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...

Perspectives On Nigeria’s Anti-Corruption War

Truth, when trying to define it, extends from honesty, reality, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular. The term has no single definition about which a majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree...

Chief Gani Fawehinmi and a Devalued Honours System

Considering the depths to which the institution of government in Nigeria has sunk and the reputational damage suffered as a consequence of its descent, it does seem strange that our governments continue to place great value on their stock of national honours...

Yes, Yar’Adua, Let The Immunity Clause Go!

Last week’s call by President Umar Musa Yar’Adua on the National Assembly to expunge the irredeemably iniquitous Immunity Clause from the Nigerian Constitution, most surely, ranked, in my opinion, as the most significant thing the man had uttered since he assumed office...

Back Stabbing Betrayal Tendencies of Dr Mimiko Why He May Never Rule Ondo State

Deceptive leaders like Mimiko will always believe that their private imperfections or inadequacies won’t have public consequences, but they always do...

The Supreme Court’s Poor Judgment

The Judiciary as headed by the Supreme Court ought to have nullified or cancelled the elections of 2007, which everyone but everyone had termed patently flawed for non-compliance with the Electoral Laws...

Homelessness in Nigeria, the Growing Scourge

More than three quarters of Nigerians who sleep outside daily have found themselves in that condition from a variety of factors, but mostly because the government seemingly has no place in its plans for their welfare…

Your 200 Naira or Your Life

If 5 years have gone by and corrupt cops are no longer demanding N20 but N200, has the value of a Nigerian’s life increased or what?

Strange Things Have Happened In Nigeria

Yeah, yeah, yeah…I know it is stale news but I am sure that many people missed the “blow-by-blow” account of how M.K.O. Abiola died in 1998...

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Gov Masari’s Eleven Billion Naira Lie

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Open Letter to President Muhammadu Buhari

Dear Mr. President, Consistency and enforcement of expectations provide the...

Thoughts on Revenue Generation

In a nationwide address last Monday, President Bola Tinubu...

Where Is the Pride of Nigerians?

Nigeria is challenged. With growth, we have a chance to wipe out the stigma of abject poverty, and our people can enjoy the advantages of being citizens of an increasingly prosperous country...

The Okonjo-Iweala-Adeniji Scandal Stinks to the High Heavens!

Creating a special cadre of public servants like Obasanjo has done is not the way to go at all. The case can now be made that Obasanjo's declared intent to reform the Civil Service, and end corruption in our country is a dead issue...

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...

Interview with Greg Zell, A Friend of Nigeria

Gregory Zell, an American Peace Corps volunteer served in Nigeria in the 1960s and fell in love with the country. He believes that Nigeria has the potentials of becoming one of the best countries in the world if only Nigeria and her people can put their acts together...

Nigeria Is Where the Heart Is

I have on occasions witnessed people sob, or become misty-eyed, when they speak of how much they miss friends and family and the community grew up in. They may grumble about this and that and about everything that is socially, politically and economically wrong with Nigeria; still, they'll tell you how much they miss home...

Yar’Adua And His Policies

That President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is a listening leader is not in doubt.  The fear being expressed by observers right now is the amount of goodwill behind the variety of advice he listens to...

Nigeria and her too many Wars

Wonders shall never stop happening and as I look...