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...

Libya: sand and storm

If I must die, I won't die alone; I die with many children and their mothers, pregnant with babies who never yet had a voice. I die with the aspirations to solve the problems of the world. I die with the songs passed down by generations gone...

The conspiracy theory –  Africa and the international politics

The turn of events in Africa with regards to imperialist manifestation hurts, to say the least. While Gaddafi has been waging a loner war against the international mafia organization and their puritan two-faced dealings in Africa, he too forgot that posterity never sleeps...

History 700, Attitude of the new mind – Africa Intelligentsia

In today's emerging democracies, Africans should learn from the mystery of the internet to correct their morality and journey backward-forward...

Agonies of a Global Villager

As global villagers, we can get information from and relate with people from all over the world in real time. Regardless of where we are, others get information about us too, the information they get is placed alongside with information from around the world and there lies the beginning of the agonies of the global villager...

Libya; Why Not Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc.?

In attacking Libya, western nations led by France, have argued that Moamar Gadaffi already has or is at the verge of massacring "his-own-people" as he repelled or took counter measures against legitimate uprising, rebellion and revolution against his more than 40 years dictatorship...

Revolution or revolt eruption?

The lesson for the youths, trade unions, labor unions, students unions, and other democratic associations in a repressed polity is to educate their members about the need to understand the basic revolutionary ingredients needed to change power from the hand of the few oppressive elite into the hands of people centered democrats...

The Last Man Standing

Libya is in crises. Saif al-Islam Ghaddafi is about his business - the obedient son of a sit tight dictator – defending his nation's honor and right to sovereignty. Out of the blue reports and as yet unproven, allege that Saif Ghaddafi plagiarized some parts of his doctoral thesis without attribution...

Laurent Gbagbo, a Stray Scapegoat in the Den of Lions

This piece is not an attempt to hold forte for Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast, nor to malign him either, but rather to bring to the attention of the world some salient international treachery against African leaders and in so many instances against third world countries...

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Interview with Obi Okaku, Nigerian Hotel Consultant in Germany

My ex-German wife did not want children. According to her, she had sterilized herself before we met and her 13-year old cats were better alternatives to having children...

Fani-Kayode, Truth Is The Best Weapon

I have nothing against Kayode’s bid to project himself as the arch-defender of the Yoruba, whether within the Nigerian federation or as an independent entity. Self-determination is no sin and there is nothing to be ashamed of in forging a pan Yoruba nationalism...

Yar’Adua and the Question of Legitimacy

Between now and the inauguration day, Yar'Adua should meet with critics and opponents with genuine interest in the survival and progress of the country. There is the need to join forces for the sake of the country and the people...

The Tragedy of Greed and Corruption: The Pain and Grievances of the Ijaws

What is happening in the Niger Delta is the product of several decades of neglect and abandonment, of institutional and systemic corruption, of failure in leadership and of a country and a government that would not listen to the cries and pleas of a thoroughly marginalized people...

Demystifying the Gun In 'Naija'!

The 'Ajegunle soldier' in Lagos, Daddy Showkey, one of the most popular musicians in Nigeria, some weeks ago, survived yet another attempt on his life. According to the Edo-born weird talent he was in a filling station in Lagos trying to buy fuel when suddenly two men riding a motorbike accosted him and shot him at close range!

July 29 1966 On My Mind: Did General Aguyi-Ironsi Deserve To Die?

PART ONE INTRODUCTON On the fiftieth remembrance of Nigeria’s second coup...

Yar’Adua’s Budget Battle with the National Assembly

Just as many predicted when President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua signed the 2009 Appropriation Bill into law last March, the Executive and Legislative arms of government at the federal level have, for the umpteenth time, locked themselves in a largely unhelpful muscle-flexing over the implementation of the national budget...

Brexit: A Journey to the Unknown

The referendum on whether Britain should exit the European...

Anambra’s “Verdict 2010” as lesson and revenge

Last Saturday, voters in Anambra State came out in impressive numbers to elect a governor. The stakes were extremely high, and the obstacles formidable, but the people of Anambra did themselves great credit...

One Nation, Separate Justice

There has been selective judicial prosecution in Nigeria even when and where there is a glaring infringement of fundamental rights and objectives of good goverance. That is why it is not uncommon for Nigerians to resort to extra-ordinary means to resolve a simple case of civil breach...