Nigeria Matters

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...

The Man Buhari – a leader, a patriot or a separatist – who is he?

I am casting my vote for this Nigerian leaders - Buhari and Pastor Tunde Bakare. As a detribalized Nigerian, I implore those who would want true federalism in this country to vote Buhari...

The Qualities of a Good Politician in a Democratic Society

Since politicians play very significant roles in the administrative processes, especially having hands in thousands of  important laws and policies affecting their communities and country, they should be well-educated, modest, with experience in social welfare...

The Man – Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan – a leader or a puppet

The Man GEJ is as confused as any Nigerian; knowing what is best to do in order to emancipate Nigerians from a high level of moral, economic, political and socio-cultural decadence...

Deepening democracy with intolerant politicians

In less than three days, precisely on Saturday, April 2, Nigerians will, again, troop to the polls to elect new leaders for the various legislative and executive positions at both the state and federal levels, in what some cynical political observers refer to as another democratic ritual...

Politicians Fail: loot and lose credibility!

One can in all honesty say the government’s fight against corruption ended with the death of Umar Yar'Adua. Jonathan's government should start fighting embezzlement of public funds...

Time To Destroy The Nigerian Temple?

I have long nursed a profound disquiet about the prospects and direction of Nigeria, but two recent encounters have crystallized for me the particular shape and depth of the country’s malaise...

The Igbo, Goodluck and the Ides of April 9

The Igbo have come out to state their support for Jonathan. The apex Igbo organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has officially endorsed Jonathan. They don’t have much option anyway. The other candidates have not endeared themselves to the Igbo...

Rescuing Nigeria from the Rule of Lawlessness

A Nigerian jurisprudence has not taken root to deal with our wrong social values, the entrenched negative ethos, the disparity in the wage structure and the revenue allocation system, these hinder the positive operation of the rule of law...

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Revolution or revolt eruption?

The lesson for the youths, trade unions, labor unions, students unions, and other democratic associations in a repressed polity is to educate their members about the need to understand the basic revolutionary ingredients needed to change power from the hand of the few oppressive elite into the hands of people centered democrats...

Life in America: Rising Sun

My father died for somebody's dream of one Nigeria. Every morning he would go out to fight. And every morning my mother would cry. One day my father did not return, felled by the bullets of the thug that has Ikeja International Airport named after him. I am the new warrior, ashes born of the massacre in Asaba...

Tribute To My Peerless Pearl – Deaconess Comfort Oluremi Ajala (1952 – 2021)

'Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world...

Rebranding Nigeria’s Cities

A conceptual gap still exists in the understanding of the principles and practices of place branding amongst Nigeria's many state and local government officials...

How The Niger Deltans Can Get Their Freedom: The Action Plan! Part 8

The Niger Deltans should not be naive nor have any illusion as regards to a new ministry set up by Yar'Adua and the criminals surrounding him. Suffice to say that the ministry is as good as the official paper that was used to type its creation...

Effective control of Cyberspace

Cyberspace can be controlled by the government giving space to private owners and governing the space with rules and regulations...

The other sides of the state of the Naira

The last time I checked the value of the of the Naira, it was very saddening to discover that it was being sold at 274 to buy 1 GBP and 165 to buy 1 USD. We all knew things could be bad, but this bad?

2002: National Year Of Sovereign Conferences – 3rd Quarter Review (2)

I am no longer interested in learning. I have done enough of reading for a lifetime. My children will read whatever remains to be read...

Nigeria’s Flourishing Fake Industries

Identifying squalid conditions in any society consistently is a...

Consortium of Presidents Will Save Nigeria

Nigeria has tried the one-man president formula for far...