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...

President YarAdua Is 30 Days AWOL From Presidential Duties

President Yar'Adua's absence from work, and particularly, his departure without following laid down constitutional procedure, has thrown up questions. What is the best way to resolve President Yar'Adua's  non-compliance with constitutional  stipulations?

The Identity Guard Commercial and Nigeria’s Image

What needs to be done is not the type of image laundering that is being wrongly spearheaded by our Minister of Information Professor Dora Akunyuli. The present rebranding campaign has failed and will not stem the tide of the international battering of Nigeria’s image...

A Christmas Without Mr. President

I know that most of you, except those with vested interests, worry less on the state of health of President Umar Musa Yar'adua, whose ailing conditions had put him in Nigeria's historic compendium as the first president to be away on Xmas. What does this portend for our nation, and democracy?

Ibori Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

In our very own Nigeria, in Asaba, at the recently established Federal High Court, it is a very different kind of season.  For Mr James Ibori and his fellow travellers, Christmas has come early while to many others it has soured their season...

Don’t Cry for Me, Nigeria

It must have been around 1984 that Wole Soyinka declared his generation, ‘the wasted generation’. The 1986 Nobel Laureate in literature had accused anyone who was 40 years old or over, of belonging to a generation that wasted the opportunities to take the country to greater heights...

Towards 2011: Governor Fashola Deserves a Second Term

Those who seem bent and intent on denying Fashola re-nomination also seem determined to drive a wedge between him and Alhaji Bola Tinubu in order to rupture their effective and synergetic partnership, which has been critical in the delivery of positive change to Lagos State...

From Yahoo Yahoo to Yahoo Plus

Nigeria’s social dilemma is money. We ruminate endlessly on how, when and where to get it. We place far more value on material success than cultural and human values...

Umaru Resign? I Don’t Zhinki So!

Inconsistency will be a recipe for disaster. Your adversaries are alarmists and carpetbaggers. They couldn’t do it when you were up. Now they want to remove the drip and turn off the monitor. How abominable. Look at them jostling and meandering, positioning and politicking...

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The God Delusion And The Irrational Basis Of Religion: Reflections of a former Skeptic

Our modern lifestyle of perpetual cycle of activities and noise has been a major deterrent to encountering God in the quietness of our soul...

Interview With Prof. Venâncio Massingue, The Mozambican Minister Of Science And Technology

A wise man, an African maxim declares, is one who knows proverbs and can reconcile difficulties using them. A trained engineer, Prof. Venâncio Massingue believes that “There is no single scientist who is not a politician”...

Mr. President, Abject Poverty Lives Here!

How are a great people laid so low and wasted, and made to wear the shame of their enslavement and impoverishment with unconscious dignity...

Oni, BAO and the mathematics of alignment

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Nigeria Transiting

While the lawyers assemble their evidence, life must move on, the business of government must continue. So transit we must unto a new term of government...

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Subsidy removal: government concern about efficiency gains vs citizenry worries about increasing hardship

There is evidence that the major beneficiaries of oil subsidy are oil importers, distributors and filling stations across the country...

Election 2015: The Losers

The dust and the acrimony from the 2015 elections...

The Bush Years: A Tale of Arrogance, Obstinacy and Incompetence

Sorting through the aisles of my local Best Buy, same time as the outgoing President of the United States was delivering his farewell speech to the nation, it appeared no one cared...

Police brutality and democracy! Whither Nigeria

I am deeply troubled by the current pattern that our civilian democracy is trending in Nigeria.  It is frightening and if not curtailed, will metamorphose into a cancerous worm that will envelope the entire fabric of the society...