"Whatever Belongs to You, Belongs to Me": A Reflection on Financial Irresponsibility and Gender Roles in Modern Relationships
In many societies today, domestic relationships are increasingly strained by a silent but persistent issue — financial irresponsibility disguised as love, entitlement, or partnership. When one partner labours to sustain a household while the other idles away in gambling or …
China's Loans to Africa and Recent Chinese Naval Vessels in Nigeria.
In a rare occurrence – and some would say, a show of power and influence - three Chinese military ships arrived in Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday, in what the local officials termed a visit to improve maritime security. The ships, led …
Africa: Medicine and Praises after Death
Recently the President of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, expressed his sadness at the deaths of an army general and soldiers killed by Islamic terrorists and paid tribute to them. Such a reaction paints a typical reprehensive picture of misplaced priority …
Rewarding Honesty and Integrity: The best way to go in Africa
Last week, Liberia’s President George Weah honoured an 18-year-old motorcycle taxi rider Emmanuel Tuloe, who found and returned $50,000 (£36,000) to the owner, a businesswoman. President Weah took an exceptional, exemplary and encouraging step by offering the honest lad reward …
Quest for Inter-Religious Harmony as Ghana’s chief imam Donates to Cathedral Project
Ghana’s chief imam Sheikh Osman Sharubutu has donated more than $8,000 to support the construction of a national cathedral.Some have deemed both the donation and the construction of the cathedral controversial. While many have criticised the cathedral project and classified …
Abd-Al-Rahman case: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II confirms charges and commits suspect to trial
Today, 9 July 2021, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “Court”) unanimously, issued a decision confirming all the charges brought by the Prosecutor against Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (“Ali Kushayb”) and committed him to trial before …
Ivory Coast: The office of Prime Minister and the abysmal omen
Ordinarily, the prime minister’s office in many countries is powerful; it is a position everyone would dream of and do everything to occupy. Sure, the second in command, after the President. Ask Kamala Harris and the likes; they would wholeheartedly …
Ivory Coast: The Right Time To Do the Right Thing
Personally, the thought of the West African country Ivory Coast invokes conflicting images of nostalgia, quintessence, lawlessness, precariousness and uncertainty.There was once a country. Peaceful, self-reliant and economic giant a nation its citizens dreamt about. Not anymore. Greed, power drunkenness, …
Statement by ICC Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, at the conclusion of her visit to Mali
Photo credit: © Timbuktu TFV-ICC HD @Nicolas RéménéFrom the 29th to the 31st of March, I had the honour to conduct my third and last official visit to Mali in my capacity as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” …
ICC Appeals Chamber confirms acquittal of Gbagbo and Goudé of all charges of crime against humanity
Today, 31 March 2021, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “Court”) delivered its judgment on the Prosecutor’s appeal against Trial Chamber I’s decision of 15 January 2019, which had acquitted, by majority, Mr Gbagbo and Mr …