Category: Leaders

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

Life! A hazy phenomenon; difficult to comprehend and make sense of. Life is not always fair to us humans. Even looking at it from the religious angle, there would be the fall from grace, the departure from paradise, and the attendant woes that mankind has faced since the days of creation. A scientific angle also tells of an unfair life… Read More

If the hate-filled Nazis had not been indigenous to Germany, it is certain they would have been shipped back to their ancestral homeland given all the death and damage they had deliberately caused. Since they were indigenous to Europe, after the Nazis surrendered in May 1945, the allies had to ensure that their destructive racist superiority notions would be permanently… Read More

By the time we meet again on this page, right here, this very space, it would be a new year, and it is just so amazing that that is the way of the world. A year begins. It ends. From January to December, we go through the same cycle, inexorably. And as I look back, what I remember is a… Read More

“We are collecting signatures and we already have 73, which is more than the number we need to override the President”. Someone sitting beside me laughed out loud and said “jesters”! This indeed is the best way to describe the charade presently going on at the National Assembly, in relation to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill that was recently rejected… Read More

Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Bishop of South Africa passed away yesterday at age 90.  The first and only time I saw Bishop Tutu was in 1986 at McGonigle Hall when he came for the Convocation at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, for the honorary Doctor of Laws degree. As an undergraduate, I had read a lot about apartheid. I even… Read More