Zimbabwe going the way of Guinea Bissau – Owei Lakemfa

This should rub off on JAMB which   can have   a five-year plan within which   candidates will write their examinations from the comfort of their bedrooms

WEEP not for Robert Gabriel Mugabe. He does not need our tears in Africa for he has done his bit. Whether the coup plotters set up a puppet leadership or directly run Zimbabwe, will not change the legacy of this African warrior who spent a decade in White prisons and took to armed struggle to restore our dignity as human beings.

Eyinla dismissed the notion of equality of states saying that Cape Verde with a 500,000 population cannot claim same equality of votes with Nigeria which has over 183 million people

CHARLIE Chaplin, The Tramp was a little, downtrodden man in baggy trousers with a  mustache, bowler hat and carrying a cane. He was  poor, powerless and  bewildered.  Chaplin (Charles Spencer Chaplin)seemed a lonely, vulnerable  figure who tried endlessly to make sense of the world. His caricature of Adolf Hitler, the most powerful man in his generation, remains a winner to-date.

It is tragic that unlike our undergraduate days, schools are no longer producing the mass of patriotic youths dedicated to building a progressive country

THE Bolshevik Revolution, Russian or October Revolution, one of the bloodiest, but certainly, the most profound revolution in human history will clock  a century next  Tuesday November 7, 2017.  Russia ran  the Julian calendar which was two weeks behind the Gregorian calendar, hence it is called the October Revolution. The shock of a revolution by the ordinary people was so weighty that countries which  some months before were engaged in the quite bloody First World War, decided to jointly invade Russia and wipe out the revolution. 

If Nigeria were a school and restructuring an examination, the NASS that has carried out a number constitutional amendments to restructure the country and failed, would have been expelled

SOME Brazilian generals have given notice that they will overthrow the government of President  Michel Miguel Elias Temer. One month has rolled by since the notice was given, yet there has been no official reaction, no arrests, no mass protests against such treason, and no condemnation   from those who claim to be champions, defenders and custodians of ‘democracy’ which is based on elections and the constitutional change of government.

So after 17 years traversing the High Court, Appeal Court and Supreme Court, the Supreme Court, employing technicalities rather than the justice of the case, rendered the epic efforts of the pensioners, a virtual a nullity

THE numerous victory songs and congratulatory messages flowing from various parts of the world following the Tuesday seizure of Raqqa, the ‘capital’ of the Islamic State, ISIS, Caliphate, drowned the victory songs from the Philippines.  On that same day, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared that Marawi City in Southern Philippines seized last May by the  pro-ISIS  Maute militants, had been liberated.

I agree with the Right Honourable Dogara that the constitution is the grundnorm, our ultimate law, but it is in reality, a contraption which cannot carry the weight of the country; we either brace it and hope it can continue to stand, or build a new viable structure

AS parts of the universe this  Monday, October 9, marked the 50th year Ernesto Che Guevara was summarily executed in a classroom in La Higuera, Bolivia, my mind was on three romantic figures who gave their lives for the love of humanity; Jesus Christ, John Brown and Che.

THERE is a ground swell to punish hate speech in the country. Doubtlessly, societies evolve and what is acceptable today may be forbidden tomorrow. But hate Speech is like religion; it depends on your beliefs. If some say Nigeria is a zoo, and others say those who call our beloved country a zoo, are animals; both groups may be exercising their constitutional and fundamental human right to freedom of speech.

MINORITIES, or those who feel they have become minorities, are erupting across the world; English-speaking Camerounians in Africa, the Rohingya in Asia, the Kurds in the Arab world and the Catalans in Europe.