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...

In Response to Gaddaffi’s statement on splitting Nigeria

Browsing through comments online about Gaddaffi’s statement on splitting Nigeria, I realized that about ninety percent of the comments supported or praised Gaddaffi for his ‘brave’ statement...

Rising Beyond Political Tenterhook: A Sine Qua non For Rebranding Nigeria

How many Nigerians both at home and in Diaspora, can honestly and realistically claim to be moving towards a new horizon of peace through germane and far reaching political economic and social set focus?

Nigeria Mass Media – The Fourth Estate of Graft

The dark clouds hanging over the Nigerian nation have refused to lift. However, nature in its extreme kindness continues to shine light over areas of our national life that symbolise supreme decay...

Nigeria – Africa's Linguistic Tower of Babel?

Many southern Nigerians ignorantly label Nigeria's past northern leaders like Abacha, Babangida, and Abubakar as "Hausa" when in fact none of them was/is Hausa...

David Mark and Maummar Gaddafi, who is mad?

When a person of Gaddafi’s pedigree begins to suggest that we must jettison the federal character principle and allow merit and achievement to be the templates for our march forward, we should eat the humble pie and listen...

Yoruba: The Illusion Of Unity

Some dark conjurers say that Yoruba disunity is foreordained in the character of the average member of the race. Disunity may have understandable roots, like say, in our natural assertiveness, love of independence, hatred of groveling subservience, ambition but its consequences have been far-reaching in its conflictual predilections and infelicities...

The late Lamido and my father

With the death on March 13 of Aliyu Musdafa, the 11th Lamido of Adamawa, Nigeria strikes me as a slightly dimmer space. The death of this extraordinary Nigerian touched me – and my mother as well as four siblings – in a deeply personal way...

Jos: A Repeat of Rwanda?

The United Nations, international community and the International Criminal Court (ICC) must know that Nigeria is in the midst of genocide in the proportions of Rwanda in 1994...

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A New United Nations?

The United Nations ought to concern itself with the activities of private banks and financial institutions operating internationally, and international financial institutions operating internationally having been established by agreements...

The Urgency of an Emergency

I was out of town last Saturday when a...

A Nation Under Siege: The Unending Violent Clashes and Battle for Supremacy on Nigerian Campuses

In the past three decades, Nigerians have witnessed one of the largest mindless orgies of bloodshed, killings, rapes, violent clashes and destruction of lives and properties on Nigerian campuses by fraternities popularly known as “Secret Cults”...

Essay: Sustainable Energy

The Stone Age, Sheikh Zaki Yamani once said, came to an end, not because we had a lack of stones. The former Saudi Oil Minister was referring to the now ubiquitous notion that the Oil Age will soon come to an end and it will not be due to a lack of oil...

The Lamentations of a Citizen

Please pardon me if I have gone against the African myth of keeping quiet amidst pains and suffering. I definitely cannot keep mute about the daily killings, kidnappings, and armed robbery going on across my country...

Friends and Friendships

How do you tackle a situation where you are best of friends with a woman who is happily married, but you are not friends with her husband?

Plight Of Foreign Attorneys In America

What is the essence of licensing Foreign Attorneys only to turn around and deny them the opportunity of proving their worth? It is a shame to have a law license and end up being a security officer or a Certified Nursing Assistant...

Nigeria @ 50: No Compromise, No Surrender

While I agree that Nigeria's 50 years of independence have little to show for its strength and age, writing it off as a failed nation-state is erroneous, misleading and reflects impaired judgment...

Ogoni Struggle and the Nonchalant Nigeria

And to the extent that the Ogoni story is still today kept on the backburner by the three warring giant elephants is enough proof that interests of ethnic minorities in Nigeria are still peripheral...