‘Coups succeed in Africa mainly because the people are alienated from the state and their leaders who are guarded by Praetorian guards. So all that is required, is for these …
‘Most importantly for us in Africa, when big powers like the US and UK shored up the evil racist and Apartheid regimes that held down our people in Zimbabwe, Namibia …
‘Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka, who is Alhaji Gambari’s senior by six years, gave brotherly advice to the Emir not to turn Ilorin into another scene of bloody religious and …
‘Begging Gates or other donors will not fundamentally improve our health system; in any case, such funds can easily be frittered away. First, like Gates advocated, the system must be …
‘If the senseless war in Ukraine were not brought to a quick and peaceful end as the African leaders are trying to do, is anybody in doubt that all humanity …
FOUR archenemies of the United States, US, met variously in its Latin American ‘backyard’ this week. It was the five-day Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. No, …
TODAY is exactly 30 years after the June 12, 1993 presidential election which were annulled by the Ibrahim Babangida military regime. On June 18, six days after the election, my …
CHIEF Obafemi Awolowo, affectionately called Awo, was the programmatic politician who had change as mantra and believed that politics must serve the mass of the people. His philosophy of governance …
‘What some Western countries want to do is force the African people into a birth control scheme aware that a marriage between a man and a man or a woman …
‘Nigerians could hardly wait for this May 29, 2023 date when Buhari departs, and, the mass of the people can, hopefully, begin to breathe properly again. But admittedly, this is …