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...

Maryam Babangida’s Cha-Cha, Cha-Cha

The Babangida brand belongs in the ilk of Africa’s better forgotten peonage to domestic tyrants and internal colonizers. Why defile the Obama week by evoking one of the terrible names that have constricted the Nigerian political space beyond the reach of any putative Obama?

An Open Letter to Governor Rotimi Amaechi

A couple of weeks ago, you raised alarm over the request by certain persons in the state who wanted you to share the common wealth with them. Presumably, these were, and are, persons who are steeped in the tradition of illicit government patronage...

An Open Letter to Governor Rotimi Amaechi

A couple of weeks ago, you raised alarm over the request by certain persons in the state who wanted you to share the common wealth with them. Presumably, these were, and are, persons who are steeped in the tradition of illicit government patronage...

Support Your Local Sheriff, The EFCC

The fight against corruption is not an easy fight, as I have observed and noted during my travel to Nigeria and interaction with the main players of the fight. The officials charged with this task are forever wary of threats to their lives and the threat of removal if the corrupt persons have their way through lobbying...

Encomium/Kennis Music Green and White Party: How Do You Celebrate Nigeria?

I write as a Nigerian who has observed with dismay how we have inadvertently allowed music as a form of art to undermine the fight against Advance Fee Fraud in general and the Internet form of it, in particular...

Kingsley Osadolor: Against Diasporic Nigeriana

Kingsley is a bookworm. The rows of books on my shelf astounded and overawed his inquisitiveness. Then his eyes brightened and his usual boom-boom voice came alive. Then in a very audacious move, he badgered into my one-roomed apartment wanting to know who amassed such unspeakable treasure in Lawanson...

Isaiah Osagiede: An Ode To The Honest And Sacrificial Abuja Cabman

There are still honorable and truthful Nigerians whose inner configurations are knitted with truth and their hearts are ruled by a sense of justice and fairness...

Segun Adeniyi’s Roforofo Conversation with his Conscience

Mr. Conscience, you are allowing yourself to be used by those foolish diasporic Nigerians who are writing me open letters. They more than deserve the spanking they got from Pat Utomi who calls them empty internet warriors...

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VOP or VIP?

No one gives a hoot what new party springs up. Nigerians’ minds are already made up that a new party is just like a new church or mosque springing up next door where the principal is after one and only one thing-MONEY!

Fireworks fly at Equiano Conference

Serious doubts are raised over whether Equiano ever visited Africa...

Towards a Sustainable Electoral Process in Nigeria

Elections and electioneering campaigns are becoming interesting in Nigeria...

A Date With A Prostitute

Abuja is replete with seemingly innocent streets that house prostitutes of different hues and shapes at night...

The Hypocrite in All of Us

If there is a bit of the hypocrite in all of us, then our hypocrisy is often at its highest when discussing public officials, especially politicians, in the context of money and sex...

What’s Bola Tinubu’s tangible worth?

The sole essence of a man or the sum...

Of Buharists, Jonathanians and a Simple Analysis of Political Immaturity

"We are products of our past, but we don't...

The World Must Embrace Sociocracy

The decline of civilization world-wide is a result of...

Delta Gubernatorial Election: Anioma’s Best Bet

Come April 26, 2011 Nigerians will be going to the polls to elect their governors. This is an opportunity to correct the past. And many states are set to do just that. Perhaps none is as poised to put behind it an inglorious past like Delta...

There Is Something Rotten Going On In Bayelsa State

This is corruption. This is theft. This is gross irresponsibility on the part of the state! Does the state not have competent legal officers to pursue the rogues who perpetrated this fraud?