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 Assets And Liability

A critical analysis of the country, Nigeria, would show a country with an immense opportunity and priceless assets but also an equally dysfunctional society...

Does The Rule Of Law Still Exist?

So many things have happened in Nigeria that are so unimaginable, to think of it will drain the tears in one's eye. I feel pity for Nigerians because we have suffered too much in the hands of these cabal...

Why Late President Umaru Musa Yar' Adua Deserves A Post Humous Award

The antecedent of democracy saw the change Nigeria has always clamoured for in the days of Umaru Musa Yar' Adua as president...

Jonathan’s Pledge to the N20 Billion Red Cross Appeal Fund

If we take the disaster in Haiti that occurred early this year as a natural disaster, what are we going to take the incessant killings of human beings and the destruction of their hard earned property in Jos...

Puny Men, Vendors of Impunity

Bankole appears to be an expert in matters of pugilism. Last June, he presided over a session of the House that degenerated into an all-out brawl. That shoving, clawing, knuckle-throwing and clothe-tearing spectacle has since become a top draw on youtube...

Nigeria’s Readiness For 2011 Elections

Nigeria's crucial moments; her golden anniversary slated for October 1st, 2010 and the 2011 general election scheduled for April 2011 are making international headlines...

Defining Fundamentalism

With  the current and past political challenges in Nigeria, a more Nigerian model of terrorism has gained prominence in our political, economic and social dynamics...

How Will Jega Handle Touts and Hooligans?

Politicians across the nation are planning, political underdogs are panting, and law abiding citizens of Nigeria are panicking as we drive towards 2011...

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Dwindling Oil Revenue: The Militants And The Militating Agenda

The Ijaws and the Niger Deltans in general are becoming victims of abject neglect in this nation. The government is frowning at her responsibility to salvage the people in the creeks...

Prof. Osunbor Selects Lucky Imasuen as Deputy

Is Lucky Imasuen capable of the role and the framework designed to succeed as a deputy to Osunbor? I can't respond to this question.What I hope is that he doesn't function based solely on the law of reciprocity...

Poverty Relief: More Programs, More Pains

Government should not presume that they know what will benefit the poor better than the poor themselves. When a program has been failing each time it is attempted, the ideal thing to do would be to study the past attempts to see where the mistakes lies…

Nuhu Ribadu’s List Of Prejudice

It will be difficult for one book to contain the names of all the corrupt people in Nigeria, because that book could well be a multi- million page book…

Nigerians Are Objective & Brutally Honest!

Africa will receive respect when we have nuclear power, when we have money and when outsiders perceive dire consequences and a heavy price to pay for being politically incorrect about Nigeria and Africa...

Gaza: As Israel Hammers Hamas

Surrounded, border-wise, by hostile neighbouring countries whose extremist wings ceaselessly denounce 'Zionism' Israel is proudly exercising her natural rights of existence...

Further Discussions on the Future of Africa (3)

The Seminar condemned the rising tide of racial abuse of Africans, who play professional football in Europe. The Seminar held that any racist postulations that are degrading  and inhuman  are  retrogressive steps  in human relations...

Re-Branding Nigeria: The Role of the Youths Part 2

I have never been more hopeful and enthusiastic about a National programme than I am now and my reasons cannot be unconnected to the integrity of Prof. Dora Akunyili, the chief midwife of this National re-birth...

Ghana-Must-Go Bags of Mass Destruction

The bag named Ghana-Must-Go is at the very root...

You Gotta Die To Get a PhD

To become recognized as a highly exalted owner of...