In its darkest days when the evil Apartheid system reigned, South Africa produced two outstanding liberation theologians who were burning torches in a country enveloped in darkness. In 1982 when Apartheid was rebuilding its strength after waves of mass protests beginning with the 1976 Soweto Uprising, Reverend Allan Aubrey Boesak of the Dutch Reform Church was elected President of the… Read More

No, it’s not what you think. I have read Bisi Akande’s feather-ruffler, entitled, “My Participations.” Perhaps the only connection between the memoir and what you’re about to read is a borrowed inspiration to re-purpose the title. So, relax.  I laughed my way through the book. If you knew Akande, you would probably guess why. He writes not only the way he… Read More

The General Medical Council of Britain recently revealed that 805 Nigerian doctors were licensed in the UK between July and December 2021.   Overall, the number of Nigerian-trained doctors in the UK as of December 25, 2021, according to the council, was 9,189.  Of course, the figure does not include the number of Nigerian doctors trained in the UK and practising there. Similarly,… Read More

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has theorized that the oil and gas found in the Niger Delta region belong to the federal government, and not to the oil-bearing communities. Legally speaking, Obasanjo can be said to be correct, because he was part and parcel of successive military juntas that cleverly and systematically inserted expropriatory and inhuman laws concerning ownership of oil… Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari has a storied career in the military and oil and gas industry. As a military ‘old-school’ General he had seen and fought wars (including the Nigeria/Biafra pogrom). He had treasonably supplanted a democratically-elected Federal Government. He had been Federal Commissioner, Minister and Head of the Petroleum Trust “Fraud” (PTF) during the kleptocracy of the late Gen. Sani… Read More