The world is in a mess and this is not just about Donald Trump, but a confused Europe causing disorder and then deploying falsehood and propaganda to camouflage its real intentions. For instance, there are a lot of attacks against Trump for allegedly trying to force Ukraine to sign a mineral deal with the United States, […]

President Donald Trump of the United States, US, is driving an articulated truck at high speed on the global highway. His truck has neither a rear view mirror nor side view mirrors. He relies on his assistants like James David Vance and Elon Musk to do the work of the mirrors. To compound issues, he sees […]

Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel Nujoma was on the verge of an historic victory on November 11, 1989. The votes for the first democratic elections in Namibia, his long suffering country, were being counted. The colonial South African Apartheid regime was billed to grant independence in March 1990. It was night. Suddenly, the lights went off. Nujoma and […]

Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, the retired General and head of the 1985-93 military junta who styled himself  ‘President’  has again intruded into our national consciousness. On Thursday, February 20, 2025, the General who was disgraced out of office 32 years ago,  unleashed  an unguided missile he called an autobiography. Titled: ‘A Journey In Service’, it was a failed […]

The Africa Union, AU, 38th Summit from February 15-16, 2025 promised to be challenging as the body had to elect a new Chairperson for the African Union Commission, AUC, which is its engine room. The Commission is the AU Secretariat and its Chair, its chief executive officer. In the last eight years, that seat had been […]

Ayo Adebanjo, 96, was a path through which Nigerian politics could be traced. The politics of the country was mainly about the ruling elites in military fatigue or civil dress ruling at the centre, and conscientious patriots opposing from the sidelines or working from the margins. Adebanjo belonged to the latter.  At 14, in 1943, he […]

There was a popular song when I was a child titled ‘Come and see American wonder.’ It was not so much about the celebration of the perceived wonders of the United States, US. It was more about the incredulous things emanating from ‘God’s own country’. Some of us thought that as far as the US was […]

Portable is the stage name of Street-Hop rapper, Habeb Okikiola Badmus.   He is crass   in appearance and, ill-mannered    with apparent gaps in thought. Exhibiting outlandish behaviour, he divides his hair into parts each with a loud colour that gives the appearance of a cockerel head. The tattooed Portable who styles himself as the leader of […]

The rebels of the Tutsi M23 backed by the Rwanda Defence Force, RDF on January 27, 2025 rolled into Goma,  eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC eliminating  whosoever they found in their path. These included the peacekeepers of United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the DRC, MONUSCO and,   the Southern African Development Community Mission in the Democratic […]

Kaduna State Governor  Uba Sani who announced on January 27, 2025 that he is negotiating with killer bandits, is dead wrong.   The over  six months he said he has  been negotiating  with these vipers who  kill, maim, kidnap and collect ransom from innocent people, is a waste of  time. The governor’s  claims that he engaged in   peace […]

The unforgettable Clara Margarita Pulido-Escandell, the then Cuban Ambassador to Nigeria, on Friday June 10, 2022    held a welcome lunch for the new Mexican Ambassador    Alfredo Miranda. It was not surprising for she was like a mother hen watching over    fellow    ambassadors. At the occasion, I had    an animated    […]

Anambra State Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo in a Trumpian manner, made several fallacious and specious statements at the December 2024 dedication of a    new church building in    Onitsha. For example, the press quoted him as saying: “Since the inception of my administration, we have declared war on criminals, their shrines, priests and burnt down their […]

President Joe Biden within seven weeks from December 1, 2024, granted over 2,500 pardons including for his son,  Robert Hunter Biden. Hunter had been convicted  on a nine-count charge   for  tax felony amounting to $1.4 million,  evading tax assessment  and filing false tax returns. He faced a maximum 17 years in prison.  His sentencing […]

Nigerians are, as usual, being entertained to the soap opera called budget defence. The 2025 episode is living up to its billing. Already, a  Senator has staged a walk out on his own committee.  The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, sat in  the National Assembly, NASS on Thursday, January 16,  2025 to present the police budget. […]

The United States of America, USA is to present to the world next  Monday, January 20, 2025, its two faces. It will mark the Martin Luther King Jnr, MLK Day. The federal holiday which would be holding for the 39th year, is the American face of non-violence, civil and human rights. It is a day that […]