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 Executive/Legislative Tango in Abeokuta

It can not be seen as a 'crime' or the extra ordinary when members of a State House of Assembly seek for accountability and good governance in conformity with their constitutional briefs...

The Arewa Consultative Forum and the Niger Delta Conflict

The upcoming conference is nothing but a charade, another in a long line of government’s duplicitous acts. Solve the Niger Delta problems for the sake of justice, peace, and stability...

Corruption, Opposition, And The Ribadu Experience

Corruption is Nigeria’s number one problem and has continued to endanger the chances of any meaningful national development and unity. But why have the different anti corruption programs failed to yield the desired results?

Yar’Adua, Give Nigerians Prepaid Metres!

I entered a filling station to buy fuel and the crowd I saw there almost scared me. It was when I looked closely that I saw containers of different sizes in the hands of the people. Oh, all those people had come to purchase fuel for the countless generators they use to generate power for themselves in a failed state like Nigeria...

Frantz Fanon, Umaru Yar’Adua, and the ‘Workers’ in the Niger Delta

Does anybody know President Umaru Yar’Adua’s mailing address? I know he’s in Aso Rock but what’s the P.O.Box or the P.M.B.? I have a gift for him: a brand new copy of the last edition of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth...

From Olusegun Obasanjo – In His Best Element!

Fellow 'Wazobians' at home and abroad, my son Gbenga was instigated by my many enemies to go public with an 'incest' allegation against me, his distinguished father. Well, he seems to have come to his manipulated senses now...

The Fate Of Nigeria

Why is Nigeria in spite of its endowment in human and material resources continuing to wallow in political turmoil and economic depression?

Between Truth And Justice: The Dilemma Before the Rivers State TRC

Port Harcourt the capital of Rivers State was once dubbed the "Garden City” and the state prided itself as the “Treasure Base of the Nation”. That was until ethnic and communal strife coupled with uncontrolled youth militancy spiraled into full-blown banditry...

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Federal Character And Quota System in Nigeria – A Good Public Policy

All Nigerians should in good faith advocate that appointments and how we do business reflect our essential composite make-up as Nigerians, from local government to state and federal levels...

Disarming Iraq

The U.S. and Britain are responsible for cultivating Saddam Hussein by giving him political, military and financial support in the 1970s and 1980s...

The Third Coming of Benjamin Netanyahu

I had written on the Second Coming of Benjamin Netanyahu years ago, after he took power in Israel. Months later, I met Mr. Roy Sapoznich, who is an Israel political consultant and business man. We discussed the highlights of the article. I later re-read the Holy Bible and won inspirational insights into the strength of Israel...

The Joy of Fatherhood

Labour pain is just another physical dimension in man’s journey through life. It is every woman’s nightmare. The screams, curses, prayers and mumblings from women in that physical state are enough to make a man go crazy...

The Ides of Rice

I am not a soothsayer but if I were asked to say something, anything, to the present government in Nigeria, I would say: Beware of the Ides of Rice! Why?

“What’s My Name?”: The Brand that Changed How We Viewed Rap from Lagos to London

In 1992, the world of music changed and civility...

One Equals Fourteen Hundred in New World Order Mathematics

To be a nuclear power, all you need is the audacity. Then fortify such audacity with a few chess moves. And you are in. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has audacity perhaps. But he has no underwriter friends. Saddam Hussein's attempts at strategic ambiguity caused him his throne, and then his life and the ruination of Iraq...

If You Want To Write A Great Book, Go To Prison

I am allergic to dictators, even if they somehow...

Land Grabs In New Scramble For Africa Global Food Security Implications

How can anyone, especially an African on the African continent, argue that Slavery and colonialism were beneficial to Africans, despite the immutable evidence of the horrors, brutalities and inhumanity meted upon Africans, victims of slavery and colonialism...

A Season’s Toast For Bola Tinubu

From what Tinubu is doing with Lagos it is certain that he is a good manager, user, protector and projector of power. He exemplifies the generation of politicians that realize that Nigeria has a lot of catching up to do...