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,...

If Jonathan Were Serious…

The kindest thing that can be said about President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposal to amend the constitution in order to enshrine a single term of six years for occupants of the presidency and governorship is that Mr. Jonathan must have made up his mind without giving serious thought to the matter...

From Yahoo-Yahoo to kidneys for money?

This latest “kidney-for-money” bazaar by these young, mischievous ones sure continues to hammer the country’s image badly in the international system...

Amaechi’s Excuse For A New Jet: Black Man With ‘Black’ Brain

Nigerians have been asking for an explanation why a governor of any state in Nigeria would need a private jet. Some have said that by Amaechi’s rapacious statement, their love for him is dwindling...

NYSC Scheme and national unity

For the umpteenth time in recent times, there have been discordant calls on appropriate governmental authorities and other prominent stakeholders, to either phase out or restructure the NYSC programme...

Single six-year term is another joke

The plan to introduce a single six-year term for the offices of the President and Governors is another joke being conceived to further confuse the masses. Such plan is anti-democratic, regressive, defeatist, and will worsen corruption...

THE NIGERIAN FRONT: Mr. President and the Courage of his Convictions

The recent silence from the front has been based on one consideration, the appropriateness of providing space for the President to consider the road map we have previously published...

What’s a Nigerian Worth?

In a sense, the debate over the minimum wage for Nigerian workers raises a more fundamental question: What’s a Nigerian worth? And since there are different kinds of Nigerians, one ought to clarify that the question, at the deepest level, has to do with the least privileged of Nigerians...

Changing perceptions as Nigeria’s milestone

The messages emanating from Nigeria appear mixed. On one hand, we are witnessing some positive news and on another hand, we are confronted with some serious and dangerous trends in our match towards nationhood...

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A Battle Cry To Reverse The Poor State Of The Nation – Part 2

For every Northerner occupying a federal government post at any level, there are at least 100 Southerners that are more qualified but are being denied the opportunity...

A Tribute To Tunji Braithwaite (1933 – 2016)

Tunji O! Tunji O! The socio-cratic revolution is just...

A Contrarian Confronts Obama

There have been year long adulation and euphoric overindulgence for an Obama presidency. These have been calibrated in many ways. Media houses, political pundits, housewives, students, black Africans have all been smitten by a new addiction - Obamamania. Even women in the US are shaving their pubic hair in support of Obama...

The Turning Points of Life

If you desire an improvement in the future, you have to set in motion today the circumstances that could bring it about…

Essays from Exile: Nigeria We Hail Thee!

Here I am standing in the fork at the end of the road. My mother calls from deep inside Africa and this time work must wait. My wife mama bomboy is taking me to the airport because I have to go to Nigeria to see mama even if it kills me...

Corrupt, Indolent and Profligate Oyo State House of Assembly

It would have been hilarious were it not true that members of the Oyo State House of Assembly took their spouses on a junket through the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (U.S.) on tax payers’ backs...

Nigeria Is Our Mess And We Must Clean It Up!

If you are resident abroad or have reasons to take trips outside of the shores of Nigeria for business, this may sound familiar.  Many times the behavior is cocooned and interred in a smile or laughter that is far from a show of affection...

N80b Rice Import: Solution Or Illusion To Food Shortage

The government's Poverty Alleviation Programme has the stated goal of bringing food to hungry, poor Nigerians. So far, they have failed to do that...

Fixing Murtala Mohammed “Air-Nightmare”

Nothing best exemplifies the state of Nigeria’s leadership than the dilapidating state of the gateway to the nation, the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja. An airport that sits strategically as not only a possible gateway to Nigeria, but West Africa as well as the rest of the World...

Suleman: Blessed are the ‘Apostles’!

Apostle Johnson Suleman, the Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries...