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 6)

Some militant groups, unfortunately, are making some tactical mistakes by releasing kidnapped foreign oil workers. This is a very serious blunder on their part! The militants, instead of releasing kidnapped or captured foreign oil workers, should step up their kidnapping...

Niger Delta Governors: Where Have All Our Money Gone?

As a Nigerian and as a Niger Deltan, I say to my people - the militants, the activists, the everyday persons and to all justice-seeking groups - the time has long gone for us to hold our various governments and elite responsible for some of the atrocities and injustices in our region...

An Open Letter to Professor Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, PhD, OON

Prof, shebi you kuku know our people. I don’t know about Nigeria but your venture has caused a combination of hurricane Katrina and Asian tsunami among diasporic Nigerians...

Re-visiting Ribadu’s Demotion – Was it a Conspiracy?

Proving conspiracies at the best of times is a difficult thing. But what is not difficult to prove, because it is as clear as the bright light of day, is the fact that Mallam Ribadu has many enemies...

The Power Against People's Rights: What If Nigerians Are For Sale?

We no longer fully have what our ancestors, who framed and ratified our Constitution, thought of as freedom - a careful division of power that prevents power from becoming concentrated and unlimited...

Speaking Truth to Power: Every Nigerian is corrupt?

Littered around us, in our very own narrative, in Nigeria and abroad are many hard working Nigerians who are not corrupt and would rather die than visit that road of ruin and destruction...

The Lost Privilege And The Rivers Of Oil

In keeping with my uncanny ability always to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, I ventured to Rivers' political cycle just as various ethnic cysts were ramming polluted "Rivers Of Oil" packed with explosives into then habitable oil city...

Nigerians Love Justice

Unlike the “victory” awarded to the likes of Akala, Oyinlola, Gbenga Daniel, David Mark, et al, at the tribunals, the impulse generated by Mimiko’s victory, like that of Adams Oshiomole and Peter Obi at the Supreme Court, truly reflected the will of the electorate...

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Sending off “Sendforth”

The holler of “Happy New Year” is all over...

Mrs. Patience Jonathan Resigns

Yes; that was how I first saw the headline...

Calculating Nigeria's Correct GDP

To an indolent mind, sexing data to pump up GDP figures is an example of how politicians lie with statistics. But a critical mind will see the ingenuity in such an expansion of the base of the estimates that make up a country’s GDP, as such illicit activities as smuggling, child trafficking, prostitution, drug trafficking and corrupt practices are part of the underbelly of every modern society...

Is monogamous fidelity a deliberate choice?

Maybe in the wake of the pervasive sex scandals involving men occupying top social, political, economic and spiritual positions, it might help if society can so challenge, inspire and motivate men to once again begin to believe that monogamous fidelity can still be possible in this post-modernist 21st century...

World Cup: Folly Of Relying On Goodluck

I do agree that football certainly has a unifying character.  However, this lasts only 90 minutes and football has not emulsified us. We have spent billions of naira on football and the best we get is unnecessary heart attack...

AIT Deserved Sanction, Not A Shutdown!

How would anyone like to see the charred remains of his father, mother, uncle or cousin on television? What is the voyeuristic newsworthiness in the body parts displayed on screen by AIT and perhaps, by other broadcasters?

Nigeria Nation: Victim of Terror, Not A Terrorist State

By all definitions and with whatever measuring standard, Nigeria is not a terrorist nation. Anybody or any government that think otherwise is only exhibiting a fallacy of judgment...

Computer Love

I have met a couple of people who met their boy/girlfriends over the internet and subsequently got married and are still happily married till this day...

Condoms, HIV/AIDS And You!

Following my article published here entitled, "Nigeria's Last Virgins", Dr. Anthony Odoh, a Nigerian physician in Spain, sent me this very illuminating paper...

Southwest: Beyond the toga of statism

The Lagos State Government recently endorsed a food production...