The Israeli plans to deport Palestinians from Gaza to Africa have been informally confirmed, formally denied, but widely  condemned.  Despite the wide condemnation  including by the United States, US and European Union, EU, two bodies that have traditionally backed the Israeli actions in the Palestine, it is difficult  to say which condemnations are genuine and […]

In the 2023 Christmas period running from December 23-25, armed assailants in co-ordinated attacks wiped out 20 communities in  Magu, Bokkos and Bakin areas of Plateau State. They killed over 200, injured a minimum 500 and put  over 10,000 in flight. The headlines  expressing ‘Outrage over Plateau killings’ are tragically, familiar and might  have as well been […]

Eight billion human beings entered  2024, four days ago with hopes of a better world. But that may be largely determined by rulers across countries who may not even share the same vision. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, whose forces have sustained some 70,000 deaths and over 100,000 injured does not seek a peaceful resolution. Rather, […]

The  year 2023 held a lot of hope for Nigerians as the Buhari administration  which had put the country on autopilot, was programmed to end its tenure by mid-year. Indeed, the past year had begun as a traumatic one with a currency change   which impoverished the people as they could not readily access their  […]

Venezuelan Special Envoy and Ambassador to the African Union, Alex Nain Saab Morán who, against the  established diplomatic practice of immunity, had been illegally detained in Cape Verde for sixteen months and in the United States for two years, was freed on Wednesday, December 20, 2023. He was exchanged for ten American prisoners in Venezuela who […]

Ambassador  Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, the Honourable  Minister of Foreign Affairs, stepped out on Thursday December 21, 2023 to explain to  Nigerians the four-dimensional space built by the Tinubu administration for the country’s foreign policy. Tuggar, 56, a player in the oil and gas industry had in the last six years, been Nigeria’s Ambassador to  Germany. This opportunity  […]

The    World Bank’s Lead Economist for Nigeria, Alex Sienaert on Wednesday, December 13, 2023 said he was sniffing around for fuel subsidy    that the Tinubu administration might    still be paying.      Like a headmaster warning an errant pupil, Sienaert told the    Nigerian Government it does not appear to him that    […]

The culture in Nigeria is that after Presidential Elections, politicians, hangers-on, propagandists, relatives and a rainbow of persons gather like ants over sugar. Primarily, the gathering is to partake of the honey which is how they see the emergent government. In fact, for many, elections are the best investment they can make, and they need to quickly recoup […]

Yahaya Hashim, a quiet, reflective and highly analytical intellectual is a man I have learnt to listen to for over four decades.  So I was not surprised when after all the drama over the July, 2023 coup in Niger Republic, including threats of invasion, sanctions, border closures, electricity cut-off, and a  world that seemed to have moved […]

I WAS a young Labour Reporter when I had my first encounters with Frank Ovie Kokori in 1984. He was a 41-year-old trade unionist who had been more of an industrial relations personnel. He had attended the University of Ibadan and worked with an industrial relations company owned by socialite and former trade unionist, Alhaji […]

HENRY (Heinz) Alfred Kissinger, the most infamous United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, passed away  peacefully  at 100 on November 29, 2023 and is guaranteed a marked grave. Not so for the tens of thousands Africans, Latin Americans and Asians who experienced violent deaths in their youth and had no tomb stones […]

The guns boomed on Saturday, November 1, 2023. Not in the forests where terrorists, bandits or ‘Unknown Gunmen’ operate. They boomed right in the heart of Abuja, and, of all places, at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Nigeria Students, NANS. What was at stake was the presidency of NANS. Not surprisingly, three factional […]

The man who symbolised Cuba’s resistance and unparalleled sense of dedication to humanity, is Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz

When the military is pointing an accusing finger at bodies like the Executive, Judiciary, Immigration and Correctional Services, it should know that its other four fingers are pointing at itself

George Weah by accepting electoral defeat even when the votes were being counted, and calming down the electorate, scored perhaps the most beautiful goal of his life