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...

Pseudo-Leadership And Nigerian Politics

All of these pseudo-leaders who like posing as leaders, are leading the country on the path of ruination and destruction. And the irony is: If they are allowed to destroy the country, they also destroy themselves...

IBB: A Misunderstood Statesman?

Is IBB by any means a misunderstood statesman? I think he's not qualified to be addressed as a statesman and least of all a misunderstood one...

Agents of Darkness

The federal government has failed woefully in the provision of electricity as it did in telecom services...

Political Transparency and the Judicial System

Legal findings and developments in Nigeria as it relates to annulments and replacements of governors and other fraudulently elected officials in the INEC conducted elections of 2007 have created jubilations and validations of the need to accelerate as best possible the core principles of good democratic processes...

Rage Of Retirees Over Satellite Town Homes

Retirees of 16 companies, who bought houses under the owner-occupier scheme in 1976 under the General Olusegun Obasanjo regime, battle their former employers over ownership of the housing units in Satellite Town, Lagos...

Oyo State Is Deserving Of Its Leaders

Can Bayo Alao-Akala do it, or can the people around him let him do it? Does he have the idea at all of what needs to be done, rather than just playing politics with the lives of people, while playing to the gallery with speeches that were written for him by well-paid sycophants and hangers-on?

Nigeria, Where Is Thy Sense Of Outrage?

Nigeria is at crossroads; the year 2008 will not be remembered for the grievous actions of her leaders, but for the continued intolerable inaction of her citizens...

Smuggling In Idi-Iroko, A Way Of Life

‘’Everything you call illegitimate is legitimate here in Idi-Iroko’’, a source who did not want to be named insists. According to him, what takes place in Idi-Iroko is a mere reflection of what happens at the high seas where a lot of illegal oil bunkering takes place...

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What's in a Dog?

Two issues grabbed the headlines this weekend. Here, I will try to examine these issues as reflections of the state of our country Nigeria...

Osun guber: Federal might or popular mandate?

By Adeola Ojo ​The road to the 2026 Osun governorship...

Who Is Happy To Be Black?

If Black people have never been and are still not good enough in this 21st century to construct their own roads, airports, presidential villas, etc., or even to imagine exploring their own mineral resources, when will they ever be?

What Justice?

When a certain head of state died in the middle of the night at the height of his power, even some of his supporters said it was the hand of God that took him, poetic justice was mooted by the irreligious. But before Abacha’s death, otherwise intelligent Nigerians were trooping to Aso Rock to assure him of their loyalty and to implore him to stay on...

Homophobia in Nigeria, Uganda, Malawi ond Over-sexed South Africa

Why is it so important for Nigeria, Uganda, and now Malawi to squander public resources in the repression of homosexual and lesbian citizens within these African nations?

My Defence On Non-Violence And Peace – Ahimsa

Be it as it may, if you practice Ahimsa, you should put up with insults, rebukes, criticisms and assaults also. You should never retaliate nor wish to offend anybody even under extreme provocation...

Jonathan’s Caged Mind On NDDC Appointment

If Jonathan wants to get it right this time in the NDDC, the issue of ‘illustrious son of the Niger Delta’ should be reviewed, because not all the people who are from the Niger Delta are ‘illustrious sons and daughters’ in the real sense...

The Future of the Developing World In 2050

Africa has become a jam-packed place for the West to dump its dangerous ammunitions. The West has also found an ugly trade in toxic waste in Africa...

The Case of Corruption in Nigeria

Corruption is one of many intractable social pathologies ravaging...

On the Eliot Spitzer Affair

Why is Abati and many of the mainstream American media scissoring from public discourse the illegality of big brother wire-tapping with which Eliot Spitzer was caught that would have made the case not travel far in court?