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...

TheNews Vs Kalejaiye: The Stinking Judicial Romance In Osogbo

The Lagos-based popular newsmagazine 'TheNews', whose motto is "Defining the present, Shaping the future", stirred a huge national controversy by its last week's edition captioned: "The Scandal of Judges: How Osun Tribunal Was Compromised"...

On Bended Knee: Abacha’s Climate of Fear and Today’s Climate of Impunity

It is time for ordinary Nigerians, the perpetual victims of oppressive regimes, to put an end to their supplications and rise from their bended knees...

Sitting Electoral Tribunals: A Party Influence or Public Interest?

President Yar’Adua can take his chances and hope that Nigerians will accept another fixed result in 2011. Or he can lead from the front and push electoral reform as the priority of his presidency...

Politics And The Future Of Nigeria

Few weeks ago, it was announced that the administration will be spending over US$600m on power, does that not mean that that the US$16b spent by the last administration is gone?

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...

Now, Will President Yar’Adua Be Kind?

Quitting now would be more redemptive of Yar’Adua’s person than being remembered later as the groping undertaker of a richly endowed but seriously ill nation?

Re-calibrating The Radical Thrust of Intellectual Diaspora

The sign of the times now demands that a growing collection of intelligent Nigerians are vocalising and constructing a historic trajectory with a self-ennobling mandate to offer holistic solutions to the damaged social values of Nigeria...

The Madness Of Our Leaders

Some of our Nigerian politicians and leaders are so mad that that they keep their loot in their houses; some of them even bury cash in graves; while some of them just go on buying every property and business in sight, despite the fact that they can only sleep in one room at a time...

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Before 2face Idibia’s Protest March

Dear 2face Idibia, I hope this message gets to you...

How Rashidi Ladoja Embarrassed Ibadan People

If Ladoja spent most of his term fighting Adedibu and about a year on “impeachment” his ability to gobble N8 billion smacks of nothing but ingenuity. Where was this man’s conscience when residents of Alaadorin in Ibadan told him that they had not had pipe-borne water for over 20 years?

Where the Heck Is the Money?

Nigeria’s is a fascinating story of a corrupt country...

Who Said Our Leaders Are Corrupt?

To date, our leaders determinedly continue to trivialize the madness of financial misappropriation and the long-term harm and hurt it unleashes on the destiny of Nigeria.  This wild-fire menace and monstrous cascade continues unhindered...

Why The Short And Ugly Are Married

The Nigerian man, aside listening to his mother's golden advice when its time to choose a life partner, wants a happy home, wants to be in control and be respected...

Atiku’s Increasing Mischief and the APC

For quite some time now, former Vice President, Atiku...

A Short Requiem for George W.H. Bush

A new distinction for the country's 41st president: George...

How Jonathan Stole His Brother’s Wife

Though Jonathan is the president, yet he could not break out of the gravity pull of the biggest political rascals in Africa. Biggest party – what an infuriating pride! Now, Jonathan has wagon his presidential destiny to that of his newly elected chairman...

Hair Holiday or Moratorium By Black Women As Economic Stimulus

Continental Africans and women of African descent can be rightly said to be obsessed with having and not having hair. At the risk of generalizing and stereotyping, all Black women have a hair fixation...

Nigerian Banks Shine At The London Stock Exchange

Ten listed Nigerian banks made a grand appearance at the London Stock Exchange (LSE) on Friday June 8th 2007, preaching the gospel of Nigeria’s rising investment potentials and opportunities...