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...

Between Guardian Newspapers and Imo State Government: Who Is Lying?

Many Nigerians cannot forget fearless journalists like Dele Giwa who constantly asked pertinent questions in his articles, and several others, past and present, that are scattered across our media houses. The message is simple - let the truth be known...

The Core North and the Rest of Us

If  most of us want  Nigeria to be one, then there is a need for the people of the Middle Belt to be ready to take a strong, firm, and  ideological paradigm shift in their cosy relationship with the core North...

Nigeria makes US Hate List…Why?

It took just one foiled attempt by a British resident, and Yemeni trained terrorist to give the United States Transportation Security Administration the unique opportunity to show her true feelings towards Nigerians...

The Burden of Being Vice President

While Yaradua’s prolonged illness and lack of formal transfer of power to the Vice President may have brought us to the throes of a constitutional crisis, the situation more importantly calls attention to the special burden of being a Vice President...

Self-Flagellation and The Abdulmutallab Affair

The United States, Indian and Israeli top security agencies have now been fingered as conspirators in the Christmas day attempt by Umar Faruok AbdulMutallab to detonate chemical explosives aboard Delta Airlines flight 253...

That Senatorial Clowning

In a few days, we would know if the United States government will bow to the moratorium by the senate for it to de-list Nigeria as a terrorist nation or whether the senate will swallow the humble pie in a contest it is not fit and trim to provoke...

Goodluck Jonathan: The Emerging Profile

Come to think of it: who is afraid of Goodluck Jonathan? Who is afraid of the Vice President acting as or becoming the President of Nigeria? Who? Why?

Nigeria and its hijackers

It’s safe to say that Nigerians have never had it quite as bleak as under the Yar’Adua dispensation. Until now, we’ve had a succession of rotten rulers, but never one surrounded by a coterie of such primitive mindset...

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The Right to Bear Arms vs the Right to life: The Balancing Test

The right to bear arms and the right to life need to be placed on an equal scale of justice in order to determine whether the governmental duty of preserving life of its citizens outweighs their constitutional given right to own weapons for whatever purpose and vice versa...

100,000 Laptops No Energy in Ekiti State

I guess “the light” has finally come to Ekiti state in form of LCD powered panels called laptops purchased by our state governor in his wisdom for our 100,000 secondary school students at the cost of four hundred million dollars!

Nigeria On The Brink

The country is in a bad shape. Everything appears to...

Nigerian Immigrants

Many a doctor has been seen doing janitorial work. I have seen accountants of yore driving cabs. The more perplexing are even those who went to school in the US but have not found useful employment or are under-employed. I once went to court with a lawyer, who after the court session, took off his lawyer suits to go to his regular job that did not need a suit...

Ignorance Is a Disease

Less than a year ago, I found myself writing about a crisis in Northern Nigeria. This time around its the Bauchi 'Boko Haram' religious crisis. While I am not trying to be a prophet of doom, I know that I might find myself again writing about another Northern Nigerian crisis after this...

Now We Have A Weeping President!

Sharia...the one thing that president Obasanjo cannot or will not deal with may be what will pull the rug from under his feet...

The Patriot and His Hypocrisy

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, is an enigmatic, controversial, misunderstood...

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...

Osun 2026: Crossroads and Consequences (1)

My experience as a Branch Internal Auditor in a...

Reforming Police and Policing Reforms

I agree with most of the recommendations of the police reform committee since it is aimed at improving the security situation in the country. Security is paramount for any venture including the sustenance of our democracy...