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...

Rebranding and Redefining the Nigerian Culture

With the current spate of things in Nigeria, our trademark cultures are fast going the way of dinosaurs as extinction is imminent, and imbibing foreign culture is fast becoming the order of the day. Is it a good way to re-brand?

Anambra Governorship Election: Incumbency, Credibility And Past Record As Deciding Factors

Today, governorship candidates appear to be chosen based on three major yardsticks: incumbency, credibility and past records. These three yardsticks can easily be spotted among the three major political parties...

George and Judgement

The Nigerian government should listen to the yearnings of the people to make corruption a capital offence. Also the Nigerian government should realize that there is one way to restore the confidence of Nigerian people, and that is through political will and absolute determination to get things done...

Crime, Justice and Punishment: Bode George as a Case Study

Truth be told, many of us would like to see the likes of Bode George, Peter Odili, many Northern ex - and present Governors, some former Heads of State and Presidents and Vice-Presidents, civil servants, etc, lined up against a wall and shot...

Letter to my Rivers State Brethren: Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi and the Waterside Slum Settlements

Before I begin this letter, let me quickly issue a disclaimer: I am writing to you as a fellow Rivers person and lover of the state, not as a seeker of political office. Let me now go to the subject of the letter: Governor Rotimi Amaechi and the waterside slum settlements...

Letter to my Rivers State Brethren: Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi and the Waterside Slum Settlements

Before I begin this letter, let me quickly issue a disclaimer: I am writing to you as a fellow Rivers person and lover of the state, not as a seeker of political office. Let me now go to the subject of the letter: Governor Rotimi Amaechi and the waterside slum settlements...

Soludo Should Arrest His Dream

To tell the truth, I was never persuaded by the showy manner Soludo went about his duties. But then, he was merely living up to the unwritten creed of that regime that placed so much emphasis on self-glorification and substituting same for stellar performance...

Dr. or Professor? The Politics of Identity in Nigeria

Nigerians have become title-crazy to the point where some people now prefix their name with architect, accountant, engineer, movie-producer, surveyor, lawyer, music producer, nurse...

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Nigeria and Africa in all their poverty are really just a heartbeat away from the ancestral and cultural poverty that Black America suffers.  Are we allowing our Black youths to be groomed to believe that “black is not beautiful?” 

Of The Ogebe Verdict And Electoral Reforms

Since Ogebe and co have ruled that we are all mad to think that the job Iwu did in April even merited a mild rebuke and Yar’Adua has applauded, what then is the essence of electoral reforms?

900 Africans Drown As NATO Ignores Humanitarian Catastrophes In Near Libya!

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization with absolute military command, control and occupation of the area, continues to ignore and neglect the dire humanitarian disaster in and around Libya...

As Democracy Is Backtracked In Nigeria!

It is impossible to control government if you have no idea of what government is.  Today what people generally see as “Government” in Nigeria is not a government at all...

“Igbo Rising” Soars From The Stable Of Gerald Eze

The debut album, “Igbo Rising”, by the phenomenal Gerald...

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Rivers: Those That Would Abandon Amaechi

Around Amaechi are people one could call spoilers within. They are sharks that swallow both the small and big for the hunger of wealth...

General Danjuma: A Thunderous Applause Or Scathing Rebukes?

A unique set of circumstances were presented in Nigeria very recently. General Theo Danjuma of Nigeria announced a hundred million Dollars surplus with which he intended to do public good...

The Second Coming

My boss asked for Lion meat when I told him I was going to Africa for the holidays...