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...

Patriotism and Patriotism Only

Efforts should be geared towards encouraging the entire population to buy made in Nigeria. I watched former president Jerry Rawlings of Ghana in an interview when he said that his constant wearing of Ghana made cloths increased the sales of those materials...

The Yeye Council of Elders vs. MEND

It was quite an interesting read to see the brief exchange of words between the discredited Yoruba Council of Elders and our militant brothers of Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta over the recent operation that saw to the bombing of Atlas Cove...

Of Unclaimed Oil-wells and Deprived Rivers People!

Conflict in Nigeria is ethnic pluralism, in which diversity of culture and institutional practice occur, and where divergences cluster to demarcate distinct and closed social sections...

Imo; Yet Another Gravy Ride

Imo State is in the throes of another needless wait for President Umar Musa Yar'Adua. This is about the third time since May 2007 that the state is subjected to that vain anxiety...

The Rule of Law Must Live

To ensure that the rule of law regime thrives, conscientious, highly learned judges, have the bounden duty to use the law wisely. They enjoy discretionary powers to enable them come to the rescue of the oppressed so that they do not suffer jeopardy from strong, demonic recidivists, who are found living in estates, towns and villages...

Cloak and Dagger: Plotting the Removal of Governor Timipre Sylva

All is not well in Yenagoa. The major participants - Jonathan, Alaibe, and Sylva - all have daggers drawn, concealed by overflowing cloak. In all of this, Governor Timipre Sylva is the target...

All We Ever Ask For

I expend my energy in the hope that Nigerian leaders, political and military elite and power-holders will read some of these writings and hopefully examine their conscience, change their ways and re-commit themselves to improving and governing Nigeria the right, humane and considerate way...

The Truth

Nigerians owe the country and our rulers the duty to tell them the truth. This is because truth is like a shining sun which will prevail over darkness. Honesty brings transparency which is a vital instrument in nation building...

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“Occupy Nigeria”! Monday Morning, What If?

What if Southern Christians insisted on protecting their Southern “Moderate” Muslims and Protested together?

A Limitation to Papal Liberalism: the UN vs The Catholic Church

This is the Era of the Gentiles, the era of spirit consciousness. It is also a period when the anti-Christ devotees have become more active in promoting debaucheries unknown in the 1930s...

Change is never a Creation or Monopoly of any Party!

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The Rivers State Emergency Dilemma!

Rivers State is now under emergency rule, and it's...

Obi Nwakanma’s The Horsemen and other poems reviewed

In The Horsemen and other poems, Nwakanma gallops through many seasons of war, ploughs through many cemeteries of fallen dreams, scales okra covered walls and chases dreams that never left our huts in the first place. And the reader comes upon this land of alien deities, and lands exhausted on the unwelcome mats of these strange people that worship feuding gods...

Excogitative Deconstruction of the Discourse Dynamics of the Controverted Non-Interest Banking and the Islamicizing Controversy Issues

Approbatory and disapprobative voices have trailed the Central Bank of Nigeria’s decision to implement Non-Interest Islamic Banking in the country, a package whose initiative, framework, process leading to its formation and approval in principle date back to the reign of Sanusi’s predecessor...

Prof. Attahiru Jega; A Vote of Thanks Thunderous Applause From A Grateful Nation

Elections are over and inaugurations are scheduled to take place nationwide in a matter of days, and nobody is asking for Professor Jega's head. What could the secret be?

The International Politics of Petrol

The United States of America is seen rightly or wrongly by not a few nations as an international bully, a military, political and economic bully...

What’s a Nigerian Worth?

In a sense, the debate over the minimum wage for Nigerian workers raises a more fundamental question: What’s a Nigerian worth? And since there are different kinds of Nigerians, one ought to clarify that the question, at the deepest level, has to do with the least privileged of Nigerians...

Amaechi and Non-Rivers Indigenes Involvement In Government

While scrutinizing his government, as was reported on March 11, 2012, Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State said that over 2,000 Rivers and non-Rivers indigenes have so far benefited from his Special Overseas scholarship programme...