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...

Hard Talk on Yoruba Race

Will the concept of Omoluwabi erase the plethora of disturbing hubris that has continued to paralyse Yoruba’s competing edge, egalitarian spirit and progressive tradition?

Nigerian Big Men Our Daughters

When will Nigerian big men stop assaulting our intelligence? When will they stop defiling our land, our daughters and beating up our sisters?

Before The First Whistle in the 2010 South Africa World Cup

Under the vicious, heartless and pernicious, inhuman, political and economic systems of Apartheid, there could not have been a World Cup competition in South Africa...

Before The First Whistle in the 2010 South Africa World Cup

Under the vicious, heartless and pernicious, inhuman, political and economic systems of Apartheid, there could not have been a World Cup competition in South Africa...

Before The First Whistle in the 2010 South Africa World Cup

Under the vicious, heartless and pernicious, inhuman, political and economic systems of Apartheid, there could not have been a World Cup competition in South Africa...

Ribadu Again, A Rejoinder

Nobody in the recent political history of Nigeria since the re-introduction of democratic governance has given of himself single-handedly to the fight against the institutions of corruption and instruments of corruption in Nigeria like Nuhu Ribadu...

Ibadan State: Let The Politricks Begin

Since last week when the House of Representatives announced its intention to go ahead with the creation of more states, agitations and underground consultations had started among potential beneficiaries of the legislature’s exercise of legislative powers...

The normalization of impunity

Last week, a twelve-person jury at the Southwark Crown Court in London convicted two Nigerian women on charges of facilitating extensive money laundering activities by former Governor James Onanefe Ibori of Delta State...

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Where Then Shall We Run To?

About six young girls were in the bus. The men violently pulled them up, forced them to undress and began to rape them. As they took turns on these hapless girls, and raped them with savagery and beastly relish, the girls cried in deep pain. And as some of the girls screamed in pain, they shut them up with murderous threats and blows...

On that Spectacular Anambra Election

Regardless of who wins the Anambra gubernatorial election, the...

Gov. Amaechi and PDP’s Visible Regret

From the look of things, it does not require the help of a soothsayer to tell the world that the People's Democratic Party, PDP, has been regretting and also fighting already lost wars...

Who will tell the Men and Women of God

One of the most fascinating things any onlooker will quickly pick up in observing these new religious movements is the relationship between the shepherds and their flocks. Particularly worthy of note is the eagerness with which members of the congregation are willing to subdue themselves to the authority and influence of their men and women of God...

Speaking Truth to Power: Generation of the Sixties Our Time Has Come!

In the past few decades in Nigeria, many of the best and brightest of a generation departed the land, including the writer of this article. We escaped and emigrated abroad on different aeroplanes...

By-Products of Infidelity

Can infidelity go out of fashion? Having sex with...

Amaechi’s 2nd Term Without Opposition: Which Way Rivers State?

The people cannot be ruled by force, and tyrants can never be part of democracy. The All Progressive Grand Alliance in Rivers State had said that the April 9 National Assembly elections in the state was marred by massive electoral fraud...

The Coward who Sold a Nation

Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, Nigeria’s self-proclaimed “Evil Genius,” has finally...

Peculiar problems of the Nigerian labor market

Aside series of persistent obstacles, shortcomings and problems, Nigeria, like every other developing country, is driving towards a stage where it could accommodate a good number of people from the domestic and foreign market...

Shaping a new national character

In today’s international system, the concept of national character is one of the definitive, critical criteria being applied in according a nation-state such as Nigeria, due respect. More so, the notion remains a subject of historical, socio-political debate and development at different forums...