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...

Change We Can Believe In

I have always viewed Nigeria as a mere geographical expression, a North and South joined together by an umbilical cord called United Kingdom, an umbilical cord which has since cut itself off and left us to our perils...

The Messy State of the Nigerian Judiciary

As flawed as successive Nigerian Constitutions have been, it has always, in theory at least, provided for an independent judiciary. In practice, however, this has not always been the case...

Goodluck Jonathan calls on Barack Obama

Goodluck Jonathan gets his first strutting experience as “president” next week when he visits the U.S. at the invitation of President Barack Obama. How Jonathan handles himself, and the image he projects, will determine how seriously his American host takes him and the country he runs...

Why Nigeria Does Not Need Babangida

Like most of our uncaring, rapacious, selfish, heartless, thoughtless, insensitive, inconsiderate, callous, conscienceless politicians, IBB is under the delusion that he is still the Messiah. He still wants to make himself relevant...

Where is the Evidence that Nigerians have had Enough?

I am very sorry, but I have not seen any evidence that "Enough is indeed Enough" among supposedly enlightened Nigerians. What I see is an attempt to apply a kind of Abacha era style insincere rallying and demonstrations towards a good cause!

The Trial of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha

Is Al-Mustapha a security risk? Did he endanger the wellbeing of the nation? Is he a murderer? Did he conspire with others to kill the innocent? Must it take another decade before he knows his fate and for us to know the answers? This is a travesty, a violation of his rights.

Maga Will Still Pay

Nigeria’s dreaded status in internet scam is in no way as a result of the skills of the scammers, but the inability of the Nigerian government to checkmate it, even when strong evidence could steer towards easy resolution...

Who will tame the state of insecurity in Imo State?

Obviously worried by the disturbing state of insecurity in Igboland in recent times, governors of the South East zone hurried, or as some accounts said, were “summoned”, to Aso Rock, penultimate week...

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The Calamity Of An Endangered Profession…

There is no way anyone can tell me that the greatest nations of the world as at today and yesterday are in any way better endowed or strategically positioned than our dear native land, Nigeria...

My Niger-Delta: A Marshall or Master plan?

There is almost nothing anybody can do now about the imbalance that all the years of oil exploration and exploitation has exacted on the ecosystem of the Niger Delta and on her peoples. The only surviving paw-paw tree behind our house in the village just withered and died, just like that...

Doyin Okupe: A Nigerian Original

With the death on Monday, March 7, of Dr...

Is Africa a Latecomer to Christianity?

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge -Hosea...

Nigeria: Goodbye to Democratic Governance?

In practical terms, one can confidently argue that democratic...

When Blow Becomes a Job, Trouble Ensues: 9ice vs Ruggedman

It's quite painful that unlike the popular notion that our leaders don't understand the plights of the masses, our singers too are demonstrating the same brutish approach in tackling their publicity crisis...

Speaking Truth to Power: ‘Send Down Dollars’

Another instance of their being more to Lagos other than show is a man named Raji Babatunde Fashola SAN, the governor Lagos State.  While other governors concentrate on their skin tone and appearance he devotes his time to the appearance of Lagos and its infrastructure...

Shinzo Abe Re-kindles Bitter Memories of Japanese Militarism

Shintoism is the Japanese official religion. The Japanese emperor is their god on earth. Under that innocent smile that radiates and spreads on Japanese faces, lies a steely disposition...

Abia and Gov. Orji’s Social and Economic life

There is no need for a microscope to know that definitely, so many things are wrong with Gov. Orji and his government. And unless these perceived wrongs are corrected, Abia State will continue to exist at the non-performing level...

Bayelsa: Between Sylva And Gold!

During the Ibori saga in London I had decided to refrain deliberately from commenting on the fortunate outcome of the Ibori kleptocracy because while happy with the development as it concerned his indictment I was angry with the obnoxious system back home that produced Ibori...