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...

Are Nigerians Thieves? A Response to the Greek Ambassador to Nigeria

Mr. Dafaranos and his wife were at the reception area of Transcorp Hilton in Abuja on July 11 when the wife found a wristwatch, which a client of the hotel forgot while checking out. She refused to hand over the wristwatch to the security personnel on duty at the reception who wanted to keep it for the owner...

Listening to Boko Haram

What do you have against education, after all Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna himself, started Ahmadu Bello University cleverly named after him? He did not miss a beat and responded immediately: “That fellow was misguided..."

How Three Ijaw Governors Emptied The State Treasury

This is the story of how three sons of the soil helped to impoverish their state. This is the story of how three Ijaw governors - Alamieyeseigha, Goodluck Jonathan and Timpre Sylva - looted the Bayelsa treasury. This is the story of how three men made a mess of their people’s fortune...

The Making of a Dangerous Nation

Welcome to Nigeria, a country no one wishes to slave or die for. Nigeria is like a collapsing House, cordoned off by the Ruling/Eating Class, who are busy day and night carting away the much they could before it goes down...

Bauchi: Tears of God, Fears of Gore!

Nigeria has officially stopped being the tolerant nation it has always proclaimed to be, especially when it comes to religion. The country with the world's largest black population, one that has long prided itself for its diversity and peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths, is no longer a safe place...

Should MEND Become a Political Party?

The Niger Delta militants are not one organisation operating under a common leadership with unified ideology. There is no central chain of command or a clearly defined political ideal. Rather, the militants are a loose eclectic mix of several aggrieved armed factions...

No Amnesty, No Surrender: Only Equity and Good Governance

No one can guarantee the Nigerian people and the Nigerian state peace, security and stability insofar as the Niger Delta crisis is concerned. No one! Not even the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta...

Wole Soyinka, Igbo Cyber-Discourse, and the Myth of the Good Yoruba

What Winterbottom and the ignorant Europeans in Arrow of God do to Ezeulu is exactly what some of Soyinka’s Igbo admirers online are doing to him! What part of Arrow of God have they not read? What on earth do they imagine Achebe is saying about the production of otherness?

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Is This The Final Blow For Andy Ubah As Soludo “Enters” The Race?

I believe many keen observers of event in my beloved Anambra state will be wondering what next for Andy Ubah after the Supreme Court Ruling that struck out his case...

Ganges River: Concerns, commitments and connections with the wider world

Rivers are symbols of the flow of life. That in itself embodies typical resources of spirituality and divinity that establish and sustain virtues of ethical economy of life. With that given statement, the Indian Ganges River comes to mind...

The Preferred Evil

The long arm of political corruption has caught up with Oyo State. The evils of the politics of one man are now playing themselves out. What I am worried about is its dire consequences, which I believe are crucial to the evolution of the political norms of the state...

Peculiar problems of the Nigerian labor market

Aside series of persistent obstacles, shortcomings and problems, Nigeria, like every other developing country, is driving towards a stage where it could accommodate a good number of people from the domestic and foreign market...

EFCC: The Next Level

Much has been written about the selective investigation & prosecution of the EFCC. Some have openly canvassed that Ribadu is a tool in the hand of the current President being used vindictively against the enemies of President Obasanjo...

Alamieyeseighagate: A Case for Immediate Action

In a country with over two hundred and fifty thousand paid policemen, thirty thousand custom agents, fifteen thousand immigration officers, eighty thousand military personnel, and nearly fifty thousand men and women in the law enforcement circles, a common criminal called Governor Alamieyeseigha just strolled in unannounced into the jubilating arms of a despicable and decadent society!

The Poet Fires Last Warning At MTN

I get more phone calls and text messages than...

Flirting With the Truth

We have so convinced ourselves that church must be fun and entertaining, after all we are doing God and the preacher a big favor by showing up in church. For this reason we can no longer tell the difference between the sacred and the mundane...

Suspension: In Support of Mr. President

Mr. President has done well for our country. Before...

The ‘Nigeria-First’ Culture: Myth or Reality

Nigeria-First is a mindset.  It is a frame of...