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...

Bhutto/Ghandi: Dynasties In Peril

The orgy of naked terrorism and the festival of bloodletting from Palestine to Iraq, Israel to Afghanistan, Pakistan to Sudan make the world a worse place to live in...

Between Bhutto And Ribadu

Rewind. Then press play. Two moving pictures stand out as box office hits in the last days of 2007: the tragic death of Benazir Bhutto and removal of Nuhu Ribadu as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...

Bonjour 2008, Bonne et Heureux Annee!

As another year unfolds, humanity guesses and gazes over the horizon and horoscope to be able to come to terms with the likelihood of failures or successes as we try to outlive yet another year...

AFRICOM And Modern Day Colonialism: The Precaution Yar’Adua Should Take

AFRICOM's creation has a lot to do with US energy interests in Africa. The Gulf of Guinea has large amounts of oil, particularly Nigeria which has become an important oil source for the US...

AFRICOM And Modern Day Colonialism: The Precaution Yar’Adua Should Take

AFRICOM's creation has a lot to do with US energy interests in Africa. The Gulf of Guinea has large amounts of oil, particularly Nigeria which has become an important oil source for the US...

The UN Convention Against Corruption (3)

The awareness has increased that the prevention and eradication of corruption is a responsibility of all states and that they must cooperate with each other...

Ghaddafi: A Terrorist Turned Africanist?

Ghaddafi is a unique leader in the sense that he has successfully used the oil wealth in his country to positively effect massive empowerment and impact on the lives of his compatriots...

The UN Convention Against Corruption (2)

Like the living hydra, corruption manifests in many forms...

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The Arewa Consultative Forum and the Niger Delta Conflict

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World Cup Tragedy Of South Africa

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Many Nigerians are shy when it comes to talking about sex. They are not at all brazen and open and accepting of public discussions of sex; and in fact an overt public display of affection is not common...

Ohakim’s Nsiko Mentality Theory And Ndigbo

Ohakim has a message for Ndigbo; don’t continue dwelling in self-pity, stop lamenting the tragedies of the civil war because the civil war is over, stop blaming others for your woes, work to attain whatever you want to attain...

Bola Ahmed Tinubu: A True Democrat or a Rising Dictator?

The question on many Nigerians' minds today is whether...

A Dangerous Non-Debate

Nigerians ought to be having an urgent, indeed fundamental,...

The Cargo Cult

Virtually every religion ever designed by man worships a god whose function is to deliver some sort of cargo. The god of man’s making exist to serve men. He is only good for what he is able to provide. If or when he fails to provide then he is no longer their god...

Roosevelt Ogbonna: Leadership Personified

The Psalmist was emphatic about the importance of remembering...