Nigeria Matters

Southwest and the power of early preparation

The Southwest, although it now laudably has a Development Commission, ought to project a future that will match the best days of the past....

El-Rufai’s Detention: Justice, Political Vendetta Or A Test Of Nigeria’s Rule Of Law?

The continuing legal battle involving former Kaduna State Governor, NasirAhmad El-Rufai, has become much larger than the fate of one politician. Ithas developed into...

Osun: Long live Edenisation!

With the prospect of a Second Term - whether deserved or not - on the table, Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State now needs...

PDP’s Monument Of Shame

The PDP is a loose confederate of desperate fortune hunters, bloody fiends and deadly cabal of disparate tendencies aiming at each other’s throat for undue advantage...

In Defence of Okey Ndibe on Andy Uba [A Response to Jerome Azubuko and Chuka Nwosu]

Between an erudite and accomplished University professor, Okey Ndibe, and a failed politician and villainous high-school drop-out, whose intellectual incapableness makes him to inferiorly but pretentiously don the accoutrement of a PhD, "Dr" Andy Uba, who is the failure?

Nuhu Ribadu: A True Defender of The Rule of Law

Winning the war against corruption is of substantive significance. Winning the war against corruption will determine Nigeria's place in the world says Nuhu Ribadu...

Okey Ndibe versus Andy Uba

To say that Dr. Okey Ndibe does not think much of Dr. Andy Uba is an understatement. Heck, he doesn’t even think Uba has good sense, common sense, or an enlightened mind. He considers Uba a fraud...

An Open Letter To The Attorney General, Micheal Aondokaa (SAN)

...You seem to have neglected, since your assumption as the Chief Law Officer, the place of public opinion and the mood of Nigerians as regards corruption...

Obasanjo, Etteh and the PDP

Even though the president has repeatedly stated his zero tolerance for corruption, his immediate predecessor’s support for known corrupt political figures in the present dispensation might be his greatest problem...

Why Oyo State Is Not Working And Cannot Work

Nigeria’s political and moral situations as a whole has always been that of bringing out the pessimism and negativity in most of her people, such that we find it very difficult to celebrate achievement and excellence in all spheres of human activities in our country...

Why Oyo State Is Not Working And Cannot Work

Nigeria’s political and moral situations as a whole has always been that of bringing out the pessimism and negativity in most of her people, such that we find it very difficult to celebrate achievement and excellence in all spheres of human activities in our country...

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American “Jobbers” And 4-1-9ners: Fact Or Fiction

Vulture companies buy up the debts of poor countries at reduced or cheap price and turn around to ask for payments much higher than these countries were originally owing, and often taking these poor nations to court if they cannot afford to pay...

Democracy On Life Support: Is Nigeria Sliding Into a One-Party Dictatorship?

Once hailed as Africa’s beacon of democracy, Nigeria now...

Corruption Intervention Methods

While the war against corruption rages on, the past beneficiaries of corruption are not idle. Everyone knows that one of the major causes of corruption is the lack of accountability of the past governments to the scrutiny of the public. Obasanjo to prove his resolve must go against members of the retired club of generals...

Nuclear Diplomacy and the Diplomacy of Peaceful Co-existence

Since the United States retaliated against the Japanese Pearl Harbour incident during the Second War, by dropping on Hiroshima and Nagasaki an atomic bomb called, "Little John", some states started to develop their atomic and nuclear research...

Which way, Nigeria? 4+4 or 4-4?

The widespread aversion, in some quarters, to incumbent President...

A Season of Kettles and Pots

Nigeria is a country where anything is seemingly possible;...

Nigeria, Going Back To 1983…?

The year 1983 was truly a significant year in...

The Obasanjo Obituary That Never Was

The rumour mill was agog earlier this week with the presumed assassination of the 'emperor' in Ota, former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo was quick to dispel the rumour proclaiming in his usual dry humour that I deh kampe...

Between Truth And Justice: The Dilemma Before the Rivers State TRC

Port Harcourt the capital of Rivers State was once dubbed the "Garden City” and the state prided itself as the “Treasure Base of the Nation”. That was until ethnic and communal strife coupled with uncontrolled youth militancy spiraled into full-blown banditry...

We Are Neither

Don't you sometimes wonder where our attitudes and beliefs originate? Whether you agree or not, people are basically a product of their environment, cultures and beliefs...