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,...

How To Develop Abia State

Recently, Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State, while inducting 18 commissioners that will help him man the affairs of the state, charged them to submit their blueprint within 14 days...

Ambassador John Campbell’s Doomsday Prophecy

Reading Mr Campbell’s essay, you can’t help but sympathise with Mr. Segun Aganga, Nigeria’s new Minister of Trade and Investment as his job has just been made much more challenging as he begins a mighty task of convincing foreign investors to come to Nigeria...

My Solution to the Boko Haram Menace

We started down this ignoble, cowardly course by negotiating with the criminals that hijacked the legitimate cause of the Niger-Delta people by blowing up oil infrastructure, blackmailing, kidnapping, raping, maiming, and killing...

The Heck About Amaechi’s Public House Experience

One knows that Amaechi was telling his rather ugly tales to prove a point that his early life was not rosy and cozy and that today his life has changed astronomically...

Our Continued Disunity

I wonder how long we are going to continue this disunity. Many lives are lost as a result of our inability to become united as one people, yet we still have an ethnic and tribalistic outlook...

Abeg, somebody should tell Jonathan…

Until a fatal combination of cirrhosis of the liver and excess Viagra did the lunatic Abacha in, between November 1993 and June 1998 everyone knew their place in Nigeria.  All our noisemaking warmongers kept well quiet...

How Nigeria will develop!

We live in an age of science and technology. Nigeria can be powerful and advanced, only if it will become scientifically advanced and technically well-developed...

Security Needfulness: Nigerians Live In Place Of Their Livelihood!

The dawn of transmuted politics in Nigeria has encouraged strange dimensions of conflict:  violence and ethnic tension stage-managed by the Boko Haram sect...

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The Joy of Fatherhood

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Ndi-Anambra Have Chosen Ngige To Lead Anambra Again

Seeing the irresistible support that goes his way, other contestants have resorted to towing the inglorious line of propaganda, knowing full well that Senator Chris Nwabueze Ngige representing Anambra Central senatorial zone, has been chosen by the people...

2023 Presidency: Who is Afraid of Ndigbo?

In a statement issued last week Monday, Media Mogul,...

Global Education: The Nigerian School Project

Nigeria is a challenging place to live, work, or travel. Oil rich, the country still falls desperately short of meeting the educational needs of its children. But the kids are so fantastic, so engaged, so curious about the world...

Of Ene Oloja, Hollywood And Jungle Justice

Ene Oloja. Remember her? In the 80’s and 90’s she was the buxom beauty who starred as Zamaye in Cock Crow at Dawn and later played the sister to the late MacArthur Fom in Behind the Clouds...

2015 Presidential Election Outcome: A Threat To Nigeria’s Unity In Diversity

Our democracy is being tested. It consistently undergoes constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions. In the process, ideas battles with ideal...

A Reward For Teachers, Not Sent From Heaven

Teachers all over the world apart from, perhaps, Japan and China, are poorly remunerated and that is why Nigerian teachers should not in any way be seen as an endangered species from the remunerative point of view...

Maradona – Fouled, not Foul

“There is none of thy kindred that is called...

Ogun PDP: An atomistic party at war with itself

In the last few weeks, the struggle over those who will carry the flag of the People’s Democratic Party in Ogun State for various elective positions in the forthcoming elections has made headlines and the issue appears unresolved three weeks to the beginning of the elections...

Nollywood Personifies the Resilience and Ingenuity of the Nigerian, Says Sam Kargbo

Charles Taylor, former Liberian President, was very brutal and ruthless to Nigerians. He marked them out as his number one foes and acted in accordance with that hate mentality. But look at where he is today. Is it not an irony?