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...

How the Niger Deltans can get their freedom: The Action Plan! (Part 7)

The issue of the new special ministry of Niger Delta just created by Yaradua is so important that no amount of space and time devoted to its analysis could be too much...

The Ya Before the Hoo

You know that Nigeria is Sisyphus in the hands of this parasitic and unimaginative cartel that has recycled and reproduced itself so brilliantly since independence. Every time you think that Nigeria has begun to wriggle out of their hands, it rolls right back...

Niger Delta: Sitting On Oil, Hungry For Bread!

Ever since oil drilling got under way in the Niger Delta’s Oloibiri in the early 1950s, the communities that surround this stormy body of “oil-hood” have lived in dread of an environmental failure...

Niger Delta: Sitting On Oil, Hungry For Bread! (2)

Ever since oil drilling got under way in the Niger Delta’s Oloibiri in the early 1950s, the communities that surround this stormy body of “oil-hood” have lived in dread of an environmental failure...

On the History of Nigeria Railways

What was left for us by the British as a legacy of colonialism, we found it difficult to build on, not to talk of sustaining and improving it, contrary to such in other parts of the world. That is the way Nigeria has gone…

Senator Muhammadu Adamu Aliero, The Rising Profile of An Achiever

This is our toast, the toast of a long lasting covenant, the covenant of love and peace, that the Kebbi people shall remain united and that their leaders will strive to change their stations...

Nigeria – Disintegration Secession: Cop Out, Not a Solution

Is Nigeria worth saving? Why is Nigeria worth saving? How do we save Nigeria? Can this about to be forty-eight years old be redeemed from itself?

Speaking Truth to Power: President Yar’Adua’s Kairos Moment?

The recent times in Nigeria resemble a drama containing scene after scene with no discernable plot or any conclusion in sight.  The Nigerian audience is served and presented with one period of lethargy after another...

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Nigeria: Let our economic patriotism begin

After listening to Mr. President's budget speech, I couldn't control my happiness because it was as if the President had just read my mind. Here are some of the things I've been thinking...

Why Looting May Not Stop In Nigeria

Many years ago, when heavy traffic on Carter Bridge consisted of several new Raleigh bicycles racing along, some motorcycles and a couple of cars, a man returned to his village from Lagos, with a well tailored new dress, with which he hoped to cause a stir in Church the following Sunday...

Global Media Imbalance And Michael Peel’s Africa

The age-old reliance by African countries on Western media such as the BBC, Financial Times, CNN, VOA, etc., for information has not really done Africa much good. The time has come for Africa and Africans to start telling their own stories...

Orunmila, Odia And The NLNG Prizes

Every prize in the world lives not on bread alone but also from conditions that flow forth from its overall objective. Since prize sponsors have the freedom of conditions, what then is bad if the architects of the NLNG Prizes compose conditions that exclude offshore Nigerian scientists and writers...

A Hospital For Chima Ubani

In this sad season in Nigeria I got filled...

The Rage of Mbize Erosion in Southeast Nigeria

Mbize: Rage of Red Earth (Stories, Songs on Landslide,...

Examination Malpractice: Our Today Tomorrow

Our certificates are already being rejected abroad due to its loss of credibility. How shameful for us as the giant of Africa. We must all join hands to expunge examination fraud from our nation. Enough is enough!

My Magic Music Man Majek Fashek

It takes a playfully mischievous magician to conjure heavy...

The Nigerian Press is Becoming Lazy, Corrupt, and Moribund

Today, the Nigerian Media is a shell of its once plump self: it has lost its way. And more so since 1999, the Nigerian Media has become lazy and moribund. And corruptible!

Eurozone Politicians are Rejecting Austerity Measures unlike African leaders

France and Greece are electing politicians that have rejected austerity policies which African leaders gladly accepted in 80s and 90s...