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...

We Need To Re-Strategize

Image matters in everything, our appearance matters. Foreigners will make up their mind on Nigeria through those representing us outside our shore. We must make do with our first eleven...

Yar’adua’s Regime: Getting Slow Or Getting Slog?

I have read Nigerian dailies and marvel why our president, Mr. Umaru Yar’Adua could bear “baba-go slow” as a label...

Yar’adua’s Regime: Getting Slow Or Getting Slog?

I have read Nigerian dailies and marvel why our president, Mr. Umaru Yar’Adua could bear “baba-go slow” as a label...

What Manner Of Democracy Day?

Most Nigerians have refused to be part of what happens in Nigeria every May 29 since 1999. They don’t tie their increasingly pathetic fate to the bacchanal revelry and obscene self-celebration that have been the hallmark of May 29...

Chief Gani Fawehinmi: Praise for an Authentic National Hero

When the history of the Nigerian nation is recorded for the benefit of posterity, I am convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that Chief Gani Fawehinmi will receive a positive and honourable mention in such chronicles...

Leadership And Responsibilty

I don’t know whether Nigeria has reached the stage where everyone will not be satisfied until each of us becomes literally a local government; so that I can trot to Abuja to go and collect my allocation...

One Nigeria: To Be or Not To Be? (Part 6)

Today, only the North is ready to spill blood or go on another 'killing rampage' in order to keep Nigeria one. This is more than enough evidence to support the claim that the North can not sustain itself and relies completely on the resources of the South to survive...

One Nigeria: To Be or Not To Be? (Part 6)

Today, only the North is ready to spill blood or go on another 'killing rampage' in order to keep Nigeria one. This is more than enough evidence to support the claim that the North can not sustain itself and relies completely on the resources of the South to survive...

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“Acting is something I love to do” – The Uche Osotule Interview

Sola Osofisan: Uche, I’ve known you for years as...

What Do Women Want?

What's the matter with women? What do women want? What are they looking for? What manner of men are women looking for? Please tell me. Perhaps I too can be one of those men...

Why GEJ May Still Lose in 2015

The consensus among the pundits is that the outcome...

Madam Hillary Rodham Clinton: US President?

Mrs. Clinton should not hesitate to openly declare her intention to run for president. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Her ambition is made of a stern stuff...

On Igbo Titles (Nke Onye Chiri Ya Zaa!)

While some may say that tradition is gradually disappearing in some areas or aspects of Igbo culture, it is still thriving in several others especially in the taking and bearing of titles...

Obama's Health Reform: The Anathema To Change Is The Fear Factor!

Healthcare Reform efforts have met with a deluge of noise and permeating fear-mongering. This fear-mongering is being perpetuated by those opposed to change and reforms of the currently antiquated, discriminatory and lopsided healthcare delivery system in America...

Washing out West Africa’s coastal cities

Even though the Clean Development Mechanism, CDM, of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, began three years ago in Kwale, Delta State, with the aim of mopping up all associated gas from oil prospecting communities that would otherwise be flared,  investigations reveal that apart from the gas flaring threat, there are other less known factors that exacerbate climate change, increasing the risk that West African cities close to the coast will soon be submerged...

The Coup Scare and the Political Class

When Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and...

Nightmare called Enugu/Port Harcourt Expressway

It is unmistakably secure to walk through the den...

The Obi’s New Education Version And Unionists Politics

Since the return of 56 secondary and 1040 primary schools in Anambra State to the missionaries on 21st November, 2011, Governor Peter Obi of the state has experienced vocal and written mayhem...