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...

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...

Dateline 2011: Okenwa For President!

I come before you as an angry patriot seriously disturbed by the way and manner our great nation is being run down by the mediocre 'leaders' since our flag independence...

Niger Delta: Why Should They All Die?

The Niger Delta has known more deaths than any other part of Africa by the hands of exploitative leaders and the furious force of nature or environment despoliation occasioned again by unmindful and uncaring leaders...

The Victims of Corruption

No other issue seems central to the state we find ourselves in this country than corruption. Corruption is not the exclusive preserve of our leaders but also the followers. The truth of the matter is that we all seem corrupt; and it seems to run in our blood and DNA...

Jega: We Must Have A Perfect Election in 2011

For the third time in recent times, I have read the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega warn us not to expect perfect elections in 2011. From all possible indices, that warning has become his most passionate response to our collective and unflagging demand for electoral sanity...

End of the Ibori-Uduaghan siege in sight

Nigerians may not easily comprehend the theatre of absurdity that has been Delta State these past eleven years...

So, Nigerians Are Deeply Uninformed?

What has so far surprised me is not that Nigerians did not know most of what has happened and is happening as released by Wikkileaks. Shocking is the level of shock being expressed in newspapers across the country...

The Babangida File (2)

It is alleged that two of the presidential candidates within the fold of the PDP have collected money from one of the leaders of the Maghreb Arab nations. The leader of the Arab nation is a tent-dwelling Bedouin with unorthodox style of governance and one who possesses fatalistic interest in Nigeria and the promotion of Islamic fundamentalism in the North...

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Plan C For The President

Every Nigerian who loves democracy, and loves our dear president even more should arise now and fight for the great defender of the Olowu dynasty, the mighty warrior of Otta. He doesn’t deserve this humiliation, after all that he has done for Nigeria....

Enugu Monarch Errs On Igbo Tradition Because Of Road Construction

It might not be the writer’s fault, because many of the contemporaries have been brainwashed into seeing anything African as demonic. This is because of their Christian indoctrination or inclination, which is dotingly maneuvering in the South-East region of Nigeria...

In Defence Of Obasanjo

Nigerians may have become so accustomed to bad governance that they have blinded themselves to the positives of the last government...

The Prophet In Us

In many cases, individuals who have had dreams or prophecies about themselves have gone on to interpret them as applying to the world or others, when in fact the message was a coded one for their personal consumption and utility.

Mourning My Country

I beg the readers of this piece to excuse...

That Evil Trade in Libya

Way back on 10 December, 1948, the United Nations...

God May Be Man After All

It is not tendentious to contend that in some religious texts God is shown to have dark, human propensities such as anger, hate, prejudice, disgust, murderousness, envy, jealousy and pride. This list is not exhaustive of the negative human propensities of God as can be gleaned from some religious texts...

Football Is Not Played On Roads

In the 21st century, we are still celebrating, building roads, pipe borne water, rural electrification, etc. I wonder how backward and mediocre in thinking the FIFA delegation must have thought us to be, when instead of talking about the needed specifics and showing what is on ground, the officials were talking about the roads that have been built...

Successful People Lead The Way

A Taste Of Success by Azuh Arinze; Yes International...

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...