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...

Kano, Nigeria vs Pfizer Pharmaceuticals: An Update

Pfizer's atrocious clinical trials in Nigeria are reminiscent of the infamous Tuskegee experiment on African Americans as human guinea pigs...

What Is Neither 'Good' Nor 'Lucky' About Goodluck Jonathan

The Nigerian state has been taken over at all levels by a criminal cartel and if we are to move forward we need to take them on...

The Nagging Sycophancy of the Igbo Elite

In Igboland our political elite are completely detached from the suffering of the people. Based in Abuja, Enugu, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Awka or Owerri they partake in the national dispossession without qualms...

Democracy, Corruption And The Rule Of Law In Nigeria

We should put issues in perspective and be a bit more realistic and impartial, at least as far as Democracy, Nigerian-style is concerned...

Democracy, Corruption And The Rule Of Law In Nigeria

We should put issues in perspective and be a bit more realistic and impartial, at least as far as Democracy, Nigerian-style is concerned...

What Was “Goodluck” About Jonathan?

Between Yar’Adua’s asset declaration and Jonathan’s intransigence in declaring his publicly is a battle for legitimacy.  Both of them were not really what we wanted. Believe me...

How Alamieyeseigha Embarrassed the Ijaw Nation

Alams did not live on the streets or in a shelter before becoming governor. He owned a couple of houses. But in the short time since he took over the mantle of governance in Bayelsa, Alams bought the Chelsea Hotel in Abuja...

How Alamieyeseigha Embarrassed the Ijaw Nation

Alams did not live on the streets or in a shelter before becoming governor. He owned a couple of houses. But in the short time since he took over the mantle of governance in Bayelsa, Alams bought the Chelsea Hotel in Abuja...

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The 'single story' of a people, by the people

Sieving through pages of history, it is quite easy to note that one of the banes of the Nigerian society is the peculiar inflexibility or outright lack of will to take advantage of available socio-economic opportunities towards entrenching a saner socio-economic and political state of affairs...

Delta State 13% Derivation Fund: Matters Arising On Utilisation

By Olorogun Stephen K. Dieseruvwe The 13% derivation fund in...

Migration to foreign lands

For most Nigerians who have made it to foreign lands, perhaps illegally, it is no longer news that virtually every fortnight these days, batches of Nigerian deportees are airlifted back home from abroad...

The Law Is the Last Hope of a Scam

What a laugh when it is claimed on high...

Amaechi, Contractors and the Future of Rivers State

Amaechi seemingly did not tighten up how contracts were awarded in Rivers State. He might say that it was not in his office to award contracts, but since this concerned his government, the criteria with which contracts were awarded then to mostly indigenes, were not committed to assiduous supervision...

Gender Equality: Men And Women Are Not Equal

I sometimes wonder if we truly can speak of gender equality; and even if we can, I wonder if equality is always healthy and always desirable. Most of us in the West are simply parodying the West instead of being “true to ourselves...

The Hazards of Assad’s Fall

The Fall of Assad can best be described as...

Monica Anwuli Mgbor: Author, Academic & Virtuous Woman of God

Most women known to be beautiful are hardly humble...

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...

What does Nigeria need? Strong men, strong institutions or both?

Nigeria is in dire need of a strong leader who will be courageous enough to confront entrenched interests that have kept the country hostage over the years...