What dominated the Session was not peace, the refugee crisis, food,jobs or human rights, it was war, particularly, the Syrian war. The world leaders traded blame particularly on the Islamic State (ISIS) but not on solutions.

I LONG for the good old days whenever I think about the new bad ones. In confronting the ugly scenes of today, my mind instinctively, switches, like some defensive mechanism, to my youth, or even my childhood. They were the periods of innocence. When humanity was a child.

JOSEPH Sepp Blatter, FIFA President and institutional memory of world football, was pulled up by Swiss police on Friday, September 25, 2015 and his offices searched. It was an expected move, and the Swiss, working as proxies of the United States (US) did not disappoint. Blatter is being investigated “On suspicion of criminal mismanagement and-alternatively-misappropriation”

By OWEI LAKEMFA EXACTLY a week ago, I was    privileged to be a moderator at the National Students Retreat held at the Bayero University, Kano (BUK). The occasion which included Student – Lecturer interaction, was organised  by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the   Amilcar Cabral Ideological School (ACIS) The occasion gave […]

BURKINA FASO, ‘the land of Honourable men’ and women, is again in political turmoil following the return of soldiers last week. The country’s soldiers, like many in Africa, graduate from the Infantry School of Treachery. They earn their pips in the admittedly, difficult low intensity wars of the radio station where coups and counter coups are announced.