REX Wayne Tillerson  visited Africa this week; it was not just a jinxed visit, but also his first and last as the American Secretary of State. He had proclaimed: “The purpose of my trip is to listen to what the priorities of the countries here on the continent are and see where there is good alignment.” In reality, he did most of the talking, and his visit had a hidden agenda.

He has no business trying to justify his great Bill or assuring that nobody will be victimised if it becomes law; the Senator should know that hate speech is like beauty and ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’

NORA Astorga was a very beautiful Nicaraguan lawyer who was into corporate practice. From a very rich and religious  family with connections to the ruling Somoza family, she married at twenty two,  spent two years studying in the United States before returning home to read law.

As the world commemorates the International Women’s Day on March 8, let us in Nigeria focus on the Chibok and Dapchi school girls who have been frog- jumped into premature adulthood

ETHIOPIA, the heroic African country Europeans could not colonise, source of the Blue Nile whose waters gave humanity its civilisation and in whose bosom the African Union headquarters nestles, is faced with a choice; political reform or anarchism. This explains its on-going turbulence which has consumed Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe. His February 15 resignation letter stands logic on its head.

The quality of Congress leadership seems to diminish with each succeeding administration including the two I served in; this is to the extent that today, forty years later, the difference in leadership quality is like viewing a mountain top from the valley

THE ruling African National Congress, ANC, in South Africa, and its Nigerian counterpart, the All Progressives  Congress, APC, are each a ‘Congress.’ However,  while the ANC is a political party which  during the Anti-Apartheid struggle, transformed into  a people’s movement, the APC  lays claims to what it is  not; a political party.  The fact that a butterfly has wings and can fly, does not make it a bird.

I realise that even if nature gave us two pairs of body parts, both can be lost

THIS is Valentine week with billions around the world expressing love for their families and  loved ones. It coincided with the Christian Ash Wednesday with individuals being told: “Love Thy Neigbour,

SOG and his comrades taught us that political parties are built with the people not for the people, and that it has to be funded by the people who pay membership dues not the new culture where political parties pay members even to attend party meetings and rallies