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...

Igbos of Delta State and Crisis of Identity (Part 1)

It is unfortunate that our crisis of identity extends to our own Igbo brothers and sisters across the Niger who are supposed to know better. Unfortunately, they regard themselves, as “the proper Igbos” while the Delta Igbos or Ika Igbos or Western Igbos are regarded derogatorily as “Hausa-Igbos”. ..

Call For Interim Government: Undemocratic Games?

If a doomsday prophet defines politics as a mean-spirited enterprise motivated by greed, it can be accepted and used to describe a new political paradigm as seen through the eyes of opposition parties in Nigeria...

Conversation with Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State

We were the first government in Nigeria to establish a functional due process unit. We are very clean; my hands are clean. I am not corrupt. My government is very transparent. Those who say I am a thief are not being 100% correct...

Infrastructure Concession in Nigeria as Panacea

With the support of the World Bank and other financial institutions, many African governments are adopting the concession option for the development of their basic infrastructure...

How PDP Governors are Under-Developing the South-West

The giant strides in economic, education, industrial and infrastructural development of the South West witnessed during the First Republic was unprecedented. These gains are being threatened under the present set of Governors!

Tax Reform and Illegal Commission Agent: Oyigbo Example

The State of Rivers is guilty of illegal taxation of its residence, who, with a fair and objective policy on traffic speed enforcement, would not be considered criminals and could not be reasonably or ethically expected to pay what can only be described as a tax...

Olórunsògo

Olórunsògo is the fading inscription written above the door entrance of the communal living quarters popularly called Face-Me-I-Face-You in local parlance, located at the end of Liadi Street

Nigeria’s Economic Greatness: Possibilities and Opportunity In Waste!

Once again an already fragile national consciousness has been rattled, this time by the blunt remarks of some "right wing" politicians that describe this nation as “hopeless dean" habouring the lives of people with  conspicuous affluence...

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Terrorism and the Conspiracy Against Nigeria

By simple commonsense and deductive reasoning going by the profiling of apprehended or known ‘terrorists’, everybody knows that international terrorism is now a major problem of the 21st century and that terrorists can come from any family, community, country or religion...

Gov. T.A. Orji’s Love For A United Nigeria

Whether the world would take Gov. Orji seriously in the future is left for the world. But the fact remains that he has disappointed the trust the people once had for him...

Referendums and Metaphors on Nigeria?

Why are some Nigerians at some sort of permanent loggerheads with fellow Nigerians, and yet, these same Nigerians seem to hold on, tenaciously to every whimper about Nigeria by some nitwit foreigner?

Congratulations!

Those who were unsuccessful at the just concluded elections should embrace the rule of law, due process and democracy. The burden is on them...

Oceanic Bank Honoured In London As Nigerian Bank Of The Year 2007

At the prestigious Dorchester Hotel, London, Oceanic Bank was adjudged the Nigerian Bank of the Year for the second year running...

Liberation Theology And The Nigerian Christian Community (part 1)

What these Pentecostal churches do these days is simply to spread fear and panic in the minds of their vulnerable followers. They defend the rotten ‘social order’ in Nigeria through their acts of omission and commission which in turn helps to literally kill and dampen the probing and critical mindset of the oppressed Nigerians...

IGBO Presidency and Igbo Question within the Nigerian Framework: Matters arising

          The Nigeria political landscape is undergoing the farming season...

Speaking Truth to Power: Mr President and the Chaos called Nigeria

Mr President, my thoughts have recently reverted back to the question of your legacy as President and the fact that there are no invisible ones.  I am inclined to ask what story would you tell your grand children?

Supreme Court Silence: A Judgment Without Words?

The silence of Nigeria’s Supreme Court over the Certified...

My Own Obama Moment

Obama’s election may not signal the end of the Blackman’s struggle for economic, social and political emancipation, but rather it opens another vista of self-consciousness, of pride and self-awareness for the black man...