In the roaring 1970s, the nationalist fervent was at a feverish pitch in the country and, the Pan- Africanist and independence fires were tearing   through Mozambique, Angola, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, Zimbabwe and   Western Sahara. Also, there was fire in Soweto. Our politics   was    positively   influenced   by people like Samora Machel, Ruth First, Nelson and […]

Unto us, a man-child is again born by the United States, US, electorate. Donald Trump is actually a reincarnation sent to upset the world. Friends like the European Union and neigbouring Canada are jittery for he is unpredictable and, foes like China are girding their loins. Trump is the weird one the incompetent and visionless […]

A series of video recordings of men and officers of the Nigerian Army brutalising hapless Nigerians have in the past few weeks been making the rounds. The most disturbing, which a conscious institution should have by now made public either by its interim or full report, is that of a Major General in uniform supervising the […]

THE first one thousand days of the Russo-Ukrainian War was on Tuesday, November 19, marked in Europe like an anniversary rather than a day of reflection. The European Commission draped its building with the Ukrainian flag, while the European Parliament sat to stirring speeches, including a standing ovation for Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky. Those hailing Zelensky […]

If the Nobel Peace Prize were less political, more objective and based on direct efforts to achieve peace,  Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari should have been an awardee long ago.    One of the lows in human history was the refusal to prevent or stop the 1994 Rwanda Genocide even when humanity was in a very […]

I attended for the first time, the Day of the Dead festival. It was at the Mexican Embassy in Abuja. The stairs leading from the embassy gates down to the swimming pool reception area was lit with over 70 candles. There were photos of the dead. In the reception hall were two prominent photographs. To the […]

THE Providus Bank wrote J.Wesley Investment Limited, the profit-making company wholly owned by the Trustees of the non-profit Methodist Church of Nigeria, MCN, a love letter. It was a final demand letter dated October 29, 2024 asking the Spiritual Lords of the Church to pay an earthly sum of N2,036,567,275.74 owed the bank. In stating that […]

A FEW hours after Donald Trump proclaimed victory over Kamala Harris in the United States, US, presidential election, groups in the Caribbean and Latin America met virtually to discuss the future. Convened by the ten-country Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, ALBA Movimientos, the participants on the Wednesday, November, 6, 2024, focused on the […]

A shocked world watched as the Nigerian government exhibited in court at least 28 malnourished and unkempt children it has kept in prison and detention centres for three months for allegedly engaging in public protests.   The children are charged in blatant violation of Section 204 of the Child Rights Act of 2003 which states […]

The primary reason a group of Nigerians had a meeting in Abuja with embassy and trade officials from Vietnam on Wednesday October 30, 2024 was to explore business opportunities for cooperation and development. That quickly changed to nagging questions such as why Vietnam which was a physically flattened country back in May 1976 when it began […]

It was a triumphant occasion. The venue was the Muhammadu Buhari Cantonment, Giri, Abuja. The joyous occasion was the destruction of over 2,400 illicit arms. The chief celebrant was the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons,NCCSALW. The five-star guests included the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, members of the […]

TO a number of us Nigerians, Plot 339, Diplomatic Drive, beside the United Nations Building, Abuja, is a familiar address. It is the Cuban Embassy in Nigeria. It was where we gathered on Friday, October 18, 2024 to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations between Nigeria and Cuba. It is like no other embassy in Nigeria […]

THE Super Eagles nightmare in Libya and, the World Bank insanely asking Nigerians to endure 15 more years of suffocation and pain, speak to a poverty of ideas. The lives of the Eagles and officials were endangered when the aircraft carrying them, which was descending at the Benghazi Airport, was suddenly ordered back into the skies. […]

The ground floor was full. The crowd would have been over 80 per cent diplomats. There were, of course, a number of Nigerian government officials and journalists. As the delightful broadcaster, Kemi Asekun and I conversed, the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, walked through the crowd towards where we stood. […]

The world is in turmoil. Various peoples are planning, strategising and re-strategising. The Middle East is meeting, especially as war is being brought to its doorsteps. The Americans want their November elections quickly out of the way so they can focus on their domination the world, irrespective of who wins the elections. Their European first […]