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...

American Defense Budget; Biggest Corporate Welfare, Massive Cuts Are Overdue!

Cutting the American Defense Budget or Military Spending is panacea for economic recovery, budget balancing and deficit reductions...

30,000 Mexicans Killed In Drug War, Violence, Made in the USA!

This is a story about American appetite for drugs and narcotics which has and is still ruining many lives in America and many neighboring nations, particularly, America's southern neighbor, the nation of Mexico...

Sack This “diplomatic” Boxer

The specter of physical and emotional spousal abuse is, sad to say, a much-hushed scandal in our society. It would be bad enough if the perpetrators were only ignorant peasants...

Western Nations Are Bankers For Gadahafi, Dictators, Tyrants: The Pope As Bankers For Mafia?

$80 Billion Dollars of Libyan money is hidden by Gadahaffi in America and Europe. It has now been revealed that western nations and their institutions have been acting as Gadahafi's bankers...

900 Africans Drown As NATO Ignores Humanitarian Catastrophes In Near Libya!

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization with absolute military command, control and occupation of the area, continues to ignore and neglect the dire humanitarian disaster in and around Libya...

Some Reflections on the State of World Affairs

As the US President, Barack Obama undertakes diplomatic visits to Ireland, Britain, France and Poland, the nagging question that demands an answer is whether European states are losing their sovereignty?

Palestine Nationhood Imperative; As Israel Meets The World!

America will have to either support Palestine nationhood and democracy or America will be seen again as displaying biases in favor of Israel to "protect" Israel in the usual lopsided perennial way for the world to see...

The Libyan Case under International Law

There are rules of international law, which regulate warfare and which have been seriously violated by combatants during the Battle of Libya. It is the duty of a senior military officer to ensure that the Geneva Conventions on warfare are scrupulously respected...

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Is Genevieve Nnaji Nigeria’s First Movie Superstar?

What is this Nnaji mystique that has her audience colliding heads so joyfully, crawling, craving some time in her sun? Star quality is what it is. The amount of talent dripping from her little finger is more than many of our other female leading ladies have combined...

Patriotism and Dora Akunyili’s Squealers

It takes a sophisticated degree of disingenuousness for anybody to refuse to understand that the greatest impediment to the Nigerian brand – if there is any - is the Nigerian state symbolized by the Federal Government and Aso Rock...

Nigeria’s governors: Halfway to where? (1)

To begin with, any assessment of the subnational level...

Fatally Attracted to a Best Friend's Wife

Understanding our emotions can go a long way to help in dealing with a lot of issues that crop up in our daily interactions with persons of the opposite sex as Christians...

Nigerians in the Diaspora, Nigeria's Worst Enemies?

Rather than making sweeping remarks at Nigerians in the Diaspora, Nigerian leaders should demonstrate genuine love for our land and our people by talking less and acting more in making life worth living for Nigerians...

That Amnesty International Report on Nigeria

It was a damning report, a disturbing report. As...

Andoakaa, Nigeria’s Public Enemy Number One!

The impact of pervasive corruption in Nigeria, its impact on daily life, its magnitude and far reaching ramifications on public infrastructure, the overwhelming permeation of corruption on how life is lived in Nigeria is glaringly obvious...

Chad: When A Rebellion Isn't An Aberration

For the past eighteen years President Derby has been uninspiringly ruling over a desert poor country, one of the poorest in the whole world. His exploits in power point to crass mediocrity, crude manipulation of democratic standards and outright despotism…

Going Home

Some call Nigeria hell. I call it home and I'll gladly go burn in it.

Do You Believe in Juju?

Nigerians seem to have a two-tier belief system. On the one hand they believe in God/Allah, and attend church/mosque. Yet they still believe in the power of non-Biblical or Koranic spirits to cause harm, misfortune, death or heal sickness...