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...

The Servant-Leader

When good governance translate into the measurement of outcomes and effects of public policy execution, as it should be, the government of this nation, led by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, performed below optimal efficiency...

Akin Oshuntokun and Nigeria’s History of Corruption

In Today’s Nigeria, the biggest fools are the street urchins and the armed robbers. Why they waste valuable time, talent and energy robbing people of one hundred dollars or less is what I don’t bloody understand...

TRUESAID – Shaping Democracy for “Betta” Nigeria (Part 2)

The world has been conned into believing and, as a matter of fact, virtually accepting that freedom and equal rights are synonymous with democracy...

Trashed Probe: A Service Fee Crash Or The Due Process Casualty

From the look of things it appears that we don't have the will power to move a nation from economic and political obscurity to the luminous progress of the present global dispensation...

Criminalisation Of Poverty

It is the honest poor that get arrested on the mere suspicion that their haggard, hungry look suggests they might be criminals, or even for such non-existent offences like ‘wandering’, and dumped and forgotten in detention camps for being unable to buy their freedom...

Inferiority Complex: Nigerians and Their White Counterparts

It has to be humiliating what we are going through as a nation: an incompetent, rapacious and thieving leadership lording over a fatalistic, gullible and poverty-stricken populace...

An Abject Abdication of Responsibility

Most of us who are offended by our wayward ways as a nation need to minimise the  analyses and come together in order to initiate something that will catalyse positive change in our society in decades to come...

“Accountability” in Oyo State: A New Word in Alao-Akala’s Lexicon

What Alao-Akala is doing is steal enough money with which he can create his own niche, establish his own connections and power base, and buy up everybody who is for sale in Oyo State in order to facilitate his re-election in 2011 since Adedibu is no longer able to rule Oyo State by proxy...

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Sefi Atta: Something Good Comes to Nigerian literature

Writers are not protected from discrimination. When I worked as an accountant I dealt with discrimination and I’m still dealing with it now. It’s funny, looking back from my first writing class, it feels like I’ve been on one long audition, standing before an audience who is yelling, What have you got? Go on, tell us an African story!

Aregbesola should mind his business

Aregbesola made the call for the establishment of a northern ministry whilst delivering a speech at a symposium on ‘Islam and Peaceful Co-existence in Contemporary Multi-Religious State’ in Abuja. In the governor’s intention, such ministry will have the task of dealing with the problems of unemployment, poverty and women affairs in the north...

Travel and Black Identity: Location, location, location

In an ideal world, travelers would manifest the ideal...

What Future?

Are the current leaders the best foot we can put forward? Is any willing to get off the fence and out of their comfort zones? Can this generation make changes to Nigerian political schematics?

Nigerians in Diaspora: The Rescue Agenda

The year 2012 is gradually fading off.  It has been fatally uneventful especially for Nigerian masses. While some nations are recording success and breakthroughs in all areas of human developments, countries such as Nigeria continue to struggle...

Memo To The Electoral Reform Panel

I don’t think much of the intention of the Yar’Adua government to reform the electoral process. Although he had empanelled a body, with a sprinkle of some credible personages, he and his government have showed disturbing streaks of abhorrence towards reforming the rouge system...

SNC 2002: End Of Year Report

Can any nation replicate the advancements of western civilization without slavery and the exploitation of the weak for cheap raw materials and labour?

Nigerian Army: No Longer Business as Usual with Buhari in Charge

It must confound any decent soldier as it confounded...

Patrick Osagie Eholor…Apolitically Pro-People Humanitarian

Of the apothegms employed by thinkers in their classification...

The Great Confusion About Xmas

Since only-God-knows-when, Christians all over the world have contended with several issues that have brought the validity of Christianity under an unimaginable scrutiny by those seeking to discredit the Christian faith...