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...

'One Nigeria': To Be Or Not To Be? (4)

Do you want your ethnic group to be part of a country even if the probability of your ethnic group producing the president is practically equal to zero despite the fact that your contribution in terms of human and mineral resources is substantial?

The Shame Of A Nation

There are professors and there are ‘professors’. Can some one please tell me what Maurice Iwu is still professing at the INEC? I am really shocked by this man’s vaulting ambition…

Ojo Maduekwe And Nigerian Foreign Policy: A Dissenting Opinion

For almost two decades, Nigeria has been adrift within the global system. Unclear and irresolute about its role and place within such anarchical system, she has not been able to find her voice, define and defend her goals, or assert itself within the comity of nations...

What Counts Most

Unfortunately for us in Africa, we do not value knowledge. We consume rather than produce. We buy rather than sell. We receive rather than give the reason for our poverty level. Poverty is a mentality; it is a state of the heart...

Exorcising the Evil Curse of Oil Greed

Oil has retarded the ability of Nigerians of differing regions and differing talents to invest in far more rewarding activities other than angling for revenue allocations, graduating to become class valedictorians of the latest set of kidnappers, or yahoo boys...

Private Refineries? Never! Unless…

In the Nigerian context, newspapers do not enjoy greater intellectual respect than the Guardian, yet their editorial of the 24th April titled “The Proposed 2 Refineries” is a case in point of an unexpected shallow and simplistic evaluation of a serious problem…

Nigeria, Now's the Time to Start

Recovering a stolen car in Nigeria is no less insurmountable than arresting murderers. The system is simply not set up to work…

The Sacred Of Nigerian Traditional Values

We are learning the hard way that the nation and all life is protected, that we are all economically viable and reliable, that we are all related...

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For the Avoidance of Doubt: Time and Tide wait for No one

During the weekly review of Nigerian affairs by the...

The Blessings of Adversity

Our world is a world of visible ambivalence, paradoxes and contradictions. Things don't always go smooth and rosy like we'd always expect them to... Yet, wise men of old knew that a world without opposites would be flavourless...

What Are The Two Legislative Chambers Doing?

The two legislative chambers are saddled with many responsibilities as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but the common man is yet to feel their impact...

Strategic Thought Processing – Tool For Democratic Growth

These are very delicate times in Nigeria. The challenge of another peaceful democratic transition through democratic elections early next year - 2011, stares us in the face...

Before Fulani Herdsmen Kill All Of Us

Over 150 people were reportedly killed recently by Fulani herdsmen in an attack on three villages of Ugwar Sankwai, Ungwan Gata and Chenshyi, in Kaduna State...

Human Rights and Peace: An Operational Nexus

If they want peace, nations must avoid the pin-pricks...

Fayemi: Second Coming of a Long Distance Runner

When he was farcically rigged out as Governor of...

Same Shade; Imagined Differences

Sometime ago, a friend of mine was working as a security head of an institution whose security apparatus also secures the immediate community where the institution is domiciled. For whatever reasons, my friend decided that the bread suppliers who supply bread to the local shops had to be giving him some free loaves of bread...

Obama and New American Diplomacy (4): Strategic Concerns In The Middle East and North Korea

Israelis and Arabs cannot share the fireside for now. US impartiality and long-time support for Israel, which has remained the corner-stone of American diplomacy in the last fifty years, lingers as an impediment to true negotiations...

The Northern Domination Brouhaha

Ever since President Buhari was inaugurated as the president...