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...

Can the National Assembly save Abuja?

We must be able to say it straightaway that these people resemble carpetbaggers than anything else. And rather than think this is an irresponsible or cheap shot at the honourables, we must be able to expatiate.  Think back at the several times when the National Assembly has insisted that it must be ‘carried along’, in the execution of certain brilliant ideas and innovations that do not emanate from the hallowed chambers of the legislative bodies...

Deportations of Nigerian Citizens by Governments Foreign and Domestic

Recently, I became aware of the kidnapping, bundling and dumping of Nigerian citizens who are afflicted with one disability or the other, including destitution and abject poverty. Nigerian citizens with disabilities who resort to meager subsistence through requests for alms or street begging...

Mail from Jail (2)

Often, we all talk about scam as it concerns basically what we have come to term ‘yahoo yahoo'. Only on few occasions do we make reference to the scam that is perpetrated by corporate bodies...

All Eyes on the Judiciary in Ekiti

With the salacious details of what happened in Ekiti in April 2009, when the shambolic re-run polls happened thumbing in at the state election tribunal headed by Justice , there is every need for the guilty to be afraid that the end of another impostor is near...

The Niger Delta: The Impending Military Assault

Historically, citizens of the Niger Delta have been a thorn on the flesh of pre and post-colonial Nigerian governments. Not a people to suffer injustice in silence, they have a history of political activism that dates back to the 18th century...

Farewell Chief Gani Fawehinmi: Champion of the Masses

I felt a strong urge to step outdoors to espy the night skies, in the fervent, but furtive hope of catching a glimpse - however fleeting - of the ascent in celestial skies of that great soul which for 71 years animated and embodied the flesh of the man we came to know, admire, and respect as Chief Gani Fawehinmi....

Why Niger Deltans must continue to fight

Conflicts take place all over the world because you and I want to control the things that generate money and wealth. Now, since we cannot have everything we want, and get everything we have, states put institutions in place to ensure a reasonable distribution of the commonwealth to all...

To a Nation of Stereotypes…

For us Nigerians as a people, the time has come for us to realize that anytime we fan the embers of ethnicity and tribalism we easily wind the clock of our progress back, back to the days before we were colonized by the Brits...

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The Rotimi Amaechi Factor, the APC and 2023 Presidential Race

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Doctrine of Satan, Sin and Eternal Soul

There is priceless information that touches on a far more serious matter than any other subject matter you can imagine. We will endeavor to visit it here. And so, we would desire a ready and open mind and total earnestness...

Wole Soyinka Publishes New Novel

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Oyenusi, Anini and Obasanjo: What’s the Difference?

As things stand today, there is not much difference between the dealings of Aso Rock and the dealings of street urchins who use force or the threat of force to get things done. What difference is there between what Oyenusi and Anini did and what the presidency has been doing?

Let us form a group to honor Rashidi Yekini

Rashidi Yekini is dead. He died on Friday. Yekini was by all accounts a devout Muslim and was quickly buried the next day, in accordance with Muslim rites. Going by reports we have, the mode in which he was buried is however unacceptable. No need to mince words here, the burial given to Rashidi Yekini is unbefitting of the man and his country...

The Price of Democracy

For too long, the Nigerian people have been held hostage, taken for a ride and forced by the few rich, powerful minority to pay a huge, back-breaking price to sustain a most obnoxious, bastardized system of government...

BAO2BAO… and God answered! (2)

To begin with, the messages that flowed in after...

Do not enter the place

This essay is not written by a gentleman so leave it if you do not have the stomach for thinking the unthinkable. Anathema is my ambrosia; needling the conventional is my nectar...

Comparing Reforms In Kenya And Nigeria

What has come of the promise Mr. President made to the workers of Nigeria in 1999 that the salaries and allowances of workers will be reviewed periodically? What has happened to the billions of Naira recovered from the Abacha family and the millions generated from the petroleum tax?