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...

Do Our Politicians Know The Constitution?

People always think politics is a game, but I always beg to differ. It is no longer a game when politicians make political decisions which affect the lives of millions of people, which determines their standard of living, their daily livelihood, their health and wellbeing, their security and in fact the very essence of their being alive...

Cry, My Beloved Nigeria

Nigeria deserves a better government that will be responsive to the yearnings of its people. Records indicate that twelve of the last thirteen Nigerian Presidents and Heads of State were circumstantial leaders...

Ibadan State: Beating My Tribal Drum

The State of Ibadan should be seen as a vehicle of development and social engineering. It has proved its worth both in gold and silver. Ibadan has accommodated the Egbas, Ijebus, Ijeshas, Ekitis, Deltans, Igbo, Hausas and other nationalities for centuries...

Chasing Shadows In The Anti-Corruption War

Our Minister for Justice and Attorney General has always been a barrier and stumbling block to progress in the anti-corruption fight. I really cannot comprehend how Nigeria came to have such people as Aondoakaa and others of his ilk in government...

Patriotism and Dora Akunyili’s Squealers

It takes a sophisticated degree of disingenuousness for anybody to refuse to understand that the greatest impediment to the Nigerian brand – if there is any - is the Nigerian state symbolized by the Federal Government and Aso Rock...

Great Nation, Good People Held Hostage

Nigeria’s image problem has a long history. It is the cumulative outcome of many years of failure to which various governments have contributed their share in varying measures…

Nigeria Has Abundant Resources; Where Are The Proceeds?

Minority citizens are typically marginalized from the affluent political society and have little representation or voice in public and political debates, making it even harder to escape poverty...

The Trials and Tribulations of a Leader

At the risk of sounding sanctimonious and being accused of being in support of Obasanjo, I have always been of the conviction that on the balance of probability, Obasanjo might not have been personally corrupt...

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Another Wasted Life

History will never forgive those who refused to take a positive decision in the case of the late Ms Eze Elizabeth Alabi...

Angry Bees Against Nigerian Politicians

Angry bees of the wild are up in arms...

Infusing Character Education into Nigeria's school Curriculum

Apart from the immediate family setting, the school is the next most important agent of socialisaton. But with eroding family values as a result of 'errant and absent' parents, the school is fast becoming an indispensable character molder of children...

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...

ECOWAS Is Toothless

ECOWAS to date has had diminutive successes and it has become a self serving community with Nigeria at the helm. The other fourteen member countries clearly have no political or economic clout...

Campus Politics and Leadership Matter

What students perceive of leadership is indeed wrong. Leadership to them is an opportunity to siphon money from union account for personal aggrandizement, a means of enriching oneself to the detriment of others...

Nigeria: Preventing Tomorrow’s War

From religious fundamentalist groups rising up against the state and its institutions, ethnic militias adopting arcane methods of their own in questioning the legitimacy of the Nigeria State, an increasing number of kidnapping and assassination cartels, over ambitious politicians who prefer settling political scores extra-judicially, increase in youth restiveness, to other potentially destabilizing acts of violence, Nigeria has become a theatre of war...

Was Jega’s Appointment as INEC Chairman A Mistake?

It is part of the Nigerian condition that our yesterday has a way of being better than our today. Otherwise who will ever think that in less than two months of being INEC Chairman, Jega seems to be already making Maurice Iwu look good?

Jacob Zuma: A 21st Century African Leader?

In Jacob Zuma, the Republic of South Africa has chosen a new President who is not only liked by his people, but someone seen by his countrymen as one of them...

Ace Economist Uka Ezenwe As The People’s Professor

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