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...

Abuja Roads: ‘Constructions’ without end!

What story would I be telling to draw attention to the roads taking forever to construct in ‘Abuja’? Hmmm, let me think. Yes, I will tell two, no three...

Prof Jega and 2011 Elections Budget: Money-Pocketing Or Vote-Count Opportunity?

Jega is manifesting incompetence. He collected about N90b for the conduct of the 2011 elections. Next he asked for N6b for a one-week extension of the voter’s registration...

Never Lose Hope

Cries and complaints can never and will never solve any problem. Never allow any distraction in your life. Distractions are factors that do not motivate you...

How to be a local government chairman

Do you fancy being the Chairman of your Local Government Area?  Well, the general administrative and operational setup of LGAs in Nigeria has changed.   Conceptually, LGAs are supposed to be separate entities from the State government.  Not anymore...

Revolutionary Change, Democratic Space and the Great Nigerian Inquisition

Ours is a revolution against waste, fraud and abuse and the vampires who have held Nigerians in political and economic bondage for fifty years. It is a revolution for accountability retribution and redress. The Nigerian Pharaohs although brutal and bloody, must bow...

Over 26 need not apply

There is something I have noticed with job advertisements in Nigeria that absolutely winds me up. It is the blatant age discrimination displayed by both National and Multinational firms...

Ribadu’s Choice

As emancipated and forward thinking as some of us may claim to be, we fail to realise that more than half of the Nigerian populace falls within the periphery of the intellectually malnourished who tend to see things only in black and white...

Is Jonathan Playing For Ibori?

We should insist that all traitors of the Nigerian people be held to account, in Nigeria and elsewhere. But since some Nigerian judges are blinder than bats, we ought to welcome any occasion when a foreign jurisdiction indicts a Nigerian official for breaking their money laundering laws...

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Indeed, The Police Is My Friend

A couple of weeks back, some men of the Nigerian Police showed me the other face of the institution. A pleasant face that has changed my perception of them. In place of the image of the bad eggs who are doing so much to drag the name of the institution in the mud, I now have a view of a laudable sense of gallantry and patriotism...

For Nigeria, Obasanjo Is Irrelevant!

"Don't ask me what my ideology or economic program is, I don't know any law and I don't understand economics, but I know it when my stomach desires pounded yam and egusi soup." - Obasanjo

The Child, the Youth and the Country, Nigeria

When I saluted Nigeria on the occasion of her 53rd Independence celebrations last October, I was not too sure that my greeting rang out with joy and optimism. I, however, feel that an occasion like that, largely received with mixed feelings across the country...

Encounter With a Melody Woman that 'Stole' my 'Heart'

South Africa, to be sure, has many potentials. Apart from being the only sub-Saharan African nation with world-class economy and infrastructures the rainbow nation has given Africa a rich culture...

Improper Abandonement Of Oil (5)

Improperly abandoned oil wells, improperly abandoned facilities, and abandoned oil sumps are all potential sources of safety hazards. Prior to current abandonment procedures, oil wells were cut off below ground and capped...

Open Letter to Governor Amaechi

The essentiality of this letter to you is on the arrest of the members of Sekibo’s faction of the PDP in our state who were labelled "thugs" by the Secretary to the State Government...

Odili Ujubuonu: 60 Years of Magic and Memorable Aesthetics

Odili Ujubuonu is a Renaissance man, that is, he...

The Great Syrian Debate: Roundabout Diplomacy in Geneva. (5)

Syria is asked to join the Chemical Weapons Treaty regime and hand over all chemical weapons to an international control authority, yet to be constituted...

Why Can’t You Do It?

By Lydia Aje We were in a staff meeting making...

Nigeria's Governors' Forum Election Saga: Echoes Of A Morally Bankrupt Political Entity

Ordinarily, who becomes the chairperson of a non-statutory organization like the Nigerian Governors' Forum should not evoke any public commentaries because it does not confer on who becomes the Chairperson any usufructuary benefits...