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...

Local Government And The Need For Grassroot Development

Any person who wants to know why the nation is not developing as rapidly as it should, should visit any of the local government areas...

Politicians As Prostitutes: The Gain In Shagarism

In Nigeria politics has no deep meaning or import outside helping known crooks and criminals seize control of instruments of power and authority from where they organize robbery forays...

Sule Lamido And His Arrant Rantings

Recently, Lamido was reported to have belched hot venom and sulphuric acid on all those that refuse to buy into his come-and-eat feeling that Obasanjo, his father and benefactor is the best thing to have happened to Nigeria...

Mark my words, Nigeria and Africa shall be free

What will it take to free Nigeria? Can one man do it? Can we do it together? Should the will of the majority be held perpetually in bondage by the tyranny of a thieving minority?

Masquerades and Jokers as Governors in Bayelsa State

Bayelsa is today a cathedral of broken dreams, a valley of pain.

It is a state where political incest, debauchery, and cardinal sins have become a way of life...

The Role of Traditional Rulers in an Emerging Democratic Nigeria

Anyone who has had the opportunity of interacting closely with our traditional rulers will readily agree that some of them are sound and first class individuals...

Egwu’s Politics And Ndigbo

It is in employing his resources in fighting Igbo collective interests and promoting Obasanjo’s personal interests that Sam Egwu excelled. He never believed in nor aided any cause that stood to benefit Igbo while in office...

The House And The Wasted Months

Last week, the House of Representatives saved the nation further disgust and embarrassment, when it finally terminated the protracted game of shame with which it had grossly diminished the nation...

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Again, the Judiciary Falters in Ekiti

Again, the Nigerian judiciary was in its full nudity in the trial of the petition by Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the AC governorship candidate in Ekiti State against the declaration of Mr. Segun Oni of the PDP as the winner of the highly dramatic bye election...

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Does Jonathan Deserve a Second term?

The clandestine and often veiled reference to the politics of a second term beyond 2015, involving the interest and the re-election of the incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan, which have often been dismissed as a distraction by the President and his aides is characteristically breaking out in the open.  Will the President contest a second term in 2015?

Omoyele Sowore: A Crucial and Mindful Message

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Presidential Hopeful At A Disadvantage…

Journalists asking Kerry to be more forthcoming about what he wants to do and how he wants to do it are indirectly helping to deflate Kerry‘s balloon, giving undue advantage to Bush...

Thoughts on the Nigerian Mentality: Combative Mode

Can my enemy or my former enemy ever be right? Can he posses a smidgen of truth? The answer to this question might well reside on whether we are able to reboot and let go of our corrosive state of injury...

Yes, Mr. Integrity and his Adversaries!!!

"He did not send anybody to Mecca for Hajj....

The Abandoned ECOMOG 'Bastards' In Liberia

The echoes of the Liberian civil war and the ECOMOG 'sexploits' reverberated recently when it was reported that over 250,000 children were fathered by the Nigerian contingent during their sojourn in Liberia...

Day Onyeka Onwenu Came For The Kill

The sonorous songstress Onyeka Onwenu has just passed, but...