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 Stuff of Revolutionaries – a tribute to Professor Olusegun Banjo

Some great revelations came to light in the history of our nation recently. The vibrant arm of the Nigerian media did a great job in bringing to light some hitherto untold stories. One that touches me tremendously is the sole effort of a Nigerian academician in protesting the inherent injustice in our superficially conjoined nation...

Political Process Urban Youth Development In the Niger Delta

The greatest threat youth face today is exclusion and marginalization from decisions that affect them. Unemployment, crime, HIV/AIDS, neglect by the authorities, abandonment to their fate because of various forms of discrimination top the list of problems towns and cities have to deal with...

Political Process Urban Youth Development In the Niger Delta

The greatest threat youth face today is exclusion and marginalization from decisions that affect them. Unemployment, crime, HIV/AIDS, neglect by the authorities, abandonment to their fate because of various forms of discrimination top the list of problems towns and cities have to deal with...

Political Process Urban Youth Development In the Niger Delta

The greatest threat youth face today is exclusion and marginalization from decisions that affect them. Unemployment, crime, HIV/AIDS, neglect by the authorities, abandonment to their fate because of various forms of discrimination top the list of problems towns and cities have to deal with...

Nigeria at 50: A Re-Examination of Duties and Obligations of Citizenship

All governments at all levels do have duties and responsibilities to their citizens. But this is not a one way street. There are two sides or even multiplicities of sides to the story of good citizenship and good governance worldwide...

Nigeria and the MDGs: Beyond the question of funds

Over the years, Nigeria had acted as if achieving the Millennium Development Goals was solely the responsibility of the Federal Government through an instrumentality that barely possesses the required capacity...

This Government Is Pointless!

The advancement of Nigeria and the success of its government will remain a mere dream unless everyone put the national agenda or interest over personal ones. Are the people who run this government so insecure in their sense of power that they have to go around picking on the least fortunate in our society?

U.S Foreign Policy and the Niger Delta Conflict

A critical examination of America’s foreign policy in the last two decades proves she is concerned with environment issues and with matters dealing with social dislocations, international health challenges and uncontrollable migration that are likely to constrict its resources...

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Fashola Vs Sahara Reporters – 19th November seminar at the London School of Economics

If a government performance were to be measured by the performance of its head at a public forum consisting of citizens of the state and country at large, then Governor Raji Fashola would have been chastised for disgracing Lagos State at the interactive seminar titled: "Lagos: Confronting Change in a Global Megacity", which took place at the London School of Economics...

Procrastination

Procrastination has made failures out of many potential successful people as so many people have not tapped into their tremendous potential and the genius ability within...

Good News from Ekiti State

By Michael Abiola Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji's selection as 'Governor...

There Could Be Some Method To Obasanjo's Ways Of Doing Things

Obasanjo's Wars against Corruption as derelict and one-sided as it may appear to many, is definitely doing some good. Today when you see a one time Inspector General, past and present Governors and intimate buddies of Mr. President in handcuffs to answer for their past misdeeds, it sends a powerful message to all Nigerians...

Gen Z, Religion, and the Morality Question

There is a widening revolution in our world spearheaded...

Babatunde Fashola: the Loner of Sodom?

There are legitimate questions to ask about Fashola’s road to office. It is a photocopy of Yar’Adua’s route to Aso Rock: the route of brazen, nepotistic, and muscular godfatherism...

Getting an Edge Where It Matters Most

Don’t let anybody deceive you, if hard work indeed brings prosperity, every coal miner in South Africa would be richer than Michael Jordan, Geoge Soros and Warren Buffet put together...

Someone Please Call 9-1-1

Last Saturday, I was listening to a radio programme on BCOS Ibadan. Towards the tail end of the live radio show, a listener called in, calling on rescue workers to come to the aid of an accident victim who was hit and ran over along a major road in Ibadan. The accident occurred about 12 hours before the caller called in...

Season of Inter-Party Endorsements

As the race to the rescheduled general elections gets...

Newsweek-Adeboye: Pentecostals

Like witchcraft, Pentecostal beliefs are very appealing because they promise people immediate power and a million dollars. Also, those who are not yet born of the Spirit of the true Jesus and those who are not growing strong in true Christianity, want a god they can see...