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Hello! Be Wise As The Campaigns Begin

Barring any divine intervention, and never ruling out the unpredictability of the cosmic regime, the 2027 general elections in Nigeria will be held. The...

Nigeria Is Dying In Bondage

The calls came to me in quick succession - from the United States and some cities in Nigeria - concerning the health and accommodation...

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...

Jega’s Misstep and the Nigerian Conversation

There’s no question that Nigeria must be re-negotiated. Its constitution is an enabler of serial abuses – including the tyranny of Abuja over state capitals and the federalization of resources that ought to belong to states. That’s why Nigerians ought to look beyond Mr. Jega’s elections...

Never Before

Events following the authorization of political parties to hold primaries and political campaigns have been quite interesting and intriguing. One would have thought that the electioneering process would be met with the usual apathy by voters...

National assembly elections postponed!

This smells of sabotage. This does not sound well. There is something going on here. There is something missing here. I want Nigerians to clamor for investigation of this vendor. He has embarrassed the nation...

Jega'a Wobbly Start and Our Huge Expectations

Contrary to expectations, the much awaited parliamentary election in Nigeria turned to a huge anti-climax. The hype, the high hope and the huge expectation loaded into the election to start what is considered a critical test of democracy flailed and floundered...

Prof Jega, What Really Happened?

Yesterday was April Fool Day, but twenty fours hours later, we’re still making fools of ourselves in full public glare...

Goodbye “No Probs”: Tribute to Otunba Jobi Fele

The late Otunba Mohammed Jobi Fele possessed a lot of the values and attitude our society desperately needs today; he was best known for his virtues and capabilities as an efficient and honest administrator, successful and resourceful businessman, brave and focused industrialist, and on top of all that he was also known to be generous and humane...

Nigeria and a better living condition: Deserved or Disservice?

Economy shapes cities. It’s dwelling pattern, transit arrangement, but for Nigeria; spending spree of our politicians and quenching the reviving spirits of our economy has deterred the trend...

Nigerians’ Travails, Endless Hunt for Change and the Gathering Storm: Where Lies the Hope?

A spectre is haunting our fatherland. What a spectre!, that is occasioned by the palpable atmosphere of discontent, feelings of dispossession, sense of abandonment and ignominy of existence...

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Letter to my Rivers State Brethren: Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi and the Waterside Slum Settlements

Before I begin this letter, let me quickly issue a disclaimer: I am writing to you as a fellow Rivers person and lover of the state, not as a seeker of political office. Let me now go to the subject of the letter: Governor Rotimi Amaechi and the waterside slum settlements...

Why Dem No Want Hep Me Enter America?

My friend would love to go live in the US too. He has played visa lottery since inception, has attempted serendipity, has made SOS calls, and now all he has in the American dream from his brothers are mere promises, promises and nothing but promises…

Brewery Blunder? Soludo’s Controversial Claim Sparks Outrage!

It was meant to be a moment of pride....

Friendly War

My wife claimed I hadn't given her "chop money" for the week. I know you don't believe her. Ah –ah, even the neighbors comment on how much fresher she looks while I continue to lose weight. Then next minute I was accused of being a tribalist who only got on with his countrymen on football match days...

Suspending Do-Or-Die Politics

The political process in Nigeria has evolved in a particular direction, corresponding to the characteristics of political activists and the incentive-structure to reproduce the political system...

Still on Michael Jackson – Death Where Is Thy Fang?

What is it about death that brings about the sober aspect of human nature? Why does it take the death of another man for us to realise our ephemeral nature?

Struggling To Understand Democracy

Our leadership are still struggling to understand democracy as...

An Open Letter to President Umaru Yar’Adua – 5

A coterie of the ruling elite, surprisingly not just in the North, where the Bala Na'Allahs were calling for a Final Solution, but elsewhere, talked about the fire and brimstone that the central government would unleash on the Niger Delta if the fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta do not accept the amnesty...

Nigerians In The So-Called Diaspora: “Abuja, We Have A Problem”

I agree with the erudite 100 in their condemnation of the conduct and results of the polls in general, suggestions that fresh elections be conducted in all places where elections did not hold or were not properly conducted. However, I do think the Presidential election result should be left as it is...

In Defence Of Obasanjo

Nigerians may have become so accustomed to bad governance that they have blinded themselves to the positives of the last government...