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...

Restoring confidence in Nigerian youth

The utter disbelief among a greater number of the Nigerian youth regarding what is in store for them in the Nigerian project, and of course, their future has culminated in all sorts of social disruption...

INEC, Adequate Time and Credible 2011 Elections in Nigeria

President Goodluck Jonathan has promised Nigerians free, fair and credible general elections by next year. I believe he means business...

Death Of Our Big Men

Nigerian leaders and big men dying on us is no news. In the days of the second republic, many governors affected by the Muhammadu Buhari putsch lost their lives just before or after their prison experiences...

How to be a Deputy Governor

Why any politician would aspire or accept to be a worthless “spare tyre” deputy governor or any type of second-in-command at all in this warped democracy is one question I have always pondered on having observed with depression the plight of those politicians...

The Bridge to Nowhere (1)

When aspiring or incumbent politician’s seasonally turn to the occasional political stunts or grandstanding or gimmickry, it is almost an afterthought, no matter what...

Ensuring Peace In Jos

To achieve peace in Jos, all stakeholders must be brought on board, not just a handful of political dumb-nuts. Bringing all stakeholders together must be done without any concession to ethnic, religious, political and economic affiliation...

Run, Jonathan, run!

A group of Nigerians is losing sleep over the speculations that Goodluck Jonathan may run for president next year. This group is jittery that if Goodluck Jonathan eventually decides to run, his ‘luck’ will shine again, thereby dimming the North’s hope of ever getting close to the corridors of power in the next decade...

Nigerian Journalist Heal Thyself!

As far as I am concerned, anybody can be corrupt whether you are a journalist or not. Everybody, even the Pope or Obama, has a price. Whether you are a lawyer, doctor, teacher, American, Pakistani or Brazilian, everyone has this innate tendency to be corrupt...

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All That Jazz About Slashing Hajj Fares   

The recent news on the slashing of hajj fares...

Angel Michael must praise Gov. Orji

A people without shame do not regard honour. This is what the government in Abia State and its agents have turned out to become...

The West Is The Giver And Taker Of Literary Life – Chinedu Ogoke, Nigerian Writer

In 2002, Chinedu Ogoke, a Nigerian writer resident in Germany published his first novel, Under Fire. His second novel is being awaited. In this interview with Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, Mr. Ogoke speaks on his work and the state of African Literature in relation to the still thorny issue of audience definition...

Primitive Banking In Awka, Anambra State

People who have known me over time can attest...

Is It A Sin To Criticize A Man Of God?

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers,...

Lessons from the 2012 London Olympics and the Assange Affair

The success of the 2012 London Olympics is ineluctably linked with good organisation and the application of human intelligence at the highest level. There is evidence that there is no end to the ingenuity of men and women...

Rio 2016 – Why We Really Failed

Just a few days after the just concluded Rio...

Human Rights and Peace: An Operational Nexus

If they want peace, nations must avoid the pin-pricks...

El’Rufai and his intellectual Boko Haramism

Going by the dexterity and zest with which Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai awkwardly throws his weight against the government and, most times, the personality of President Goodluck Jonathan, one cannot but agree that there is a cult of ignorance in Nigeria, especially since this Boko Haram madness deepened in Jonathan's government...

Nigeria and her too many Wars

Wonders shall never stop happening and as I look...