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,...

Ngige Re-branded Akunyili

Because Ngige is a man of the people, those aligned with Dora are now saying that they respect him, but he should have contested in another senatorial district and not have contested against Dora, which has led to the latter’s disgrace...

Nigeria: Between The Pulpit And The Podium!

The 21st century Nigeria with many challenges may not find succour in a clueless and somber President who is only trying to prove himself and make sense of his command...

Nigeria: long, long overdue for an overhaul

Is the president elect responsible for Borno State and most states in the North having the worst Human Development Index, HDI, in the whole of West Africa?

Aftermath of Nigeria's Election and The Task Ahead

As Nigeria concludes an important but tortuous milestone in her history, we are reminded of our past, our present state and an unknown future...

The Power of Ideas

The power of ideas is enormous but the power of prophecy is awesome. Those who have rigged elections or caused elections to be rigged on their behalf, the guilt shall come upon you...

Nigeria: The Burden of a Lie

Until recently, I had retained residual hope in the prospect of the birth of a viable nation out of the space called Nigeria. I’m now – I must confess – filled with deep doubts...

Wild Wild North: A festival of Incompetence and Mischief

Lest we all become guilty of what we accuse others of doing, two things need to be said very clearly about the ongoing crisis in the Northern part of Nigeria...

Restoring hope at a time of a nation’s despair

When I read the Facebook posting by Ukeoma Ikechukwu, a corps member serving in Bauchi State, before his gruesome death in the hands of rioters who were protesting the outcome of the April 16 presidential election won by President Goodluck Jonathan, I became misty-eyed...

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Waiting For The Messiah!

Having been denied true leadership in recent times, many Nigerians will not be able to recognize one if they saw it. Any critical analysis of successive civilian and military Nigerian governments will show that we have not been lucky...

Are we Dangerously Intelligent? II: Umar Yar’Adua, The Unwilling President

I think the biggest question to all Nigerians at this critical stage in nation building should be “Is being indifferent part of being dangerously intelligent that we take the easiest way out...?"

On Stage and In Print

Drama And Theatre In Nigeria: A Critical Source Book...

This Thing Called 'Personal Space'

I was working in a nursing home when a male nurse, also a fellow Igbo, displayed understandable excitement at meeting another Igbo on the job.  He proceeded to playfully hug me but I froze and did not return the hug.  That was the first time I knew I had acquired a Personal Space...

This Penkelemesi: We Have No Dog in This Fight

Is it really the case that the Nigerian situation is a result of a dearth of solutions? Anyone who believes that is in deep denial. There is an over-abundance of solutions to the Nigerian problem...

Top 7 Secrets For Small Business Success

Nigeria has about 35% return on investment which is the highest in the world today. With this, there is room for small businesses to thrive and survive...

Homophobia in Nigeria, Uganda, Malawi ond Over-sexed South Africa

Why is it so important for Nigeria, Uganda, and now Malawi to squander public resources in the repression of homosexual and lesbian citizens within these African nations?

Who Can Save Africa?

Just like any great people at a historic juncture, Africans today are crying out for leadership. They are looking for a messiah to show them the way, a messiah endowed with the power to ignite their passion and inspire the best in them...

The Fabulous Williams Sisters

This past weekend, the lightning of sporting genius and success of Venus and Serena Williams struck  again for a combined seventh time in nine years...

Whispers of Our President In Washington

By many, if not most, accounts, President Muhammadu Buhari’s...