Covid-19 mutation variants have rekindled an old debate, into a new one. We always have vaccine doubters that are conscientiously sure that vaccines are worse than the diseases. Yet, empirical evidence has always proved them wrong since the administration of childhood vaccinations. We had people who blamed childhood vaccines for everything but the disease itself. Vaccines have been blamed for autism, infertility, miscarriages and more. There used to be a time when many children did not survive because of Mumps, Measles, Rubella to Whooping Cough and Hepatitis B. Smallpox and Polio vaccines saved the world from some of the most…
Author: Farouk Aresa
There are many more bachelors well beyond the age of marriage in any society today than ever but they refuse to take the jump for fear of rendering responsibility to many young women without husbands. It is not about mothers who would not let their sons leave home or the economic and political situations that has made them underemployed or unemployed. Even those young men, who have good jobs or prospects, procrastinate about getting married. As if we do not have enough competition between men for that woman or between women for that man, some of these young men hide…
The Military in South Sudan is back after Demonstrators drove out the former Dictator. They are not comfortable sharing Power with “bloody” civilians. They have forced these same Demonstrators out again but this time against Military takeover. South Sudan went through hell before they finally separated from North Sudan to become a new Nation. Yet, like the Somali, they fought within. Then, for oil and now against the Military that replaced the Dictator. The Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter and others are taking the fight for their Freedom head-on. In many countries in Europe, Asia and America, Youths have demonstrated…
Where are Nigerians going to run to or who are they going to call on, to save them from Fulani marauders across the Country? Fulani freedom to graze on all god-given farms only happens in a cow republic. Africans watch in horror as the so called African Giant struggle to free itself from incessant raiding of their farms and homes by Fulani Janjaweed. People live in fear and are running away from villages and towns as if they are in Rwanda, Sudan, Somali, Liberia or Biafra during the civil wars. A country led by Fulani wannabe slaves that value the…
The issue is bigger than the Ooni and those that disagree with his approach. Ooni is respected like the Supreme Court without its own Police or Army. Whatever his age, Ooni is not infallible but he has a wealth of cultural experts around him. This is why his subjects, no matter their age respect his office. Even when his people disagree with him. African respect for cultures dictates that we must tread cautiously. The matter at hand surpassed any personal disagreement between Ooni and Sunday Igboho. If Sunday Igboho did not stand up as Oranmiyan-sent from aggrieved people that had…
Empires, Civilization and Country fell under their own weight when they became arrogant and basked in their own overstretched power. They had to dominate the weak, poor and meek inside and outside their territory to solidify their privileged position at the top. These are desperate people fighting to gain, preserve or implement their status quo of privileges mainly for economic domination. Other countries in West Africa: Mauritania, Niger, Mali, Ghana, Senegal, Gambia to the Central African Republic are familiar with Fulani aggressive perchance to convert others’ land. Fulani have always exhibited the tendency to dominate other ethnic groups no matter…
The President of Ghana, in a lecture at Harvard University about a year and a half ago answered a question out of many: in the early eighties Nigeria was the place to be. Indeed, before the 80s Nigerians and Head of State got red carpet treatment abroad because they were a potential regional power with high spending power. Even before Oil became the main foreign income, Nigeria served as a big brother to African and Caribbean countries that could not pay salaries or needed Police and Army for their Peace Keeping missions. Nigerian farmers were productive middle class exporting food…
Son, rules of pursuing, chasing and toasting ladies have gone global. We used to hang around the ladies we like trying to make the best impression on them or pursue them from some comfortable distance without being a pest chasing them. It was a given that, even if she liked you, do not expect her to say so at one try. So, you had to try again and toast her until she said, yes. Fast forward, pursuing or chasing a girl could land you in trouble and if you do not keep your distance, it could become sexual harassment. There…
