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...

Messy Democracy

The prevailing cliché at the moment is the silly projection that Yar’ Adua will still rule this country for another 5 years. I have been tempted to see that dream as a dreadful, fabulous, sweeping illusion...

Uba’s Honorary Doctorate: Why UniZik Was Right

While I believe the honorary doctorate to Uba was right, UniZik should perhaps have been more creative in the choice of honour. To confer on him Doctor of Public Administration raises a legitimate question of Uba’s contributions in the field of public administration...

Health Checks

I am writing this piece in respect to the acknowledgment by Aso Rock that our president is suffering from acute pericarditis. This has taken the Presidency almost two and half years to admit...

State Power: Concerned or Callous

Nigeria's crumbling state cannot be patched together overnight. For decades, Nigerian leaders neglected citizen participation in government and shunned economic liberalization. Instead, they nationalized the country's oil industry to fund extravagant social spending...

Open Letter to President Umaru Yar’Adua: Words of Encouragement in a Time of Illness

For several days now, stories have been circulating about your health. The rumor mill has gone into overdrive with all kinds of speculations, including the one that you are at death’s door because you are suffering from a very pernicious form of pericarditis, as well as the chronic kidney ailment that you have had for some time now...

Resignation Pressure on Vp Jonathan

By now we should be praying for this country and not threatening the captains. Dr. Jonathan is President Yar’Adua in accordance with the constitution. He is doing the job in place of Mr. President. What then brought in the looming civic coup and resignation pressure?

A vote of no-confidence for the NMMA

With this write-up, I intend to demonstrate how the Nigeria Media Merit Awards and their organizers mistreated us.  I want to talk about it because I hope they would read my story and improve...

1914 to 2012: Nigeria And Her Predicaments

Since flag independence in 1960, Nigerians have, for the most part, skirted the issue of nationhood: Is the amalgamation worth preserving? If so, under what economic and political arrangements; and what’s to be done to arrive at a more ideal union?

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Football Is Not Played On Roads

In the 21st century, we are still celebrating, building roads, pipe borne water, rural electrification, etc. I wonder how backward and mediocre in thinking the FIFA delegation must have thought us to be, when instead of talking about the needed specifics and showing what is on ground, the officials were talking about the roads that have been built...

Still on the 2026 Osun Governorship Election

By Abiodun Akaraogun As the August 8, 2026, Osun governorship...

Nigeria: Axis Of Darkness?

Oh ye Nigerians, you must learn to be appreciative because it cost your wonder-working government a whole seven noisy years of loud promises, invaluable efforts, sacrificial work, sleepless nights and the whopping sum of nearly three billion dollars to bring you this amount of blinding darkness...

Understanding Youth Conflict and Sustainable Initiative Model (4)

Conflict is one of the major concerns not only in any given continent, it also affects the international community as well. Conflict is simply the absence of peace, and the successive introduction of diversified sense of humor of people within the context of a community or society...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's Epoch–Making Policies for a 21st Century Developed Nigeria

President Goodluck Jonathan, having put in place an effective intelligence and information gathering mechanism, and working collaboratively with Western countries like United State of America, Britain, France and UN to find these girls, is not relenting in his efforts...

Between Okey Ndibe And The Guardian Newspaper

I refuse to believe that the Guardian has not 'killed' stories in the past which may run contrary to the business and personal interests of both the owners and the editorial team members...

What Will You Do Or Say?

You've been passing yourself of as an intellectual busybody, venturing opinion on this and that, and on matters that sometimes do not concern you. You rub politicians' noses with your satire and hope to get away with it.  And then out of the blues, CNN invites you to come and discuss the matter...

No R – E – S – P – E – C – T for some Elderly in America!

When it comes to how the younger generation treats some elderly citizens of this so-called God's country, I must bow my head in shame...

Help! Some Nigerians are Returning Home to Join the Bandwagon

Some returnee Nigerians in the diaspora seem not to care a hoot about how the money will be made and are gearing up to either contest in elections or connive with others to put their cronies and paddies in government with the sole aim of getting closer to the treasury...

Always Have Disdain for Charlatanry and Reject Shallow Posturing

The statement calling on Nigerians to celebrate themselves is...