04:35 GMT 25th April 2012
Many Nigerians wish they could say like the man in the Bible says of death, 'Oh corruption where is thy sting', for the truth is that corruption has stung and literally destroyed the Nigerian nation.
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04:24 GMT 29th March 2012
It is not without reason that Somalia is seen as the world's worst failed state. The Transitional Federal Government (TFG), the country's interim government, is unable to impose its authority beyond the capital Mogadishu.
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01:26 GMT 9th March 2012
At the best of times, the job of Nigeria's president is perhaps, the world's toughest job although it comes with attractive perks.
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12:59 GMT 26th January 2012
The developments in 2011 will go down in history as totally unprecedented.
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10:41 GMT 21st December 2011
Africa's population has been growing and that should be cheering news. According to latest reports, it has grown to more than one billion and the median age in the continent is just under 20.
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01:15 GMT 8th November 2011
South Africa is still struggling to deal with some of the social problems of the apartheid era.
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04:00 GMT 27th September 2011
The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings,' Cassius, a noble Roman told his friend in William Shakespeare's epic drama, Caesar.
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11:56 GMT 31st August 2011
It is heart rending that Africa continues to lag behind in most matters that the rest of the world has made progress in.
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01:15 GMT 14th July 2011
It is doubtful whether Nato leaders thought their campaign to overthrow Gaddafi would drag on till the end of June with no end in sight.
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03:36 GMT 14th June 2011
Africa needs to develop its own path to economic development. The best advice is to take advantage of the resources f1owing into the country to build infrastructure and invest in education.
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11:13 GMT 19th May 2011
The road to hell, they say, is always lined with good intentions and so is the path to the unfolding disaster in Libya
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11:24 GMT 11th April 2011
It is a sad commentary on the state of affairs in Africa that we are still talking about food security five decades after most African countries became independent.
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03:25 GMT 22nd March 2011
If any prophet had predicted few months ago that Hosni Mubarak's regime, described by the Americans as 'stable', would be history today, he would have been laughed at.
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05:24 GMT 9th February 2011
To many analysts, the term 'self determination' had gone out of fashion in Africa.
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02:27 GMT 5th January 2011
South Africans have found themselves in a near impossible possible position.
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