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...

Omehia The Soul Of Ndi-Igbo

While a lot of people who gained financially from the leadership style of former governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, are praising it as the best, many a people in the state he led for a good period of eight-years are crying foul and blue murder...

Yar’Adua is on a Short Leash

The “coronation” of our “selected” president has come and gone. Political gamesmanship has since begun. Like every political transition, this one will come with its own bit of drama. I very well expect to see the first couple of impeachment notices to start flying very soon...

The Nigerian Press is Becoming Lazy, Corrupt, and Moribund

Today, the Nigerian Media is a shell of its once plump self: it has lost its way. And more so since 1999, the Nigerian Media has become lazy and moribund. And corruptible!

Election Rigging And Other Atrocities: Obasanjo Is NOT Guilty (2)

Since we all knew that Obasanjo knew nothing about petroleum and its management, and that the main reason for assigning himself this ministry was to fill his pocket with Nigeria's petro dollars, why didn't we go out en masse to protest?

Election Rigging And Other Atrocities: Obasanjo Is NOT Guilty (2)

Since we all knew that Obasanjo knew nothing about petroleum and its management, and that the main reason for assigning himself this ministry was to fill his pocket with Nigeria's petro dollars, why didn't we go out en masse to protest?

Florence Ita-Giwa: What Next?

As I look at 2007 and beyond, I try hard to locate Ita-Giwa’s likely next bus stop in the whole power set-up, that is, the next centre of power from where she would throw her weight and influence...

Nigeria, CNN and Jeff Koinange’s Dismissal

As it now turns out, Jeff Koinange has admitted to third parties, half in boast and half in jest, that he was actually paid to contrive the MEND stories that he featured on CNN!

Obasanjo’s Crocodile Tears

While the lives of Nigerians rested in pieces in the eight years Obasanjo worsened the country the military left in shreds, he shamefacedly metamorphosed into a god...

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Atiku’s Increasing Mischief and the APC

For quite some time now, former Vice President, Atiku...

Oil Money In Nigeria’s Democracy

Despite the influx of an accumulated  $30 billion of crude revenue, the poor in Nigeria continue to languish without jobs, education, healthcare or the bare necessities of life, while the small percentage of rich mostly with their extorted money manage to get whatever luxuries they want...

Between Dasuki and Diezani

The 'toppled' PDP government is fast unravelling. Since ex-President...

Images From And About Africans: A Response to Sabella Abidde

It has become exceedingly easy, sexy and even entertaining to be extremely critical of the African continent and its travails...

Vegetable Medley Quiche

Hot roast of pork sandwich with mashed potatoes...They caught and killed the pig already so you don't have to worry about that...

The Surge Of Colossal Examination Collapse in Nigeria

The issue of examination failure in Nigeria has become a characteristic of great concern to parents, teachers, stakeholders in education supervision, and even to the students...

“Alade” Aromire: An Innovator’s Legacy

The epidemic of preventable, ghastly loss of lives through road accidents is a sad commentary on a society steadily going under, and lacking in elementary procedures of keeping its cities and populations safe...

Education In Africa; Whose Education, Anyway

Education ought to empower an individual to master the peculiarities of his surroundings and afford him the tools to improve on it qualitatively. In essence, what might be considered knowledge in a certain part of the world could amount to useless information in another...

Bayo Onanuga: Spewing Ethnic Hatred As Weapon Against Mass Hunger

These are very dangerous days in Nigeria. “These are times...

God May Be Man After All

It is not tendentious to contend that in some religious texts God is shown to have dark, human propensities such as anger, hate, prejudice, disgust, murderousness, envy, jealousy and pride. This list is not exhaustive of the negative human propensities of God as can be gleaned from some religious texts...