Nigeria Matters

Osun Election: Victory For The People

The result of the just-concluded governorship election in Osun State still resonates across the country at deafening decibels. Everybody is celebrating the Accord Party’s...

Osun election: Between hope and fear

Hope springs eternal, and with elections just days away to determine the next governor of Osun State, we should strive to keep the hope...

President Tinubu’s Recent Lines of War

President Bola Tinubu recently set Nigeria’s political spaces on fire by declaring that “all is fair in politics”. According to the president, killing, cheating,...

Gov. Amaechi and Odumegwu Onwumere: The Need To Square-Up!

From whom did Nigerians of today inherit ethnic hatred? Certainly not from their forefathers. Therefore, the lack of finesse, ethnic and intra-ethnic tolerance could rightly be said to be precipitated by the modern political parameters...

Transformational leadership: The Lagos example

People do echo the common slogan at every turn in the metropolis: Fashola is working; Lagos is working. It’s, indeed, gratifying to note that most achievements being recorded by the Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, Administration in Lagos State, are attracting the attention of well-meaning Nigerians and foreigners...

Al Mustafa's Testimonies: The Secrets of the Dead Men's Cove?

The prolonged and tortuous trial of the former Chief Security Officer, Al Mustapha, has reached a crescendo. His disclosures are at once chilly and explosive...

Anambra and the Politics of Propaganda

Last week, Governor Peter Obi of Anambra received unflattering epithets when he intruded on a rally where state workers were discussing his unpopular proposal on the implementation of the new minimum wage...

The other sides of the state of the Naira

The last time I checked the value of the of the Naira, it was very saddening to discover that it was being sold at 274 to buy 1 GBP and 165 to buy 1 USD. We all knew things could be bad, but this bad?

National security, military intelligence and you

It was only slowly that we abandoned the idea of lethargy and adopted the idea of national security and military intelligence. This new national awareness must be kept alive in our own interest...

Six Year Term: A Detour to President Jonathan's Transformational Agenda

Unfortunately, barely four months into his four year term, Dr. Jonathan is singing a new tune that implies a loss in focus. The President who promised to tackle the nation's problems appears adrift...

Go-slow In Rivers State

A look at the menace of dilapidated roads in Rivers State under the Governor Chibuike Amaechi-led government could be likened to contributing to the enlarged enragement of many people...

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Two Welcomes to Toronto 2006

"This talks about teaching…you didn't say anything about teaching - did you tell the High Commission in London that you were going to be teaching in Canada? And upstairs you said you were a journalist, then a doctor and now you're teaching?"

Nigeria ruled by men of thumos

Men of thumos do wrong not out of wickedness, but, of course, out of immature arrogance. It is the thumos in them that prevents them from having feelings for the weaker members of the society...

2015: The Die is cast and the Time is fast. Jonathan’s Universe of the Turning Wheel (2)

Since 1960, Nigeria has gone full circle. From coup d’états to relay military autocracies, to arrangee presidential impositions, rigged elections, Supreme Court awards to failed candidates, political fractiousness to fragmentations, to fermentations, to decay...

African Men And The Culture Of Many Women

I know American men who, despite being married, admire other women and some of them do date other women outside marriage. So that is not an African thing. That is a man thing...

Between CBN and its foreign exchange interventions

Since the appointment of Sanusi as the CBN governor in 2009, one thing that every body agrees Sanusi has achieved is bringing some kind of stability into the banking industry. But the other two areas of his job, inflation control and determination of realistic exchange rate, the CBN governor can be said to have achieved minimal success...

An Omission in the Anti-Corruption Bill

In a thorough legal review by the Curatorum of...

Ndi'Igbo, Looking For Good luck

It is palpable today that the South-East zone of Nigeria is looking for its good luck in the political equation of President Goodluck Jonathan...

Uduaghan: anatomy of a desperate villain

Uduaghan is a graduate of Obasanjo’s school of ‘do-or-die’ elections.  He is a nasty gift bequeathed the hapless people of Delta State by that other thief, James Ibori in a fit of sadistic irredentism...

The Gospel of Materialism – Nigerian Pentecostalism and Hypocrisy (Part 3)

Nigeria is gradually dying because of religion. Useful energy is not being expended on meaningful and relevant activities that can free our nation from the yokes of political oppression and suppression...

Before Ali Baba and Okey Bakassi, there was John Chukwu

I should have been a comedian. Poetry is poverty. Comedy...