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...

Social Housing in Nigeria – An Imminent Mass Housing Revolution?

Nigeria is yet to develop a vibrant housing and mortgage market, social and affordable housing policies, and housing continues to be provided through tortuous traditional methods of buying land and building over some years...

Nigeria: What We Should Ponder On

We all complain about Nigeria but the truth of the matter is that you and I make up the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Our lackadaisical individual lives have affected our collective goals as a nation...

Equal Opportunity Embezzlers

Mr. Dimeji Bankole, the speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives has finally conceded to a probe, over the car purchase contract scandal rocking the lower house at the moment...

Yar Adua Cannot Lead Nigeria Anywhere

Nigerians are the worst of dysfunctional optimists in the world. But shock awaits their timidity. Umaru Musa Yar Adua will never lead Nigeria anywhere. He is grossly ill equipped for that...

Babatunde Fashola: the Loner of Sodom?

There are legitimate questions to ask about Fashola’s road to office. It is a photocopy of Yar’Adua’s route to Aso Rock: the route of brazen, nepotistic, and muscular godfatherism...

Licensed to drive, licensed to cheat

Some Nigerians who are seemingly unqualified to drive but who obtain driving licenses indiscriminately contribute to the rise in motor accidents as well as swell the ranks of those who use the licenses to impersonate and defraud...

Fan Your Fascination into Flame

What will you do for Nigeria? In ten years time what will people say about you in Nigeria? What will the growing generation of Nigerian's write about you?

If The Niger Bridge Collapses…

From what we are seeing, the Federal Government is not behaving as if it is aware that a devastating tragedy is lurking at the corner, waiting to strike...

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Nutrition: South-East and South-South endangered by pollution

Malnutrition is widespread in the South-East and South-South zones of Nigeria. Observations are that malaria, anemia and other epidemics are prevalent in the provinces...

Ribadu’s Quest to Be President

The recent declaration by Nuhu Ribadu, former boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, that he would run for the presidency of this country in the 2011 elections, may not have come as a surprise to many people...

Notes on 2011 Presidential Debate

The recently concluded presidential debate has taken discussions about the forth-coming general elections in Nigeria to a different and interesting dimension. Overall, the event was well organised, well attended and more importantly very well followed and now widely discussed...

Trump Wakes Nigeria: Nigeria Remains Awake

J. P. Clark’s poem "Night Rain" recounts the hardships...

Hypocrisy In The Face Of Truth: The Abacha Verdict

I used to think Nigeria has been ruled by corrupt leaders, but now I have changed my mind. Nigeria was ruled and is still being ruled by depraved, murderous and heartless leaders...

Eye Candy

Why do Africans go back home and then call it a vacation when the whole point of a vacation is to escape from home?

This Fiction Called Nigeria  

There is a new hard-hitting book on my desk...

Naija Notes: Rent-A-Saboteur

The number 3 has always had a bad resonance in the Nigerian political landscape: 1983, 1993 and now 2003...

Nigerian Elections: Some Early Warnings

Bomb warehouse in central Lagos, truckload of arms and ammunition in Jos, political violence in Nigeria has tripled as the election draws nearer, what could be going on?

Good News from Ekiti State

By Michael Abiola Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji's selection as 'Governor...