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,...

Amaechi’s 2nd Term Without Opposition: Which Way Rivers State?

The people cannot be ruled by force, and tyrants can never be part of democracy. The All Progressive Grand Alliance in Rivers State had said that the April 9 National Assembly elections in the state was marred by massive electoral fraud...

It is time to form a Yoruba Nation

Unless we want to deceive ourselves or we genuinely fail to see reality then we must accept that the voters that went to the polls last week to decide who should be governors did not only elect their governors. They also used their thumbprint and ballot papers to draw a map that clearly states that the time has come to form a Yoruba nation...

For Jonathan, Obasanjo as Parable

Unless the equivalent of a judicial earthquake happens, it is safe to assume that Goodluck Jonathan is going to spend the next four years at the helm of Nigerian affairs. What manner of leader does he plan to be?

‘NYSC 9’ and Yuguda’s Heart of Darkness

Yuguda was reported to have said that the dead NYSC members were destined to die the way and in the circumstance they died. He added that he too was attacked in 1979 when he was a youth corps member serving in Ibadan...

The End of “Amala” Politics in Oyo State

History is the memory of mankind and philosophy of history is the analytical ability of man to distinguish what's correct from what's incorrect. Human beings have the ability to create ways to live better and even change the environment to suit their needs and wants....

Buhari’s Anticipatory Tears of Failure and a National Carnage

Why did Buhari sob before 150 million Nigerians and the entire world? What altered and changed the solid frame of this Idiagbon’s principal. What made the military strongman not to dey kampe like OBJ, his former boss...

April 26, 2011 Election and Reign of Folly, Mammon in Delta

Folly; whether recklessness, thoughtlessness, unreason or misguided undertakings is the rule in governance in Delta; so is avarice, acquisitiveness and cupidity...

Trading Imo state for perilous politics

A question I frequently hear these days is: What happens if there is failure of election in Imo State? Worse yet, I also hear described various scenarios that can happen should there be failure of election...

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IMF role in the recent fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria

No matter how the Nigerian economic team chooses to shade, equivocate or obfuscate it, the International Monetary Fund played a significant role, if not an upper hand, in the removal of fuel subsidy in poverty stricken Nigeria...

2011: Uduaghan’s Second Term Hope Dims

There are strong indications that the scenario that played out in Anambra State in 2003 when then Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju was denied a second term may happen in Delta State in 2011...

Drug Trafficking, Emerging Threat To Ghana

Ghana is the hottest in West Africa where international drug smuggling is widespread because of its perceived stability...

When Nigeria Won Her First World Cup In 1977

Not many Nigerians know that the country won a...

Is Nigeria Working?

If Nigeria is working, we will know! Those were the...

God or Nature: Who Did We Piss Off?

Offline and online, I've received volumes of messages from friends far and near inquiring about the flood that almost submerged my city and hometown, Ibadan...

BAO2BAO… and God answered! – (1)

Congratulations to Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji, aka BAO, on...

Where are the other Iboris?

Mention the name James Onanefe Ibori and many different emotions and impressions flood the Nigerian mind. The man is seen as a personification of arrogance and avarice. He’s perceived as an embodiment of the worst in the Nigerian “misruling” class...

Nigerian Big-Shots, Big Egos and Sugar-Daddies

There is something about small and narrow-minded people that vexes me. East or West, North or South, they all have three things in common: haughtiness, roguery, and the propensity to subjugate the common man...

Why Do “They” Hate The White Man?

How long can Africa afford to do nothing? How long would we be standing by while our hair is shaved in our absence? When are we going to restore the dignity of our women and children and act true to our heritage to either harvest Western goodwill or repudiate them?