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...

Dora, Go Girl, Rebrand!

If only we could be wise, patient and discern what the end would be for Dora? How could we doubt the possibility that one woman, a witch for efficiency, superwoman Dora, could rebrand the destiny of 140 million Nigerians?

Re-Branding Nigeria – A Game of Roulette!

Mrs Akunyili, do I really care if India has a lot of poverty and is yet more internationally accepted than Nigeria, if my child still remains jobless five years after graduating from a University where my life investment was spent on the hope of creating a future for him?

Periscoping the Nigerian Mentality

Nobody is willing to stand tall and question the source of the wealth of the overnight money-bags who are now being heralded. The demise of the traditional policing system is not helpful either...

Is Col. Abubakar Umar A Dark Horse For Aso Rock in 2011? – Part 2

Although much of Colonel Umar’s time since his departure from the armed forces has been spent in the company of ostriches, he has not shown any signs of mimicking their innate disposition of digging their heads in the sand...

Is Col. Abubakar Umar A Dark Horse For Aso Rock in 2011?

On a balance of political probabilities, it would not seem too farfetched, I think, to postulate that come May 2011, there may very well be a different Helmsman at the rudder of controls of our national Ship of State...

Blessed People, Reluctant (Political) Will, Little Direction

There can hardly be a greater obscenity than having a clergyman’s aircraft, just by sitting idle in a hangar at an airport, gulp millions of worshipers’ money every month while the worshipers are supposed to subsist on the whole package of faith, the Holy Spirit...

Orile Ede: Preliminary Reflections

Whenever I’m invited to reflect critically on the condition of the state in Africa using Nigeria as an example, I always love to unpack the philosophical underpinnings of Orile Ede, if only to illustrate how and why Nigeria’s project nationhood was doomed from the very beginning...

An Abject Abdication of Responsibility (2)

My issue with Obasanjo is his abject abdication of responsibility and refusal to take the blame, as a good and great leader should do. He practically admitted that people in his government were corrupt, but tried desperately to absolve himself of any blame. This in itself was corruption...

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Thank you, FIFA, but no thanks!

My parents did not teach me to be arrogant, neither did my teachers. Arrogance is something you could pick up along the road of life, and sometimes too when you seem blessed with the benefit of some hindsight...

GSM Telephony and Associated Hazards: Nigeria Says No To Precautionary Principle

There is currently considerable confusion over the health and safety issues relating to non-ionizing radiation emitted by GSM telephony base stations and handsets...

Okey Ndibe's Passport Seizure: A test of our predictable elasticity

My prior experience with the SSS predicted a termination of my self-imposed literary intermission. Not for the sake of furlough for furlough’s sake though. These political days make the graduation from scrawling to partaking, reckonable...

Paul Mamza's Nigeria's Unsung Heroes Series

It is refreshingly different and a welcome relief to witness a Nigerian Public Intellectual of Paul Mamza's stature discuss a Nigerian patriot, even though General Idiagbon is no longer with us...

The collapse of the Naira: Nigeria's Strategic Blunder

Nigeria has so far achieved theoretical quantitative macroeconomic fundamentals, but a lot needs to be done particularly on stabilizing her bearish Naira currency. Although Naira is relatively stable, it is weak and soft when you compare it to other major currencies...

PDP, APC Or Nigerians: Who Really Holds The Power?

In a political season where betrayals have become the...

Sino-American Diplomatic Rapprochement

There were scholars and policy bureaucrats who, for decades, benefited from anti-communist hysteria and in the process, hindered the positive development of Sino-American relations...

The Latest Singing Sensation Called ANE

There was the time when all the vibes belonged...

Listening In…Taa! I Know You Do It Too. Don’t Judge Me

It’s interesting the encounters you have when you take public transportation. You get to see different people, listen in on their conversations, and often you have to listen to a stranger tell you his or her life story...

British Politics in Top Gear

In the current campaign by the three leaders of the Labour, the Conservative and Liberal parties, the problem of immigration is a major issue...