Colour line was created in the 1600 by laws in Virginia to divide and conquer people along the “racial” line. It may have been shattered or cracked into partial pieces by the children of the same white, black, red and brown people demonstrations around the world. Before then, it was Pope Nicolas the V in 1442 that gave Portugal the Papal bull to capture Africans for slave labour. It is not yet Uhuru! Despite all the atrocities thrown at Africans, they preached forgiveness, love and only longed for happiness in return. As much as many Africans would like to forgive…
How do we explain to the children that we have lived a borrowed and fake culture all our life? An African adage implores we must not throw the baby out with the bathwater. We pride ourselves as International Boy or Girl v. Local Boy or Girl! The language we speak with children is not ours, the Religion in which we baptized them is not ours, our Political-economy was not taught by Nkrumah, Nyerere, Luthuli or thought out by African brains. But are dictated by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. They are designed to keep African economies as raw…
The advantage of multi-ethnic or multiracial environment endears us to strive for the optimum character in human potential. Different ideas and ideals are brought to bear in management and smooth running of any organization or business. The problem with dictatorial tendencies is the creation of fear that stifles free and diverse opinions which help the leadership. Buhari, if he cares, is paying the price of lack of diversity at the top. There was a country under General Buhari. It came to order under Operation War Against Indiscipline within a flash. Operation WAI was so oppressive many people of goodwill complained…
Universities must not be turned into business centers to generate profit alone, but can also be of value beyond academics to their communities. Unfortunately, these days in many African countries, schools have degenerated to cash cows. Some graduates are not equipped for their chosen field of specialization. Most of the universities we value so much abroad have patents by scholars attracting rich funds and royalties to the locality. Sometimes foreign graduates whose training and patents have been secured by foreign universities that are not conducive to our advancement or geared to our culture, are hired as scholars and professors over…
There are many of us interested in mature women over the age of 30, not those younger ones. Those can be annoying and a turn-off for older mature men. We understand all the reasons some older men go for young girls, but they do not appeal to men like us. We like mature ladies. Too many young men cry that older men are taking over their young mates. Please do not lump all these men together. Some of us have taste and recognize a good gem as Sadiya Umar Farouk. There is something charming about older or mature women. They…
Many African billionaires on the Forbes List are sleeping with one eye open these days because of Allen Onyema of Air Peace transactions. The gang of Dangote, Adenuga, Tinubu, Innoson, Dantata brothers, Danjuma and many members of Panama Club whose names have not been published. So, they are nervous. They are not limited to Nigeria. Equatorial Guinea may be one of the prominent ones, but we have them in Kenya, South Africa and Ghana too. When they are caught abroad, they start blaming their village people. Only losers fight along ethnic lines for cash launderers and schadenfreude that thrive at…
When politicians failed you, professors failed you, bosses failed you, banks failed you, relatives failed you, pastors and imams failed you: who is going to deliver us from the devil? It boils down to You and Your Chi. That is Me, Myself and I. Until we are tested, you never realize the Supreme Being within you. This is why Africans survive in the most hostile environment outside home against all odds. Mumu at home Tiger outside! What encourages perseverance, hard work and long-term investment in the community we live in, are slipping away. In spite of the death sentence on…
If you are an Emir, Obi, Oba, and Serial Monogamist or rich enough to acquire more than two wives, you can fool yourself all you want about your sexual prowess, it is a false sexual ego. Your household know you are not the only one satisfying their sexual needs, even if they make you feel so powerful. Usually, servicers are helps not too far from the women. One or two wives may be loyal, once you go over that, older ones are frequently ignored starving for love. It must be made clear from start, there are many young girls that…
How can African Christians conquer a vanishing population of Churchgoers in the Western or Eastern world? Go to any church in Europe and North America, Christian believers are a dwindling majority. Those left in their churches are older citizens. While the young generation are not as engrossed with religion. They might flirt with Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, or Hare Krishna followers but on a temporary basis until they satisfy their curiosity. Catholic churches are importing clergies from Africa to administer nearly empty churches, in order to buoy and attract recent Africans in Diaspora. Yet, they are not getting as many followers…