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...

Why Does The Black World Hate Nigerians?

To be hated and to be loved is one of the ironies of being a Nigerian. If you are a resident of the United States, and you observe your immediate community as much as I do, you may have felt or noticed the simmering heat emanating from the tension within the Black World...

Should politics be a lucrative calling?

The attraction to politics should not be inspired by the pay because in ideal situations, politicians are people who are already established in one call of life and would need to take a pay cut and put in time to the service of their constituencies...

Sovereignty, Economic Security, Barrack Obama's Visit, Jonathan, 2011 Election And The Development Of Nigeria

 In order to accomplish its development pogrammes and make its citizens live much better, a country needs different resources: human, mineral, intellectual, land, water, financial, etc. Obviously, all things being equal, the more resources a country has at its disposal, the more development programmes it can accomplish...

Sovereignty, Economic Security, Barrack Obama's Visit, Jonathan, 2011 Election And The Development Of Nigeria

 In order to accomplish its development pogrammes and make its citizens live much better, a country needs different resources: human, mineral, intellectual, land, water, financial, etc. Obviously, all things being equal, the more resources a country has at its disposal, the more development programmes it can accomplish...

The Right To Participate In Politics

Understandably and regrettably, most politicians are not lawyers. As a result, they are not always sure of their political rights. They often rely on opinion leaders and views expressed in newspapers and magazines, which are often misleading, inaccurate or biased...

Nigeria : Beyond 2011

President Jonathan Ebere Good Luck is not at the moment great. However, he has every opportunity to write his names with gold. On the surface, he is a lucky man as his name suggest. It appeared that he was always  in the right place at the right time and for the right reason...

Corruption: Time For General Amnesty?

Nigeria needs to re-think the fight against corruption, and a general amnesty programme could offer the needed break with the unproductive, selective justice and vendetta-driven strategies of the past...

A Two Party System by Legislation?

Nigeria’s House of Representatives recently attempted  another of its legislative misadventure, when it sought to decree into existence a two party system for the country through a legislative fiat...

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Nigerian Medical Personnel as Merchants of Death

The attitude of Nigerian medical personnel towards their patients leaves much to be desired. Pointedly said, the average patient in Nigeria faces grave risks in the hands of our medical doctors, nurses and hospitals whether private or public…

Questions for Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari

Both the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives...

Adegboyega Oyetola: Reflections on leadership and legacy

"And reckon (people) by the number of years, so...

Testing for HIV

Do sane people ever walk themselves to a clinic to test for HIV? That was the question that crossed my mind yesterday as I sat opposite a female counselor at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital...

Boutros Boutros Ghali: A Scholar and Diplomat

Long before he became Secretary-General of the United Nations,...

The Catholic Mission House Boys

What kind of woman does not like being pursued by men? It was not as if she was a virgin. She already had a child that she spoke of but had not even bothered to bring with her. She was probably one of these wayward women...

Tonye Princewill: Using Serene Capital to Reduce Poverty

There are billionaires in Nigeria who do not know what to do with money again. They only continue to stockpile more money in different hard currencies as if they are preparing for a competition...

Fear of God and Manifestation of the Sons of God

The fear of God or the want of it is what separates the few on the narrow way from the multitudes in the world and multitudes in the Church on the broad-way. The fear of God is what ‘begets’ those eternal sons of God...

Lawlessness Unlimited

Whenever I look up the meaning of the words anarchy, confusion, chaos and pandemonium in my dictionary, it is always illustrated with a map of Nigeria. Everybody is in charge there. Nobody is in charge there...

There is God o

A reflection on the journeys Nigeria has made since her inceptions as a nation ruled by her own people, reveals super encouraging motivations that indeed if nothing else is clear, it is certainly clear that God must be interested in Nigeria and Nigeria is yet to know or acknowledge the fact...