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...

Jonathan, Oduah, et al., and the Venezuelan Paralell

Chavez’s offence was that, as soon as he became President, he implemented a true national constitution that enabled participatory democracy from the grassroots level on up. Then he went and built thousands of free medical clinics for the poor.  He also increased government’s funding of education...

The Triumph of the Diplomacy of Rational Judgment in Geneva

Barring their nicotine-stained teeth, from years of nervous negotiations, diplomats from the East and West jubilantly celebrated their diplomatic feat over their success in the Iranian nuclear programme agreement...

The Application of Jus Cogens to Recent Diplomatic Wranglings Between States

The fundamental purposes of the principles of jus cogen are to adroitly and strictly apply its rules in international disputes. Where this is successfully done, the rule of international justice will override the use of force...

Malala Yousafzai: A child human rights and education activist

To the Muslim world, Malala is a golden gift that should be embraced to  deconstruct the mind of those with the mindset of Islam as a religion of war. Malala posited that Islam is a religion of peace, humanity and brotherhood...

International Legal Issues in the Scottish Quest for Independence from the UK

The Scots are poised for national regeneration. There will be fireworks in the university towns of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Durham and others...

The Great Syrian Debate: Roundabout Diplomacy in Geneva. (5)

Syria is asked to join the Chemical Weapons Treaty regime and hand over all chemical weapons to an international control authority, yet to be constituted...

Syria: The Merit in Obama’s Diplomatic Option and Matters Arising (4)

In diplomacy, it pays to make haste slowly. In statecraft, the application of rational, human intelligence has more merit than the use of military force or the threat to use force, which violates international law...

The Great Debate over Syria: The Truth of the Matter and the Untruth in the matter (3)

Untruth, no matter with what dexterity it is spoken and for how long, its glamorous colours will fade. Then, the liar develops shifting eyes as he or she loses honour and dignity...

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Ohakim and the Political Deities

Whoever they may be, Political Deities seem to me to be the greatest threats to the survival of democracy in Nigeria...

The Shame Of Nigerian Opposition Political Parties

Some of Nigeria's opposition political parties are just jokers. They are simply playing a game of the-more-you-look-the-less-you-see with Nigerians. The whole equation and logic behind their choice of presidential candidates and running mates just doesn't make sense...

Whose Vision Is It Anyway?

This Christmas period or even at any other time, you don’t want to fly into the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja at noon...

The World Must Embrace Sociocracy

The decline of civilization world-wide is a result of...

The World On The Heels Of Ecological Catastrophe

We have allowed technology and technological ingenuity to override our sense of moral restraint in our transaction with the natural world. Every day the global headlines are filled with portraits of how the engines of human civilization are bringing us all to the brink of annihilation...

Global Recession: It’s Implications On Nigeria's Economy and The Way Forward

Economists are often, occasionally unfairly, ridiculed as people who are good at theory but struggle when faced with the challenges of the real world as currently  being witnessed  globally. In times of economic prosperity, this isn’t a major problem, but when times are as bad as they are now, policy makers and politicians have to sit up and listen...