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...

The State of Affairs In The Ijaw Nation (Conclusion)

Today, Ijaw land is in a state of chaos and confusion. Almost a complete mess! As a result of the indifference and criminality of the oil companies, the Ijaw land is home to some of the world’s most insidious environmental crimes...

Good Bye Nigeria

When this transition is over

I hope to get back and rescue my state

From Andy Uba when he tries to make a comeback

I pray my beloved Nigeria will still be intact...

How to Secure Political Appointment in Nigeria

You have to be a fool to think that your skills, strength of character, education and intelligence alone will get you anywhere in Nigeria...

When Rimi Hit the Bull's Eye!

Politics in Nigeria is without principles and ideologies. It is rather a cash-and-carry business-as-usual thing 'initiating' and incorporating new members and perpetuating others all year round...

What’s the Matter with Okey Ndibe?

Now that Baba Obasanjo is deputizing, Okey Ndibe is still not happy. And he has now set his eyes on President, Alhaji, and Mallam Musa Yar’Adua. Yar’Adua is the man...

The Joke Is On Us

At last, a man in possession of strong moral capital has come to the throne and Nigeria is about to rise and shine...

Déjà Vu (2): The Wisdom Of Our Elders And Their Curses

Azikwe and Awolowo were the greatest leaders our Nation ever produced. Both deserved to lead the Nation for whose independence they had put their lives on line, but neither got the chance despite being well educated and greatly talented...

Why President Yar’Adua Should Cut Obasanjo Loose Now

The first rule of the political game is political survival. It is never over and the battle carries on for as long as one has in his possession the prized trophy desired by both friends and foe...

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A Limitation to Papal Liberalism: the UN vs The Catholic Church

This is the Era of the Gentiles, the era of spirit consciousness. It is also a period when the anti-Christ devotees have become more active in promoting debaucheries unknown in the 1930s...

A Tale of Two Goodlucks: a Security Man and a Vice-President

Considering Dr. Goodluck’s remarkable political ascent to date, only a fool would wager against his further ascent. Dr. Goodluck is a man with good luck, even if he is not the most politically astute...

I Write To Process The World Gently – Sefi Atta In Conversation With Ike Anya (2)

"Ethnic stereotypes are absurd to me because I was raised in a part of Lagos that was unusual in the sense that almost all my friends and family had parents who were from different ethnic backgrounds..." - Sefi Atta

Yar’Adua’s Budget Battle with the National Assembly

Just as many predicted when President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua signed the 2009 Appropriation Bill into law last March, the Executive and Legislative arms of government at the federal level have, for the umpteenth time, locked themselves in a largely unhelpful muscle-flexing over the implementation of the national budget...

For How Long Can A Deathly Union Survive on ‘For Better Or Worse’?

Should a woman remain in an unfair, unbalanced and unfeeling relationship whose myriad of problems she does not have the solution to because the solution is in the man’s head as conditioned by phallic symbols and only him can proffer it?

An Absolute Necessity

Abuja could be a beautiful place if truly enhanced with the money currently going into the pockets of the few...

North’s cornering of oil blocs

It is easy to understand that any Nigerian that knows what an oil bloc is will want one. Understandably not every Nigerian can get one. The question then is: In a country of millions, who gets the limited oil blocs that all want?

Elected Representatives: Servants or Masters?

“Not to know what happened before you were born...

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

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...

Peeping into BAT’s Agenda

In celebration of the 57th anniversary of Nigeria’s Independence,...