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...

Asaba: The Sexual Predators' Paradise!

I hereby challenge the sexual predators in the Delta State capital to debunk the veracity of these abominable sexual escapades of theirs and I will not hesitate to publish more damaging details and their photographs in my possession...

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...

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The Anti-Viral Therapy And The Nigerian Edifice

With regards to a Computer being corrupted by Viruses, an active observer – even a passive onlooker- notices the similitude of a Corrupted Computer and a Corrupted Nigeria!

Do You Have Regrets…or Disappointments?

What are your regrets or disappointments? What would you do differently? Are you happy with life and happy with yourself? Or perhaps you need more time and more opportunities to do this and that and everything that slipped through your fingers...

An Unusual Review…

In Nigeria, selecting party chairmen is always subject to the zonal system of picking our political leaders. Every position is zoned to a particular area regardless of merit and need. You could therefore have a political buffoon and an amateur becoming party chairman...

Nigerians In Foreign Lands: What a Cloud Of Confusion

130 million people in Nigeria live substandard, disgustingly poor lives and if any of them can better their lives, they will leave even for hell. Being poor in Nigeria is a hellish nightmare...

Now that Obama Has Spoken…

This September, the United Nations General Assembly will meet. It is time to return the UN to the path of strict application of international legal rules in the conduct of international affairs...

Brave Voice from the Diaspora (1)

If I must tell you the truth, an average Nigerian in the Diaspora still nurses this dream of returning back home some day. Why is it so? I think most Nigerians love their country and are passionate for social and economic change but the corruption and leadership emptiness make them stay longer abroad...

The Urgency of an Emergency

I was out of town last Saturday when a...

Before The Next Bombing

We are indeed in deep trouble. This is because we have a penchant for learning and perfecting all the negative trends that we come across. Be it armed robbery, fraud, corruption, ritual killing, Pentecostalism, religion, forgery, kidnapping, act of deception and lying...

Where is our humanity?

A serious country come together in time of crisis...