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...

Rural Farmers In Nigeria: Any need for Land Reform?

The traditional land use pattern of farms, woodlots, hamlets, villages, and towns that shaped Nigeria's physical geography over the last three centuries is still evident in the landscape today...

An Apology to Wole Soyinka

Last Tuesday was the 76th birthday of Wole Soyinka, extraordinary dramatist, poet, professor of literature, renaissance man, and one of the world’s greatest humanists...

Kidnapping In South-East Nigeria: Tracking Collaborators; Tracing Hide-Outs!

The tragic assassinations of innocent Nigerians in the cause of Kidnapping have once again brought to the surface the continuing deterioration in the law and order situation in the country...

Political Zoning Trust: Credence Lacking, Bereft Of Experience

Did Obasanjo trust Atiku? Vice Versa.  If elections were held, in these times of high oil prices per Barrel, the zoning will be done by the electorate and the party. I believe in employment now...

Stealing Statesman: A Faceless option of Nigerian Politician

Since Nigerian politicians have redefined public service as an avenue for wealth acquisition, and have out of greed disingenuously compromised honor that leads to statesmanship, the Nigerian masses should rise up to the challenge by check-mating their insensitivity...

The Judiciary as Temple of Corruption

Nigeria, sadly, has not been particularly fortunate in its drive to evolve a functional democratic governance since 1999, which could deliver the oft-mentioned but elusive dividends to the people, principally because of the unspeakable greed of its political class, and the attendant impunity accentuated by a seemingly compromised and disabled judiciary...

Kissingerian realpolitik and Yewa Hubris

The irrational ignorance and political flaccidity of the Yewarists have put them on a democratic cross road of uncertainty. Yes, they may puff and huff, kiss and gnash their teeth at my sweeping observation, but the political interpretation of their preparedness cannot be more apt...

Iborinitis (2)

A band of stupid, senseless, brain-dead local urchins had to engage the state police in hand-to-hand combat to defend a man who stole their destiny and pauperised their future. Political education among our poor is still low in Nigeria...

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April Elections will hold – El Rufai at UN Press Conference

The Minister of the Federal Capital, Nasir el-Rufai and Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Aminu Bashir Wali, addressed the press at the United Nations as part of the ongoing Federal Government's new initiative to address the negative media coverage and international pressure on Obasanjo’s administration to conduct a free and fair election next month...

The Desecration of the Academic Gown: A Worrisome Trend in Nigeria

The academic gown is a revered symbol of knowledge,...

MLK: A Tribute to a Quintessential Black American

"We must learn to live together as brothers or...

Boarding School

I didn’t like day schooling. And I wasn’t sure how things would turn out when the idea of a boarding school was broached...

2007 And The People’s Rights

Almost every Nigerian of voting age is aware of the atrocities committed by the various military leaders who had unleashed their autocratic reigns on our nation in the past. IBB was just one of them and it will be unfair to single him out for "punishment"...

Abia’s PDP-Woodpeckers and Kalu’s Overpowering Influence

It has become obvious that the fear of Kalu is the beginning of political wisdom in not only Abia State, but in Nigeria, if the likes of Orji are having a nightmare...

Rivers APC Hails Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi at 53

The Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC,...

Reflections on “Serial Marriage” and “Polygyny”

When I came into the UK about 8 years ago, advisers - and they are many, very cunning, comical Nigerians, full of filthy lies - told me that marriage here is 50-50, the man brings 50%, the woman, 50%...

A Choice Election: Buhari and Fashola’s presidential ticket

The best president Nigeria never had was Late Chief...

Madiba @ 90: Waiting for the Nigerian Mandela!

The former South African President Nelson Mandela is a living legend from all indications. Mandela has attained, even in his lifetime, the status of an icon, a world sage...