Internationalist Segun Osoba, reunites Nigerian radicals, by Owei Lakemfa
The internationalist, intellectual, radical historian and generally accepted leader of the Nigerian Left, Olusegun Osoba, left on May 14, 2026, at 92. What followed the exit of a man who greatly influenced and led three generations of Nigerian radicals was a twenty-six-day programme of celebrating his life, times and works. It was as if a father […]
The European game of expulsions
SERIOUS diplomacy has this Easter Season, given way to the farcical drama of European countries expelling diplomats of their Russian brothers with the later retaliating. This week, 25 countries including non-European allies like the United States, Australia and Canada, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, had knocked out 158 Russian diplomats with Russia absorbing the punches and throwing its own. There is the joke that American President, Donald Trump was watching the CBS 60 Minutes programme when he was asked how many Russian diplomats should be expelled, he looked at the screen, saw 60 Minutes and decided that 60 Russians should be expelled
Corrupting the uncorrupted
Nigeria did not know corruption in its present form until British colonialists introduced it; part of the colonial policy was to corrupt the emergent elite as a way of compromising them
Carlos: For the Palestinian cause, he remains in jail
THE 69-year-old Venezuelan internationalist, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, rechristened ‘Carlos the Jackal’ by the media, was in the French courts last week to challenge his conviction for life. The case he appealed against was a 1974 one in which a grenade tossed in Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Pres, (Champs Elysee Avenue) killed two persons at the Drugstore Publicis while 36 were injured. His conviction on this charge, is lacking in hard evidence including fingerprints and DNA. Rather, it is driven more by circumstantial evidence and supposition.
Our future belongs to them
The PDP is like a person accused of being a thief, found cuddling another man’s calf in her bosom; in a decent society, or in a decent organisation, Secondus would have resigned or be forced to quit
Rex Tillerson came to Africa, saw and was fired
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.
