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...

The Chinks in IBB’s Armour

IBB is dogged by many irksome riddles: the murder of the late journalist, Dele Giwa, who was assassinated via a parcel bomb in 1986; the baffling case of $12.46b Gulf Oil windfall which allegedly grew wings under IBB’s watch; the annulment of the June 12 election...

Nigerians Have Met Enemies of Nigeria; Enemies Of Nigeria Are Nigerians!

Nigerians seem to always allow outsiders to define Nigerians and Nigeria and what is important to Nigerians and Nigeria. We seem to be so intellectually objective in the most academic and most abstract sense...

Security Issues At The Forthcoming Election

There are speculations going about, and it is synonymous with the current political tides. In Nigeria, election periods go with the rebuttal of certain heinous activities and one cannot predict what will happen...

Ikedi Ohakim: Stewing In Scandals!

Unlike Anambra State, Imo State has had little problem of hijacked state apparatus by immoral godfathers or their lackeys and the citizenry boasts of majority of enlightened electorate who hold their leaders to account...

The Case for Part-time Legislators

Each time our legislators dominate national discourse, it is unlikely to be for their law making prowess or compassion for their hapless constituents who wallow in poverty from one end of the country to the other...

Nigeria's General Elections Is in Jan. 2011; Where Are The Candidates, Manifestoes?

Will Nigerians and Nigeria sleep-walk to the precipice and fall of the cliff? Or, will there be an electioneering campaign with ideological stances by the plethora of political parties and their myriad posturing personalities parading as candidates for various elective public offices?

This House Is Not For Sale!

Is poverty the only thing we appear to have accepted as inevitable component of life in this part of the world? What about crime? How come crime appears to have gradually become too natural with us in Nigeria here...

2011 And Dearth Of Issue-Based Politics

The way things are slowly but steadily building up, there is the possibility that Nigeria could, once again, be foisted with a leader in 2011 who never promised the country anything before assuming the presidency...

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From Olusegun Obasanjo – In His Best Element!

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The Role of Health Care in Socio-Economic Development of Nigeria

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So What Is Great About American Democracy?

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Whither Nigeria On Iraq?

An anti US-Iraq war protest that was to be organised in Abuja a fortnight ago was reportedly quashed by security operatives...

Rivers, Looking For One More Excuse

The year 2011 is fast coming to an end. Some people would say that there are far more activities being carried out by Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State...

US: Averting economic woes by raising debt limit

The economic impact of not raising debt ceiling and subsequent default by United States may have domino effect on Nigeria and Africa as a result of AGOA and NEPAD...

The Nightmare Rules!

Nobody can tell if Samuel Peter’s parents peered into a crystal ball before they named him Okon (nightmare). For the boxer known worldwide as the ‘Nigerian nightmare’ beat the living daylights out of Oleg Maeskaev...

Value Change Proposition: Promoting a More Civilized America

Because tenable gun control laws, reflective of advanced civilized...

The Crating of Another Umaru Dikko

As the big boss fondly recalled his younger days as a Barrister, he intimated how Mr. Dikko had placed a called to a City Law firm requesting one of the partners to send someone who could coach him for his Bar Vocation studies...