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...

Harm The Poor Governance In Nigeria!

In order to confront the economic downturn, the whole world has resorted to expansionary monetary policy, reducing interest rates to historical low in order to jumpstart the economy, enhance financial activities and create jobs; Nigeria needs to learn from these actions...

Psychology of the Delta Rerun Election ‘Results’

There is much evident psychology behind the rigging of the last Delta rerun elections. So palpable almost everybody in Delta state and Nigeria, and very lately much of the rest of the world know it...

Jega Must Sort This Mess Quickly

The stunning revelation that the Independent National Electoral Commission lacks a central server that will be able to detect incidences of multiple registrations in the ongoing voter registration should worry every Nigerian...

Softly, softly, Obasanjo

Though Obasanjo has a messiah complex and in self glorification allowed sycophants during his administration to continuously refer to him as ‘father of modern Nigeria’, nothing could be farther from the truth....

An Open Letter to our Seven Presidential Candidates

How do you intend to continue to subsidise fuel while simultaneously encouraging private sector participation in the downstream sector? What plans do you have for revamping of our refineries? Removing subsidy is definitely politically incorrect and morally odious...

The Importance of Voting in a Truly Democratic Society

Voting in an election shows you care about your community. By voting you become engaged with the activities of the nation in general. Voting is the best way to influence the nation in which we live....

Atiku: The Limit of ‘Bolekaja’ language!

Atiku's combative language deployed so assiduously mirrors the unbroken command and control mentality of the North toward uppity Southerners looking for power - power which the North has long hijacked as their birthright!

Niger/Delta Militancy or Criminality a Genuine Cause for Agitation?

When the word militancy is mentioned in the Nigerian context, the South-South zone readily comes to mind. It has become an ineluctable attribute associated with the oil rich region and has continued unabated...

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Obituary: Professor Jabez Ayodele Langley

I regret to announce the passing of an eminent African, Professor Jabez Ayodele Langley. He was a great man and a great African, hence a great many of us consider it a privilege to have known him...

Nigerian veterans gather in Bristol

Ike Anya attended a symposium on Nigerian Arts and Crafts organised by the Nigerian Field Society, UK Branch. A report...

Laurent Gbagbo, a Stray Scapegoat in the Den of Lions

This piece is not an attempt to hold forte for Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast, nor to malign him either, but rather to bring to the attention of the world some salient international treachery against African leaders and in so many instances against third world countries...

Who Wants to Elect Judges & Justices?

 Part of the result of the invasion of the...

Trump, Buhari and the Crude Art of Wobbling and Fumbling

On November 8, 2016 Americans elected Donald Trump as...

A Day on the Devil’s Highway

I am thinking that we should re-name the Lagos - Benin expressway 'The Devil's Highway' due to the state of the road and incessant armed robbery attacks on the road...

'One Nigeria': To Be Or Not To Be? (4)

Do you want your ethnic group to be part of a country even if the probability of your ethnic group producing the president is practically equal to zero despite the fact that your contribution in terms of human and mineral resources is substantial?

Who Do Christians Venerate In CHURCH?

You shall have no other gods before me -...

Goodluck Jonathan: PDP’s candidate, not mine

Like most ardent Nigerian political observers, I also found myself glued to my television set on the 13th January, 2011 in order to catch the glimpse of the long awaited and much publicized presidential primaries of the PDP, held at the Eagle Square, Abuja. The exercise didn't fail to live up to its touted bidding...

Ogbonna Ike: Another Young Turk Goes Down!

Maybe being a young person, I feel that one should not be slowed down by the fear of death. However, the death of two very close young people is beginning to make me think that maybe after all the good die young...