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,...

The Difficult Task of Accountability

I truly hope Mr. Okorocha turns out to be a skillful, visionary and enterprising governor. In fact, if he has a sense of history and a depth of humanity, he would have no choice but to spend his waking hours and energies on the challenge of providing stellar service to the people of Imo...

The Sorry House of Tribune

It was such a surprise to me when I returned home during the general elections of 2011 and my father announced proudly that he had stopped buying Tribune! If you do not know, this is an equivalent to the Ford family using a Toyota car!

Rivers – Tsunami Besieges Oyigbo

The once flood-free Aladimma Street axis along Shell Location road, which is the major entrance to Oyigbo main town, Oyigbo Local Government Area, Rivers State, experienced the equivalent of a Tsunami Saturday 11th June, 2011...

Rejoinder to: Maurice Iwu and the Sale of Nigeria's Collective Inheritance

As you are well aware many things have been written about me in both local and international press as part of an elaborate hate campaign, most of which are sponsored falsehood aimed at destroying my reputation...

Amaechi's Speech: The Potentiality Of Diplomacy

Amaechi reasserting himself is not a joke. But we think he is always promoting himself and taking credit for what diplomats would loathe with shame to admit. We think he must stop being a disingenuous person he has always been...

Nigeria Freedom of Information Act: How about the Immunity Clause And The EFCC Act?

In 2008, the late President Umaru Yar'Adua asked the National Assembly to use the opportunity of the impending constitution review exercise to expunge the Immunity Clause from the Nigerian Constitution...

Boko Haram and the rest of us

With the recent avalanche of bombings by Boko Haram or someone acting in their name across Northern Nigeria and right on the doorsteps of Abuja, it is time for every right-thinking Nigerian to go beyond pious hand-wringing and start thinking...

Maurice Iwu and the Sale of Nigeria’s Collective Inheritance

Professor Iwu is not alone in this drive towards the sale of Nigeria’s biodiversity to the West for personal gains. Several Nigerian scientists, researchers, students and ordinary citizens, resident and in the Diaspora, have been known to collude with Western interests in selling off the plant resources of the country...

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The Dishonourable Africans: Conclusion

Our values and beliefs are the invisible psychological softwares that have the capacity to influence the direction and the limit of the intellectual, cultural and social development of a people...

Why is SMEDAN not a friend of small businesses?

Now that the Jonathan administration wants to fully transform and diversify our country's economy from its present oil-base to a vibrant industrial economy, it's obvious that we now need to overhaul it so that henceforth it promotes and protects the interests of our small businesses...

Nigerian High Commission Versus NIDO-Malaysia: Threat Of Mass Arrest Of Members

The last may not have been heard about the simmering crisis between the Nigeria High Commission, Malaysia, under the headship of Ambassador Peter Anegbeh and the Executives of the Non-governmental Organization of Nigerians in Diaspora, NIDO Malaysia, in the South-East Asian country...

Recalling A Poetic Tribute To Gani

The celebration of legendary legal luminary, Chief Gani Fawehinmi,...

Infidelity or Polygamy: It’s Your Choice

In popular parlance, the assumption is that White women are easy to talk to, easy to date, easy to have any sort of relationship with. And that in all matter sex, they don't have as many hang-ups as African women...

The process of governance is multi dynamic

Young Nigerians now understand that President GEJ is not above errors. The President himself has demonstrated that man is not infallible...

Black Conservative-oxymoronic? A Response to Mr. Paul Adujie

Whether you want to believe it or not Mr. Adujie, your support, tacit as it may be, for abortion, homosexuality, infanticide, puts you in the same category with the abusers of children and the abusers of power that you complained about in your piece!

Chuma Nzeribe, Peter Obi, and Political Treachery

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra is one of the luckiest politicians in Nigeria’s history. He’s in danger of turning himself into one of the most historically blind as well...

Negotiating with Boko Haram terrorists

Instead of wasting its precious time on dialoguing with an anti-humanity and destructive group as Boko Haram, the Government must institute counter-terrorism measures to further clip the wings of these reckless suicide bombers and their sponsors, paymasters and sympathisers...

Morolake Akinosun: A Nigerian Hero

Morolake Akinosun is a Nigerian-American. Her parents are surely...