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...

Change of Times (Ecclesiastes 3)

A time has announced its arrival for President Umar Yar'Adua to be a hero or villain in our obscure search for a stable nationhood. The choice is wholly his!

Yar’Adua, Our Puppet President: A Response to Reuben Abati

If Obasanjo or his cronies were to plan a military coup today with his scions in the barracks, and notifies Yar’Adua by cable, my bet is that Yar’Adua will simply sit and await the execution of such coup...

The State of Affairs In The Ijaw Nation (2)

It is not inconceivable that every Ijaw man and woman in Bayelsa State know of one or two sorry story to tell...real life stories of teenage girls engaged in partial or full-blown prostitution, instead of attending school...

Nigeria Must Go

You Nigerians are funny, so because oil has been discovered in Ghana, that is why you are rejoicing and getting ready to go to another man’s country...

The State of Affairs In The Ijaw Nation

Again, of all the major groups in Nigeria, the Ijaw elite have, for the most part, been the least useful to their own people. And in fact, account of their uselessness is very common within the Ijaw community...

For your eyes only: Memo to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

As an introspective person, you have a rare opportunity that Providence grants few in their lifetimes to do well and affect the collective destinies of multitudes of persons. By now, you are inundated by the enormity of the royal mess left behind by your predecessors in office as leaders of Nigeria

Foreign Policy Journal: Nigeria as a Failed State

Nigeria is a country living well below its potentials. It is a country that has managed to curb its people’s hope, aspirations and possibilities...

There May Be Trouble Ahead

There may be trouble ahead, but we should still be hopeful and optimistic for Yar’Adua’s new government...

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Buhari’s Appointments & Nigeria’s Ethnic Divide

The age-long ethnic division and mutual suspicion among Nigerians...

Edo State, lying on a sick bed of good health

Prior to the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic,...

Strategy Is Everything

Why are some people happy and others unhappy? Why are some people rich and others poor?

My Helicopter Flight Into Near Death 

I have been in more deadly dangers in my...

Jonathan’s Liver Problem: How Severe?

In colloquial Nigerian lexicons, ‘liver’ could be used to describe confidence, assurance, strength and boldness. Hence when someone says “you don’t have liver” he or she is subjecting your self confidence to question...

The Not In Our Character 'Ab(r)ac(h)adabra'

Is it not in our character as a people to kill one another in the name of politics? Is smuggling of narcotics and other outlawed drugs not in our character? Is it not in our character to defraud ourselves and other foreigners?

The Great Separation and Eternity

The world is hurrying up to the great separation. Meanwhile, death for some could be the first initial step in that coming great separation. Death is a separation on its own but not the great separation...

Love, Religion and Agnostics Like Me

What is the matter with all these Bible-carrying proselytes who bump into me everywhere I go? They want to know what Church or denomination I belong. They want me to come to Church with them, to have a relationship with Christ, confess my sins and know God. And when I rebuff them, they look at me as though I am headed for the valley of fire...

Third Term Debate: Can Mr. Obasanjo recover?

If Mr. Obasanjo rides back on a white horse to his village, after Aso Rock, would it be a triumphant return? I think not. This president’s success will be measured in responses to his utterances after his presidency...

Opinion Poll: Preaching in Public Transport Buses

I was on the bus on my way to work one morning when a loud voice from somewhere behind me erupted into song; it belonged to a man with what I imagined must be an extra large voice box...