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...

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...

Declaring a State of Emergency in Bayelsa State

A state of emergency is not a solution, politically or constitutionally, to the problems of Bayelsa state. The ultimate solutions lay in political rearrangements, common sense and tolerance...

Open letter to Alhaji Sani Yerima

It is perhaps right to state that the last has not been heard about your unceremonious marriage to a minor and the consequent barrage of public criticism it generated. June 15, 2010 is your next date with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic Persons...

How to Structure the Proposed Special Courts for Electoral Offences

The promise by President Goodluck Jonathan to set up Special Courts for Electoral Offences is laudable, although I do not know the form the special courts will take. It is the appropriate structure of the proposed special courts I intend to explore here...

Nigeria and values-based leadership

Leadership is an issue that affects all of humanity. But, visionary and true leaders are hard to find. We are each called upon to be custodians of what is right and good, lasting and of value, for those in our care at one time or another...

David Mark and the Agitation for More States

Rather than create more states, the National Assembly should in fact find a way of consolidating the current 36 states into no more than six states to reduce the size of government, improve efficiency and save costs...

Remembering Chief Obafemi Awolowo (Updated)

Revisionists are everywhere. For the most part they are attempting to rework history by allowing their prejudices, illiteracy, and preconceived notions to cloud their reasoning. These critics have become masters at injecting willful fallacies, calculated falsehood and historical nonsense into history...

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Nigeria’s National Assembly: For Law-Dealing Or Raw-Dealing?

Reducing democratic activity to simply employing the right to vote is a true setback to the practical application of the concept of democracy, of which voting is but a final seal...

Tuface: Omo, This Guy Na Legend!

Grace 2 Grace is an album that can comfortably lay claims to being the first album by a Nigerian hip-hop artiste, to bestride the genres. The only rivalry it may get would be Face 2 Face from Tuface too...

Muhammadu Buhari: A Giant of a Man

It is my hope that Nigerians will right the wrongs of the past, restore my hope in their goodness and sensibility, and also make it up to Muhammadu Buhari, a great man who deserves to be the next executive president of Nigeria...

Nigeria vs. Argentina: A True Test Of Faith

Is a good football match on Sunday morning enough reason to skip church?

Honorary Doctorate for Bob-Manuel Udokwu

It was a day to cherish as the esteemed...

Messy Democracy

The prevailing cliché at the moment is the silly projection that Yar’ Adua will still rule this country for another 5 years. I have been tempted to see that dream as a dreadful, fabulous, sweeping illusion...

Yar'adua's Costly Lagos Adventure

For those who parroted the sincere commitment of Umaru Yar'Adua to the rule of law, it is becoming obvious that the man and his government are more interested in how such empty sloganeering aids their political interests...

Anywhere But Here

Two months ago in a flat in Festac town I met Calistus for the first time. A third year engineering student from University of Benin, we had similar tastes in music, films and women. He had been denied a Schengen Visa third time running...

The Story of Sex in the Nigerian Community

Women in Nigeria are beginning to find their place and their voice in a society that was for so long dismissive of their feelings and concerns and their sexual needs. In a society where men thought it was their birthright, a sort of entitlement to have 2 or 4 or as many sexual partners as possible now find that women are now demanding...

Hurdles Before ‘President’ Dele Momodu

Dele Momodu is befuddled with glamour, paparazzi and flashing lights that he might not fathom the darkness that has covered most parts of the nation. The glitz of showbiz could also make it impossible for him to conjure up ways of tackling the looming dim that spells doom for Nigeria...