Nigeria Matters

The Impossible Death Of Dele Giwa

It has been 40 years since the satanic assassination of Dele Giwa through a letter bomb delivered to his home, but the departed iconic...

Oyebanji: Beyond BAO2BAO!

​In the experience of Nigeria, focusing largely on the post-1999 return to democracy, second terms have turned out to be a mixed bag. Very...

Teachers’ Day: Nigerian Teachers Deserve Better

October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...

Aso Rock Media High Command: From Dream To Nightmare

As head of the Aso Rock media high command and undoubetedly its fugleman in the black arts of spin doctoring, Reuben Abati failed woefully in the way he communicated with the public during Jonathan’s worst and fractious week in government...

Nuhu Ribadu’s Cold Dish at Diezani’s Kitchen

Several meanings are enumerated as reasons for the offer of an appointment to Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, a retired police officer and past Chairman of the Nigerian Economic Financial Crimes Commission to chair of a newly created Petroleum Task Force...

Highlight On Traffic Challenges In Rivers

Traffic situations in the City of Port Harcourt can never abate if the residents do not obey traffic orders...

Curbing this systemic disintegration

It is only when relative security of lives and property is guaranteed that Nigerians can reside anywhere and do their legitimate businesses, attract increased investments from within and outside the nation’s shores, grow the fledgling economy, and enhance deeper ethno-cultural relationships...

Lurid Details From the House of Representatives Probe

The bottomline in the present probe of the oil industry by the House of Representatives is that the Nigerian oil industry is a huge mess, as has been feared by most Nigerians. It stinks, it reeks so horribly. It is a scammers' haven...

How old is Peter Esele?

There is a new generation of Nigerians rearing their dynamic heads and determined to put their mark on their country. Age is an important element that unites them, for they are young and indeed they define themselves as young...

Jonathan, Sylva, and the Rain of Stones

No major political party in Nigeria has set itself apart as an embodiment of vision and exemplary leadership. Even so, the PDP has patented itself as a heavyweight champion in the sectors of corruption, indolence, and visionlessness...

As Amaechi Wins at the Supreme Court

Amaechi should not allow anybody or group to intimidate any resident of Rivers State by making the person think that he or she is a loser...

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The Writer and the Global Frontier (2)

A lot of us will never live fully in Africa again. Many people in my daughter’s generation will probably grow up with only the idea of Africa...

The African National Congress is  100 years old

Recently, the African National Congress celebrated its centenary with pomp and gaieties. Last year, the Communist Party of China also celebrated its centenary. The fine thread running through the political culture of the two parties is their adoption of Marxian dialectic...

Open Letter To Tonye Princewill

Beloved Prince Tonye Princewill, it might not be your greatest of needs, but it is a social and spiritual observable fact that appreciation is one of the emotional needs of mankind...

Friends and Friendships

How do you tackle a situation where you are best of friends with a woman who is happily married, but you are not friends with her husband?

An Open letter to the people of Oyo State

Good day and compliments of the season to all my beloved people of Oyo State...

The Gentleman Handshake: Lucky Igbinedion Goofed

My visit to Edo State was an eyesore.  The roads are filthy, and non-drivable. The once beautiful city is in ruins.  People are frustrated and lifeless in nature.  Fear is resonant in the eyes of many.  Everyone disappears from the street before dark for fear of armed robbers.  Most homes have gates that are ten feet high and reflective of prisons… 

The Dishonourable Africans – Part IV

On the eve of departure of the imperial civil servants from Africa, they fitted all the national institutions of politics and of commerce with selected African Yes-men...

Restoring Sanity to our Armed Forces

A tsunami of disaster has swept through the rank...

Farewell President Mbeki

We live in strange times. A prophet is indeed without honour in his own home. One moment a man is being lauded for brokering a ground breaking deal that holds the promise of peace and stability in a neighbouring nation, and the next moment he’s receiving short shrift from his own party...

IGP Suleiman Abba’s Gaffe and Many Unanswered Questions

The withdrawal of police details of Hon. Aminu Tambuwal,...