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...

Meanings Africans Attach To A Name

African names have metamorphosed from epic to modern, and now to European. African languages are also on the verge of extinction, if not already in oblivion...

Darfur and the Necessary Boycott of Beijing Olympics

We call on the Nigerian government to rally all other African nations to boycott the Beijing Olympics next year should China still insist on its deadly intimacy with the Sudanese government...

US Counter-Insurgency In Iraq

Pundits claim that in Iraq, Americans are committing, all over again, the faux pas that led to their nearly unbroken string of frustration fighting insurgencies over past four decades, from Vietnam in the 1960s to El Salvador in the 1980s...

The Danger Of An Organized United States Of Africa

From the inception of the world, Africa has not known peace as a result of one  intimidation or the other by the self-acclaimed know-all people who have held Africa spellbound for decades...

Yar ‘Adua, G8 Africa

For too long, Africa had represented itself as a sick child needing medication, help and aid. While that may be some fish, we need to learn some fishing skills that may be more helpful to all concerned...

Achebe, Soyinka 100 Concerned Nigerians Abroad WARN Bush Over Iraq War!

A consortium of Nigerian intellectuals known as One Hundred Concerned Nigerians Abroad, have written a powerful letter to President George W. Bush of the United States, demanding that he end the war in Iraq forthwith...

Africa: We will be as Strong as Europe

Why it is that Africa swallow the principles of democracy but refuse to practice it in such a way that common Africans benefit from the gains of democracy?

Africa: Blair Is Too Late!

Blair, now in the twilight of his tenure and at the jaws and manacles of history, suddenly seeks to redeem himself with a loud, but clearly hollow and pretentious eleventh hour advocacy for Africa!

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Children of Akwa Ibom State and Governor Godswill Akpabio – A note

I am immensely disturbed by reports emanating from Akwa Ibom state on the vitriolic action of the state government against the activists of the child witchcraft problem in the state...

Getting Inflation Regulated In Nigeria!

In Nigeria, inflation rate remains high and is causing great pain and misery to much of the teeming population. It has increased steadily in recent times...

‘The Trouble with Nigeria’

I now believe that Nigeria made an error of monumental proportions by allowing the man called ‘IBB’ to take over the reins of power.  I believe the beginning of his administration began the irretrievable spiral downwards...

Lagos State LG Funds: Waiting for the Apology

Imagine a ship at sea that is in trouble. The lights keep going out. The engine is faltering. The rudder is unreliable. The first mate is drunk. The crew is demoralised. The service is appalling. The passengers on the ship are very dissatisfied...The troubled ship is Nigeria my beloved country.

Diran Odeyemi: Alao-Akala’s Special Corruption Conduit

In this piece, I will strive to bring Odeyemi, the Special Adviser to Oyo State governor Alao-Akala on Special Duties, back to the issues. I can play the personal attack card too, but this is neither the place, nor is it the time for it. And quite frankly, there is no personality in Odeyemi for me to attack...

Oceanic Bank Honoured In London As Nigerian Bank Of The Year 2007

At the prestigious Dorchester Hotel, London, Oceanic Bank was adjudged the Nigerian Bank of the Year for the second year running...

Sycophancy Is a Terminal Disease

I had the great opportunity of reading in manuscript...

Kingsley Osadolor: The Guardian Rottweiler is 50

Professional antagonists who might want to spar self-righteously against Kingsley Osadolor will have to concede one sacred thing to him. He is one of the shiftless, strategically stubborn and unflagging icons of the Guardian Newspaper...

MUT’A: Temporary Marriage in Islamic Culture and Religion

Marriage as an institution differs in structure, function, and meaning from one culture to another...