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...

Amaechi In The Eyes Of Non-Indigenes

What has been heard from Amaechi was how he would cut down the heavy tax people pay, his government instituted, if elected the second time. This gesture by the governor was once a taboo, a case the indigenes used against the image of non-indigenes as incapable in the Rivers State government...

Recipe for Revolution

They say it cannot happen here. President Goodluck Jonathan’s men told us after a Federal Executive Council deliberation that the Egypt-style revolution that began in Tunisia and has become a shooting war in Libya cannot happen in Nigeria because our country has a ‘constitutional order.’ Whatever that means...

Selling the Nigerian Politician

Ever since President Goodluck Jonathan announced to his friends on Facebook that he was going to seek nomination of his party to run for president, the battle seemed to have been also transferred online. The missing link, however, remains the way many of the politicians who joined the social media bandwagon use such platforms to engage the voters...

Trivalent Battle For Agodi Government House 1 of 7: The Genesis

The no issues, strictly personal gubernatorial conquest in Oyo state is a sign of hope for politics in Nigeria, and bad omen for governance in Oyo state...

Princewill’s Political Baptism For Amaechi

Prince Tonye Princewill on 11th March 2011 reaffirmed what a Elaine Agather had said: “The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.”

Of executive profligacy and legislative docility in Nigeria

It is given that the ability of any democratic government to deliver the concrete benefits of good governance to the citizens is determined by the smooth functioning of the executive, judicial and legislative arms of government. This assumption reinforces the theory of separation of the powers of the different arms of government to prevent arbitrariness, tyranny and recklessness...

Obasanjo: From messiah complex to strongman syndrome

Obasanjo can be likened to Hun Sen of Cambodia, who is seen as a complex personality: a charming diplomat, an eloquent poet, unforgiving to his enemies, ruthless in battle with a thirst for power but simple tastes...

Jega, Address this Charge of Fake Polling Units

Jega must do everything to free the system of the negative influence of unscrupulous characters that would not mind playing with the interests and all the expectations placed on the coming election...

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One or the Other

I used to think that I was blessed to grow up in a family where I could celebrate both Christian and Moslem holidays and considered myself fortunate to have been spared the burden of choosing between the two. However, I have been conflicted occasionally...

Information and Communication Technology Empowerment: A Tool For Personal Development in Nigeria

The penetration of Information and Communications Technology in Nigeria is less than 10%. We need to bridge the digital divide between us and the advanced nations...

Danjuma: Lamentations Of A Bloody Traitor

I know that Danjuma is suffering the inner torture that comes ordinarily from his penchant for treachery and betrayal. He is dying with the blood of Ironsi on his very bloody hand...

Rejoinder To Mr. Femi Olawole

Your comments on my article, "Patriotism, Dead or Alive," came to my attention only yesterday. Installing me in a group, you accuse me of "a chronic pessimism as to become pathetically blind to the emerging new Nigeria," and of not bothering to "proffer alternative leadership or management strategies..."

Orji and the Bullet that killed John Ndukuba

Gov. T.A. Orji should stop looking for only fools to be those he wants to govern. From the incessant threat to my own life, it is obvious that he does not want to govern and see wise men from or in Abia State...

Presidential Gaffes and the Hypocrisy of the Media

“I will not go out and campaign again and...

Of Monstrous Cathedrals and Hungry Congregants

Sometime in 1989, a friend told a story of...

Football in Nigeria: Going Beyond E-imaging Eagles in 2014

To what extent are Nigerians using the digital thinking, e-imagination mind?  Where is our team on the digital scale? Do we have the e-Eagles? Are we thinking of the e-Eagles?

The Babangida File (2)

It is alleged that two of the presidential candidates within the fold of the PDP have collected money from one of the leaders of the Maghreb Arab nations. The leader of the Arab nation is a tent-dwelling Bedouin with unorthodox style of governance and one who possesses fatalistic interest in Nigeria and the promotion of Islamic fundamentalism in the North...

Nigeria: A Unique Nation or an Oddity?

There is something about the way Nigeria operates that often seems to defy proven theoretical assumptions and the working patterns of most of the rest of the world...