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...

Of Explosions and Implosions: Goodbye to Red October

What an interesting irony it is that the enduring memory indented upon the national consciousness, following the curious decision to celebrate the nation’s half-century of existence as an under-performing post-colonial geographical expression, is the memory of deafening reverberations of death producing explosions...

Getting It Right in 2011

I suspect that most Nigerians are almost exclusively riveted by the unfolding drama of who’s going to emerge president, by hook or crook, in next year’s election...

How to transform Nigeria, an opposition party’s perspective

The effort to transform Nigeria can only be meaningful if competence and character are not sacrificed on the altar of federal character, says the National Transformation Party...

Hey Jonathan, the trick is in the SNC!

The collective unconscious of the conservative, hegemonic North, to paraphrase Carl Jung, is to collectively destroy the chances of President Goodluck Jonathan’s victory in the coming presidential poll...

Ubiquitous Thieves, Cosmopolitan Rogues

Like Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Posterity is blowing across Nigeria's high places. Secrets are being revealed and sealed deals are becoming unsealed. At a snail speed, blatant liars are being openly ridiculed...

Security in Nigeria: Matters Arising

We must take a closer look at the security system and ask some tough questions. In this article the focus is on five major security agencies in the country, namely the Nigerian Police; the State Security Service(SSS); the National Intelligence Agency (NIA); the Defence Intelligence Agency(DIA); and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

IBB And The 2015 Igbo Presidency Gamble

Few weeks ago, some prominent Igbo leaders were locked out of the Concorde Hotel in Owerri where they were supposed to meet. According to the news report they had paid in advance for the hotel facility only to be told by gun-totting law enforcement agents that they had "orders from above" to stop the meeting...

How IBB, Atiku Subverted Zoning

With the summoning of the principal parties in the acrimonious battle for the presidential ticket of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, by the party recently, it may be pertinent to look at an aspect which some of the groups have harped on so emphatically...

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Tiger Woods and His Critics

The irony is that even known philanderers, confirmed adulterers, and certified hypocrites are having a field day criticizing Tiger Woods. All manner of people, people you normally wouldn’t leave your daughter or wife with, are all having fun at his expense...

The Explosion In Port Harcourt

Nigerians are now benefiting from propagating ethnic bias and everybody seems to be dancing in this euphoria of blood thirst by some uncouth and unscrupulous constituents...

BUHARI: The Ego Has Landed

Nigeria is never in short supply of enablers.  They are scattered all over the nation, but most of them reside in the southern part of the country.  A disproportionate number of them are from the South-East.  One or two are from Edo State.  A gaggle can be found in the South-West...

Al Mustafa's Testimonies: The Secrets of the Dead Men's Cove?

The prolonged and tortuous trial of the former Chief Security Officer, Al Mustapha, has reached a crescendo. His disclosures are at once chilly and explosive...

Someone Please Call 9-1-1

Last Saturday, I was listening to a radio programme on BCOS Ibadan. Towards the tail end of the live radio show, a listener called in, calling on rescue workers to come to the aid of an accident victim who was hit and ran over along a major road in Ibadan. The accident occurred about 12 hours before the caller called in...

2011: Life under a Weakened Presidency

To say the current Presidency is embattled will be a glaring understatement. Isn’t the tell tale signs of a beleaguered Presidency evident in this breakneck and frenzied race to the 2011 elections?

Oyenusi, Anini and Obasanjo: What’s the Difference?

As things stand today, there is not much difference between the dealings of Aso Rock and the dealings of street urchins who use force or the threat of force to get things done. What difference is there between what Oyenusi and Anini did and what the presidency has been doing?

Nigeria’s Biggest Problem? Followership

Everything with some of us seems to be about short-term gratification, and the future is consigned into the hands of fate and for other people to fix.  When we have erected sub-standards around us and have pulled the environment down to that mediocre level, we then expect giants and worthy leaders to arise from the ashes...

Sowing the Seeds of Discord without Mindfulness!

Here we go again on zukerville! The serial cyborgs...

Why are Customs People this Wealthy and Healthy?

On the 7th day of May, 2024, I visited...