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...

Does Nigeria Need Re-branding?

It would be an understatement to say that Nigeria currently needs to redeem its image and consequently boost its national profile in the comity of nations...

Jonathan Goodluck, the Moral Foundation of Good Governance and the Impossibility of Change

Destiny, the factor behind the death of the late president Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, is that which also acted itself out in Jonathan’s emergence as the substantive president and the Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria...

Theophilus Danjuma’s Reckless Ultimatum

If General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma and members of his advisory committee wants to quit, well, they certainly have the right to do so. Their former vocation and hobbies await them...

House # 105, Wife Number 4 minus 1 the Punisher’s fable?

Is it not the Owu commander that pretended that Sharia was not an Issue and fixated political opportunism over national expediency? We pretend now we have one country, making laws that don’t matter...

Yar’Adua: See What the Cabal Has Done!

The death of any President, a country’s number one citizen is a watershed in the life of any nation. This rare but sometimes inevitable occurrence in the life of a nation often evokes a deep sense of loss and a prolonged period national mourning...

Ohakim And The Council Election Flaw!

It would sound like cliché to be told that local governments are the foundation of democracy, but for Imo State, the truth appears to remain eroded through frequent electoral procrastination...

Street Tales of a President’s Death

The President was truly dead. I didn’t know what to feel. Relief or Regret? I rushed out only to be confronted by a group of acquaintances who were passionately arguing about the implication of the President’s demise...

Where are the other Iboris?

Mention the name James Onanefe Ibori and many different emotions and impressions flood the Nigerian mind. The man is seen as a personification of arrogance and avarice. He’s perceived as an embodiment of the worst in the Nigerian “misruling” class...

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Africa in the shadow of colonialism

Colonialism is not an exclusive preserve of Europeans nor is it restricted to a specific time or place; from time immemorial stronger societies have always subjugated weaker societies into newly conquered territories...

Post Consolidation: How Safe Are Nigerian Banks?

No bank or nation really stands alone. So whenever a bank fails, there is concern that it may pull other banks down with it or reduce the confidence so essential to the banking industry...

Imprudent Heifers

I cannot count how many times I have heard Nigerian men complaining about how Nigerian women have suddenly become “smart” because they have left Nigeria.  While some of what they say is only due to their inability to handle a little independence in favor of the woman, the rest of what they say is actually true...

Of Fuel Cell and Selling Nigeria's Fuel

In the face of the deadlock in the Middle East, it has become clear to everyone in Washington that unless the US found an alternative to Oil, it would be stuck in the Middle East for a long time...

In Defense of the Distinguished Supreme Court

Since the Supreme Court rulings in the Amaechi case, the camp of the opinionated has since joined hands with the camp of the lawless to discredit the court...

Nigerian Governors & Buhari: Is this the dawn of Theocracy in Nigeria?

One of the reasons why Muhammadu Buhari was said...

Senator Dino Melaye: A Microcosm of Nigeria’s Moral Decadence

Seriously, the committee of elders in Kogi West, Kogi...

NAFDAC and Its Numbers

On a daily basis, Nigerians are faced with the unnecessary task of deciding which one is authentic among the ever growing, yet inexhaustible list of drugs for different ailments...

Will You Vote For These PDP Politicians?

As the clock continues to tick towards the coveted 2011 general elections in Nigeria, political activities have resumed in full earnest. And, expectedly, the concomitant intrigues have continued to, by the day, snowball into an avalanche of great spectacle...

This Government Is Pointless!

The advancement of Nigeria and the success of its government will remain a mere dream unless everyone put the national agenda or interest over personal ones. Are the people who run this government so insecure in their sense of power that they have to go around picking on the least fortunate in our society?