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...

Yar’adua’s Electoral Reform Panel Spoof: Go Home!

It has be seven hundred days of hobbling in the dark for the Yaradua administration. More than two years after his selection, the only achievement he can point to is doing no harm – or at least pretending not to...

Socialism or Welfare Reconstruction For Nigeria?

To avoid perhaps the impending apocalyptic prediction by the US intelligence of “Nigeria as a failed state”, I have proposed that the country should return to its former regional formation...

Massobite Ralph Uwazuruike Rumbled By US Agents

The desire to create a distinct Biafran identity suffered a crisis of integrity recently when Ralph Uwazuruike, the revolutionary and leader of Massob was rumbled in a property deal in Dallas, USA...

Why We Must Rebrand Nigeria

In the context of today’s realities, the question should no longer be whether Nigeria should initiate or resuscitate a national branding campaign but rather how should such a campaign be managed to achieve maximum impact...

Vote Rigging Nigerians In 2011!

The Nigerian system of governance is wide open to fraud and any would-be political fraudster knows that. There is a likelihood that the forthcoming general election in 2011 will be blighted...

Arrest Them All – A Call To The EFCC

My wife was concerned that I am growing emergency grey hairs simply because I seem to be carrying Nigeria's problems on my head. She seemed to think I am fighting a futile battle, which others greater and more influential than me had fought and had failed...

Is Violence Against Non-Indigenes Constitutional?

The Nigerian human rights record since the advent of the current democratic government cannot be said to have scored anything appreciable in the promotion and protection of the rights and fundamental freedoms of Nigerians...

Hon. Pat Obahiagbon: A Verbal Contortionist and Bombastic Patriot

Representative Pat Obahiagbon has much to say and a very interesting way of saying that which he has to say. He is in love with words...

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Deji Of Akure (8)

I am sick and tired of all the fake princes now showing up their faces in Akure today. I know quite a few of them as princes in their own right. But there are some of them that are only out for mischief...

The Virgins Of Flaming Change

I must say, after reading The Virgin of Flames that I heartily recommend it to all lovers of good literature. This book is a delightful riot of sizzling prose, robust poetry and keep-me-up-at-night issues...

Nigeria, After the Beijing Games

Its two months after the Beijing Olympics and a few weeks after the Paralympics and the Nigerian Government has not made any comments on the athlete’s performance nor organized a reception for them...

Reflections In A Mirror Offer Opportunity For Objectivity

Without doubt, the present high crime rate in Wilmington is having some adverse effects on the economic and social landscape of an otherwise beautiful city. The city fondly described as "a place to be someone" is fast becoming a city of nobody...

Open letter to Alhaji Sani Yerima

It is perhaps right to state that the last has not been heard about your unceremonious marriage to a minor and the consequent barrage of public criticism it generated. June 15, 2010 is your next date with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic Persons...

How the Niger Deltans can get their freedom: The Action Plan! (Part 7)

The issue of the new special ministry of Niger Delta just created by Yaradua is so important that no amount of space and time devoted to its analysis could be too much...

The Power of Ideas

The power of ideas is enormous but the power of prophecy is awesome. Those who have rigged elections or caused elections to be rigged on their behalf, the guilt shall come upon you...

Britain in a peculiar mess

The British government, an amalgam of Conservative and Liberal politicians with unclear ideological orientation, may wish to find a new path through which the British society can meet the challenges of the 21st century...

Big Country, Small President

The powers-that-be of Nigeria take great pleasure in describing...

June 12: Thy Spirit Liveth!

General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) served in the Nigerian...