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...

Do We Need Any Constitutional Role for Traditional Rulers?

Around the 27th of December 2010, the news media reported the promise by President Goodluck Jonathan to send a Bill to the National Assembly for the purpose of enshrining in the Constitution some role(s) for Nigerian traditional rulers. The debate over the propriety or otherwise of such a constitutional provision has been raging in Nigeria...

Great Ogboru: When Greatness Beckons!

Chief Ogboru was alleged to be the civilian who bank-rolled the military operation and when the effort failed spectacularly he beat a quick escape using the famous 'NADECO route' like the articulate Lt. Col Tony Nyiam and Major Saliba Mukoro implicated in the failed coup bid. Today these gentlemen are all alive...

Atiku’s Desperation to Resume Misrule

Obasanjo and Atiku ruined the most prosperous years of our nationhood. They knew NOTHING about governance but MUCH about misgovernance. They squandered what a man like Obafemi Awolowo would have used to put Nigeria ahead of the Asian tigers and Brazil...

Jonathan Goodluck and PDP Presidential Primaries: Issues and the Probable Outcome

Card carrying and non-card carrying members of the PDP are aware of how Jonathan’s ambition has created serious cracks within the rank and file in the PDP, therefore, based on the factor of political risk, it may be argued that the probability is on the high side that most party delegates and stakeholders will work against the emergence of Jonathan as the PDP presidential flag bearer...

Jonathan Goodluck and PDP Presidential Primaries: Issues and the Probable Outcome

Card carrying and non-card carrying members of the PDP are aware of how Jonathan’s ambition has created serious cracks within the rank and file in the PDP, therefore, based on the factor of political risk, it may be argued that the probability is on the high side that most party delegates and stakeholders will work against the emergence of Jonathan as the PDP presidential flag bearer...

Popular Myths and Misconceptions about Nigeria

Up until very recently, some of the myths Nigerians wallowed in included the idea that Nigerians had nothing to do with international terrorism. Abdul Mutallab’s 2009 christmas day stunt jettisoned such myth, putting Nigeria on the terror list with full flare...

A Chronicle of Goodluck Jonathan’s Misdemeanours

Deciding which presidential candidate to support in 2011 has been an almost impossible task for non partisan citizens like me who greatly loath Nigeria’s version of politics...

Nigeria: To Be or Not To Be!

Many prophets, God chosen and self acclaimed, have at different times prophesied that Nigeria would disintegrate into at least three countries. They reiterated that the three countries will be named after the three major tribes...

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Elected Representatives: Servants or Masters?

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Rivers’ Paralytic Polio

Please, commend Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State and the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, for showing concern for the polio victims all over the country and bringing up the issue of polio in what was tagged the one day session national campaign against polio...

America Votes: Any Lessons For Nigeria?

In my opinion, a good number of American voters are not well-informed. And they are gullible. Most American voters are traditionalists. They stick to their ancestral family party line and pattern of voting...

UN Speech: Mr. President is a Bundle of Contradictions

Last week Friday, President Muhamadu Buhari, while addressing world leaders...

The Igbo Fallacy

In truth, the gruesome, senseless and depressingly cold murder of a Nigerian of Igbo fount in India, and the ceaseless profusion of crimson Hindustan xenophobic outrages towards Nigerians vivify curious ponderings, somber, sober reflections and unkind truths about the sojourning Igbo...

The Fall Of King Mourhino

Mourhino made us feel like we could go to sleep even with our doors wide open, that nothing could happen to us since he was keeping watch...

Mathematical Segun Odegbami Shoots & Scores

Nothing can be sweeter than playing the beautiful game...

The Senate and the Ibrahim Magu Issue

Preamble: Case No.1 President Mohammadu Buhari appointed Ibrahim Magu the...

Kalu's Gambian House And Ufomba’s Made-up Comment

The blog reads that Kalu's aristocratic house in Gambia is now on sale. The report went further to induce Nigerians that the house was put on sale at a ludicrous price. The hypothetical house, the report went further to say, was built four years ago...

The New Hierarchy Of Needs

Slums in Nigeria are usually identified with poverty and underemployment. Some have described a slum as an over crowded district of a community usually inhabited by poor people...