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...

Port Harcourt PDP Rally Stampede: Irregular Or Deregulated Police Action?

Facial expression reveals that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan's regime is in the right direction. Despite balance of the ethno-presidency system, the Nigerian people have accepted gradual economic changes observed ever since he started heading the presidency...

When You Are In Need

This world is such a terrible place. Sometimes your friend’s laugh could mean your undoing; your father’s pity could mean your death, and so on. Envy abounds both in high and low places...

Ibadan: A Coliseum of Warlords

Unrepentantly, Ibadan indigenes still mourn with curious nostalgia the inner valour and natural rascality of Chief Lamidi Adedibu. But, the fire, this time, if it ever burns in Ibadan, will peel away Adedibu's violent legacy like a Gentile's foreskin in a Jewish sauna bath...

ACF Hijacked, Unnecessarily Rattled!

What is Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) up to? Why allow itself to be hijacked, and lately so? Is this to give Atiku Abubarkar some relevance after his atrocious and loutish outing and brutal defeat? Or, is it something beyond that?

Internal Democracy: Exit, Voice and Loyalty

Save for some exceptions here and there, the recently concluded primaries have been far from transparent and democratic. To get the much needed good governance, Nigerians need to pay more attention to internal democracy, till we get that right...

Cross-Carpeting: Another Attempt To Gain Votes?

Governance in Nigeria has been dysfunctional for decades. In my wanderings through life, I have found that most people are troubled by the current state of politics in Nigeria, but are unable to clearly define the problem, the root cause, or the solution...

How roads are constructed in Lagos

How can you say they are not performing, when heavy duty trucks come in to cart away the broken tar to sand-fill some godfather plots in Lekki? You should see how commuters argue as they are stuck in early morning traffic on a road that has been four years under construction.

President Jonathan, His Unbridled Tongue and South West Rascals

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan clearly went out-of-line with his utterances. While his camp might do damage control by claiming that he was quoted out of context, had a slip of tongue or used the wrong word to express what he had on his mind; many Nigerians are now watching the president very closely...

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If This Government Should Know The Anger Of Nigerians…

Nigeria is oil rich and yet most people live in poverty. Where is all the wealth going? Conventional wisdom is that Nigerians are being cheated out of their due by their leaders…

Who Needs Nigeria?

The eyes with which I see the world, which makes me approachable or amiable or dignified or capable is not Nigerian. I get that from my vicinity. From that view, we can be better friends than we currently are...

Alamieyeseigha, Asari-Dokubo and the Ijaw Narrative

Alamieyeseigha dug the hole he currently finds himself in. The perception, whether real or not, is that he misappropriated funds. That he abused his power. That he engaged in all manner of illegalities to the detriment of the well being of the Ijaw nation. The Diaspora Ijaws are even taken aback by his supposed excesses and gluttony...

Conditions for Revolution In Nigeria

Iit is only history that will determine when, and the pattern, Nigeria’s revolution will take...

Rauf Aregbesola: History Need Not Be Kind

By Temitope Lakisokun Loyalty in Nigerian politics is a currency...

Global Food Crisis: Causes, Impacts and Solutions

The current food crisis can be defined as a combination of decline in stocks of primary or staple food produce and escalating prices of food products...

Averting Conflict, Insurgency And Militancy

The nation's security strategy and defense doctrine now recognize a broader range of threats not only to the national security in general, but to the homeland in particular. Today's corporate security strategies must be all-encompassing...

Mr. President, It’s Too Dark Here!

Mr. President, we at least have you to thank for helping us realize that in Nigeria, Government has become totally irrelevant in our lives, a needless burden too heavy to bear...

What Future?

Are the current leaders the best foot we can put forward? Is any willing to get off the fence and out of their comfort zones? Can this generation make changes to Nigerian political schematics?

A Night Out With TOS Benson

Despite military dictatorship, Chief Benson exuded courage objectivity and independence. He used full-page paid advertisements to express his views on crucial National Matters so that you could not be in any doubt where he stood on those issues...