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...

National Redundancy and Expensive Political Afterthoughts

From the bothering bordering Lake Chad up north to the overflowing Atlantic Ocean in the south, it is evident that Nigeria cannot even contend with natural events; what should we expect of man-made challenges?

The Role of Our Leaders; Voices of Great Men

If leaders want our youth to be positive, progressive and pragmatic, they must not forget that every coin has two sides. This means that they must inspire in us the knowledge that material development and spirituality must go hand in hand...

Obasanjo as Babangida’s Best Issue

One sad tendency in Nigerian politics is the habit of arguing that one mediocre politician has a better record than another mediocre colleague...

Babangida Was Wrong To Apologise For ‘June 12’

Former military Head of State Ibrahim Babangida has reportedly apologised for annulling the June 12, 1993 elections, won by the late Moshood Abiola...

Dateline 2011: The President For These Times

Personally, I am very optimistic about the conduct and outcome of the election given the groundswell of public opinion clamouring for a repeat of June 12 - devoid of its criminal abominable annulment...

Freedom Coalition: $250m fund to elect Abubakar Umar…(3)

It's high time we faced the bitter truth which is that the North and the South are two completely different and incompatible bed-fellows who were forced to live together by the British in order to serve their own selfish interests...

Oil: Diversification And Economic Development

We may not develop and diversify our economy if we continue to rely on oil as the mainstay of our economy and source of foreign exchange. We need to diversify our economy if we hope to ever grow...

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?

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Gay Marriage Extremely Popular In the Nigerian Community Abroad

According to investigations carried out by Grapevine Reports, the institution of gay marriage is a popular phenomenon among the immigrant Nigerian community in America...

A Toast to Two Giant Patriots at 69

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Ebenezer Obey: I Had My Share Of Drinking And Womanizing

"Nigeria’s future is bright...The country will be better. Good days are ahead. I will just want the government to take care of the Niger Delta people. It pleases God to put the oil in their region. So let them enjoy the wealth from that oil..." - Ebenezer Obey

The ‘Agidigbo’ Dance

Pat Utomi in his Jos presidential campaign recently said just 13% of Nigerian graduates manage to get employment. What happens to the remaining needy and vulnerable 87%?

The Terror Watchlist: Nigeria’s Response

When America and the West fail to get their acts together, it is a systemic failure. When a man reports his son to the US security to be on the lookout for him and the US fails to act appropriately, his country is named a terrorist nation...

The Days Gone By

I am hunting for a house presently and at the same time trying to settle into a new job. New work ethics, new colleagues, new bosses, new sector, new everything. There are things to learn again, especially being a Nigerian again after sojourning abroad...

Okonjo-Iweala For President

Any leader can only do but so much and let go, because building a nation is never a one man job, and is never finished. I don't care if you are a Goliath in mufti or uniform. Hand over the damn thing to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala...

Death Wishes & Irresponsible Journalism in Nigeria

A segment of the Nigerian Press hit a new low in the past couple of days, as they engaged in poor taste journalism and rumor mongering!

Tribal Stereotypes In Nigerian Comedy: The Calabar Example

While I am not a great fan of political correctness or censorship, I think the Calabar jokes have been pushed too far...

Loving Nigerians, Just The Way We Are?

There are several things that can keep you miserable about Nigeria. But I'd like to take a big break from being the pessimist so as not to sound like a broken-record, and see some of the things that seem to be 'working' in our country...