Tinubu’s Inauguration: End Of An Error, The Dawn Of Calamity
"I am confident that I am leaving office with Nigeria better in 2023 than in 2015." President Buhari ended his farewell speech with this remark on the 28th of...
2023 Elections: A Street Robbery
If you can relate with the kind of mood you'd meet when on a visit to a street that had just experienced a robbery of a very violent dimension,...
Students’ Loan: We Can’t Pay, We Won’t Pay
On November 22nd, 2022, Nigeria's 9th National Assembly successfully passed a Students' Loan Bill, a move that has now incited reactions along varying interests and ideological lines. The bill,...
Ghana’s Quest For A National Cathedral Has An Immoral Foundation
The burning cross of the Ku Klux Klan registers starkly as I think about Ghana’s National Cathedral project. What was meant to be a symbol of faith and morality...
Despair Has Become The Daily Bread Of Ghanaians Amid Cost Of Living Crisis
Regardless of the circumstance, the average Ghanaian’s favorite platitude is “we are managing.” Be it a rough patch in school, scraping for the rent or struggling with a rickety...
The Dot Nation
Several weeks back, Muhammadu Buhari in an Arise TV interview on the 11th of June, 2021, twenty-four hours before the commemoration of Democracy day, described an entire region in...
Buhari’s Pantamism
In Nigeria of today, under the clueless leadership of Buhari, Pantamism has come to join the ranks of notorious ''Isms'' that deals particularly in the Affliction of the Nigerian...
Opinion: Between The Drums Of Secession And Call For A Revolution
Over the past few weeks, there has been an intensified publicity of the campaign for the breakaway of the Yoruba people from Nigeria. The proponents of this agitation want...
Detention Ordeal: My First 11 Days Of 2021; Starting The Year On A Revolutionary...
As though coming to battle notorious terrorists and bandits, they came at us with three loaded vehicles convening heavily armed men whose mean demeanor ricks only of lustful desperation...
#EndSARS: Two Months After Lekki Massacre, Sanwo-Olu, Buratai Yet To Be Sacked And Tried...
In a gory event widely described as Black Tuesday, Nigerians witnessed one of the most violent crackdowns on protest since the Enugu Iva Valley Massacre in 1949. Like bloodthirsty...
Opinion: Corruption Continues To Fight Back And Ghana’s Special Prosecutor Is Its Latest Scalp
In an interview with a local radio station back in October, a director at Ghana’s Center for Democratic Development sounded the alarm over the lack of citizen concern on...
Opinion: When Corruption Fought Back; The Ballad Of Ghana’s Auditor-General
Ghana’s Auditor-General, Daniel Domelevo, is currently wallowing in a purgatory fashioned by his vivacious appetite to hound graft. He has been forced on leave for over 150 days. It...
Cameroon’s COVID-19 response could be undermined by a panoply of factors
The coronavirus (COVID-19) is now a reality in Cameroon as the number of confirmed cases has jumped to 56, up from the initial two on March 6, 2020. The...
Silencing guns in Africa: points to note
African leaders just concluded the 33rd African Union (AU) summit at their headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The 2020 theme has been choreographed as 'silencing guns in Africa,' a...
Letter From A Concerned Afrikan: Xenophobia In South Africa Desecrates Ubuntu
South Afrikans,
You went against our sustenance. You violated Ubuntu. You failed in keeping to your end of our shared humanity. Xenophobia is alien to Afrika. In its literal sense,...
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Operation Dudula
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Organization Of African First Ladies For Development
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Tinubu’s Inauguration: End Of An Error, The Dawn Of Calamity
"I am confident that I am leaving office with Nigeria better in 2023 than in 2015." President Buhari ended his farewell speech with this...
IMF And World Bank: The ‘Bad Samaritans’ And Neoliberals Cheating Africa Into A Cycle...
The Western liberal consensus has long been intervening and interfering in Africa. The first form of intervention was through the slave trade from the...