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,...

Rochas Okorocha; The Man And His Mandate!

For some days now, we were recipients of the much acclaimed, generally well deserved, received and respected news that Owelle Rochas Okorocha will be helming the government of Imo State...

The Nigerian Front: The Preamble

Every generation is often presented with opportunities to offer definition, scope and direction to its nation.  This extends to the construction of defining values, the anchoring of the nation’s progress and creating an all-inclusive space for its development...

A New Day in Nigeria and End of Election Malpractices

Nigeria is the economic powerhouse of West Africa and the giant of Africa. Nigeria as a nation and as a people can no longer afford to shy away from their collective destiny of greatness...

Befitting Nigerian National Honors, As NYSC Members Die On National Duty

Nigeria's human refinements index must be measured and re-calibrated by how Nigerians and Nigeria take care of the poor, the most under-privileged and how we honor our dead...

The South East in the Jonathan era

Basking in the euphoria of the massive votes the region gave to President Goodluck Jonathan during the April 16 presidential election, some members of the National Assembly from the zone started clamouring for positions in the name of the zone...

Post-Election disquiet in Nigeria: The power of Truth

The justice of the courts of law in Nigeria must be weighed carefully, so that the truth can set us free. Election by the people is the only way any government can earn legitimacy...

I Will defend the right of all citizens…

President Jonathan seems to have hit the ground running. This is so because Nigerians unanimously gave him the mandate to be the president for the next four years...

Jonathan’s Election and Growing Confidence in One Nigeria

Since independence Nigeria has been in the hands of the majority tribes, and more specifically in the hands of the majority tribe. We have only seen situations were government in the main exchanges hands between few sections of the North and Olusegun Obasanjo, supposedly of the Yoruba stock...

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Lagos: A History In Pictures, 1861 to 1961

It is important to reproduce here that the great historian, Prof J F Ade Ajayi, debunked the theory and the belief that the British bombarded Lagos because it was a notorious “slave depot” in 1851 or annexed it in 1861 because “the permanent occupation of this important point in the Bight of Benin is indispensable to the complete suppression of the slave trade..."

Making Our Roads Life-Worthy!

 I am not an expert on road safety. What I can do though, is apply the free common sense that God gave me. Common sense tells me that the entire system is bankrupt...

'Witch-Ful Thinking': The National Blame Game

In Nigerian society today, we tend to take the accolades for our achievements, but finger certain forces behind our failures...

Obasanjo Could End Up As Nigeria's Worst Divider

To keep Nigeria guessing is fast becoming an instrument of policy under Obasanjo. Even in his declared War against Corruption, our deadliest cancer, the best our Commander-in-Chief is doing, is to keep Nigerians guessing on whether or not his war is only against his perceived enemies in Government or a principled war against all forms of Corruption in our country...

“Touch Not My Anointed and Do My Prophets No Harm”, said the Lord

Because wickedness reigns in the hearts of Luciferians and agents of darkness, they have tended to act to destroy the Sons and Daughters of God, especially when they find themselves in transient political appointments...

Freedom is Expensive

Freedom of any kind is an expensive project. It does not come easy. There is always a price to pay...

Osun 2026: Why We Should Be Worried!

By Olutola Arogundade Osun State is at a crossroads, and...

The Criminal Tendencies of Some Nigerian Banks

There is no hiding place for Nigerians as they...

Biafra: Neither Pro Nor Anti

As a full-blooded Igboman it is always emotionally difficult...

An Open Letter to Kemi Adeosun

Dear Sister Kemi, "Kòlè yé won...yí ò yé won lóla!!!" "Truth...