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...

Oil Gas Local Content Policy: Challenging the Limelight of Nigeria’s Technology

Nigeria provides a classic case of a developing country where despite the presence of a wide institutional infrastructure for producing trained manpower, generating new knowledge and providing science and technology services, the industry became increasingly dependent on foreign technologies...

Eye sore on Lekki-Epe Expressway

Driving on the entire stretch of the Lekki-Epe Expressway at night is a nightmare because the street lamps are not functional. And when it rains the drainages overflow, houses are almost submerged...

Independence Day: A Historical Journey on Nigeria’s Creation

While we may have gained independence from the British in 1960, the last forty-eight years has certainly not been independent to the majority of Nigerians, because we are still enslaved to a small cabal of ingeniously evil, corrupt, selfish, greedy, mad and murderous people in power, who have brought us to our knees…

THISDAY, Lawrence Summers, and the Future of Africa

Obaigbena and his editors, in their infinite wisdom, have concluded that two representatives of American market fundamentalism are in the most auspicious position to perorate on “the challenges of Nigeria’s policy and market environment”. If we are lucky, the two Americans may even “proffer solutions” to our market challenges...

48 Years Of Nigeria’s Underdevelopment: A Fruit Of Failed And Recycled Policy!

Even if our governments are not the only ones that are bad, they have ranked low for decades on most international comparisons of corruption, state failure, red tape, lawlessness and dictatorship...

Nigeria’s Intelligence Agencies (Spy Network)

The Nigerian intelligence agencies must resolve to do a better job of protecting our vital interests. As things are, our boundaries, airports, seaports and waterways are not well-manned...

The Pedagogy Of June 12, 1993 Election

Since Prof. Nwosu released the result of the June 12, 1993, whilst launching his book, what has happened and what have we learnt from that episode and those events? What were the teachings and lessons of that unfortunate historical annulment?

Is Nigeria Worth Saving?

It is true that Nigerians as a people have a far way to go to achieve the fluid identity that we associate with the Americans or Russians, but it is also not true that Nigerians have not developed a distinct, common identity in their hundred plus years in one form of union or the other...

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Just how do they do it?

They tell you this all the time as a journalist in this country: “This profession is like the military. Once you are told ‘go’ you just go. Nobody cares how you do it. All that matters is that you bring the story.” I have heard such small-minded and outrightly anal lines severally...

#RevolutionNow is about Progress. Nothing less!

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality....

Ribadu’s Progressive Mistake

It is only a fool that will keep doing the same thing, and expect a different result… so paraphrased goes that wise saying. I cannot but come off with that conclusion on hearing of former EFCC boss Mallam Nuhu Ribadu declared intention to run for the nation’s highest office...

Public Diplomacy

President Obasanjo, while I admire some of your good attributes in government, would it not be advantageous to come out to say openly and to clear all the fuss like someone once said; if drafted you would not run, if nominated, you would not contest...

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?

What Happened To Nigeria’s $20 Billion?

Nigeria is subliminally going through perilous times. Unfortunately, the...

Tax Reforms and Nigeria’s new social contract

The recent 10-point statement by Zacch Adelabu Adedeji, Executive...

Ebereonwu: Tribute To A Rebel Poet

Ebereonwu believed that football as played by Jay Jay Okocha, boxing boxed by Muhammad Ali, the procession of arts, the web of a spider, the silence of a graveyard, when a man falls in love with his house girl, are all poetry...

His Head Held High…

Chris Ngige came into power through a skewed electoral process, shook off the stigma of stained personalities and worked for the good of his people. This is not to sanction the possible perfidy that brought him in power, but it is noteworthy that he fought in a honorable way to retain what he thought was his...

Who Wants 'The Guardian' Dead?

From all indications some entrenched forces unhappy over The Guardian's vocal independence and resourcefulness are manipulating the staff against the management...