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...

This Government and the Year 2009 Resolution

I’m convinced of the need to recognize that, politically speaking, we Nigerians have failed. Nigeria is just a caricature of a state, and the Nigerian nation a fictitious concept for sociologists and historians writing about the country...

“Syntax of Reality”: Questions For My State Government…And Yours!

I can confidently report that only Reuben Abati of The Guardian has the cajones to ask government officials for explanations. It is as if he is the only one not beholden to the allure and lucre of brown envelopes...

Are You Sure You Want To Do This, Dora Akunyili?

Only one reason may have informed Akunyili’s appointment. The Yar’Adua regime only wanted to exploit the enormous admiration and goodwill she enjoyed from Nigerians to shore up its badly battered image...

Snail-Pace Government And Nigerians’ Public Culture!

Nigeria can be developed successfully and this must be underpinned by tolerance, social cohesion and acceptance of democratic values....

The Almajiri, Talakawa Dan-Arewa Ideology

The Talakawa and their Almajiri can be transformed by the sudden dictates of history. Theoretically, they may not be revolutionary conscious but they are a potential revolutionary force...

Whose Vision Is It Anyway?

This Christmas period or even at any other time, you don’t want to fly into the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja at noon...

Re: Agagu vs. Mimiko: Waiting for moment of final truth

The likes of Gbadesire may extol Ondo State Governorship Tribunal ”for taking the pains to count and sort out 163 bags of ballot papers into wards and units without allowing PDP and LP officials into the room…”

Anti-Graft War In Nigeria: In Need of Reward or Review?

President Umaru Yar'Adua's efforts to combat corruption in this country have not been sufficient enough to justify receiving an award for anti-graft campaigning...

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Now that the Swap is Swapped

At an oil and gas reforms workshop which took...

Insecurity and the plight of kidnap victims (1)

Temitope Oladipo Fayehun must be passing through hard times....

Sex, AIDS & Bigmanism

Sex is a three letter word that acts like a wayward child. It is the art of copulation that was intended for committed married persons. It is one of the most abused creations of God in Nigeria. Almost everyone is having it...

Race-Relations Regressing In America

O'Reilly and persons like him just make my head spin, what with the monumental ignorance that they publicly exhibit? His dumb comments encapsulate and exemplify the state of affairs in race-relations in today's America...

Amaechi: A Man without a Tribe, Religion, Ethnicity; a Proponent of One Nigeria

In a Country that is sharply divided along ethnic,...

Even if Ebonyi has no Male Child…

Most Nigerians would readily lavish praise on the governor of Ebonyi State, Dr. Sam Egwu, because of the glowing pictures often presented by the Nigerian media about his administration. Thisday Newspaper in particular cannot deny its culpability in this mother of all frauds...

This Craze for Titles: Complex and Syndrome?

There are uncountable royal highnesses, high chiefs, double chiefs, triple chiefs, etcetera, in our localities.  ‘Chieftancy title’ may well be a Nigerian phrase. There may be more Rotarians, Lions, ‘Sirs’ and ‘Dames’ in Nigeria than the world put together going by those with these prefixes against their names...

Gaffing Gaddafi Garrotted

Libya’s feral underclass, spurred on by Western arm and primitive ethnocentric agenda eventually got their man. To the glee of every copywriter in the West, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s death was not only sensational in the newsroom but also a testimony to the power of propaganda...

Writing Your Way to Glory

I commend young aspiring writers from Nigeria. I urge them that even though Nigeria may have a poor reading culture or writing does not attract the kind of fame of music and Nollywood, they should keep their dream alive...