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...

Nigerian Citizenship Should Be Redefined Now!

Nigerians should ask the governor of Lagos state several questions to determine the reasons for his decision to throw Molotov cocktails and live grenades into our already volatile state of national unity...

Nigeria's Weekly Woes

Less than a month ago we were talking about the Niger Delta crisis, the militants, and the federal government amnesty. Then the Boko Haram crisis erupted. As the Boko Haram troubles were about to die down, the Nigerian banking crisis arose...

What Is Your Hostage Value?

Time was when it was just foreigners who enjoyed hostage threats in the country. The threat had later flowed down to the relations of political office holders and the rich. Today everybody including yours sincerely who daily does battle with the same realities of our failure as a nation just like the Boys has a hostage threat hanging down the neck...

And Death-Trap Becomes A House!

Nigeria is a country littered with illegal buildings and construction eyesores. Experts blame the use of low-quality cement and inadequate supporting iron rods. Tens of thousands of office complexes, schools and hospitals are at risk...

Thirsty for Progress: Mr President, Let’s Have a Palm Wine Summit

Far be it from me to impute or imply or cause others to infer from the title of this piece that the president of our federal republic is anything but a religiously observant teetotaller...

It Is Time To Execute Corrupt Officials in Nigeria

Whether Nigerians and the global community like it or not, the time for mass hanging has come. The time is ripe for the systemic elimination of twenty-five percent of Nigeria’s elite - the group that has, for more than forty years, been raping, exploiting, and subjugating Nigerians...

It’s Time to Save Nigeria

In spite of the nation’s vast pool of human resources both at home and abroad, all we could come up with for President was a nice, smooth gentleman who, unfortunately, happened to be very sickly and psychologically overwhelmed by the tasks at hand...

Is Lamido Sanusi Part of the Alliance to Transform Nigeria?

It has always been easy to use our limitations as an excuse for doing nothing productive with our lives as far as Nigeria is concerned...

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My Silly Wet 2011 Dream

I had a silly dream last night; yeah, that kind of dream. I had a dream which in the naturally befuddling Nigerian environment is nothing short of a dream...

Football in Nigeria: A Conversation with Chief Segun Odegbami

For the past two years, we have been writing and debating the effects of over-aged players in continental and international competitions on Nigeria’s image and respect around the world...

How Cole Porter Got My Student Interested In Poetry

Most of the students I've taught Literature-in-English in my school come in expressing an aversion to poetry or poems. So, to get them involved and interested, I try to convince them a poem is peculiar kind of language for very important people…

The Battle of the Generals: Myths, manipulations and 2011

We seem to have defiled all political permutations and theories. 2011 election will not only mark our water shed but also will be an interesting political manoeuvre and battle of supremacy among some of the individuals who have played a prominent role in the making and unmaking of the Nigerian state...

The Rapture 2: Different Groaning of Different Creatures

The whole creation of God groans. And the saints and those to be manifested as sons of God groan too. But we shall take them one after the other. We take the groaning of the entire creation of God in this part...

The AZATA/NEPU Party: Vistas, Visional Frontiers for a New Nigeria; the Role of the Scholar

To the Universities We start with thanksgiving that the Federal...

One Country, Two Presidents

Nigeria is about the only country I know in the world where things are done illegally and a majority of the citizens keep mum. Almost everyone accept illegality as a norm...

Nigerians In Diaspora: A Catalyst For Poverty Reduction, Political And Economic Development Of Nigeria

The Nigerian Government under president Goodluck Jonathan's government appreciates the role Nigerians in Diaspora are playing in the development of the country through their expertise and remittance of money...

At Daggers Drawn: Progressive Mallams Conservative Alhajis

In Mallam Ribadu’s calendric experience, December, rather than April, has to be the cruellest month...

Nigeria’s choices: right or wrong?

The last national assembly failed to impact positively on the lives of ordinary Nigerians with no single bill passed for the purpose of lifting the people out of poverty. This has been the case since the country returned to democracy since 1999...