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...

Obasanjo: Between Image And Reality

It is sad that as Obasanjo prepares to quit power in a week's time, feelings of disappointment, if not betrayal, tend to eclipse what ought to be Nigeria's day in the sun...

100 Concerned Nigerians Abroad?

Are these hundred persons political jobbers? Are they politicians in disguises? Are they acting on behalf of different political parties as a coalition, while pretending to be some band of neutral Concerned Nigerians abroad?

Implications Of The Failure Of The National Assembly To Amend The 1999 Constitution

The Senate President observed that the 2007 General Elections were rigged by his party, the Peoples' Democratic Party, using the Nigeria Police and the Military. It is a fact that majority of the members of the hallowed Assembly would not return because they failed to secure re-nomination...

Aren’t We Just A Bunch Of Buffoons?

The elections have come and gone. Yar'Adua is now president-elect. A certain Goodluck Jonathan, who might be fooled into describing as serendipitous, the political concoctions that have consistently pushed him into only previously dreamed-about positions in the political configuration of Nigeria in the last couple of years, is vice president-elect...

Stand And Deliver – A Short Note To President-Elect Umar Yar'Adua

You have attained the Presidency of our nation Nigeria at a very crucial point in our history. The challenges are many and failure is definitely not an option...

Goodluck Jonathan: The Suspicion, The Resentment And The Consequences

There are no sensible explanations for the bombing and loss of lives that took place in and around the country home of Governor Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. None...

Let The Work Begin!

Regardless of political party affiliations, I write to congratulate all persons elected to all levels of political offices nation-wide...

The Things I Observed in Nigeria

There are too many moments that make me wonder how, and why, the vast majority of Nigerians are still alive and trudging...

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Celebrating Akachi the Mother of Books

Quietude sits well with Professor Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, and calmness...

Ogboru: Uduaghan’s Rejoinder and Grammar

It is no longer news that my piece “Take a Trip to the Three Warri LGAs” published in the Vanguard of Tuesday February 7, 2010 has attracted a balderdash full-page rejoinder from Emmanuel Uduaghan and his Consultant...

Before it is too late

There are individuals who have contributed immensely to making...

Living with dignity in a civilized world

The world is watching how we do things in our third world country, especially with the crash of the 737 Bellview airliner. Fine, we lack the technology to locate the crash site and all that in good time, but the management of information on the accident amongst other things leaves much to say...

The Preferred Evil

The long arm of political corruption has caught up with Oyo State. The evils of the politics of one man are now playing themselves out. What I am worried about is its dire consequences, which I believe are crucial to the evolution of the political norms of the state...

Nigeria’s Triumphalism in Stupor

It’s such a sad matter seeing supposedly sane Nigerians...

Blood In Politics: Jos like Kenya!

I sat dumbfounded as I watched Jos being set on fire, with innocent Nigerians being massacred. Signs of rigged election! Jos like Kenya!

Mrs. Kemi Adeosun: A Casualty of the War Against Corruption in Nigeria

Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, a Nigerian British-born Technocrat who was...

2007: Again, We Have Lost It

Those who use age to rationalise Nigeria’s insalubrious political conduct forget that in the same western hemisphere with America is a country called Haiti, the world's first black-led republic which became independent in 1804. Today, Haiti remains the poorest nation in the Americas without a scintilla of democratic culture…

A Love Letter To My Valentine

You now taste like hemlock, sweetheart, full of bad blood. Hugging you is like embracing a sword...