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 Unimaginative and Purposeless Political Recycling

President Jonathan must be resolute and pick the best people for his cabinet and not pander to the party bigwigs who have no interest in the progress of Nigeria, but put self-interest and self-survival before the welfare of the people of this country...

The Nigerian Front: An Accountable Government

Some have questioned the legitimacy of the new Jonathan Administration and constantly remind us of the violence which greeted some of the disputed election results..

Prof. Attahiru Jega; A Vote of Thanks Thunderous Applause From A Grateful Nation

Elections are over and inaugurations are scheduled to take place nationwide in a matter of days, and nobody is asking for Professor Jega's head. What could the secret be?

One too many death…

Many Nigerians, due to the killing of some corp members who were deployed as adhoc staff of INEC in the 2011 general elections, have been clamoring for the scrapping of the NYSC scheme...

April 2011 Election Verdict: A Step towards a Sustainable Democracy

Politicians are often not sportsmanly. They have no tolerance for defeat. Winning is a must for them. They are always desperate, brutish, nasty and crude in their efforts to win or retain political power...

Amaechi His Sycophants

Amaechi seems to love blind eyes, by way of his exhibited habits, loving the rhythms of the sycophantic praises, forgetting the fact that no leader has ever lived in the Government House forever...

Nigeria’s disunity: Buhari’s detribalization!

Struggling for Nigeria unity, it is necessary to combat firmly the fabricators and abettors of division. It is dishonest towards the integrity of Nigeria ethics for anyone to claim  injustice out of prejudice on differed dialect, culture and background...

Goodluck Jonathan and the burden of Utopia

The President has been universally commended for the sublime, rarefied success of giving Nigerians a free, fair and credible election. It is a heroic feat befitting a true hero of our democratic dispensation...

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Caught in a Web of Circumstance

There are no people I disrespect like people, who, as a result of greed, whitemail or consent, allow other people or institutions in the service of the Luciferian hierarchy to desecrate their divinity...

Cross-Carpeting: Another Attempt To Gain Votes?

Governance in Nigeria has been dysfunctional for decades. In my wanderings through life, I have found that most people are troubled by the current state of politics in Nigeria, but are unable to clearly define the problem, the root cause, or the solution...

Defeating the Nigerian Establishment (Part 1)

Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its...

Life & Death of Stella: A Commentary on the (WO)men of Nigeria

After many years of witnessing the deaths of a member of the Nigerian ruling class, I am hardly fazed by the honor paid to them at death. Apart from Abacha, few Nigerians deride their leaders at death. Most leaders no matter how evil their legacy is usually get a warm goodbye...

Sanitizing the Electoral Process in Nigeria (1)

By it’s impractical provisions, the Electoral Act 2006 creates a lacuna, a window for electoral offenders to evade justice...

Femi Fani-Kayode’s Tangled Web (Part 2)

Modern cities thrive on integration, not excluivism. If Yoruba residents in Owerri are hounded by the Imo State government I will condemn it. Lagos is not ‘no man’s land.’ Every inhabitable land on earth is owned by man...

Okonjo-Iweala quest to lead World Bank: Politics over Qualification

The truth is that Nigeria's Okonjo-Iweala has strong competitors to the position and it will take more than qualification and credentials to topple those two other gentlemen. To be frank, the most compelling competitor is Dr. Jim Yong Kim, a Korean American nominated by President Barrack Obama...

So, Nigerians Are Deeply Uninformed?

What has so far surprised me is not that Nigerians did not know most of what has happened and is happening as released by Wikkileaks. Shocking is the level of shock being expressed in newspapers across the country...

A Democratic Revolution in West Africa: What Ghana’s Elections Mean for Nigeria

Former Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has achieved an...

Inculcating Public Confidence In The Corruption Fight

The real test for Nigeria's high-profile and high-speed anti-corruption drive has only started to unfold. All transitions are fraught with risks...