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...

Freedom Coalition: $250m fund to elect Abubakar Umar…(4)

If Jonathan eventually clinches the PDP nomination - which we should pray for, but eventually loses the 2011 elections to a Northerner from the opposition parties, neither Jonathan nor any Southerner will be given the opportunity again to contest in 2015 on the platform of the PDP...

Freedom Coalition: $250m fund to elect Abubakar Umar…(4)

If Jonathan eventually clinches the PDP nomination - which we should pray for, but eventually loses the 2011 elections to a Northerner from the opposition parties, neither Jonathan nor any Southerner will be given the opportunity again to contest in 2015 on the platform of the PDP...

Is There Peace Without Justice? Rethinking Peace

There is more to peace than the absence of war. Moreover, there is no peace without justice. This article is a rethink of the notion of peace...

Why IBB Cannot Be Trusted Again?

There is no doubt that IBB is desperate to redeem his battered image by becoming the next President. The game is up and rulers should be reminded again of the limits of their own devices...

Our Voiceless Generation

Nigeria has survived a brutal civil war and more than 30 years of military rule to become a nascent democracy - with massive wealth to spend as the largest oil producer in Africa and even more massive levels of despicable poverty...

Nigeria At 50: Antonyms Of A Nation

This is our golden opportunity to re-write Nigeria's history by coming together with one voice to elect good leaders to lead us to a new Nigeria...

50 years still! The Irationality Of Our Prudent Appraisal

Abuja and other acquiescing squares and arenas will for sure be commonly tuned to our contradictory circumstances and our actualities. We might be treated across the states to larger than life anniversary gala and larger than life glorifications...

Nigeria @ 50: Why We Are Getting It Wrong!

Though I will be marking the golden jubilee independence anniversary soberly in my station outside the shores of the abused fatherland, it is with patriotic pride that I will be celebrating with some good friends...

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Odyssey Of An Unworkable Budget

Days before President Umaru Yar’Adua literally wept openly over alleged bastardisation of the 2009 Budget by the National Assembly, indications were rife that the visibly discontented President would head to the Supreme Court...

Gov. T.A. Orji Insults ex-Gov. Mbakwe

Many Nigerians know today that the Gov. Theodor Ahamefule Orji administration in Abia State is an expert in telling lies and in the use of propaganda to discredit opposing views...

Sanitizing the Electoral Process in Nigeria (2)

One conclusion that can be drawn from the large turnouts and enthusiastic presentations at the public sittings of the Electoral Review Committee held across the federation over the last few weeks is that Nigerians are totally fed up with elections that are manipulated...

The Ordeal Of Blacks And Nigerians In Russia

There was a time when the Nigerian embassy told the Russian law enforcement authority that it did not desire to be informed about any Nigerian arrested for drug trafficking or any other crime, and that the Russian authority was free to take any action it thought fit against Nigerians to teach them some lessons...

Buharism: A Doctrine That Will Change The Way We live in Nigeria 

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's Epoch–Making Policies for a 21st Century Developed Nigeria

President Goodluck Jonathan, having put in place an effective intelligence and information gathering mechanism, and working collaboratively with Western countries like United State of America, Britain, France and UN to find these girls, is not relenting in his efforts...

2002: National Year Of Sovereign Conferences – 3rd Quarter Review (2)

I am no longer interested in learning. I have done enough of reading for a lifetime. My children will read whatever remains to be read...

In Good Company With Berliners

Berlin is the capital of Germany and beneficiary of one of the most expensive rebuilding projects embarked upon by man since the end of the 2nd world war. The much hyped wonderland promised at the collapse of the Berlin wall 17 odd-years ago hasn’t yet materialised...

Security, Religion and Citizenship: Unresolved National issues

When critical national issues threatening our fragile federation unity is discussed, emotions and partisan outburst overpower and configure the response and outcome to the issue...

Dame Patience Jonathan Is Our Man

There is so much talk over the political airwaves...