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...

ASUU Strike: An Elite Conspiracy

It is really ironic that a government that has the vision of making Nigeria one of the 20 biggest economies in the world by the year 2020 has adamantly refused to fuel the engine of rapid economic development - education.

Issues from Obama’s visit to Ghana

Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev, the twosome who rule two of the formerly greatest nations on the face of this planet are two of a kind. Both are lawyers, both are in their early forties, and both have told the world that they are unwilling to re-open the old wounds that capitalism and communism unleashed on post World War II affairs...

Giving Militancy a Bad Name

Let us call a spade a spade and hit the nail on the head: Islam or Sharia is not the cause of this militancy in the north, or for that matter in the Niger delta or anywhere else it may happen in Nigeria; the fundamental causative agents are failure of political leadership and corruption and underlying issues of poverty, unemployment and education...

Jakande Estates: Killing a Legacy

No government past and present has surpassed the administration of LKJ in the provision of the mass housing that has accommodated Nigerians from different parts of the country. However, the enduring legacy of the popular “Jakande Estates” has become a sorry state...

Who Killed Major Nzeogwu?

In conspiracy rife Nigeria, all manner of rumours and apocryphal stories have alleged that Nzeogwu was murdered in a Machiavellian plot engineered by Ojukwu to eliminate him or perhaps that he was killed while trying to defect to join the federal army. As always, the truth is much more mundane...

An Open Letter to the U.S. Secretary of State, Madam Hilary Rodham Clinton

Madam Secretary, the people of the Niger Delta will be immensely grateful to you, President Obama, and the good people of the United States, if the U.S. government would intervene to ensure that the oil companies stop flaring gas in the Niger Delta, replace dilapidated pipes, be proactive about oil spills, and embark on remedial measures to restore the oil-ravaged rivers of the Niger Delta...

Of 'Forged' Police Report and the Main Plot in Osun

Somehow, in the wake of the high drama that followed last week's arrest of the AC gubernatorial candidate for Osun State in the April 2007 election, Engr. Rauf Aregbesola, I got thinking about how this country has sank to a huge Animal Farm...

Mr. President, How Long Shall We Suffer Thee?

For several years, Nigerian leaders could afford to just sit still and do nothing, because the auto-pilot directing the big, well-populated jet called Nigeria was yet to be totally out of order. But now, in this year of Umar Musa Yar’Adua, the auto-pilot has completely packed up...

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Goodluck Jonathan: The Suspicion, The Resentment And The Consequences

There are no sensible explanations for the bombing and loss of lives that took place in and around the country home of Governor Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. None...

BP = Big Polluter = British Pensioners = Big Problem = Bankruptcy Probability

It is good news that President Obama is demanding and insisting that BP establish an escrow account for the clean up and compensation in the aftermath of the BP disaster...

Is Your Faith Just a Holiday Habit?

As the calendar year nears its end, a familiar...

Labour Party Versus Ondo State People: The People Shall Win

It is a pity that the Labour Party is fighting it dirty and making politics look like a do or die affair. Politics is not dirty. Neither should it be as vicious...

Reflecting On President Obama's Visit To Ghana

What the strongest man on the face of the earth should do  is to move beyond the rhetorical postulation of democracy as a sustainable form of government, and depart from an unimpressive argument that attempts to disconnect African poverty from Western exploration and exploitations...

The Paradox Of Corruption And Patriotism

To say that the country called Nigeria is a conundrum is a gross understatement. To both its people and foreigners, it is a country that is, in its extremity, baffling, frustrating, annoying and uncivilised...

Restructure HYPREP For Proper Ogoni Clean Up, ERA Urges FG

Benin City Nigeria…The Environmental Rights Action, ERA, has asked...

Nigeria and the General Theory of Relativity

Stormy petrel of Ibadan Politics, Adegoke Adelabu, in his...

How Not To Kill Yourself Over A Woman

There’s this recent sad news of a pastor in...

The Judiciary Has Continued To Save Nigeria From Doom – Placid Aguwa, Former NLA President

"I am highly encouraged by the fact that the judiciary has taken the lead to protect Nigeria from further political insanity and confusion. The judiciary has distinguished itself as dependable and impartial..."