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...

The Apt Censure from London!

Recently London played host to a host of countries in an elaborate well-attended Global Anti-Corruption Summit. The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari was among the...

Sadiq Khan has Made History In the United Kingdom

The recent electoral victory of Sadiq Khan in London, the city with the largest population in the United Kingdom, is a welcome development. Sadiq...

President Dilma. Rousseff vs. the Senate of Brazil

The former President of Brazil, D. Rouseff should be discharged and acquitted for the following reasons: That incompetence is not a crime but is...

Why Donald Trump Shouldn’t Dare the Smiting Power of Women

Donald Trump should be advised not to thread the uncharted territory of women. He should be admonished to read a book titled: "Anatomy of...

Much Ado about Nigeria Being “Fantastically Corrupt”

The recent description of Nigeria as a “fantastically corrupt” nation by the British Prime Minister, David Cameron on Tuesday, has become subject of contemptuous...

Vote for Quintessential Hillary Clinton!

Apart from Secretary Clinton's quintessential self, she is versatile with a fertile mind. She is very presidential in her demeanor, and she is more...

Hillary Clinton and I

From December, 1991 to December, 1992, I was a Visiting Research Fellow to the prestigious University of Michigan, Faculty of Law, at Ann Arbor,...

Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Speech

Donald Trump should fire his Foreign Policy team after reading this piece. The reasons for this are as follows. In International relations, foreign policies are...

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A Path Choked With Weeds

The average Nigerian lusts for easy wealth and society no longer questions the source of such wealth, rather flaunting such ill gotten wealth is the eulogized in glossy magazines...

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A noted cynic and friend of mine provided the...

Beyond Stethoscope: Intrigues of AMLSN’s Work-To-Rule Exercise

Like the rich class, Mr. President may not be using the nation’s hospital services hence he might be less perturbed compared to lots of Nigerians. He, however, is saddled with the inundating task of making the nation’s hospitals perform maximally...

Things Fall Apart, Me and Two Others

The African literary landscape is coloured by those influenced by Things Fall Apart. Indeed, the man-behind-the-story is referred to as the granddaddy of African literature. Whoever is the daddy?

Vacancies for Revolutionaries in Nigeria

Nigeria is in dire need of fundamental changes in all her systems. Therefore vacant positions have arisen in all parts of Nigeria and in all sections/sectors of our lives for positions of revolutionaries...

How The Niger Deltans Can Get Their Freedom: The Action Plan! Part 8

The Niger Deltans should not be naive nor have any illusion as regards to a new ministry set up by Yar'Adua and the criminals surrounding him. Suffice to say that the ministry is as good as the official paper that was used to type its creation...

Buhari: His Winnowing Fork In His Hand

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In a Way…It Happened This Monday

We meet to talk about things, we talk about the kind of things friends and lovers talk about: life and ideas and aspirations and fears and the light in our heart. You know, it is really easy to talk to someone you feel affection for...

Robert Mugabe , the African Big Man

Lately record inflation rates and cholera are ravaging the country while Mr. Mugabe continues to carry on in pomp as Head of Government. He has run out of ideas to get his people out of the mess he has led them into. His only solution is blind rhetoric and fake optimism...

Freedom Within A Cage…

For every animal, a trap exists to catch it however big or ferocious it might look. Hence we have lions and other wild animals "domesticated" and held captive in cages and zoos worldwide. However, there is no known trap that can capture the wind because it is invisible as much as it is invincible...