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...

Who benefits when Nigerians bomb Nigerians?

Bombs first became instruments of assassination in Nigeria on October 19, 1986. The target then was Dele Giwa, a journalist. According to available records, forty eight hours before, the SSS summoned him to their offices for questioning on allegations that he was smuggling arms into the country. They said that his motive was to launch a social revolution...

Groundwork for Reforms in the Nigerian Judiciary (1)

Prolonged Military Dictatorship stunted Nigeria's democratic growth and its socio-economic development. Dictators created and fostered a culture of impunity in the entire executive and judicial arms of government. They abrogated the Legislative arm and ruled by decrees...

Groundwork for Reforms in the Nigerian Judiciary (2)

We concede that there is need for urgent reform activity to restore the waning public confidence in the administration of justice as well as address new vistas of challenges, change and opportunities for the judiciary in the new democratic order...

Look beyond the Presidency

Nigeria has three major problems troubling her at the moment: Police, PHCN and PDP. Is it a coincidence that these entities start with the letter “P”? I doubt it...

Delta Re-run: Sickening Insensitivity, Bogus Figures!

Attahiru Jega is not the angel many thought he was. Rather than light, we have just seen darkness. The process that led to the Delta State rerun election and the ‘result’ it threw up is dubitable...

Of Election Tribunal and Electoral Reform

The Nigerian democratic experiment is in its eleventh year and appears to be surviving in spite of its inadequacies. One may be tempted to call this "quantitative assessment". I have observed in some of my previous articles how dangerously our brand of democracy is being handled...

Okey Ndibe's Passport Seizure: A test of our predictable elasticity

My prior experience with the SSS predicted a termination of my self-imposed literary intermission. Not for the sake of furlough for furlough’s sake though. These political days make the graduation from scrawling to partaking, reckonable...

Rebranding Nigeria: Why Dora ‘Absconded’!

Nigeria needs rebranding, no doubt. Indeed it is long overdue. And this was why many of us seemed to have jumped at the choice of Dora and consoled ourselves because of her success at NAFDAC. This was also why it was comforting that Dora was quick on the draw about it...

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“The Burden Of Citizenship Is On Nigerians” – Conversation with Frank Nweke, Jnr.

In my response to CNN, I did remind them that Nigerians were not the ones that ran down companies like Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Arthur Andersen and many of such failed corporations. Also Nigerians were not part of the Whitewater scandal which was perpetrated by criminally minded Americans... - The Honourable Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mr Frank Nweke

Bongos Ikwue Searches for True Love in Igbo Homeland

The lionized singer Bongos Ikwue was the star attraction...

Political Madmen and Specialists

Even at the tamest of times, Nigeria can be...

Desperate Hours In Nigeria

In other climes, democracy is a most exciting experience, and a handover day, a national carnival that provokes widespread joy and pleasant feelings across the land. But here it was a day of great fear and trepidation, a day of gloom and mourning, a funeral almost...

Development Strategy for Bayelsa State

In Bayelsa State, things are, for the most part, stagnant. Billions and billions of dollars since 1999 under two administrations, one cannot point to noteworthy progress in the state. Whatever development there is is mostly limited to the state capital, Yenagoa…

The Tribal Card: Labellings And Misconceptions

In Nigeria, the struggle for "leadership" to get to the government treasury and then loot it seems to be the driving force for most of our politicians, and not to serve as touted in their pre-election pledges...

Ponzi Democracy: Executive Embezzlers, Legislative Peculators, Judgment Procurers

The recent Court arraignment of three ex-Governors by the EFCC for embezzlement of State Funds to the tune of over One Hundred Billion Naira is evidence that our Public Officers are not ready to change their corrupt ways...

Perspective On The Fight Against Corruption In Nigeria

By Innocent Edemhanria Corruption is a major problem in Nigeria...

Anthony Enahoro: Icon of Yoruba ‘Ponbele’ (1)

'Ponbele', to those who are yet to catch the radical fire, is the art of speaking your native-born language without dilution of English language. Simply put: speak Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Fulani, Ijaw, Edo, Igala and Efik in such a simplistically raw mode as to create cultural utopia that shames the old imposition of English language...

Criticizing The Critics

Election is fast approaching. I have read about those who want to rule the country. All I've seen so far are personalities and all that people are supporting are personalities. I did not see anyone addressing the issues...