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...

Has The Image Of Our Women Public Officers Been Dented?

The reported case of financial misdemeanor on the part of  Prof. Grange need to be handled swiftly. Like Patricia Olubunmi-Ette, Adenike Grange is on her own. They neither represent the best of the Nigerian women public office holders nor their demography...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Diran Odeyemi: The Chief Hypocritical Sycophant in Oyo State

Before sitting down to write this piece, I spent two days going through Odeyemi’s past articles. I am convinced that if Adedibu and Obasanjo have access to Odeyemi’s old write-ups, they will discover that the man is a fair-weather friend...

Elections In Nigeria: A Case For Option A4

I had watched on television, with undisguised glee, where Professor Maurice Iwu opened his mouth and said his electronic system was better than option A4. That is a knowing lie! I guess he was in America when the option was used in 1993...

Despite Democracy Here, Rotten Deals Threaten

President Umaru Yar’adua, though on the right track with his anti-corruption stance, can never condone these unfaithful serving Nigerians among us. I am relieved over the sack of the Health Minister on that note...

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History Lesson 101: “Lugard And Colonial Nigeria – Towards An Identity?”

I am again merely reproducing this fine piece that throws more light on the feud and rivalry between our colonial administrators and which seem to have been passed down to us, and is the causative of most of the ethnic distrust and problems that still exist in Nigeria today…

Emperor Buhari, or Plain Poor Communicator?

As Muhammadu Buhari ran for the fourth—and decisive—time for...

Patriotism and Patriotism Only

Efforts should be geared towards encouraging the entire population to buy made in Nigeria. I watched former president Jerry Rawlings of Ghana in an interview when he said that his constant wearing of Ghana made cloths increased the sales of those materials...

The African and Power; Power and the African

Proverbs. 3:27 Do not withhold good from those to...

Post-Election disquiet in Nigeria: The power of Truth

The justice of the courts of law in Nigeria must be weighed carefully, so that the truth can set us free. Election by the people is the only way any government can earn legitimacy...

Princewill’s Political Seriousness

In Igbo, we say that a child erroneously calls a male friend of his or her mother the concubine, forgetting that not all male friends to a woman are her concubine, and not all female friends to a man are his mistress...

Don’t Cry for Me, Nigeria

It must have been around 1984 that Wole Soyinka declared his generation, ‘the wasted generation’. The 1986 Nobel Laureate in literature had accused anyone who was 40 years old or over, of belonging to a generation that wasted the opportunities to take the country to greater heights...

Oceanic Bank Honoured In London As Nigerian Bank Of The Year 2007

At the prestigious Dorchester Hotel, London, Oceanic Bank was adjudged the Nigerian Bank of the Year for the second year running...

Ngwa and the ‘Hosanna in the Highest’ for Gov. T.A. Orji

Ngwa people, who are much respected in not only Abia State, but to a great extent in Nigeria, are on the verge of losing their respect. Their barefaced endorsement of Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji as the singular candidate of the People's Democratic Party...

Jonathan + Sambo: Has the arithmetic been solved?

The reason President Goodluck Jonathan chose Facebook to declare his intention for the 2011 presidential elections in Nigeria is yet to be known...