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...

How To Birth Spiritual Realities And Make Advancement In God

God is looking for those who will receive spiritual burdens and birth them at the place of prayer and deep intercession. If we must carry on the torch of the Gospel of Truth to the next generation, it becomes imperative that we have to enter into the labour room of God...

Nigeria: Power Belongs To The Looters

In Nigeria, politics and government are like banks where money is kept, and thus it will continue to attract very smart, unsavoury and dishonest vagabonds, whose main aim in life is to steal the money…

A Tale of Two Goodlucks: a Security Man and a Vice-President

Considering Dr. Goodluck’s remarkable political ascent to date, only a fool would wager against his further ascent. Dr. Goodluck is a man with good luck, even if he is not the most politically astute...

As Yar’adua Sleeps On Duty, Let Nigerians Act

As I am writing, the nation is practically on its knees with nothing, absolutely nothing, but official stealing working in Nigeria. The roads are wearing desolate looks with the imminence of the rains...

The Near “Great” Misadventure

The local police in Nigeria seems to have very little to offer in the way of help to those who have lost money to scams...

N80b Rice Import: Solution Or Illusion To Food Shortage

The government's Poverty Alleviation Programme has the stated goal of bringing food to hungry, poor Nigerians. So far, they have failed to do that...

N80b Rice Import: Solution Or Illusion To Food Shortage

The government's Poverty Alleviation Programme has the stated goal of bringing food to hungry, poor Nigerians. So far, they have failed to do that...

Deception, Lies, Fraud And Farce: The State Of A Nation

“Why do you say that Nigeria has got no electricity? Isn’t that Lagos all lighted up? That’s a very beautiful sight, isn’t it?”

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Sam Omatseye Vs. Awo Family: The Incredibly Shrinking Nigerian Tribune’s Prestige

Sam Omatseye’s recent commentary on the Awolowo family - “Awo Family Without An Awo” - has generated quite a furor. Scores of Yoruba people have written letters to the Tribune editors and to online media outlets, castigating Omatseye for the supposed disrespect of the Awolowo family...

“The Burden Of Citizenship Is On Nigerians” – Conversation with Frank Nweke, Jnr.

In my response to CNN, I did remind them that Nigerians were not the ones that ran down companies like Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Arthur Andersen and many of such failed corporations. Also Nigerians were not part of the Whitewater scandal which was perpetrated by criminally minded Americans... - The Honourable Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mr Frank Nweke

Countering Nigeria’s Anti-Intellectualism

Nigeria has not developed a culture of celebrating honest, hard-working achievers. Instead we have allowed others to foist upon us a paradoxical anti-intellectual situation in which recognition, indeed the highest National honors, are heaped on former military dictators for shooting themselves into power and looting the national treasury...

How Weak Edo Response to FOI Requests Undermine Open Governance

One of the states in Nigeria with a strong...

Nigeria, Nigerians and the Scam E-mails

People in the West are greedy and blinded by the prospect of easy money; and this explains why they fall easy prey to fraudsters. Why don’t other Nigerians fall for them?

A Plethora of Whys

Each time I ruminate about happenings in both Nigeria and Kenya, as representatives of the continent of Africa, I become confoundedly worried. Situate the current political logjam in both countries and you begin to appreciate my standpoint...

Daunting state of education in Northern Nigeria

By Isah Aliyu Chiroma “Education is the passport to the...

Struggling To Understand Democracy

Our leadership are still struggling to understand democracy as...

Everything about them is greed

They do all the talking but do not want to listen to us talking. To them, the entire world is insufficient for seeking gains. They are hardnosed, greedy, tyrannical, and scandalous...