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...

Nigeria: No Country for Weak Hearts

Since I came home, I have had the opportunity through my previous and current employers to travel around Nigeria; I have interacted with various Nigerians discussing Nigeria, their plans, dreams and hopes. I follow the news daily through the media but must admit that I haven’t been encouraged one bit...

Dealing with Corrupt and Oppressive Governments

A corrupt government is one that extends unlawful jurisdiction over the people it is supposed to protect. A corrupt government is one that legislates beyond its rightful power by erecting laws that do injury to liberty, justice, and individual rights. A corrupt government believes that might make right, and that its mission is to curtail freedom and information to the public and claiming it is acting in their best interest...

Extra-Judicial Killings: We should all be Alarmed!

If the Nigerian state will not protect her citizens from their own excesses, should it also then kill them to satisfy the notion of peace for elitist satisfaction? Who benefits from this much sought peace in Nigeria, and can there really be peace in the midst of poverty, ignorance, class chasm, inequality and pervasive injustice?

Yar'adua's Costly Lagos Adventure

For those who parroted the sincere commitment of Umaru Yar'Adua to the rule of law, it is becoming obvious that the man and his government are more interested in how such empty sloganeering aids their political interests...

Ignorance Is a Disease

Less than a year ago, I found myself writing about a crisis in Northern Nigeria. This time around its the Bauchi 'Boko Haram' religious crisis. While I am not trying to be a prophet of doom, I know that I might find myself again writing about another Northern Nigerian crisis after this...

Nigeria: Has This House Fallen?

If indeed, Nigeria, was at some point a house fit for the habitation of its people; is it then safe to conclude, that at its founding, it was the output of the intelligent design of its colonial architects and, therefore, fit for purpose and structurally sound?

The Land Deal: Reuben Abati Opens Up…Sort of

"I still insist that there is a land registry at the FCTA. You go there and do your investigations instead of asking me to respond to pure rubbish…. What is your problem? Land?"

As Onovo Becomes The Second Igbo Man to Be IGP

Ogbonnaya Onovo is now a star. He’s one of the few Nigerians who have had the privilege of enjoying national support, sympathy and yes, having the entire nation fight for him to get to the position he wanted...

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Nigeria’s National Assembly: For Law-Dealing Or Raw-Dealing?

Reducing democratic activity to simply employing the right to vote is a true setback to the practical application of the concept of democracy, of which voting is but a final seal...

Always Have Disdain for Charlatanry and Reject Shallow Posturing

The statement calling on Nigerians to celebrate themselves is...

Why the Government May Be Wrong on The New ‘Minimum’ Wage

No one will dispute that our workers deserve decent wages that will guarantee social self-reproduction without recourse to moonlighting, bribery and corruption or primitive accumulation...

Call For Interim Government: Undemocratic Games?

If a doomsday prophet defines politics as a mean-spirited enterprise motivated by greed, it can be accepted and used to describe a new political paradigm as seen through the eyes of opposition parties in Nigeria...

Nigeria’s Self-inflicted Moral Burden of Shame

Nigeria has reduced itself to the butt of the...

I am Proud of Naija

Indeed the natives liked the name Nigeria, just as Dame Flora Shaw, bless her soul, rightly predicted.  Even the current wife of the president shares the same title “Dame” with the deceased first lady of Nigeria. No, the natives did not wear oversized and over starched khakis anymore to serve their masters as before. But in the blazing heat, they wore suits and tie...

Alemu: The imprisoned and exploited Ethiopian journalist

She was arrested on June 21, 2011 from the school that she taught and was oppressed before she was thrown into the prison. She was later charged with arson and teaching and organizing terrorism...

Can you beat Edison the great inventor-entrepreneur?

As soon as he could talk, he began to ask his parents and everyone else all interminable whats, whys, whens, and wheres. His strangely inquisitive, inattentive, and rebellious character also meant growing up and doing things his own way...

Governor Soludo At The Dorchester

Prior to Professor Soludo’s tenure, Nigeria spent 100 Million US Dollars annually importing the Naira. A revived Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company has now ensured that this is no longer the case…

Defeating the Nigerian Establishment (Part 1)

Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its...