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...

Awka Kidnappings and Enemies Within

It is frightening that what may have started as genuine acts of protest have since been hijacked and elevated into a multi-million naira money spinner by those who are directly and indirectly involved in the business of kidnapping...

Atiku Abubakar and His Nigerian Leadership Project

There are a lot of ways Atiku can serve Nigeria other than being the president, except he has other motives for aspiring to be the president of Nigeria...

An Open Letter to President Umaru Yar’Adua 2

Mr. President, we have a model to show us the way. It is not Dubai, as some commentators on the Niger Delta have suggested. It is Venice. It is Venice, not Dubai, because like Venice, the Niger Delta is in the main a collection of islands and marshy terrains...

Why I Will not Emulate Jesus

Imagine the weight that would be lifted off President Yar’Adua’s shoulders if 150 million Nigerians decided to emulate the dietary practices of Jesus by fasting all the time, especially in the forty days and forty nights preceding the Presidential elections of 2011?

Nigeria’s Vision From A Blueprint!

Except for oil, Nigeria’s economic sectors, including agricultural produce and solid minerals, are in poor shape...

Rebranding Nigeria : An Elitist Sarcasm

Let me say unequivocally clear that I have no doubt in my mind that Dora Akunyuli means well for the nation. However, the Minister's strategy is fundamentally flawed, because it lacks merit on  basis, and  the possibility of  its success is next to zero. It will amount to another unreasonable wastage, and an effort in futility...

An Open Letter to President Umaru Yar’Adua

I am writing this letter to present an alternative vision of the Niger Delta to its present reality of widespread poverty, environmental devastation through oil spillage and gas flares, armed insurrection and criminality, and government containment...

The Role of Civil Society and Governmental Agencies in the Fight against Corruption, Poverty and Terrorism in Africa

The governance process in Africa is reflective of the current democratic wave and to this extent; it is abundantly evident that increasingly the continent is shifting away from the pervasive trend of “bad” governance towards “good” governance...

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Christmas Bombings: A Nation Courting Death

Last Sunday, Nigeria made another bloody bid for global infamy as bombs detonated in churches in Abuja and elsewhere in the country. At the time of this writing, the death toll stood at more than twenty-five, and was expected to rise. That’s a staggering loss of live...

That $90 Billion Hajj Subsidy

Let’s get serious for once in this country. The government...

Sleepless And Speechless In Abuja And Other Cities

My people are still suffering, corrupt ex-governors and other politicians are still roaming the streets and still dictating the tunes, current politicians are still embroiled in the mesh of corruption...

Ojukwu: The Megalomaniac And Demagogue: Really?

I never met Ojukwu when he was alive. But every historian and other researchers worth their brief know that you need not know your subject personally to write about him or her...

Loving Nigerians, Just The Way We Are?

There are several things that can keep you miserable about Nigeria. But I'd like to take a big break from being the pessimist so as not to sound like a broken-record, and see some of the things that seem to be 'working' in our country...

Asari: When a non-Nigerian wants to upturn Nigeria?

Alhaji Mujihad Dokubo-Asari is at it again! He has been making comments that are capable of upturning the fragile peace and stability that exist not only in Rivers State, but in the country...

Why Washington opposes Jonathan's reelection?

The Third Term's failure that led to Obasanjo vacating power made it difficult for Washington to be calling the oil shots. And despite Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's sickness, he stopped Washington from calling the oil shots...

Talent Is Never Enough

This is not just the summary of how Arsenal wasted their chance of becoming Premiership Champions for the 2007/08 season. It is a literary reminder of one of football’s most important lessons...

Decongesting Nigerian Cities: Stemming Rural-Urban Drift in Today’s Nigeria

It is mostly in Lagos and other big cities in Nigeria that one can find an able-bodied, well-fed beggar, who can see, hear and speak, is not in anyway physically challenged, and is straight-faced about his lazy means of livelihood...

The 1960 Collective: No to Mohammed Abubakar!

The 1960 Collective Welcomes the Removal of Hafiz Ringim, but Condemns the Appointment of Mohammed Abubakar as Acting Inspector General of Police in Nigeria...