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Barring any divine intervention, and never ruling out the unpredictability of the cosmic regime, the 2027 general elections in Nigeria will be held. The...
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 Nigeria, one with the benefit of hindsight may realize the missed opportunities in 1960, 1979, 1993 and 1999 to do the proper thing and bequeath to our country a limited but expandable form of democracy...
When America and the West fail to get their acts together, it is a systemic failure. When a man reports his son to the US security to be on the lookout for him and the US fails to act appropriately, his country is named a terrorist nation...
Sending young people barely old enough to tie their shoe laces away from home to an alien culture and strange environment where they are opened to all forms of associations and manipulations can have deadly consequences...
The presence of Cuba and Nigeria on the List demonstrates that the U.S. has used the Mutallab affair as a pretext to get even with countries that it has long standing historical grievances against...
The docility of Nigerians to the affairs of this country and the President continued absence explains why information managers in Abuja can continue to spin webs upon webs of lies to cover up what should be in the public domain...
Badly planned, poorly conducted military operations are also responsible for the rise of religious crisis in the middle belt, where the loss of lives and property and displacement of thousands of civilians have alienated the population...
If anyone is still in any doubt about the lopsidedness of Nigeria, look no further than Yar’Adua’s AWOL and all its ramifications, the latest of which is his handlers’ decision to have him croak only to the BBC’s Hausa Service after more than fifty days of nary a whisper to the Nigerian people...
Abdulmuttalab is now more popular than Barack Obama and Michael Jackson put together. He has completely changed how the world and our international friends view Nigeria and Nigerians. He has caused a diplomatic row between two birds of unlikely feathers...
Chief Obafemi Awolowo had his shortcomings. He was not a saint. However, his failings and missteps were far fewer and less injurious than those of his contemporaries. Within the context of Nigerian, and indeed within African politics, Awolowo had no equal...
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...
The potential of Nigeria is in its human resources, its youths eager for knowledge and education, its industrious farmers and labourers, its emigrants working hard in their adoptive countries to improve the lot of their families back home. These are the real assets with which we look to the future of with confidence and hope...
Her second coming into the country’s helm of affairs as a Minister of the Federal Republic is considered in many quarters as a development that portends a huge blessing for the generality of Nigerians. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been described as a frank and forward-moving person...
Whatever the sons of late Pa Oji Okoko are saying, the in-thing is that they disappointed their father in death no matter who they said was it that persuaded them against his wish that Christian burial should not be conducted for him...
To many Nigerians, Zik was an enigma. Richly endowed by Deity with an array of talents, Zik could rightly be described as a man who came before his time. To us in Lagos, Zik was one of us. He spoke Yoruba Language fluently. He was brought up in Lagos...
Most foods abroad, unlike in Nigeria, are laden with artificial preservatives, and sweeteners in order to prolong food shelf-life through the rigors of manufacture, distribution, sale...
The most destructive trade with Africa till date is the slave trade. Not only was the wickedness this trade represented in itself destructive, the social dislocation as well as the development gap that developed as a result of wanton destruction of the human resources of the continent as well as the willful plundering of a natural resources to develop foreign lands was a disservice to all mankind...
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...
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