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 Limps On

After ten years of uninterrupted ‘democratic’ rule in Nigeria, many in and out of the country still wonder if anything has changed? Not a lot has really...

Anambra Oni Baje!

Fashola may not be coming to Anambra state as governor in 2010 but it will not be out of place to expect some of the cowboys and hopefuls for the Anambra state governor’s seat...

The President’s Empty Perhaps Plenty Promises

Name one thing that the federal government does right apart from looting the treasury and perhaps we can celebrate Democracy Day day in peace...

We Must Do Something

Haba Honourable!! That oil was meant for your pocket now. Didn’t you hear what the Speaker said that day it was shared? I thought I didn’t hear well myself until I asked him again in his house. He told me it was entirely my business what I did with the money

MEND, Rebels With a Cause or A Crime Gang?

Is MEND benefiting any public good? Has MEND benefited any Niger Deltan, except MEND itself? Is the Nigerian government wrong in its all out war against MEND?

Alpha Males and Area Boys

In Nigeria, as in most other nations, the practice of our politics and its governance - since before, and ever since independence, and right through to the present time - has been an overwhelmingly male preserve and pursuit...

The Niger Delta Crisis: Nigeria Is Sitting On a Keg of Gunpowder

I would like to say that like many other Nigerians, I strongly condemn this tactics of the Nigerian Government. Niger Deltans, militant or civilians, at the last count, are Nigerian citizens, and we should tell the Yar ‘Adua Government that its action is abominable and unforgivable...

The Futility of Re-branding Nigeria

The Minister of Information and National Orientation Professor Dora Akunyuli would by now have painfully realized that the re-branding Nigeria project which she kicked off with an impressive ceremony in the first quarter of 2009 is an exercise in futility...

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Uniting Nigerian children to fight climate change

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has shown a well deserved approbation: He was vigilant in seeing the importance of children beyond their believed exclusive assignments of classroom and domestic chores...

A Tale of Two Goodlucks: a Security Man and a Vice-President

Considering Dr. Goodluck’s remarkable political ascent to date, only a fool would wager against his further ascent. Dr. Goodluck is a man with good luck, even if he is not the most politically astute...

Essays from Exile: Nigeria We Hail Thee!

Here I am standing in the fork at the end of the road. My mother calls from deep inside Africa and this time work must wait. My wife mama bomboy is taking me to the airport because I have to go to Nigeria to see mama even if it kills me...

Tragedy Without Majesty

President Barack Obama recently described Libya as a "mess"...

Rescuing Nigeria from the Rule of Lawlessness

A Nigerian jurisprudence has not taken root to deal with our wrong social values, the entrenched negative ethos, the disparity in the wage structure and the revenue allocation system, these hinder the positive operation of the rule of law...

Single Currency for Africa: Incidental Or Essential?

Rulers from African countries will meet at the next bi-annual AU summit to discuss political, security and financial issues affecting the world’s top sub-Saharan region. Nigeria still hopes that there will be a single currency for the countries of the African Union...

Saving the World from Itself: A World Peace Conference is Imperative (2)

Bilateral and multilateral agreements on arms control have not succeeded in affecting the arms race...

The Fourth Estate and the Other Estates

In order to be worthy inheritors of Burke’s fourth estate, rather than usurpers, Nigerian journalists ought to reclaim the moral and intellectual estates. This process would entail, above all, attention to the place of language in journalism...

Between the Third Sector and the Fourth Estate

The media in today’s highly digital world can help sharpen the focus of the world on pressing issues that humanity must band together to address. Thanks today to the revolution in information and communication technology, we have uninhibited access to information...

A Season of Endearment

Just why is it difficult for men looking for wives to find the women of their desires, and for women who are ready, able and willing to find their dream men?