Nigeria's presidential election is scheduled for April 9; however, at a campaign rally in Lagos on Tuesday, March 1, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the undisputed godfather of current President Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, who is also a candidate in the upcoming election, was full of celebration galore by declaring victory as...

President Hosni Mubarak refused to face the reality that the Egyptians people have spoken loud and clear that they no longer wanted to tolerate his authoritarian regime. In fact, he shared some parallels to Ismail Pasha, also known as Khedive Ismail, the Viceroy of Egypt from (1863-1879). Like Khedive Ismail,...

Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Ololade Balogun, better known by his stage name "Ayinde Barrister," was undoubtedly a genius Yoruba traditional singer. He was also one of Nigeria's best known musicians. And the news of his untimely death of diabetes related causes at the age of 62 on Thursday at St. Mary's...

There is no better way to learn about United States politics other than through its politicians. As a Nigerian in Alaska I watched closely the mid-term elections and I happened to have interviewed the three candidates vying for the U.S. Senate race in the State.

Each of the candidates...

After the Oct. 18 Senate debate organized by Alaska Dispatch online magazine, I interviewed Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who is running as a write-in candidate to retain the control of her Senate seat.

In a plain-spoken answer she gave to one of my questions, she said former Alaska governor Sarah...

I conducted an interview with Mr. Scott McAdams, the Democratic Party Senate nominee who is also the current Mayor of Sitka, at his Anchorage campaign headquarters office on October 6, 2010 after he delivered a major speech on Social Security. Prior to my interview during his speech he was surrounded...

The day was Thursday, October 7, 2010. The event was billed as a town hall meeting, and it surely lived as such. A gathering of an energized conservative base and other regular people filled up the seating capacity at Anchorage Wellspring Independent Charismatic Church that is on Century Drive Street...

Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, is fifty years old. The country that prides itself as the "Giant of Africa" attained independence from Great Britain on October 1, 1960. But there is nothing worthy of celebration because the country has been plagued by corruption, bad leadership and in recent...

Lisa Murkowski has announced in Anchorage that she will mount a write-in campaign to retain the control of her Senate seat after being upset by a slim margin in the Republican Party primary by Joe Miller, an unknown Fairbanks base magistrate judge who received the endorsement of 'Mama Grizzly' former...

Soccer, widely called football, is a non sequitur sport that is unyielding to modernity and does not evolve with time. That is why the arcane rules of the game, cheating and poor officiating have turned the ongoing World Cup competition in South Africa into an embarrassment of sorts for the...

The Exit of A President

Nigerian politics is for adventurous barbarians. In my April 2007 article titled "Obasanjo's Legacy: Civil War Hero, But A Poor President" I warned about the danger of imposing Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, who had a chronic kidney disease, on the country as the next President.

"Muslims, had no right under the law to question or review any judgment given by the Sharia Court as doing so would be tantamount to questioning the laws of Allah." ( Tuesday, March 30, 2010) ~ Mallam Ibrahim Lawal, Sharia Court Judge, Kaduna Nigeria.

A Sharia Court Judge...

According to the 2009 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions index table, Angola is ranked number 162, one of the most brazenly corrupt countries in the world, tied with Venezuela and countries that media often neglect in global news cycles like Kyrgystan, Congo Brazzaville, Guinea Bissau, and the Democratic Republic of Congo...

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As a Nigerian who was born a Muslim and who was once attacked by militants who held a gun to my head and accused me of abandoning the faith because my play Bondage criticized Sharia law, I am saddened that...