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...

Why Kill The Imo Airport?

Ever since the re-opening of the Port Harcourt Airport, it seems there is a deliberate effort to stifle the operations of the Imo Airport, Owerri...

Royal Rumble: Igbinedion Vs Oba Erediauwa

Chief Igbinedion sometimes wittingly or unwittingly gives the impression that he is competing with the Oba over a crown he can never wear. Since the crown is not purchasable one wonders why Igbinedion is desperate to play Oba at any opportunity...

The Gofers And The Governors: In Defence Of A Mandate

Kenya and Nigeria have too many things in common. Instead of guaranteeing citizens' basic right to vote freely, both governments and their electoral officials actively colluded in electoral fraud and violence...

The Gofers And The Governors: In Defence Of A Mandate

Kenya and Nigeria have too many things in common. Instead of guaranteeing citizens' basic right to vote freely, both governments and their electoral officials actively colluded in electoral fraud and violence...

The Coming Anarchy in Bayelsa State

Ever since Mr. Timipre Sylva became the governor, and Mr. Goodluck became the Vice President, both men have managed to find ways to cause themselves, and the people of Bayelsa, pain and grief...

How Affordable Is Justice To The Common Man?

It is said that if you close your eyes because you do not want to see evil, that good would also pass by unnoticed by you...

Nigeria And Israel: The Kidnap Of Umaru Dikko

Over the next few weeks, I will be revisiting the controversial attempt to kidnap Umaru Dikko in 1984...

Tribute to Tom Ilube, a Rare Gem

In the Nigeria of today, much like in the 80's and 90's, the notoriety of 'PHD' a.k.a. Pull Him Down syndrome cannot be denied by anyone. Some people go to any length to undo their superiors...

Don't miss

Nigeria and G20: Making the case for membership

Nigeria is not an official member of either G8 or G20, but an invitation to the summit was given to her along with other important emerging markets of Southern hemisphere. South Africa was also at the meeting as an official member...

Sold Out: Black British Billionaires

The Rich List 2012 passed the test of prediction. I am yet to be formally declared a prophet. My confident intuition paid off. Pages after pages, I saw smiling white faces. Some caressing their yachts moored on the Pacific oceans. They look robust, real and ready. They look beautiful, bouncy, bright and brilliant. Why not? They are the risk-taking, movers and shakers of this sceptre isle called Britain...

A Black British Premier is Hallucinatory Disorder

Barack Obama was lucky. His Luo father made the most profound decision of his life by rejecting Britain for America. By now, Obama would have been a mere London inner city duff solicitor on a nine to fiver with fading jackets, worn out shoes, hire purchase BMW and a mortgaged three-bed house...

Godliness Isn’t For Christians Alone

Many people today are not called ‘godly persons’ because of the religion they belong to or their belief-systems...

The “Wide Brimmed Hat” Is Almost In Vogue

It can be excruciating to discern the politics of appearance in an aesthetically varied political landscape such as Nigeria. I take the challenge very seriously...

Fabulous Disintegration Of America

The book on my table is The Igor Plan...

The Paradox Of Corruption And Patriotism

To say that the country called Nigeria is a conundrum is a gross understatement. To both its people and foreigners, it is a country that is, in its extremity, baffling, frustrating, annoying and uncivilised...

The Nightmare Rules!

Nobody can tell if Samuel Peter’s parents peered into a crystal ball before they named him Okon (nightmare). For the boxer known worldwide as the ‘Nigerian nightmare’ beat the living daylights out of Oleg Maeskaev...

Boko Haram's Endless 9/11: The Curse Of Malsi

Why is the world racing apace into brutality of religious Armageddon? Who will heal the resurgence of religious intolerance that is daily reconfiguring the children of the bondwoman into extremist hardliners?

Lawless Dino Melaye Must Be Jailed If…

Nigeria is a nation of polite polarization. I received...