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...

Death In The Force: What Is Killing Our Officers?

The challenges facing an average Nigerian police officer is enormous. In addition to collective problems, he or she is expected to stop bullets with nothing but tattered uniforms...

National Security In Nigeria

We are a nation where the rich incessantly engage in gaieties and social festivities. These stoke the envy of the underprivileged, who occasionally visit their abject frustrations on civil society, especially the underprivileged like themselves...

Abdul Mutallab: The Pains and Gains of Nigerian Moslems

Nigeria’s history has shown that the nation’s government and security outfits are extremely incapacitated and evidently unable to control, contain, contend with and checkmate sectarian and religious violence...

The Men and Women of the Nigerian Police Force

In the history of contemporary Nigeria, except for the Nigerian Customs Service, I wonder if there ever has been a government agency as reviled and ridiculed as the Nigerian Police Force...

Critical Issues From Ekiti Tribunal

Fayemi's long wait for what belongs to him will soon be over, if the proceedings from the Ekiti tribunal is to be taken into consideration...

Gaddafi has the right to offend me

By now many of those with their ears to the ground will have heard this song: Divide Nigeria in two, according to religious lines. This statement was Mr Gaddafi's recent unsolicited solution to conflicts in Nigeria...

The Jos Carnage And Intellectual Endogamy

From the depth of my heart and with sincere tears dropping and flowing down my eyes and into my mouth with its salty taste, I condemn all previous ethnic massacres...

Enough Is Enough Nigeria: Let’s Go There!

It's been said that it takes a drug to cure a disease, it takes failure to appreciate success, and as shown recently, it takes an ailing president, overambitious first lady and a helplessly weak vice president to invoke the anger of Nigerian youths...

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Are Diaspora Nigerians Ashamed of Nigeria? Pt 2

After landing, we were not allowed to leave the plane for 4 hours. Passengers argued that we were being treated with neglect because the flight was from Africa and full of Nigerians…

Aruma Oteh's Love For Shame

It is a known fact that Oteh was covering up her low understanding of the capital market which collapsed due to her inefficiency, combined with her financial recklessness. She shamelessly agreed to come back after the Reps had accused her of wasting public funds…spent N30m on hotel bills in 8 months…N85, 000 on meals per day...

Friendly War

My wife claimed I hadn't given her "chop money" for the week. I know you don't believe her. Ah –ah, even the neighbors comment on how much fresher she looks while I continue to lose weight. Then next minute I was accused of being a tribalist who only got on with his countrymen on football match days...

Aduro Tales

Aduro is the name Nigerians call themselves, especially those living in Germany's many Asyl Heims or aduro houses. We never really got to find out the meaning and origin of the word, but you inherit the name on arrival...

Journey Home

When we landed in Lagos, the passengers applauded loudly, although it was unclear if it was the efficiency of the pilot, or the sheer relief of being back home that was being acknowledged. My neighbour nudged her son excitedly and said “ See, we are in Africa, beautiful Africa...”

None of us will leave this World alive!

I always refuse to put all the blame on...

The Culture of Exploitation and Officialization of Fraud: A Discourse on E-Passport 419neering

This article is an attempt to expose the culture of exploitation and officialization of fraud that has trailed the advent of the E-passport, with a paid focus on the Diaspora community...

Child Sexual Abuse: Recreating Tomorrow by Taking Definitive Action Today

Statistics detailing the extent of perpetration of child sexual...

Market Economy Reform In Africa: Case Of Nigeria

There is no doubt the continent of Africa needs reform. From one policy to the other, the continent continues to search for a focus that will take it out of the threshold of underdevelopment to the stage of stability and developed economy...

Friendly War

My wife claimed I hadn't given her "chop money" for the week. I know you don't believe her. Ah –ah, even the neighbors comment on how much fresher she looks while I continue to lose weight. Then next minute I was accused of being a tribalist who only got on with his countrymen on football match days...