From Florida to Nigeria, Officers are not doing their Job.

This is a global platform in a world wondrously interconnected and there is a lot to think and write about but it is very difficult not going back to

This Fire Won't Cease in Syria.

It would have been laughable, the latest ceasefire moves by the UN in Syria if the situation in that country, especially in Eastern Ghouta, has not been so pathetic.

China, Xi and the New Revisionism.

What is not important is the news that the Communist Party of China, in the next couple of days, will abolish the two-term limit for the president and his

Parkland, Florida Shooting: A Tale of Three Scotts.

The sheriff was in no position or place to shoot or be shot at. His deputy was in position and place to shoot or be shot at. Neither happened.

How Obasanjo Killed the Yar'aduas 2.

When Obasanjo was drafting Umaru Yar'adua into the presidential race in 2006, he was already a wounded president: at loggerheads not only with the entire country that he governed,

Parkland Shooting: Vigilance Will, Hysteria Won't Do.

A couple of days before the Parkland shooting, 18 Nigerian students on excursion from the northern state of Bauchi died in a horrible road carnage in a neighboring state.

FBI and its Investigations: Limbo is the Destination.

The FBI investigation into alleged Russian meddling in US elections reminds one of another probe: the much-worried scrutiny of Hillary Clinton e-mails. Both have generated noise and hype for

The Curse of Liberators.

All countries on earth, without a single exception, have been under one sort of occupation or the other before attaining their present sovereign/independent status. Either the occupiers were foreigners,

Trump's Rasputin Coefficient 2: America Gets its Cutting Edge President.

Mr Donald Trump, as a presidential candidate, got something going for him, though a lot of folks in America might not admit it: or might not even be aware

Ukraine, Russia, Crimea, Pushkin and two Revolutions.

Politically, Crimea did not belong to anybody. The independent Crimean Khanate was annexed by Imperial Russia in 1783 as a consequence of the Russo-Turkish War. Before that time, the

How Obasanjo Killed the Yar'duas 1

The Yar'dua brothers have been dead for some time now but few ever realized the role Olusegun Obasanjo, ex head of state, played in their demise. These two powerful

Trump and his Rasputin Coefficient.

Someone once suggested that had Leo Tolstoy lived into the events of 1919, the great man would have regarded Rasputin as a necessary addition to Tsar Nicholas sphere of

Trump, Tweets and the Diversity Lottery Programme.

Trump tweets aren't all that diverse, so is the American Diversity Visa Lottery Program which the president has always expressed his abhorrence for, the latest in a tweet as

Nigeria's Opioid Crisis.

Few, very few youths in Nigeria can afford cocaine, heroin or even amphetamine, heinous commodities domiciled in dollars. Marijuana is passe, no longer fashionable, so the latest kid on

Trump, Immigration and Walls.

President Donald Trump like his things big and bright, a one off image that catches on all fours and swamps everything else. Hence everywhere you go in his immigration

Trump, Stephen King and an Eerie Warning.

The trouble with the United States of America is that they drink too much beer in God's own country, a sin as objectionable as not heeding. So, naturally, too

Nigeria's Unending Comedy 2

The old man might have been attacked all of a sudden by a surge of nerves and join the present bandwagon of Buhari bashing, or someone might have been

Football's New Virus.

It might be too late, even quixotic, to rein in the present regime of outrageous transfer fees. Better to let it unravel, like all wildly-galloping schemes. Regulating imbalances in