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...

Yar’Adua: Between the Rule of Law and Public Sentiment

That President Umaru Yar’Adua is presently unhappy with the Nigerian Judiciary is not in doubt...

Yar’adua’s Grouse With Court Rulings

Suddenly, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is finding his voice. Suddenly, he seems to be in a big hurry to discard the tag of see-nothing-bad, do-nothing president...

Legislating With A Sense Of Mission: Chukwumerije And Obiorah

Looking at the situation from a remedial perspective, responsibility may have been the bane for the post war Igbo leadership failures...

Nigeria: Forgery and Perjury Incorporated!

In Nigeria, God blessed us with huge mineral deposits and arable land that multiplies fruits and foodstuffs in harvest time. Yet, hunger stalks the land with millions of our people going to bed hungry...

This Adedibu Must Not Die

Nigeria in the immediate past decades has contended with various Adedibu-manifestations. Thuggish-Adedibu, anarchic-Adedibu, political buffoonery-Adedibu, and such others have been the presentations of the persona...

The Re-building of Nigerian National Flight Career

During the period of aviation industry development in Nigeria, politicians who did not understand the importance of aviation in a nation’s growth strangulated and rendered capable aviation professionals useless...

Peeking Into the Mind of President Yar’Adua

God, some maintain, made it possible for Yar’Adua and Jonathan Goodluck to be where they are today. I personally do not think that God has anything to do with the matter. What influence does God have in Nigeria? Who listens to God in Nigeria?

The Nigerian Press and Creative Headline Writing

I have often wondered why Nigerian newspapers have not caught up with their counterparts in the west, in serving their readers appetising and imaginative headlines...

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Is Violence Against Non-Indigenes Constitutional?

The Nigerian human rights record since the advent of the current democratic government cannot be said to have scored anything appreciable in the promotion and protection of the rights and fundamental freedoms of Nigerians...

The 2023 General Elections in Nigeria: Omodé gbón, àgbà gbón, la se da Ilè-ife

The 2023 General Elections in Nigeria: Omodé gbón, àgbà...

Nigeria At 50: Leadership As An Epidemic

Leadership is a demonstrative ability. Good leaders always display sincerity, credibility, integrity, intelligence and competence in all their actions. They make timely and appropriate changes in thinking...

US To Export Oil: Nigeria loses revenue and market by 2014

Even with the myriad sources of oil supply to America, it has not abandoned oil drilling and exploration within continental America. It is a goal and principal task among oil explorers in the United States to make a quantifiable difference in supply of energy for internal consumption...

Ebenezer Obey: I Had My Share Of Drinking And Womanizing

"Nigeria’s future is bright...The country will be better. Good days are ahead. I will just want the government to take care of the Niger Delta people. It pleases God to put the oil in their region. So let them enjoy the wealth from that oil..." - Ebenezer Obey

Nigeria’s Dark, Bloody October

If anybody needed some dire sign that Nigeria has little to show for the first fifty years of its life, a particularly disturbing and bloody one was given last Friday...

Poor management bedeviled refuse disposal in Onitsha and Anambra state

Governor Obi cannot afford to give lip service to the issue of refuse collection and disposal because the wellbeing of the residents of Onitsha and Anambra State will be greatly impacted by environmental degradation due to incompetence and dereliction of duty...

Criminalisation Of Poverty

It is the honest poor that get arrested on the mere suspicion that their haggard, hungry look suggests they might be criminals, or even for such non-existent offences like ‘wandering’, and dumped and forgotten in detention camps for being unable to buy their freedom...

As Emir Sanusi becomes history!

To Nigerians, that the 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has been dethroned is incontrovertibly...

Give Me Oduduwa Or Let Me Die By Femi Fani-Kayode: A Response

In an environment where the gluttony and want of wealth always trumps principles, a clamor for unison based on those tribal commonalities is a waste of time. These are not limited to the South West alone...