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...

Power of Opposition: The Burkina Faso Example

Blaise Compaore until 31st October 2014 was the president of Burkina faso. He took over power as head of state on 15th October 1987...

Global Security in the Aftermath of 9/11

On September 2001, during the first year of the new millennium, the cities of New York and Washington D.C were attacked by what most...

Nigeria: Arms Procurement and Its Diplomatic Implications

In recent weeks, it’s been a kind of "Jaw Jaw diplomacy" between Nigeria and The United States government over alleged refusal of The United...

We’ve Had Enough of These Excuses

When a woman is raped or gang raped in many African communities, Nigeria included, people ask questions. They want to know: was she wearing...

Franklin Roosevelt’s idea

Two brothers were often seen fighting in the neighbourhood to the chagrin of Dad. They were not respecting their dignities. They welcomed violence and...

Letter to the American Ambassador in Nigeria

Dear Mr. Ambassador, I would have loved to write this letter to you in pidgin, on my company’s letter head and mail it to...

Burkina Faso: Power of Opposition

Blaise Compaore until 31st October 2014 was the president of Burkina Faso. He took over power as head of state on 15th October 1987...

Rewriting History Written In Blood

War is a defeat of humanity. Only in peace and through peace can respect for human dignity and its inalienable rights be guaranteed. -Pope John...

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Fear of God and Manifestation of the Sons of God

The fear of God or the want of it is what separates the few on the narrow way from the multitudes in the world and multitudes in the Church on the broad-way. The fear of God is what ‘begets’ those eternal sons of God...

Is Goodluck Jonathan Sincere Enough?

Dr. Jonathan has been given the opportunity by Nigerians and a coalition of civil society group to write his name in gold. He should not allow the enemies of Nigeria to tarnish his image and reputation...

Nigeria’s Last Virgins!

A couple of months ago, when I was shown the topics to be treated under the subject called "Sex Education" which tender children in both junior and secondary schools in Lagos State are now being forced to learn, I could not imagine that anyone outside a mental home could be wicked enough to design a subject with such insidious contents...

Kalu, T.A. Orji and the MASSOB Curse

What our people have come to endure in Gov. Orji’s government are multiple taxations, intimidation by security agents and gross dilapidated infrastructure that cut across all the areas in the state...

Aspects of a Cartoon Riot

People have said that the riots in Nigeria were generated and influenced by a semi-literate elite that needed to show solidarity with the rest of the Muslim world. Why they would encourage the talakawa become as demented as they were we cannot tell...

Nigeria’s Mental Health Conundrum And The Way Forward For Africa’s Most Populous Country

In November, 2018, the Federal Ministry of Health posited...

A Letter To President Jonathan From The Grave

We, the more than 200 victims of Boko Haram’s latest savage bomb attacks, feel we must write to you from beyond the grave. Our simple message is summed up in the phrase: Enough is enough.

Fani-Kayode Should Shut Up…!

Let me take the very intelligent and master historian Fani Kayode on a historical journey as well and as much as he has taken everyone. If he remembers his history very well, he would just come to realize that the reason why Adolf Hitler killed more than three million Jews...

Adewole: The physician as diplomat

Professor Isaac Folorunso Adewole is a Renaissance man who...

Reminiscences of Nigeria

I cry for the current generation of Nigerian students. They are studying under very hard conditions. So it is disheartening to hear that Nigerians are now sending their children to Universities in Ghana to get a better education. I remember that our universities in Nigeria used to attract hundreds of foreign students...