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...

Papacy, the Occults, America and New World Order

Until the anti-Christ comes the Papacy remains the worst institution and the most anti-Christian outfit in history...

Papacy, the Occults, America and New World Order

Until the anti-Christ comes the Papacy remains the worst institution and the most anti-Christian outfit in history...

Obama’s Senate, Soldiers-Horses mating and New World Order!

The year 2011 closed with the gruesome issue of same-sex marriage. Obama and the West were poised to horn down Africa for not going insane with them...

Mandela and the Parable of Leadership

As president, Mandela was far from a perfect leader; some critics charge that he failed to drive a harder bargain to attain economic empowerment for the long-oppressed black majority. Still, he did not set out, as most Nigerian “leaders” do, to destroy his nation for the sake of personal benefit...

The World could come to an End

This is a fiction which could become frightfully real if those who are given to belligerency have their way. In this essay, I will use hyperbolic polemics to present my narrative...

The Writer as a Thinker: Charles Dickens Lives 200 Years On

It is a conviction that I have strongly held for a long time that those social humans, who think deeply and constantly reflect on the deeper things of life, live long and become anointed...

How Chinese Leaders Emerge: Lessons for Nigeria

No President, governor or other political office holder should think that he is superior or better than his compatriots. If you search, you will find millions who are far ahead of their leaders...

International Law and Diplomacy in the Syrian Crisis

In classical international law, the events in Syria should have been treated as “within the internal affairs of Syria”, which the UN Charter disallows other states from interfering in...

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With Over N100b Annually Gov. Orji Can’t Provide Job Opportunities?

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There is no danger looming in Edo State as a result of the resolve of the Edo State Assembly to perform its assigned role. The real danger is having an Executive which trades on falsehood...

Chuma Nwokolo’s Great Game Against Corruption

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Africa: What Obama Won’t Do For Us

Africans are free to be optimistic about how well an Obama presidency will mean to the continent. But we must also keep our expectations of him to as close to reality as possible...

A Decade of Democracy: The Proverbial Elephant

Various opinions have indicated what a decade of democracy in Nigeria means to diverse individuals. Like the proverbial elephant visited by some blind men, one cannot but be overwhelmed by the many-sided, manifold interpretations of 10 years of democracy in Nigeria...

Season of Harvests and Thanksgiving

Nigeria is filled with issues that sometimes make one doubt God’s preeminence in the country. On a second thought however, deep insights are not needed to fathom the evident presence of God’s mighty hands in our affairs...

Goodluck Jonathan’s golden opportunity

What exactly did the great Chief Obafemi Awolowo do to have gained such status even after death? Like any good administrator, he simply managed what he had and used it to provide the very much needed infrastructure for his western region of Nigeria...

A Disease Called Broklysis!

In the history of creation, it is one of the deadliest diseases ever to strike mankind. There are many people recorded in the Bible who were afflicted by this disease. When this disease strikes a man, it can rattle the brain, dry up the blood...

Awka Kidnappings and Enemies Within

It is frightening that what may have started as genuine acts of protest have since been hijacked and elevated into a multi-million naira money spinner by those who are directly and indirectly involved in the business of kidnapping...

2023 Power Shift: A Greek Gift? (Part 1)

The airwaves have been inundated with the call for...