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,...

Politicians Without Conscience

While many Nigerians and the politicians talk about God so much, they behave anyhow, and do not care who may be watching them...

Delta Gubernatorial Election: Anioma’s Best Bet

Come April 26, 2011 Nigerians will be going to the polls to elect their governors. This is an opportunity to correct the past. And many states are set to do just that. Perhaps none is as poised to put behind it an inglorious past like Delta...

Fashola Remains The Best Man for the Job!

Much has been said of Fashola's ground breaking achievements on such gigantic spheres as infrastructural renewal, urban transportation, health, education, security, environment, justice system, job creation, etc. but I think he excels equally in giving the much needed attention to the little things that matter...

Understand Help People

Those we are under are hardly being truthful and practice in reality the language of the visionary and the idealist they preach to us; their behaviours and ulterior motives toward us are not ideal...

Politicking Against the Tide: The 2011 Presidential Polls In Nigeria!

Today, there is widespread belief that the vote will be difficult to manipulate, irrespective of the major parties in the areas where incumbency is enjoyed...

Ibori’s London Dilemma and Uduaghan’s Asaba Ambition

Should Ibori be facing the battle of his life and Uduaghan who is already implicated in the same matter be allowed to have his usual way here on April 26, 2011 so that he can extend some dubious immunity...

“It is not easy to carry first!” – The delusion of the Jonathan dream

The Nigerian presidential election has now been concluded and a winner declared. The much awaited celebration is yet to manifest, except maybe, amongst the coterie of hanger-ons and professional politicians as shown on the Nigerian national television the other night...

Buhari: A great Nigerian who will not be president

As head of state, Buhari brooked no corruption and he lived above board but when he embraced democracy, he did so with commitment and total conviction that it is the best form of government. It is that attribute that has seen him build a formidable party within a relatively short time...

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Of Nigerian Democracy, Governance And Profligacy

But we are going to pay Gowon, Shagari, Obasanjo, Babangida, Buhari, Abdulsalaam, and even Shonekan and their families, awesome pensions for life. And what about the families of Tafawa-Balewa, Aguiyi-Ironsi, Abacha and Umar Yar 'Adua? Are they going to get their late fathers' pensions too? 

Jonathan, Obasanjo And Alcohol

In actuality, all of our democratic leaders have been recruited and put into office by tribal and political warlords. Jonathan is the latest stooge occupying our national centre stage...

Independent Candidates In Nigeria: A Recipe For National Disaster

The following is a review of independent party concept in Nigerian history, its impact in the United States of America, and the consequences for the African nation...

Sefi Atta: Something Good Comes to Nigerian literature

Writers are not protected from discrimination. When I worked as an accountant I dealt with discrimination and I’m still dealing with it now. It’s funny, looking back from my first writing class, it feels like I’ve been on one long audition, standing before an audience who is yelling, What have you got? Go on, tell us an African story!

2012 Budget: fiscal prudence, subsidy removal and other issues

Allocating 72% of the budget to recurrent expenditure seems to me very outrageous, and a move away from the government mantra of fiscal prudence. Though, as one analyst observes, it is not easy to cut recurrent expenditure in one fell swoop...

Nigeria: A Call to Duty

Every human being on the planet earth desires to...

Periscoping the Nigerian Mentality

Nobody is willing to stand tall and question the source of the wealth of the overnight money-bags who are now being heralded. The demise of the traditional policing system is not helpful either...

We are Bode George

I have read some of the outrage some of us have expressed concerning the lavish and tumultuous reception that heralded Bode George’s release from prison. While some can be excused for the honest expression of their outrage, others are just being good old hypocrites. You want to know why?

Ibori, Peter Odili, and Justice Buba

Several newspapers and online forums reported that Justice I.N. Buba of the Federal High Court in Asaba had issued an injunction prohibiting Ibori’s arrest. Buba has done it before...

Abia And The Agents Of Distraction

There is a theory that Governor T.A Orji of Abia State and his aides have introduced and want the general public to buy. It is a dangerous and malicious theory of hatred and brigandage...