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...

Orji Kalu’s Braggadocio

There is something about Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia state, which sticks to your face, making it almost impossible to ignore him, while at the same time alarming your instincts not to feel very comfortable with him...

IBB and Chidi Amuta Have Run Out Of Luck

I have never met with President Jonathan before, and I am not interested in meeting him personally. But I claim a right to reply to Amuta's vitriol because I am convinced that his vilification of the president stems from the mindset that certain geopolitical zones should not aspire to Nigerian leadership...

Celebrating Nigerian Youths as the Country Marks 50 and beyond

Many foreigners with close ties to Nigeria often wonder how Nigerians manage to take life easy even in a myriad of poor infrastructure and bad leadership...

33 Nigerian Miners Die (A Satire)

Last night 33 Nigerian miners were trapped underground and the government decided to send a Nigerian capsule down to rescue them one after the other...

Is President Jonathan Intellectually Challenged?

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan's demeanour is somewhat less presidential than should be expected. He has achieved greatness by providential streak of goodluck which is rare in the African political history, a dark history...

Strategic Thought Processing – Tool For Democratic Growth

These are very delicate times in Nigeria. The challenge of another peaceful democratic transition through democratic elections early next year - 2011, stares us in the face...

Time for a Female President in Nigeria?

Let’s look at what 50 years of uninterrupted rule by men has brought Nigeria: civil war, one million dead bodies in the space of 3 years, systematized corruption, destruction of national morals, ostentatious living, and decadence that would make the ancient Romans blush...

The (Aborted) Meeting of the Igbo Political Forum

The recent blocking of a planned meeting of the Igbo Political Forum (IPF), which was to take place at the Banquet Hall of Hotel Concorde, Owerri, on Monday September 27, 2010, has generated headlines, editorials and condemnations...

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Cavalcades Of Gunners In Mauritania

How justified is decrying a coup against a President that heads an executive Council, which only marks time; waiting for the appropriate time to be conferred with a vote of no confidence?

Man, The Wildest Beast

I have often tried to reconstruct the scene in my mind: three Youth Corp members on their knees, scared out of their wits; fifty or more ferociously armed guys dancing round them, chanting Allah Akhbar...

The Death Of A Nigerian Icon – The Ikemba Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu

When we look back and forward to the present day Nigeria and how it is being run to the ground by the corrupt, hypocritical, religious and tribal fanatics, then perhaps it is time we started looking at Dim Ojukwu in a new light...

Nollywood… New Talents Wanted Please!

I think that if Nollywood wants to attract the needed synergy, it must put its house in order. I am looking forward to the days when Nigeria will take the centre stage at every film festival...

Nigeria and Thug-Elections!

The criminalization of politics has inevitably led to the politicization of crime. Of course, electoral politics is not the sole reason for the criminalization of politics...

The President’s Betrayal

How can I explain the inability of the renowned Nigerian entrepreneurial spirit to be manifested by the legal Nigerian immigrant population? Where is our own George Soros? Why we are only interested in returning to Nigeria to participate in the looting?

Osun Election: Victory For The People

The result of the just-concluded governorship election in Osun...

National security, military intelligence and you

It was only slowly that we abandoned the idea of lethargy and adopted the idea of national security and military intelligence. This new national awareness must be kept alive in our own interest...

Terrorists Kill 50, Get 20 Years — Oshiomhole Says What Judges Don’t Want Nigerians To Hear

Senator Adams Oshiomhole has ignited a national debate that...

More Pastors May Die At Igbo Funerals

Whatever the sons of late Pa Oji Okoko are saying, the in-thing is that they disappointed their father in death no matter who they said was it that persuaded them against his wish that Christian burial should not be conducted for him...