The momentum generated by contenders for office of the president of the United States with all its din,- made me remember Moshood Abiola especially as...
When 276 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram, the world responded with the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Two years on, 219 are still missing. Why? A five-month...
America’s Citizen Jeb Bush wanted to be president. He raised $150m in campaign donations to pursue his dream. That was much more than the amount...
Over the past two weeks, I have heard and read many questions, comments, and news stories regarding recent changes to the government of the United...
With a population of about 53 million people and a GDP of close to 350 billion US Dollars, South Africa is considered a buoyant economy....
American politics and politicians fascinate me in the same way that their history does. From the days of their great men of faith and vision...
Some Egyptians needed money. One shouldn’t assume that they needed it badly though. For when Egyptians put their president up for sale on eBay, an...
For decades, Nigeria’s state oil company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has been the leading symbol of official corruption and a seemingly boundless source...
In the poem “The Second Coming” published in 1921, William Butler Yeats wrote that “… everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned; the best lack...
It was described in official circles as a visit to deepen trade relations between Nigeria and South Africa. Nigeria’s largely unutilised Minister of Foreign Affairs,...