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...

Nigeria Delta Crisis and United States’ Energy Crisis

Bush's measures might not make much of a dent in oil imports.With the crisis in Venezuela, the war in Iraq and the limitations put on the capacity of OPEC to meet any additional supply; there is a major energy crisis in the United State...

Why We Cannot Wait

For many long years we have waited for men of goodwill to visit with us and change our fortune. We waited and were enslaved at the price of shadows. We waited again and were colonized...

Iran: Regime Change Underway

America engineered and orchestrated regime change is about to take place in Iran. And a hobbled Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain is the ready tool and enabler.

The Bush Administration and Posthumous Diplomacy

It is unarguably correct to conclude that the diplomatic gains of the post-Russian collapse or the emergence of a lone global power has been squandered by the Bush administration...

Slavery and Slave Trade: Felony, Reparations and Redress

We have to commit ourselves, without further ado, to self-interrogation and re-examine our presumptions. When and where did the rain start to beat us? Who and who collaborated in it? Where is African culpability? How do we uproot the vestiges of the aftermath of slave trade and colonialism particularly the mental and psychological stumps? Why do we think that we cannot do things right by ourselves?

Ted Haggard’s Haggard Tendencies

All these negative influences from abroad should and must be shunned. It may be another Sodom and Gomorrah that is coming...

American “Jobbers” And 4-1-9ners: Fact Or Fiction

Vulture companies buy up the debts of poor countries at reduced or cheap price and turn around to ask for payments much higher than these countries were originally owing, and often taking these poor nations to court if they cannot afford to pay...

Towards an effective African Renaissance

Africa is a lucky continent judging by the quantity of attention she receives from the world leaders and institutions. African leaders should immediately exploit the gains of this romance...

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N500 million Suit: Determining EFCC Culpability

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Liberty, G8 and Poverty

The West has an obligation to help Africa because in 1884 the West officially caused the initial African mess: Currently, in the world economy, a chain is as strong as its weakest link...

Rescuing the Insatiable Custodian from Self-Destruction

Sustainable development ensures that the use of resources and the environment today does not restrict their use by future generations. Man has a responsibility to handover his planet to generations unborn in a manner in which they can also meet their needs...

Time for a Female President in Nigeria?

Let’s look at what 50 years of uninterrupted rule by men has brought Nigeria: civil war, one million dead bodies in the space of 3 years, systematized corruption, destruction of national morals, ostentatious living, and decadence that would make the ancient Romans blush...

New American Diplomacy In The Era Of The Gentiles, Atonement And The Brotherhood Of Man

Empires and hegemonies rise and collapse each time the Universal Wheel turns.  From the fall of Holy Roman Empire to other fallen empires and colonialist states, the message is the same, when the King of the Universe pleases, HE will overturn...

Stay Away From The Kitchen

The bad temper and road rage being displayed by Obasanjo from time to time, is unbecoming of a good leader in a democratic system of Government...

Osun 2026: What does AMBO even want?

By Adebola Anifowose In the theatre of Nigerian politics, where...

Go For A Medical Check Up If You Don’t Snore

Many couples are not happy sharing a bed because either spouse snore, even though investigation empirically shows that both of them snore...