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...

What Sullivan Chime Should Do

The first time I heard the name of the current Governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sullivan Chime, the first thing that struck me was the exotic nature of the name – Sullivan...

Oyo State and the Rule of Thugs

Since 2003, the good people of Oyo state have known no peace. Like their kith and kin in Ekiti and Anambra states, they bore the burden of quarrelsome leadership and a morally bankrupt ruling party...

Yoruba Council of Elders: ‘Latter-Day’ Freedom Fighters?

Today, the Yoruba Council of Elders is crying hoarse and canvassing for a Sovereign National Conference because it feels that the Umar Yar’Adua-led government has sidelined the Yorubas in the government’s cabinet formation...

Gani Fawehinmi: Between Impetuosity and Senility

It bears emphasizing that Gani is, in the eyes of many, a victim of both impetuosity and 'senility'. The degeneration of a hitherto great legal mind has struck us, his admirers right from college, as the final stage of a hero's dramatic undoing of his heroism...

How Ndi-Igbo Blew A Very Good Chance Of Producing Nigeria's President

Gowon unleashed three Divisions on the Igbos during the war and these three Divisions were commanded by ruthless and merciless human beings. In fact, those commanders were sub-human, judging from their actions during that war. They had genocidal tendencies...

How Ndi-Igbo Blew A Very Good Chance Of Producing Nigeria's President

Gowon unleashed three Divisions on the Igbos during the war and these three Divisions were commanded by ruthless and merciless human beings. In fact, those commanders were sub-human, judging from their actions during that war. They had genocidal tendencies...

Aburi: The “Sovereign National Conference” That Got Away

By failing to implement the Aburi decisions, Nigeria missed a golden opportunity to find a constitutional arrangement acceptable to all of its constituent parts...

Fear Don Catch Ribadu

Looking back, the EFCC was created to smoke-screen Nigeria with an anti-corruption crusade, while the nation was besieged by the swooping masquerade of massive looting...

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The Revelations of the Damned!

"Unemployment, underdevelopment and poverty everywhere in the land. Our...

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One should utilize this opportunity to invite the Nigerian  Federal Government team in charge of her re-branding drive not look too far if they hope to achieve any success in the foreign aspect of the scheme. The man they should not tarry in consulting is Taju...

Capital Market Probe: Unmask the Culprits

What kind of confidence are we talking about here when the entire world is watching a nation that is not bold enough to tell itself the hard truth? Confidence while the criminals who used the Capital Market as their platform to steal trillions are yet to be arrested and brought to face the law?

COVID-19 Pandemic and the Days that follow!

“Lockdown has immediate ramifications for individuals who live on...

2007 And The People’s Rights

Almost every Nigerian of voting age is aware of the atrocities committed by the various military leaders who had unleashed their autocratic reigns on our nation in the past. IBB was just one of them and it will be unfair to single him out for "punishment"...

Prosperity, Eternity (15): Learning to give to God acceptably

There are many unfertile grounds people sow in that we must not sow in. One of them is sowing into the rich, especially to gain reward. He that gives to the rich shall surely come to want...

CBN: Bold Steps Towards Monetary Policy Rate

In a strategic move reflecting confidence and stability, the...

Exhuming Bola Ige

In the decade and a half since Chief Bola...

Excessive speed as a vital human factor in road traffic accident

Speeding is one of the common offenses under road traffic law that have to be taken with seriousness as many people lose their lives each year due to careless speeding...

Not my Style

I had never lost my wallet before, but it happened just the other night.   How I made it home, I had no clue.  I was flat out of my mind.  I was a walking time bomb!