Monkeypox, Gary Hart and the Monkey Business
By Osmund Agbo Gary Hart is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer who represented the state of Colorado in the United States Senate from 1975 […]
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Hong Kong: Pearl of the Orient or Pawn in China’s Chess game?
By Osmund Agbo Barely two weeks ago, precisely on Sunday, May 8th, John Lee was elected (insert selected) the 5th Chief Executive of Hong Kong, […]
Catching up with Wambui, a sister from another mother
by Osmund Agbo When you find yourself in the minority, there is a tendency to seek out and develop kinship with anyone who in some ways, […]
Brands built on the Ignorance of the average man are cash cows
By Osmund Agbo If your life goal is to get-rich-quick, just take my candid advice and come up with a business idea with the premise that […]
Party Primaries: If Democracy is the goal, then the Chinese might be closer
By Osmund Agbo Two years prior to the 1976 US election, a Gallup poll listing 31 candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination did not include a […]
What did Goodluck Jonathan forget at the Villa?
By Osmund Agbo For the past several days, the rumor mill has been buzzing non-stop about a potential presidential run in 2023 by Nigeria’s former President […]
Who is deserving of a Presidential Pardon? By Osmund Agbo
Last week, Nigerians received with mixed feelings the news of President Buhari granting pardon to 159 prisoners serving jail terms for various offenses in Nigerian […]
Is Pakistan a Stratocracy? By Osmund Agbo
ISI, short for Inter-Services Intelligence, is not your run-of-the-mill spy agency. Founded on January 1, 1948 with the goal to “gather, process, and analyze […]
The Wagner group, Blackwater, Wonger coup and the shadowy world of Guns-for-hire, By Osmund Agbo
When in 2014, Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian businessman got the blessing of his friend, President Vladimir Putin to form a network of military mercenaries to […]
Ikengaonline: Salvaging the Southeast, By Chido Onumah & Osmund Agbo
“As long as my Ikenga is active, I can wrestle in the land of the spirits” – Igbo proverb. In precolonial Nigeria, the Igbo administrative […]
Life in Nigeria as a dress rehearsal for hell, By Osmund Agbo
As Ukrainian cities are buffeted by Russian tanks, the west are tightening the noose around the neck of Kremlin. The goal is to send a […]
Public Intellectuals, the Nigerian left and blind spots
By Osmund Agbo The tone often strikes whimsical when a political activist like Omoleye Sowore is reminded that his reward is in paradise. That is to […]
Truth as a casualty in Nigeria’s widening fault lines
By Osmund Agbo Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore continues to be celebrated globally as an economic miracle of the 21st century. “From Third World to First: The […]
Rihanna Fenty, Kanye West and Black America’s burgeoning nouveau riche
By Osmund Agbo Since earlier this week, the internet has been buzzing relentlessly, with no plans to let up. There is this news about a certain […]
“Too busy frontin’ in the hood”: A letter to my son
By Osmund Agbo Dear son, When I first met you, my joy knew no bound. You brought so much love into my heart, the extent […]
The enemy as a friend: Nigeria’s steady march to Yugoslavia
By Osmund Agbo Few years ago, Otpor, Serbia’s non-violent pro-democracy youth movement known for organizing non-violent civic protests decided to play a prank. They took an […]
Slavery in Mauritania and the shame of a continent, By Osmund Agbo
In November 2017, the world watched in utter disbelief, some cringed-worthy footage aired by CNN where dozens of men in detention facilities were being […]
The unraveling of Portuguese empire: A historical imperative
By Osmund Agbo Portugal, the small European nation located on the western tip of the Iberian Peninsula, known to have colonized over 50 countries of the […]
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo: The Portrait of an African despot
By Osmund Agbo A first time visitor to the University of Calabar will get to learn a few interesting facts. Male and female students refer […]
How the Grinch stole Christmas
By Osmund Agbo Once upon a time, in a magical land of Whoville, lived the Whos. They were a group of little humans who loved […]
Haiti: A black nation’s struggle in the Americas
By Osmund Agbo On 7 July 2021 at 1 a.m. local time, a group of heavily armed gunmen made up of 28 foreign mercenaries, mostly […]
Libya’s election and the long path to peace in the Maghreb
Osmund Agbo In case you haven’t noticed, modern warfare has become everything other than what it appears to be. The war in Syria is no […]
Hell hath no fury than Africa’s Sahel, By Osmund Agbo
Sahel, Arabic for coast or shore is the region of Africa between the Sahara desert to the north and tropical Savannah to the south and […]
Why Nigeria is a scammer’s paradise, By Osmund Agbo
In the aftermath of World War 1, the cost of postage in Italy expressed in United States dollars fell precipitously due to the high rate […]
Nigeria’s burgeoning drug problem and the threat of a “zombie” apocalypse
By Osmund Agbo As the sun was casting long shadows on the ground one Saturday in April of 2018, a 21-year-old Nigerian named Kenneth but […]