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...

New Societies: Oodua And Biafra Republics

When you think about it you’ll realize Nigeria was a concept of the British. It wasn’t our idea, it doesn’t conform to our norms and it’s definitely not working for us. Being Nigerian means very little to most of us...

Active Governance With Nothing To Show: Why Is It Here?

It is generally the poor that suffer from bad governance. If anyone were to challenge that claim, it would be difficult to present them with overwhelmingly convincing factual evidence...

Active Governance With Nothing To Show: Why Is It Here?

It is generally the poor that suffer from bad governance. If anyone were to challenge that claim, it would be difficult to present them with overwhelmingly convincing factual evidence...

Active Governance With Nothing To Show: Why Is It Here?

It is generally the poor that suffer from bad governance. If anyone were to challenge that claim, it would be difficult to present them with overwhelmingly convincing factual evidence...

Governing For The Good Of The People: President Yar’adua’s Challenge

It will come as no surprise, I think, to the president, that increasing numbers of Nigerians, out of bitter experience, have over time become mistrustful of their governments and their ability to govern for their good...

Will Obasanjo Explode Yar’Adua’s Anti-Graft Balloon?

For the past few weeks now, Nigerians have witnessed with utter disbelief details of the worst form of heartless plunder this nation had ever witnessed, perpetrated with utmost impunity and even fanfare, under the direct supervision of Obasanjo...

Speaker Bankole’s Ceremonial Tears

How long shall we continue to woo unimpressed buyers with our substandard product? Why can’t we deploy all that energy to dissuade Nigerians from continuing to see their country as some unfortunate but richly-endowed whale washed ashore by sea waves...

Oodua Republic: To Be Or Not To Be?

Fellow brothers and sisters, it's very important for us to understand that Nigeria is a 'trap' that was set up by the British in order to make us independent and hold back our economic and cultural development...

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Pages in Life: Mama Bookworm

When people have vastly different values, it is easy to confuse being principled with being difficult. My mother was a highly principled person. She often saw things as clearly right or clearly wrong, in a country where poverty and greed had made both concepts one and the same...

The Ongoing Destruction Of Ijaw Land

At the aftermath of the unprovoked attack on Ijaw communities in Gbaramatu kingdom of Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State the Ijaw nation wishes to state with emphatic unequivocation the following...

Ambassador John Campbell’s Doomsday Prophecy

Reading Mr Campbell’s essay, you can’t help but sympathise with Mr. Segun Aganga, Nigeria’s new Minister of Trade and Investment as his job has just been made much more challenging as he begins a mighty task of convincing foreign investors to come to Nigeria...

Lucky Igbinedion: Servant Leadership Intentions Going Wrong

Over the years, Lucky has lost the essence of servant leadership that he very much expected of others and promised to adopt if he had the opportunity. In some sort of a watershed reality, it is a fact to say Lucky has changed...

Beware of Fitch, SP and Moody’s ratings

The more these credit rating agencies assign high ratings to investment bank’s junk portfolios, the more they attract unsuspecting buyers. As a result, these credit rating firms spend more time experimenting and perfecting how to generate more pleasing and beneficial inaccurate ratings for the companies to use to mislead the public...

Jonathan and the end of a honeymoon

Those handling Goodluck Jonathan better tell him that this week marks the end of the honeymoon phase of his “acting presidency.”

Governor Peter Obi : Does he deserve a second term?

The governorship election for Anambra State, Nigeria, is fast approaching and the politicians are gearing up for the grueling but festive campaign that will blight them or lead them to Awka State House...

What if Ribadu Leaves the EFCC?

One can hardly hold such an office as Ribadu has held for the past five years, without stepping on some “powerful” toes big time...

Imprudent Heifers

I cannot count how many times I have heard Nigerian men complaining about how Nigerian women have suddenly become “smart” because they have left Nigeria.  While some of what they say is only due to their inability to handle a little independence in favor of the woman, the rest of what they say is actually true...

Of Explosions and Implosions: Goodbye to Red October

What an interesting irony it is that the enduring memory indented upon the national consciousness, following the curious decision to celebrate the nation’s half-century of existence as an under-performing post-colonial geographical expression, is the memory of deafening reverberations of death producing explosions...