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...

The Voice of Mutallab, the Hands of the Dead

It must be said that the complicity and guilt of the northern establishment finds comfort in the attitude of the Nigerian media and intelligentsia. The imperative of naming names and ascribing responsibility for these things to specific people and fragments of Nigerian society – where evidence abounds – has always given way to clever demission and political correctness...

Metaphor of a Beleaguered Journalist

When I penned A vote of no confidence in the NMMA a fortnight ago, I didn’t think anybody’s ox was going to be gored. I didn’t expect too that the owners of the supposedly gored oxen would react the way they did...

A Happy New Year to Nigerians? Not For Me!

The year 2009 is about to come to a permanent close, never to be seen again. Human beings have been in this world since only God knows. Nigeria has been there floundering like a captain-less ship in the sea of the world for the past how many years...

Swearing in public servants by Juju

Our country still suffers a lot of poverty in the midst of plenty and it seems to me that only something as radical as the total annihilation of corrupt people can save us...

Generalizations Against Nigerian Muslims, Nigerians and Nigeria

Crimes and criminals demean us all, with their negative impacts and in their equally negative consequences or  outcomes. Crimes and criminals are like religious extremism-militancy, they are like virtues and vices which are part of human frailties and foibles, warts and all and are universal...

Dim Ojukwu and Peter Obi’s Re-election Campaign

Former Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has reportedly vowed to return Peter Obi to the Government House, Awka, after the February 2010 polls...

Chinua Achebe: Strategizing on Nigerian politics and elections

"The Colloquium on Africa" focusing on the forthcoming elections in Nigeria summoned by the Honorable Chinua Achebe should contribute to solving the problem of voting machination in the country...

On the Throes of Another Induced Fuel Crisis

As I write this, just a few days to Christmas, Nigeria, the largest black nation on earth and the assumed African Giant is locked down by a conclave of crises, which to all intents and purposes, may take eon years to solve...

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Abba Moro and the War on the Poor

Mr. Moro, Nigeria’s Minister of the Interior, is sitting pretty precisely because the Nigerian state has scant regard for Nigerians wounded by the festering sore of poverty. That sentence actually puts a gloss on the reality...

A Problem with the Truth: Of Certificates and No Certificates

I am a bit lost, in fact more than...

Fire Is An African God

You're from Africa and you've never seen a lion?

An Open Letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Mr. Prime Minister, the impending military campaign and the state of anomie in the Niger Delta are totally avoidable, if you and other leaders of goodwill will step up the diplomatic work and help solve the Niger Delta Problem once and for all...

Islam, Political Islam, Paranoia, Irrational Unreasonable Fears

Now that Hosni Mubarak has resigned, would the Americans, Europeans and Israelis support a military dictatorship in Egypt or a thorough democratic transition processes?

Abacha Loot as A Weapon of Mass Palliatives

Even in death General Sani Abacha keeps donating money...

A Nuclear-Free World: Prospects and Problems

While the League of Nations had an elaborate mechanism for disarmament, the United Nations, which has been under the influence of powerful states that patronize arms manufacturers have not been very willing to deal with both moral disarmament and general disarmament…

Jonathan’s Two Quiet Months

It’s one of the amazements of Nigerian life that the tumultuous events of last January seem now so terribly dim and faraway. But it was in January, two short months ago, that President Goodluck Jonathan incautiously increased the price of fuel...

Nigeria Nation: Victim of Terror, Not A Terrorist State

By all definitions and with whatever measuring standard, Nigeria is not a terrorist nation. Anybody or any government that think otherwise is only exhibiting a fallacy of judgment...

Backward Nigeria of the White Man’s Dream!

One Paul Valley writing in today’s Independent glorifies the finance minister of Nigeria, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the woman who has power to change Africa. One greatly doubts how this Paul would fare in a test of honesty because; only rogues and idiots have seen any progress in the present Nigeria...