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...

The Niger Delta: The Gradual Decline of a Struggle

The federal government must know that it does not have a monopoly of violence, or of savagery. For some silly reasons, Nigeria keeps tempting fate...tempting the Ijaw nation. How unwise!

Only The People Must Save Nigeria

Yes, we have been writing about and exposing corruption to no end. What Nigerians  have been asking are: What are the practical solutions? How do we rid Nigeria of all these thieves? Can we ever be successful in tackling corruption?

Sores Of A Nation

At the moment of this writing, my brain throbs to fish out names of heroes, young and old, dead or alive, but what comes readily to me is an endless list of names of people that had somehow stagnated the country but whose robes had regularly been made clean...

As Sergeant Rogers Sings…

It is good that at long last, Sergeant Rogers, the dreaded hitman for the late demented despot, Sani Abacha, is confirming our worst fears that nothing was spared by the locusts that ravaged this land...

…Ember Month Journey: Which Road Is Safe?

Poorly maintained roads in Nigeria are often cited as a cause for the country’s high rate of traffic fatalities. Nigeria’s bad roads aren’t just a matter of inconvenience. They also contribute to the country’s high accident and fatality rate...

To Nigerians in the Diaspora

For the knowledge of those Nigerians in the Diaspora who have been curious about how we have been surviving in a debilitating environment, a typical day...

Depoliticizing The Zero Tolerance For Corruption

What accounts for the rampant corruption in the country? To understand the existence of this difficult and complex social canker, we must examine its historical character...

Depoliticizing The Zero Tolerance For Corruption

What accounts for the rampant corruption in the country? To understand the existence of this difficult and complex social canker, we must examine its historical character...

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Bobrisky and Tax Reforms in Nigeria

The charade of Nigeria is never-ending! Only recently, one...

The Wisest Man in the World

Human love or affection is what most people call love. Emotional love is unreliable. It swings from left to right faster than the rolling hips of a supermodel...

Syria: The Merit in Obama’s Diplomatic Option and Matters Arising (4)

In diplomacy, it pays to make haste slowly. In statecraft, the application of rational, human intelligence has more merit than the use of military force or the threat to use force, which violates international law...

Gas Flaring: The Need To Rescue The Environmental And Economic Degradation

The first-ever globally consistent survey commissioned by the World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership has established that the African continent’s efforts to reduce gas flaring are succeeding...

Brother

It was in the days of our fathers that love of a brother was supreme. Hardly these days, because the bond that once held families together has been pierced by the unknown enemy...

Money Laundering and Public Accountability

The elitist practice of acquisition of homes abroad has become the norm among politicians in spite of the law against it and the devalued Naira cost.  It would not matter if the person was independently wealthy and not a public servant in Nigeria...

Vision 20-20: The Dream, The Draft And The Development

What kind of society do we want to build? The country needs an ambition, a vision of its future...

Fashola Vs Sahara Reporters – 19th November seminar at the London School of Economics

If a government performance were to be measured by the performance of its head at a public forum consisting of citizens of the state and country at large, then Governor Raji Fashola would have been chastised for disgracing Lagos State at the interactive seminar titled: "Lagos: Confronting Change in a Global Megacity", which took place at the London School of Economics...

Disastrous Global Effects of Water Scarcity

Since water covers a vast majority of the Earth,...

Anambra State: Governor Peter obi and the burden of leadership

Governor Obi is 'Unsere eigenen Mann' which means in Igbo language 'Onyeka yi' because he respects and honors the people of his state. Obi is truly a son of the soil...