Are We Exporting Terrorists/Religious Extremists?
This article is a response to an email a friend sent me. In the email, my friend pointed out that “Mr Soyinka does not have the right to call UK[…]
Category: World Affairs
Joint Statement by U.S, U.K and E.U on Nigeria
Via Jide Salu. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton London, United Kingdom January 28, 2010[…]
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Weekly Blog Round-Up
22/01/10 – 28/01/10 Considering the immense responsibility of presiding over a nation of 140million+ and the frailty of his health, the case of President Yar’adua (MIA) should garner some sympathy. […]
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A country that has an over-bloated impression of itself?
Former American ambassador to Nigeria, Princeton Lyman, writing on today’s (ir)relevance of Nigeria. If Nigeria fails? I have a long connection to Nigeria. Not only was I ambassador there, I[…]
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Nigeria: Can we engage politely?
When Nigerians comment in public forums, what are the odds that the discourse will be polite, respectful, contextual and useful?
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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: Why are we surprised?
It is itself a surprise to me that we are responding to the issue of the alleged Nigerian suicide bomber/terrorist if it was totally unpredictable. We want to condemn it,[…]
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Exceptionalism, anyone?
Exceptionalism seems to me a distinctly Western way of thinking about things. Yes, I know how that sounds. I don’t like the whole Ubuntu notion either, which seems like the[…]
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Alternative Science, Junk Science
I still remember the shock when I realised that the practice of homeopathy was funded within the National Health Service (NHS) in England. I was taking a lunchtime stroll when[…]
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Thinking about Evolution (2)
Here is a response from my personal blog to Thinking about Evolution, written by Femi Owagbemi, a medical doctor in Nigeria. I couldn’t resist posting it here. This and other[…]
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Thinking about Evolution
There is at least one sense in which Nigeria and the US are very similar: having a remarkably high proportion of religious people – or as the present fad expression[…]