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...

An Open Letter to the Movement of the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)

Armed militancy may have won us some concessions from the central government, but when everywhere we look, our villages and towns have turned into ghost towns, our people carry scars inflicted by their own sons...

An Open Letter to the Movement of the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)

Armed militancy may have won us some concessions from the central government, but when everywhere we look, our villages and towns have turned into ghost towns, our people carry scars inflicted by their own sons...

Delta Igbo And The East: Typical Twists In Oral Tradition

African peoples have long relied on oral accounts to learn about their past.  But the down side of this tradition remains its vulnerability to embellishment. The absence of written records, passage of time and the hunger for greatness have made the method most unreliable...

National Assembly: Not a Den of Thieves

Political party or leadership without a guiding philosophy or ideology is like a pilot without navigator. Any flight attempt will inevitably result in calamity and peril...

The Ongoing Destruction Of Ijaw Land

At the aftermath of the unprovoked attack on Ijaw communities in Gbaramatu kingdom of Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State the Ijaw nation wishes to state with emphatic unequivocation the following...

Finding a Legislative Alternative to Federal Character and Indigenization Policies

The current uniform local government system and the resulting chaos it has generated in states within our federal union is a poster child for legislative mess gone haywire...

Yoruba Gang Busted? Nigerians Are Dagger Drawn?

It makes eminent sense and good logic that Nigerians would want to defend, protect and preserve Nigeria. Nigeria's national and international image and pride of place on the world stage should matter to all Nigerians...

Nigerian Democracy is Dead!

It is time to view Nigeria as it really is. Far from demonstrating any robust gains from our democracy, we have, on the contrary, reaped broken hope, stalled vision, economic disarray, empty rhetoric and comatose nation building projects...

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Live Your Best Life Now!

Regrets are a total waste of time. What has happened has happened. You can't change the past, neither can you erase it but you most certainly can learn some lessons from it...

Lack of Vision

Nigerian politicians are used to just making speeches during elections not knowing that whatever they say goes a long way in showing how concerned and serious they are about positively affecting the lives of Nigerians...

Payment of Nigeria’s foreign debt: The largest transfer of wealth in modern time

The billions of dollars that Nigeria paid was larger than the donations the rich nations will be providing to poor countries in a period of ten years. The money paid to the rich nations of Paris Club and London Club of Creditors would have found its best use in Africa, if not in Nigeria...

Dìbò k’ó se’bẹ̀ and the raw reality of politics (2)

As Adlai Stevenson Jr. famously observed, “A hungry man...

Of Monstrous Cathedrals and Hungry Congregants

Sometime in 1989, a friend told a story of...

Who Really Qualifies to Fight Corruption in Nigeria?

To fight corruption in Nigeria, would it require a virgin or an angel? Should we fight corruption by hiring foreign agents, just as we do with foreign football coaches and technical advisers?

Hunger, Political Loyalty and Street Reality (1)

It is a painful reality that we must accept:...

Pastors & Prostitutes

It is a lot easier to live a celibate...

Mugabe’s Zimbabwe and the African Union

Asking the AU to do anything about Mugabe would be like asking a band of thieves to repent, forsake their ways and become saints. It is not going to happen in my life time...

There Was A Poet Called Christopher Okigbo

Writing on what passes for Nigerian politics today is...