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...

Yar’Adua and the Question of Legitimacy

Between now and the inauguration day, Yar'Adua should meet with critics and opponents with genuine interest in the survival and progress of the country. There is the need to join forces for the sake of the country and the people...

Is the Nigerian Judiciary Robotic Constrictive in the Corruption War?

What is the purpose of law? The purpose of law in Nigeria certainly, cannot be to give ringing endorsements to persons who have been censured, persons who have received public opprobrium at home and abroad...

Is the Nigerian Judiciary Robotic Constrictive in the Corruption War?

What is the purpose of law? The purpose of law in Nigeria certainly, cannot be to give ringing endorsements to persons who have been censured, persons who have received public opprobrium at home and abroad...

The Power In The Power Holding Company Of Nigeria

Due to the failure to reach the mandate of supplying electricity in Nigeria many people like the vulcanizers, tailors, battery chargers, panel beaters, welders and cyber cafes operators who must use electricity everyday have resorted to other jobs that do not require electricity...

Baroness Chalker Has Integrity Maturity! A Response to Dr. Yakub Abdalla

Dr. Abdalla in his article excoriated Baroness Walker for simply saying the most mature, responsible and reasonable thing about the post general elections in Nigeria...

Lunch At The Sungbo Eredo

I have been hoping for a flourishing period, a better tomorrow. However, this is fast becoming a mirage, a tint in the sky.... I hope for a time when we all shall stop walking on our heads...

Nigeria Transiting

While the lawyers assemble their evidence, life must move on, the business of government must continue. So transit we must unto a new term of government...

Nigeria Transiting

While the lawyers assemble their evidence, life must move on, the business of government must continue. So transit we must unto a new term of government...

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Barack Obama: The Symbol of the New World

It is important that as Obama barracks to the presidency, that he remembers the key factors that will determine his success or otherwise in the race. It is thus important that he formulates a formidable economic policy...

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Yoruba Roonu Dada…(2)

Unlike in Nigeria where  cases of human rights abuses, torture and murder of innocent and harmless Nigerians by the Police and Army, kidnapping, human-trafficking, etc., are rampant and have become the norm, Senegalese co-exist...

Princewill: From PDP Registration to Voter Registration

Without much emphasis, it is in the news that King TJT Princewill is the first Professor to be anointed a King in Rivers State and also the first Kalabari King to head the Rivers State Traditional Council of Chiefs...

The Identity Guard Commercial and Nigeria’s Image

What needs to be done is not the type of image laundering that is being wrongly spearheaded by our Minister of Information Professor Dora Akunyuli. The present rebranding campaign has failed and will not stem the tide of the international battering of Nigeria’s image...

America Will Disintegrate In Ten Years: Of Glib Talkers And Massive Intelligence Failures!

Nigeria has economic, political and diplomatic ties with America, most of it at Nigeria's expense. Yet, this current American government could come out with these grossly irresponsible predictions, with its attendant implications, gratuitious insults and all, to our people and government of Nigeria and Nigeria is supposed to accept this in good faith or as a friendly act?

Nigeria’s Economy: What is to be done?

Using the phrase ‘What is to be done?’ in...

A Man’s Response to “What Does It Mean To Be a Nigerian Woman in America?”

There is the tendency amongst some Africans to think that African culture is backward and primitive and all that...

Tinubu’s Economic Hitman and the Taxation of Poverty

By Paul Okojie By any measure, Nigeria is passing through...

When Passion Overshadows Knowledge: The Amaechi Example

With the successes recorded so far in the Transportation...