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...

Is There a Potential For War in Bakassi?

Recent Statements by some senior Military Leaders in Nigeria indicate that there is great displeasure with the outcome of the Border Conflict with neighboring Cameroon...

Lagos: Mega City, Mega Miseries!

No sincere person can deny that Lagos is fast acquiring a refreshingly new face. The roads which were once famous for their horrible, car-destroying, hypertension-multiplying craters are beginning to experience rapid transformations...

The Niger Delta Doesn’t Need War But Sincerity

The Niger Delta is in ferment and with it the Nigerian state and the entire world oil industry. For now, the hottest issue in international oil politics is how to deal with the cyclical Niger Delta problem...

The Insults and the Injuries are Piling Up on Us

The current situations in Nigeria are disgusting me and I am feeling like puking or giving up hope that I will ever see a country where righteousness prevails...

Nwosu And June 12: A Call For Social Action

I have now come to the conclusion that members of the ruling cabal in Nigeria are plain demons. I thank God that those generation of unpatriotic military officers are gradually losing their firm grip on power...

Taking The Niger Delta To The Chatham House: Convicting The Blood! Curtailing The Oil!

That the Nigerian economy has lost more than one billion dollars a month and hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude a day since 2006 due to unrest in the Niger Delta is not a fresh story...

Probe The NDDC And Scrap It!

We know it as truth that in Africa, any time mothers decide to cry out on any issue, it is always difficult to deny them an ear...

TRUESAID – Shaping democracy for betta Nigeria (Part 1)

 The trouble with Nigeria is simply arrogance of power based on complete lack of accountability from its leaders. All else - corruption, traffic jams, police brutality etc, etc are simply details of these...

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Osinbajo Foot Soldiers: Rise of Hungry Authors and Pseudo-Intellectuals

I have found myself at the centre of an...

The Role of Military Intelligence and Diplomacy in the Era of World Terrorism: A Note to the UN Security Council Members

The world is divided amongst states with different worldviews, which are irreconcilable. China has increased its military budget. Japan has freed itself from the impositions put on its constitution after the Second World War...

As GEJ Fights Back, will the opposition fold?

Politically, this President has been adroit regardless of his misgovernance; fighting back while keeping to time-worn political battle principles that will make Sun Tzu and Machiavelli very proud. Not a mean feat for a man who is not just grossly incompetent, but lacks any moral conviction when it comes to associating with convicted criminals...

Between Evangelical Opportunists and Opportunism

Religion, like politics, is an effective powerful weapon of social control. For good or bad it has transformed individual societies and shaped the faith of man towards divinity...

Fayemi and Oyebanji: Lessons in Mentorship

Let me start by saying that I am not...

If You Must, Do It The Right Way

It is a universal fact that when it comes to cheating and being devious, women do a better job.You know why?Because we are just plain smarter; we think ten steps ahead of our men...

Are You Sure You Want To Do This, Dora Akunyili?

Only one reason may have informed Akunyili’s appointment. The Yar’Adua regime only wanted to exploit the enormous admiration and goodwill she enjoyed from Nigerians to shore up its badly battered image...

Ngige Re-branded Akunyili

Because Ngige is a man of the people, those aligned with Dora are now saying that they respect him, but he should have contested in another senatorial district and not have contested against Dora, which has led to the latter’s disgrace...

2007 Presidency And Zonal Configuration: Panacea For One Nation?

There seems to be an absence of unbiased Nigerians on the stage who want to sow the seed of honesty and integrity in the new generation...

The World According to Chinweizu

 There is absolutely no excuse for the mayhem that plays out in Nigeria every day. Under the watch of a greedy cabal of intellectuals, pastors, priests, imams, and our agbada-clad weevils, our land burns, roasting helpless children, men and women whose crime was to be born in a land of abundance – an abundance of thieves. Soyinka is right. We were sent the wrong people. We asked for statesmen and we were sent executioners...