Nigeria Matters

The Yoruba ‘Omoluabi’ Ethos And Nigeria’s Leadership

The Yoruba people in the Southwest of Nigeria are deeply immersed in culture, history, ideology, and other guiding principles that define their existence. This...

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...

Reforming The Nigerian Police Force: Where are we Getting it Wrong? (II)

Knowing that the Nigerian police force is like an ugly woman with a bad character will help us better understand the urgent need to start reforms that work...

Beyond The Cultists Lies The Struggle For Port-Harcourt

Beyond the present cult problem lies the unspoken struggle for Port-Harcourt between the conservative Ijaw elements and the upland people...

Who Will “History” Honor?

Obasanjo by virtue of history and opportunity should stand tall among all Nigerian past leaders if he did right by the people...

Obi and Ohakim: Governors Without Godfathers

The shameless Nigerian political class are at it again. Reputed to derive joy in squandermania the new public office holders have begun the march again towards stunning profligacy...

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua: Promise fulfilled

Not a few observers believe that the electoral process that produced this administration has many flaws, and that only genuine reformation of the system can prevent a future occurrence...

Reforming The Nigerian Police Force: Where are we Getting it Wrong? (I)

The image of the Nigerian Police is not that of a citizen-friendly force...

In A Lighter Mood: The Way We Seriously Feel About Our Leaders

I have written in previous articles that I firmly believe that our leaders hate us, else for example, what reason would a single person decide to steal billions of Naira while neglecting the people he was meant to serve and protect?

In A Lighter Mood: The Way We Seriously Feel About Our Leaders

I have written in previous articles that I firmly believe that our leaders hate us, else for example, what reason would a single person decide to steal billions of Naira while neglecting the people he was meant to serve and protect?

Don't miss

Dele Momodu, Political Opportunism and the Masses’ Complacency

"Integrity and honor are not common, deceit and opportunism...

Fake Intellectuals, Useless Patriots

Politics in Nigeria is like war because it is the most lucrative job in Nigeria. It is not impossible to see a man that made some moderate money from, say business, become stupendously rich once he's elected into political office...

All Nigerian American Congress

Not too long ago, Nigeria was at par with South Korea, Malaysia and other far east nations that were developing at the same pace with Nigeria in the sixties.  Today, the distance has been greatly widened...

How the Niger Deltans can get their freedom: The Action Plan! (Part 7)

The issue of the new special ministry of Niger Delta just created by Yaradua is so important that no amount of space and time devoted to its analysis could be too much...

Children of Akwa Ibom State and Governor Godswill Akpabio – A note

I am immensely disturbed by reports emanating from Akwa Ibom state on the vitriolic action of the state government against the activists of the child witchcraft problem in the state...

African American Experience and Lessons for Africans Caribbean Immigrants

It is almost taken for granted these days that life is good for African Americans in the United States. This is assumed, even though life is still full of racial impediments and obstacles for a majority of African Americans...

What Manner of Senate

We may not have a device for assessing the...

Aviation Disasters: Futility of Manic Deregulation

Nigeria has been dogged by aviation disasters in the past decade. From small jets to large bodied flying machine, our air space is simply unsafe...

Nigeria Not on the Brink

That Nigeria as a nation is partner to predatory multi-national corporations with Head-quarters in the US is a fact we can here stipulate. That these US corporations have had lopsided agreements greased by bribery and corruption of Nigerian government officials...

President Abraham Lincoln’s Best Eulogy for Congressman Elijah Cummings

Before the US election of 2016, I had been...