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...

Nigeria: Where Are The Nation Builders?

Nation-building that will likely contribute to stable international peace will need to emphasize the democratic participation of people within the nation to demand rights. It will need to build the society, economy...

Mount Her, She’s Yours For The Grabbing

To some men, women are just objects and are a must-have only like the chairs, plates cars, etc in your house. In the best case scenario, they are merely to be tolerated rather than be valued...

Judging By Their Speeches

Last week, some contenders for the 2011 Presidential Elections took various bold steps toward the actualization of their closet desires. These steps were characterized with strong underlying political indications, thoughtful strategies, and technically sound counterstrikes...

What does IBB want again?

The strength of a nation lies in discipline. IBB betrayed the Nigerian Oath of allegiance, the army core values, and  the entire people for his over-ambition...

Governor Akpabio’s War Against Children

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom is in danger of doing something that’s unforgivably evil. In the name of protecting the image of his state, he has set out to destroy two organizations that are doing an admirable job of rescuing innocent children...

Nigeria: A Nation Ruled By Men of 'Thumos' (1)

It is wrong to come to believe that a Nigerian government populated by men of thumos is supposed to be representing the interests of the governed. Little wonder in countries like Nigeria with such low moral standards, public speech about morality has almost always been regarded as a nuisance...

Averting demographic disaster in Nigeria

Events in various parts of the country in recent times ranging from sectarian violence in the North, militancy in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, armed robbery and kidnapping incidents in major cities and towns all point to the dangers an unengaged but active youth population can pose to a country...

Nigeria Not on the Brink

That Nigeria as a nation is partner to predatory multi-national corporations with Head-quarters in the US is a fact we can here stipulate. That these US corporations have had lopsided agreements greased by bribery and corruption of Nigerian government officials...

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Reviewing Amaechi’s Environmental Sanitation Policies

The appointment of Isobo Jack as the new environmental sanitation czar in Rivers State and Nnamdi Wokekoro showed the back door out of work, is a repositioning that all must praise Governor Chibuike Amaechi for...

Black and Blue

In an attempt to attract black voters to his...

What is inside the pack…?

Experts and ordinary Nigerians worry about how their foods and medicines are being packed by food processors...

In Achebe's company 'the prison walls fell down'

In the couple of months following his death up to his burial, the world has risen in unison to celebrate Chinua Achebe as a man universally acclaimed to be the father of modern African literature and as the man who used literature to bring Africa to the world...

Curbing The NAICOM Cartel And Its Cut-Throat Motor Insurance

As last year drew to a close, the 58...

Why Zuma Monument Must Stay

In Manhattan, New York, a man was juggling barefoot along the street when curiously, a woman asked why. His reply: I want to know how it feels because I am writing a play set in Africa!

Has Biafra Been Compromised?

I feel more Nigerian than Biafran. The shortcomings of our shared nationhood notwithstanding I posit that if we all put tribal sentiments aside and become less crime-friendly, we can build a great nation...

On Governor Fashola’s call to Nigerians in the Diaspora

I keep on wondering whether it is right for me to be true to my conscience and labour where I stand to reap the reward, than to demonstrate false “petro-patriotism or crude-patriotism” in the midst of abiding poverty and joblessness...

Blogging – The New Ebe Ano

So what have I discovered since I bought my house in Blogville? Nothing that I did not know already. I'm still heterosexual, I'm still sweet, I'm still not attracted to metrosexuals, I'm still a little bit of a clean freak, I'm still trying to experience romantic love in a romantic way...

Tinubu and Afenifere’s Curse: Dialogue with Yinka Odumakin’s Ghost

A SATIRE ON TINUBU'S AFENIFERE FORAY Felix, what is happening?...