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 Is Happening In Imo?

I sincerely hope that it would turn out to be true that no form of sabotage was at play in this mysterious fire that consumed the official residence of the Imo State Governor...

Good Morning, General!

Two weeks ago, there were reports that Nigeria’s former president, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo was trapped in a traffic congestion for about two hours...

Nigeria Needs Constitutional Amendments and Electoral Reforms Now!

It appears to be a distraction and a complete waste of time for Nigerians to start engaging in useless ambiguities and silly prevarications...

Yar’Adua, Please, Fix This Road!

The Lagos-Shagamu-Benin Expressway is in a very horrible state. Although it has deteriorated quite beyond what anyone could have imagined was possible in a country ruled by human beings, no one can recall any meaningful attempt made in the past few years to halt its progressive decay...

Déjà Vu (1): Their World Of Riches And Sprays

Buhari's intervention ended up making things worse because his successors shamelessly looted Nigeria blind. I hope Nigeria does not end up in an endless cycle of misrule by the same cabal either in uniform or out of it...

Injustice And Ethnic Politics In Nigeria

It is now widely accepted that Nigeria is slowly on the march towards a national renaissance, a re-awakening of the consciousness of the citizens towards their responsibilities, and those of the government...

Religion, Politics Nigeria’s National Unity

I was opposed to sovereign national conference, I remain opposed. I have been called various unflattering names for believing unflinchingly in one, indivisible Nigeria...

Religion, Politics Nigeria’s National Unity

I was opposed to sovereign national conference, I remain opposed. I have been called various unflattering names for believing unflinchingly in one, indivisible Nigeria...

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Nigeria’s September of Shipwrecks

This September, I was determined to scour for signs...

Opposition Nonsense and Activist’s Wuru-wuru

Like everything Nigerian, opposition is dead. The tragedy of my country is not the actions of bad men; it is the silence or disorganization of good ones that makes our country one of the most backward in the world and definitely ranking among the most decadent society in the history of mankind...

Fight the Politicians Not Emdee Tiamiyu

In the past week, discourse in the public space...

A State At War

To achieve its stated goal, Boko Haram is willing to bomb public motor parks, to slaughter sleeping school children in their beds, to bring carnage to people worshiping in churches, to ambush and kill soldiers and police officers, to abduct schoolgirls and forcibly convert them to Islam, and to carve out a widening space in Nigeria’s northeast where sheer anarchy reigns...

On the Murder of David Kato, the Ugandan Gay Rights Campaigner

We the undersigned condemn in the strongest possible terms the murder of Mr David Kato the Ugandan gay rights campaigner. We wish to state emphatically that homosexuality is neither a sin nor a social or cultural construct...

I Will defend the right of all citizens…

President Jonathan seems to have hit the ground running. This is so because Nigerians unanimously gave him the mandate to be the president for the next four years...

Profound Implications of an Obama Presidency

I must confess that I stayed up all night yesterday, against all odds, gloating as the results of the Iowa Democratic Party caucus trickled in. as the night wore on, it was clear to me like many others, that hope has triumphed over the old paradigm...

Highlight On Traffic Challenges In Rivers

Traffic situations in the City of Port Harcourt can never abate if the residents do not obey traffic orders...

A Country And Its Strange Citizens

Nigerians are a special breed of people. They have the incomprehensible and bizarre capacity of being happy in the worst of circumstances. A Nigerian could even applaud a man contemptuous enough of him to rape his mother in his presence...

Sowore’s Cautious Optimism

I commend Mr. Omoyele Sowore for his unfettered and...