is seemingly possible;...

Professor Ladipo Akinkugbe and Nigeria’s arrested Development

Professor Ladipo Akinkugbe, Philosopher, Statesman and Physician in his...

Demilitarizing Nigerian Democracy!

For real democracy to take hold in Nigeria not only will the people of Nigeria have to fight the internal enemies of democracy, they will also have to overcome the crushing power of the military godfathers...

Gani Fawehinmi: Between Impetuosity and Senility

It bears emphasizing that Gani is, in the eyes of many, a victim of both impetuosity and 'senility'. The degeneration of a hitherto great legal mind has struck us, his admirers right from college, as the final stage of a hero's dramatic undoing of his heroism...

Businesses and Sustainable Development

Sustainable development is not a destination. It is a journey which individual businesses must undertake to conserve the earth’s resources...

The Struggle Continues…

It is assumed that Nigerians abroad do menial work, suffer, get oppressed, derided, and barely scrape a living. Well, all that and much more!

The Happiest-Looking People on Earth

The Spartan drive and tenacity of the common Nigerian has continued to engender - if not freedom - some form of unity and peace, which provide us with a place we can still call Nigeria today...

Anambra State Election Verdict: Now that the Truth has been revealed…

To every thesis there is an antithesis and to this a synthesis. However, truth is a never dying process. The truth is that there was no election in Nigeria in 2003 and there won’t be one come 2007...

Who Really Qualifies to Fight Corruption in Nigeria?

To fight corruption in Nigeria, would it require a virgin or an angel? Should we fight corruption by hiring foreign agents, just as we do with foreign football coaches and technical advisers?