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...

Princewill's re-defining moment for Amaechi

Princewill has helped in unburdening the Rivers State masses of the legacy of the sordid political past, launching into the future with renewed hope to secure a better future for the state and for the generation of Nigerians...

As Timi Alaibe flags off campaign

With a pledge to be a servant-leader to the people of Bayelsa State, Mr. Timi Alaibe, the governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the state, recently flagged off his gubernatorial campaign...

Politicians-in-power: Do They Mismanage Or Gobble Up Public Funds?

It is the insatiable greed and lust for power that is mostly behind our intractable penchant for corruption. We have come to use our Tribal and Political differences only as justifiable, ready tools to gain what we are gullibly seeking..

Revolution Is Impossible In Nigeria? Some Say NEVER! Says Who?

Since the political and constitutional upheaval in Tunisia, followed by Egypt and now Libya, Jordan, Bahrain, Yemen and so on, some Nigerians have publicly commented that Nigerians can only dream of Egyptian and Tunisian style revolutions and political uprising...

Why Are Igbos Kidnapping Other Igbos for Ransom? A Response

I am not a psychiatrist or psychologist, but I will be quick to tell you that there is nothing peculiarly pathological about the antisocial behaviors which are now common in Igboland as all of Nigerian nooks and crannies...

Conquerors of the poor

A base philosophy of life is an important driver. What we have now is that which says, ‘steal before others get to it, cheat before you get cheated and that money buys you everything including the death of those you do not agree with’. We need structural change in Nigeria, something a revolution may not even deliver...

Why “Egypt” Will Never Happen in Nigeria

The powers that be easily polarize Nigerians exactly because we allow them; they beat the drumbeats of tribe like Atiku and IBB when it is most convenient for them, like they did during their zoning debacle at the PDP primaries and we sadly follow...

Nigerians Dream of Egypt

Ask many a Nigerian what it would take to turn her country around, and you’re likely to get this answer: “Only God can solve the problems of this country.” The evidence so far is that God isn’t impressed. A people with the extraordinary natural resources and variety of human talent that Nigeria boasts has no reason to bother God for anything else...

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Comments On That Human Rights Watch Report On Nigeria

HRH sees human rights violations in every other state in our universe, except in the United States of America. They tell the world about human rights violations as if the generally well-documented violations in the USA do not constitute human rights violations...

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“Syntax of Reality”: Questions For My State Government…And Yours!

I can confidently report that only Reuben Abati of The Guardian has the cajones to ask government officials for explanations. It is as if he is the only one not beholden to the allure and lucre of brown envelopes...