The Israeli plans to deport Palestinians from Gaza to Africa have been informally confirmed, formally denied, but widely  condemned.  Despite the wide condemnation  including by the United States, US and European Union, EU, two bodies that have traditionally backed the Israeli actions in the Palestine, it is difficult  to say which condemnations are genuine and […]

In the 2023 Christmas period running from December 23-25, armed assailants in co-ordinated attacks wiped out 20 communities in  Magu, Bokkos and Bakin areas of Plateau State. They killed over 200, injured a minimum 500 and put  over 10,000 in flight. The headlines  expressing ‘Outrage over Plateau killings’ are tragically, familiar and might  have as well been […]

Eight billion human beings entered  2024, four days ago with hopes of a better world. But that may be largely determined by rulers across countries who may not even share the same vision. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, whose forces have sustained some 70,000 deaths and over 100,000 injured does not seek a peaceful resolution. Rather, […]

The  year 2023 held a lot of hope for Nigerians as the Buhari administration  which had put the country on autopilot, was programmed to end its tenure by mid-year. Indeed, the past year had begun as a traumatic one with a currency change   which impoverished the people as they could not readily access their  […]

Venezuelan Special Envoy and Ambassador to the African Union, Alex Nain Saab Morán who, against the  established diplomatic practice of immunity, had been illegally detained in Cape Verde for sixteen months and in the United States for two years, was freed on Wednesday, December 20, 2023. He was exchanged for ten American prisoners in Venezuela who […]