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...

A Passage To Otta

Yo! Dude, what's up? I can't believe 8 years is up. Funny how time flew during your second coming. Boy, I tell you, it's been one hell of a ride on the train called Nigeria during this time, was it for you too? Wish that they would realise too that people come, people go and Aso Rock remains...

Nigerian Leaders And Their Spoken English

When a person communicates with clarity, he would be understood and appraised accordingly. And when he cannot do so, the underlying message gets cut off. The messenger, in effect, becomes an object of doubt and suspicion...

Enough Is Enough – A Short Note To General Muhammadu Buhari

I read with concern your decision to contest the election of Governor Umar Ya'Ardua at the Presidential Election Tribunal as well as participate in peaceful anti-election Protest. Please think again..

Why Akunyili’s God Is Not God

It is bound to happen. Nigerians are experts in the art of blasphemy. At any given time, their behaviour and language are profane and sacrilegious...

The Supreme Court of Nigeria vs the Corruption War

For lawyers, the Supreme Court of Nigeria is what St. Peter's Basilica is to devout Catholics! The Supreme Court is to lawyers what Mecca is to devout Muslims!

The Supreme Court of Nigeria vs the Corruption War

For lawyers, the Supreme Court of Nigeria is what St. Peter's Basilica is to devout Catholics! The Supreme Court is to lawyers what Mecca is to devout Muslims!

I Believe Atiku!

A lot of us hardly took Atiku seriously even when he apologized to the nation for assisting President Obasanjo put us through some very harrowing reformatory experiences...

On Your Marks, Get Set…

The fight has not started. When it does, we will all be aware. It will strike like thunder and bring down its actors. We will all be by the sides and watch and cheer…

Don't miss

Thinking About Nigeria In The Olympics And Beijing 2008

Only time will tell how far we will go and how well we will do in the ongoing Olympic games.  I have saved a few bucks to give myself a treat any day our beloved country wins the gold medal in any sport...

Ekiti: Time to silence the guns (2)

Well, much as causation has been attributed to poverty,...

Praying for Diezani and the Rest of Us

Had ISIS not shocked the world by sponsoring a...

Can we share in their glories?

Take a Nigerian and you have a survivor, take two Nigerians and you get two competing survivors, take three Nigerians and you get a series of contradictions. That in part is the story of Nigeria in the just concluded successful London Olympics...

Nigeria 2015: Presidential Elections and Beyond

The need for a “new modern, united and prosperous...

Thank you Rotimi Amaechi…

When I met Governor Rotimi Amaechi, I was, in the words of an anonymous writer, looking down. When I left him, however, I was looking up. Besides the notorious or infamous aftermath of the election that justifiably retained him as the Chairman of Nigerian Governors’ Forum, news of Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s sense of humanity and love has filtered in very recently...

Professor Utomi At 50

One may not be far wrong to assume that Pat Utomi belongs to that special category of Nigerians that believe in trying, and who are also more comfortable to be judged by history for making mistakes in their several attempts to leave the world a better place...

Hate is No Excuse: A Cursory Review of the Trayvon Martin Case

The reason for Zimmerman’s curious acquittal is said to be hinged on self-defense. For self-defense to be admissible in a criminal case, I submit that the danger to the person claiming self-defense must be intimidating...

Offerings are for the Poor, not for your Pastor

For my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge....

Averting Judicial Coup D'etat

The prolonged era of military rule has led to the erosion of confidence in the administration of justice in Nigeria...