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...

In Defense of the Distinguished Supreme Court

Since the Supreme Court rulings in the Amaechi case, the camp of the opinionated has since joined hands with the camp of the lawless to discredit the court...

The Ijaw and Nigeria’s Ethnic Politics

The three deepest gulfs that divide the Nigerian society are ethnicity, sectional interest and the ever widening gap between the rich and the poor. Of the three gulfs, ethnicity is the deepest and most turbulent...

Amaechi: Who Knows Tomorrow?

A judicial volcano erupted last Thursday in the Supreme Court in Abuja with Celestine Omehia, the impostor Governor of Rivers State and his gang-terrorised government swept aside

Chained

A grasshopper that is roasting over fire and claiming to be emitting fat will soon realize that a snail that swallows another will have two legs...

Obasanjo Was Not Quizzed By The Metropolitan Police– Dozie Nwanna

Ambassador Dozie Nwanna, Nigeria’s acting High Commissioner to the United Kingdom has debunked claims that the immediate past president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo was a guest of the London Metropolitan Police...

Mallam Nuhu Ribadu: Shut Up or Resign Now!

Mr. Nuhu Ribadu is nothing but a raconteur, a noise maker, a showman and a showboat and a loudspeaker. He plays to the gallery. He enjoys traversing the world mostly for meaningless awards, and to give redundant speeches...

Ekwueme At 75: Time For Statesmanship

For some time now, I have tried to contain my angst against the activities and rudderless, missionless and visionless political drift of the former Vice president, Alex Ekwueme...

What Befitting Epitaph Should We Give Late Hon. Dr. Aminu Safana?

Dr. Safana had been trained in some of the best universities of the world. A first class brain, a medical doctor, one with the finest fingers who became the fan, the umbrella-carrying-town crier and chief supporter of a common hair dresser...

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The Madness of Political Correctness: Constitutional Crisis as Nigerian Vice President is Replaced

The ongoing political correctness in Nigeria which is interfering with every aspect of the political spectrum such as the obvious EFCC investigation of specific individuals, will destroy the value of the office of the Presidency...

Armchair Trotskys (2)

There is nothing more pathetic than a critical mob; gangs of columnists, journalists, hatchet writers and career critics may stir up strife but their efforts eventually pass like the hum of mosquitoes seeking to make a noise like thunder...

Long Lost Sister

I had always known that I had a half-brother, Papa’s first child by his German girlfriend in his college days. Papa never spoke of him...

Plus Jamais Jammeh!

Penultimate week an unpredictable political earthquake took place in...

Christmas Bombings: A Nation Courting Death

Last Sunday, Nigeria made another bloody bid for global infamy as bombs detonated in churches in Abuja and elsewhere in the country. At the time of this writing, the death toll stood at more than twenty-five, and was expected to rise. That’s a staggering loss of live...

Igbos Deserve A Chance To Ruin (Fix) Nigeria Too…

If anything, we are all in agreement that there is no hope in this current arrangement anyhow. If we agree on that, then let’s conclude and exhaust these very arrangements with the selection of an Igbo in 2011...

INEC and the PDP: Playing with Fire

In the end, the ugly rumours proved spot on....

Beyond Stethoscope: Intrigues of AMLSN’s Work-To-Rule Exercise

Like the rich class, Mr. President may not be using the nation’s hospital services hence he might be less perturbed compared to lots of Nigerians. He, however, is saddled with the inundating task of making the nation’s hospitals perform maximally...

Kidnapping: Tasks Before South East Governors

The governors of the five South-Eastern states, with prominent leaders of thought from the region in tow, cut a pitiable look when they went cap-in-hand to meet with “Big Brother Abuja”, President Goodluck Jonathan recently...

The West Is The Giver And Taker Of Literary Life – Chinedu Ogoke, Nigerian Writer

In 2002, Chinedu Ogoke, a Nigerian writer resident in Germany published his first novel, Under Fire. His second novel is being awaited. In this interview with Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, Mr. Ogoke speaks on his work and the state of African Literature in relation to the still thorny issue of audience definition...