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...

Ahmadinejad in New York and Declining American Power

In the past six to eight years America’s power in the world has decreased in two principal manners which are both separate and surprisingly interlinked...

Comments On That Human Rights Watch Report On Nigeria

HRH sees human rights violations in every other state in our universe, except in the United States of America. They tell the world about human rights violations as if the generally well-documented violations in the USA do not constitute human rights violations...

Hold Sudan Government Accountable for the Death of Nigerian Peacekeepers

Murdering Nigerians, soldiers or civilians, must be turned into unaffordable and exorbitant luxury, too expensive for Sudan, Spain, Turkey...

Iran Gone Nuclear? Who Decides? Who is Afraid? Why? (II)

After all the pre-war lies which were told by President Bush and his government before the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the current American government may soon start bombing Iran...

Iran Gone Nuclear? Who Decides? Who is Afraid? Why?

There are those in this world who still believe that America's opposition to Iran's nuclear power ambition is altruistic and benevolent...

Race-Relations Regressing In America

O'Reilly and persons like him just make my head spin, what with the monumental ignorance that they publicly exhibit? His dumb comments encapsulate and exemplify the state of affairs in race-relations in today's America...

Aaron Ringera and Nuhu Ribadu

The name of the Kenyan counterpart of Nuhu Ribadu is Aaron Ringera. From what we have garnered from press reports, not many Kenyans feel Justice Ringera and his commission are doing much in the quest to make corruption kiss the feet of reasoning...

The Nigeria in Kenya

Each day I walked the streets of Nairobi, listened to the radio, watched programmes on Kenyan television stations or read the Kenyan newspapers, the quantity and quality of resemblances between Nigeria and Kenya never ceases to amaze me...

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Is religion good for the next generation?

A young lady once told me she had not gone home for 10 years because her pastor accused her of witchcraft and her family threatened to kill her...

Nigeria – Africa's Linguistic Tower of Babel?

Many southern Nigerians ignorantly label Nigeria's past northern leaders like Abacha, Babangida, and Abubakar as "Hausa" when in fact none of them was/is Hausa...

The Ijaw and Nigeria’s Ethnic Politics

The three deepest gulfs that divide the Nigerian society are ethnicity, sectional interest and the ever widening gap between the rich and the poor. Of the three gulfs, ethnicity is the deepest and most turbulent...

His Excellency, Executive Embezzler

If Bode George’s fashion parades did not sway his judge, why are Daniel and Alao-Akala plying the same route? Why did they act as if they were in court to be decorated with medals for exemplary public service?

Going to Meet Black America

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't blend. They caught a whiff of the continent the moment they saw me, even before my accent gave things away. Everywhere we went I was moved by the brotherhood and fellowship that was extended to me in the middle of so much poverty...

We all must be involved

Sometime ago in 1985, some musicians heeded the call...

Selecting Emirs And Obas In The North And South Of Nigeria

It is a sad commentary on our country that we spend far too much money on avoidable litigations. I used to think the Urhobos were the most guilty of that virus. Not any more...

Obama’s Success in the US and Lessons for Ndigbo in Nigeria

When we see an old woman stop her dance to point again and again in the same direction, we can be sure that somewhere there something happened long ago which touched the roots of her life. Something is happening in America that should touch the roots of Ndigbo in Nigeria...

Another Military Coup d’Etat?

In an age where people are soulfully clamoring for good governance, accountability and constitutionalism, military coup d’etat may not be the solution to the countless ills that have become institutionalized in the Nigerian vein and marrow...

Jailing Their “Excellencies”

A piece of heartening political news came out of...