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...

What Are You Thinking?

Don’t envy every rich man or anticipate being like all. Not all wealthy men should be role models,  because many of them acquired their wealth by infringing on the rights of  other people. It is not wealth when you debased the integrity of the other person to skyrocket...

Awo is Still Relevant

Chief Obafemi Awolowo believed in the power of knowledge, both its acquisition and strict application. He was both a thinker and developmental pragmatist....

Igbos: Marginalized, Relegated Bashed Endlessly!

Nigeria is actively undergoing electioneering campaigns for a general election scheduled for April 2011. This general election season has turned out to be an open season of attacks, bigotries, prejudices and hatred directed at Igbos by too many Nigerians...

Look in the Mirror: Aliens in Your Mist?

Maybe I’m the alien with foreign thoughts, together with the rest who are talking gibberish, speaking in tongues and recommending foreign ideas such as civility, answerability, anabasis, enrichment and augmentation...

Emilia George The Value of Nigerian Citizenship

I have just read about the desperately sad, and extremely dire plight of a fellow Nigerian citizen. Her name is Emilia George and she was featured in a story on the online pages of The Guardian Newspapers of Nigeria...

Babatunde Fashola, SAN, for President!

But wait till you hear what others have to say about Babatunde Fashola as Lagos Governor. For a prominent Nigerian musician who does not want his name mentioned, Fashola is ‘Up NEPA! – to mean that he does what he does for the good of Lagos and wants to be noticed doing so...

Revolution? Nigeria Is Ripe Ready! You Can Say That Again!

Democracy does not begin and end on election day. Democracy is not periodic-episodic action. Democracy and elections have consequences. Democracy in Nigeria must not mean motion without movement...

Children are Defiled: Out Of Neglect Or Privation?

It is horrifying that some 73 percent of street children in the city are subjected to abuse and suffer from chronic malnutrition. Mortality and morbidity status among the street dwellers has reached an alarming level due to lack of basic healthcare services...

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The Ground Zero

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COVID-19 And Nigeria’s Pathetic Leadership Deficite

There is no better warning about the growing confusion...

The Cargo Cult

Virtually every religion ever designed by man worships a god whose function is to deliver some sort of cargo. The god of man’s making exist to serve men. He is only good for what he is able to provide. If or when he fails to provide then he is no longer their god...

Nigeria: Exhibiting Mentality of the Abused

In a country of over 60 million university graduates, we have not managed to produce a head of government that has seen the four walls of a four year college prior to his ascendance to power in forty six years, yet we claim to be a thinking people...

President Jonathan and His Dishonouring Honour

Few hours before this year’s Democracy Day speech was aired, I had a discussion with an erudite scholar on the successes of this administration after a year in office with special reference given to the deserving, or otherwise, of another year – talk less of a second term. The discussion became a debate, but we both agreed on the fact that this president's approval rating is at an all time low...

Islamization of Nigeria: The example of the Mexican Border Wall

What the Mexican Wall does to a people on...

The Nostalgia Of Unshed Tears

Two young men leap into the rectangular hole hewn out of the red earth to receive the white coffin that housed the bodily remains of my beloved aunt. As family members pay her final respects, the young men shovel heaps of red earth to cover the glistening white coffin till it's shut out of our view forever...

What Do Africans Owe Africa?

It is impossible to tell, with any degree of certainty, how Africa would have turned out without slavery and colonialism. All we can do is guess, make conjectures...

The Okonjo-Iweala-Adeniji Scandal Stinks to the High Heavens!

Creating a special cadre of public servants like Obasanjo has done is not the way to go at all. The case can now be made that Obasanjo's declared intent to reform the Civil Service, and end corruption in our country is a dead issue...

Should Nigerians Have Fewer Babies?

What is the biggest danger facing Nigeria? Corruption? Kidnapping? Armed insurgency? Religious extremism? Nigeria’s ticking time bomb might be in its mothers’ wombs...