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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,...

Hamza Al Mustapha's Bags of Sh*t

It is difficult to weigh whether former Head of State, Sani Abacha's choice hitman, Hamza Al Mustapha, expected the huge public spat that had greeted his revelation of what happened during the earlier years of the Abdulsalami Abubakar regime, especially as they concern the deaths of his boss, Sani Abacha and the winner of the June 12 1993 election, Chief MKO Abiola...

Framing the jurisprudential synthesis of the confederal republic of Nigeria

Modern societies should use the merits of computer technology in framing the synthesis of governance, rather than dwell on nostalgic reminiscences of old ideological postulates, long exploded...

Everything about them is greed

They do all the talking but do not want to listen to us talking. To them, the entire world is insufficient for seeking gains. They are hardnosed, greedy, tyrannical, and scandalous...

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 Bond That Tears Rivers Apart

A press statement, Sunday 31st July, 2011, through the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, David Iyofor, said that the state needed N250 billion Bond...

Al-Mustapha, Abiola, And a Nation’s Shame

It is easy to forget that Hamza Al-Mustapha, Chief Security Officer to the late General Sani Abacha, is standing trial for allegedly ordering the assassination of Kudirat Abiola, one of the wives of former President-elect Moshood Kashimawo Abiola...

Mr. President’s Political Amateurism

I am yet to see a man so blessed by fate, yet so adept at frittering away the popular goodwill with which he has been blessed like our own President Jonathan. Compare this Mr. Lucky to the other President miles away in Washington DC, who has to fight for every inch of progress and you wonder why our man in Abuja is not delivering cheesecake!

Amaechi’s True Enemies

What is wrong with my articles about Amaechi that my admonisher is so embittered with me? His principal even commends most of my works, but my admonisher will never find anything good in them because I do not praise Amaechi...

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Congratulations Nigeria!

I write to congratulate the people and government of Nigeria on the deployment of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from the finance ministry to the ministry of foreign affairs...

Why we should Encourage Sunday Iwalaiye, Daddy Freeze and the likes in Nigeria

Sunday Iwalaiye is a Nigerian American scientist, and a...

Banks Are Not My Business

Whenever I see any bank and the ill-assorted characters...

Emir Sanusi: Kings as Subjects

If there is any credence to the notion that...

Anambra 2013: Ngige Stands Taller Than The Rest

The political ante in Anambra State is gradually inching to a climax with the fast approaching governorship election in the state coming up on November 16. The battle to elect who succeeds Governor Peter Obi is picking tempo as candidates emerge for the slug fest from diverse political parties...

How The Niger Deltans Can Get Their Freedom: The Action Plan! (Part 6)

Some militant groups, unfortunately, are making some tactical mistakes by releasing kidnapped foreign oil workers. This is a very serious blunder on their part! The militants, instead of releasing kidnapped or captured foreign oil workers, should step up their kidnapping...

Nigeria: The Task Ahead

History is such a powerful tool in many ways...

I’ll Say it Loud; I’m Nigerian and I’m Proud!

Apparently, too much attention is being paid to the ‘Nigerian problem’. To a lot of people, the only way to solve the Nigerian problem is to remove the adjective ‘Nigerian’. So patriotism wanes...

Summer in America

The rest of the world ought to be intimidated and scared at the rate Nigerians are getting educated...

Ngozi Iweala, Our Next President

One of the greatest problems of Nigeria and most third world economies is the lack of continuity. In light of this factor, most international investors are wary of long term investments and in Nigeria; they are especially concerned as to who would succeed OBJ for good cause.  What better person than his Minister of Finance?