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...

Andoakaa, Nigeria’s Public Enemy Number One!

The impact of pervasive corruption in Nigeria, its impact on daily life, its magnitude and far reaching ramifications on public infrastructure, the overwhelming permeation of corruption on how life is lived in Nigeria is glaringly obvious...

The Gun Revolution In Nigeria

What Nigeria needs now is a true revolution a la Phillipines or Romania which would terminate the circus political show and send those responsible for our misery to the world beyond...

Endlessly Awaiting Trial in Nigeria; A National Shame!

Corruption is 90 percent responsible for needless detention. Detention is used by corrupt police officers to extort money from those who are innocent and know that they are innocent...

Endlessly Awaiting Trial in Nigeria; A National Shame!

Corruption is 90 percent responsible for needless detention. Detention is used by corrupt police officers to extort money from those who are innocent and know that they are innocent...

Governor Murtala Nyako and Journalists: God Forgive Nyako

After reading Dr. Reuben Abati’s article on Governor Murtala Nyako and the press, I feel very sorry for the governor of Adamawa State...

President Yar’Adua is a Burden and a Liability

Abacha waited a while before unleashing cruelty and criminality on the nation, and so did Babangida and Obasanjo. Poor Yar’Adua, he couldn’t even wait a year or so before taking a bath in the cesspool…

Taming A Man's Manhood!

How do we tame a man's manhood? How can this 'pistol' that has killed many and taken many 'prisoners' be tamed?

An Unexpected Phone Call

A phone call from the Vice President was the last thing I was expecting. It was the last thing I ever expected...

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It's the security, stupid!

What the President ought to be looking at right now is how to effectively checkmate the activities of terrorists by using the people they are terrorising against them, including establishing a fast-track judicial process that must still meet the standards of the rule of law...

2002: National Year Of Sovereign Conferences – 3rd Quarter Review (4)

I am no longer interested in learning. I have done enough of reading for a lifetime. My children will read whatever remains to be read...

Nigerians In America: How (NOT) To Raise Our Children

What obtains in Nigeria obtains in the US, albeit with slight modifications.  You do not need monkey-like summersaults before raising your child in God’s ways.  You cannot allow your children to be so spoilt to the point that they become incorrigible and constitute permanent liability to you...

Dealing With The Chibuike Amaechi Migraine

However one sees it, the escalating, man-made crisis in Rivers State portends real and grave danger to the dysfunctional democracy we have been slaving under for the past fourteen years...

Umaru Resign? I Don’t Zhinki So!

Inconsistency will be a recipe for disaster. Your adversaries are alarmists and carpetbaggers. They couldn’t do it when you were up. Now they want to remove the drip and turn off the monitor. How abominable. Look at them jostling and meandering, positioning and politicking...

The House is Mine – Sokoto Governor

“The House was leased from 1999 until 2004, when I completed payment for the house. I bought it from a Sokoto businessman who lived in that house for about thirty years.”

The Tower of Babel

Man as an intelligent animal is full of problems and reading his mind is the crux of the matter. Only God can decipher the mind of man full of intrigues...

In Nigeria, Government Doesn't Understand Climate Change

There is low level of awareness about climate change in Nigeria, and the way to present it to the public...

Power, Privilege and Governance

The concepts of power, privilege and governance are complex...

Slavery and Slave Trade: Felony, Reparations and Redress

We have to commit ourselves, without further ado, to self-interrogation and re-examine our presumptions. When and where did the rain start to beat us? Who and who collaborated in it? Where is African culpability? How do we uproot the vestiges of the aftermath of slave trade and colonialism particularly the mental and psychological stumps? Why do we think that we cannot do things right by ourselves?