Nigeria Matters

The Impossible Death Of Dele Giwa

It has been 40 years since the satanic assassination of Dele Giwa through a letter bomb delivered to his home, but the departed iconic...

Oyebanji: Beyond BAO2BAO!

​In the experience of Nigeria, focusing largely on the post-1999 return to democracy, second terms have turned out to be a mixed bag. Very...

Teachers’ Day: Nigerian Teachers Deserve Better

October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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The Nigerian Energy Conundrum (2)

The future of Nigeria like that of other developing nations ultimately rests on the supply of adequate and reliable sources of energy necessary for sustainable growth and development...

How To Win Elections In Nigeria!

To start with, election candidacy ought not to be...

Other American Political Parties: Democracy and Constitutionalism in the U.S.

Yes, there are other American political parties and political organizations. There are the Justice Party, the Green Party, the Libertarian Party, and even the Communist Party exists in America. Some parties are no more in existence for one reason or the other...

What Obama’s Presidency Should Mean To Black People

Obama carries more burden than any other president this country has ever had simply because he’s a black man...

Yar’Adua versus “motor park” touts

A friend of mine, an American who has studied and taught in Nigeria, sent me a terse e-mail yesterday. It read: “The ‘president’ of Nigeria is a perfect icon for the country: prostrate in intensive care and held hostage by a secretive, greedy clique!”

Nigeria: To Be Or Not To Be? (Part 2)

The question before us is should Nigeria remain as one country? Given the present fraudulent Constitution that deprives bonafide owners of the right to the use of their land,, mineral and human resources first and foremost for their own development, the best option for the south in general is to break away from the North...

Boko Haram, Human-gods, and Allah’s Will

I love Allah, he is a merciful God. I know you love Allah too, he is a God of peace. Allah will not ask you to go and destroy innocent lives...

CNN Attacks On Nigerians In Houston

Why did CNN focus on a few Nigerians in Houston Despite the Enron Catastrophe in Houston? How did CNN manage to neglect the forest of the Enron debacle, while CNN was in hot pursuit of a few crumbs of trees by way of a few Nigerian immigrants involved in frauds?

Lead Us Into Temptation

Temptations reveal who we truly are as we get stripped to the bare of our hearts with no figs to cover our nakedness. Temptations help us know what stuff we are made of...

In The Name Of God

For too long, many in the international community have come to the conclusion that nothing good can come out of Nigeria. And at every given opportunity, we have proved them right...