Africa is in the vile grip of insecurity. This was the verdict of the African Union, AU, Heads of State 39th Summit which held on February 14, 2026 in Addis Ababa. This should call for a state of emergency. But this was not part of the Summit outcome. It was business as usual. In the first […]

The inaugural lecture of Professor Wole Soyinka in the 1980/81 period at the then University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, was expectedly explosive. Its title, “The Critic and society: Bathes, Leftocracy and Other Mythologies”, left no one in doubt that this was an ideological offensive. It was the famous writer’s nuclear-powered intellectual attack against Leftists who had […]

Information filtered through a few weeks ago, that “a small team” of  United States, US, soldiers were in Nigeria. On Tuesday, February 10, 2026 an additional information was that 200 American soldiers areA being deployed to provide security for the small team. I am sure that soon these 200 would need a thousand US soldiers to […]

The second Nigerian coup on July 29, 1966 was quite brutal. That is the brutal truth. To avoid what may be brutal, I do not set out to write the truth, but what is historical. There are two main strands protruding from that coup like a buried corpse with  two visible hands. The first is that it […]

Liam Conejo Ramos, five, a preschooler  at Colombia Heights Public School, Minnesota, returned home on January 20, 2026. He might have looked forward to the warm embrace of his mother, but in the drive way of his home, United States, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE,  agents  captured him and his father, Adrian. The family had […]

The simple and straightforward appointment of the Awujale of Ijebu Kingdom, one of the most revered, is stalled like a car with a dead battery. Actions associated with the Benin monarchy, one of the most famous in Africa, is clanging like a faulty engine.   Meanwhile, the new Alaafin of Oyo’s public displays are like a man […]

Western Europe which for the first time in 80 years has sent troops in a growing dispute with the United States, US, is falsely claiming it sent its military to disputed Greenland on noble grounds. French President Emmanuel Macron on January 27, 2026 claimed the Europeans are engaged in the face-off to assert European sovereignty, […]

The last fortnight has been a-washed with stories marking the sixtieth commemoration of the January 1966 coup that terminated the First Republic.  But as usual, a lot of it are myths that had been promoted to the status of history. So, I decided to  emerge from  the bomb-resistant  bunker of my knowledge on  Nigerian history  to shoot  […]

Shola Ayebola was one of the most principled student leaders that emerged from the University of Lagos, UNILAG in the late 1980s. Equally, he was one of the leaders of the 1990s proDemocracy movement that eventually forced the military out of power. During one of the mass protests, he led the leaders in the Sango […]

By Owei Lakemfa Madness. This will be a fitting description of 2025 as it casts its last shadows on humanity.   My conclusion is not just based on the mindless slaughter in Gaza where even the Devil will willingly take lessons. What can be more evil than luring  starving people to supposed food centres and […]