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...

Jonathan Goodluck and Dame Patience Goodluck-Jonathan: Mirror Images of the Nigerian Quandary

Virtually all aspirants have alleged Jonathan to be ruling and heading a government of corrupt persons. Although these aspirants are merely saying what prevails in the minds of most Nigerians, the PDP is saddened that Buhari, a leading Presidential aspirant in the ongoing democratic dispensation is favoured by the electorates because he is seen as an incorruptible person...

OBJ-Atiku, Government and Compensation for Nigerians from Libya

Bad leadership in the midst of plenty is bane of this nation, and undoing of these Nigerians from Libya. Why did they take the leap of death? You will hear stories of poverty, hunger, impoverishment and all their synonyms. Given what God has graciously and abundantly given to this nation no Nigerian should pass that noxious road...

The President is a good son of a bad Family

The election is next month and the president is vying for your vote again, unfortunately, he is the good son of a very bad family...

Re: Four blunders Obasanjo committed in office – Fani-Kayode

In an article published in The Nation of Saturday, the 19th of March, 2011 with the above title, Yusuf Alli presented us with what one will aptly call the misinformed outbursts of a wounded but still loyal friend...

What does Nigeria need? Strong men, strong institutions or both?

Nigeria is in dire need of a strong leader who will be courageous enough to confront entrenched interests that have kept the country hostage over the years...

Let’s Expunge Security Vote and Immunity

After dragging their feet for 11 years, members of the National Assembly recently passed the Freedom of Information bill. Till the bitter end, many legislators left little doubt that they were not in love with this small but potentially significant step taken in the direction of accountability and transparency

A Quiet Revolution In The Nigerian Federal Civil Service

Not too long ago, a survey of some of the developing economies revealed Nigerian bureaucracy to be not just one of the least efficient and one of the most corrupt, further it was also found that working with the Nigeria’s civil servants was a "slow and painful" process...

Delta’s N1trillion and Sweeping Poverty, Horrible Criminality

Since 1999 when monstrosity enthroned itself in government in Delta, the State has had about a trillion naira which in the main (some say 90 percent actually) has been mismanaged, wasted and carted away to sundry places home and abroad...

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This Craze for Titles: Complex and Syndrome?

There are uncountable royal highnesses, high chiefs, double chiefs, triple chiefs, etcetera, in our localities.  ‘Chieftancy title’ may well be a Nigerian phrase. There may be more Rotarians, Lions, ‘Sirs’ and ‘Dames’ in Nigeria than the world put together going by those with these prefixes against their names...

Continental Africa, Pseudo-Democracies and the African Union

What should the international community do when oppressive leaders that have maintained themselves in power by rigged election, gangsterism, terror and corruption all in the name of democracy and anti-fundamentalism are removed from power by military force?

A Quick Precautionary Note To Buharists And Buharideens!

Watchers and political strategists of unfolding global political events...

The Problem with African Men

For the great majority of Africans in the Diaspora, we cannot go back home. Some are economic refugees, while others are shame-induced refugees. We cannot go back to a continent that does not know what do with us...

Electricity: Can Buhari Break The Jinx?

If former President Goodluck Jonathan had succeeded in solving...

An Unusual Review…

In Nigeria, selecting party chairmen is always subject to the zonal system of picking our political leaders. Every position is zoned to a particular area regardless of merit and need. You could therefore have a political buffoon and an amateur becoming party chairman...

How Safe Are Instant Noodles?

For many years now, instant noodles appear to have become one of...

April Fools (11): Attack Of The Clones

I remember the rains. I remember the cold as I stood in the rain waiting to exercise my franchise. I remember a beautiful rainbow of umbrellas all over Lagos, as voters waited to cast their ballot; it is the symbol of hope to which I cling...