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Government Against The People

Nigeria is in grave danger more than ever. There is no running away from the dire fact that things are not working properly in the...

Oyebanji: The countdown starts!

At exactly 1:34 pm on Friday, October 16, 2026, Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji (BAO) took the Oath of Allegiance as Governor of Ekiti State for...

The Impossible Death Of Dele Giwa

It has been 40 years since the satanic assassination of Dele Giwa through a letter bomb delivered to his home, but the departed iconic...

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...

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..

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Nigeria: Where Are The Nation Builders?

Nation-building that will likely contribute to stable international peace will need to emphasize the democratic participation of people within the nation to demand rights. It will need to build the society, economy...

A Wasted Generation Of Youths…?

Ours is a generation of supermodels and pageants who catwalk the

fashion-walkways to flaunt their treasures- their bodies, and not their

brains. Ours is a generation that inherited a debased standard of

education and enlightenment...

Obama Is Not Taqiyya

The direction in which the issue of World Peace is moving is very interesting to those who know what the Jewish Scripture says is coming...

Why and How Obama shall be Re-elected in 2012: Obama is a Winner

The re-election of President Barack Obama will give the United States and its people the opportunity to rekindle the values enshrined in the Constitution of the United States of America. People everywhere will breathe a sigh of relief that the world will not abruptly come to an end...

Breaking News: “Chop Quench Democratic Party formed!”

I am pleased to announce the formation of the first true mega party in the forty-nine years history of Nigeria. The Chop and Quench Democratic Party is set to take the country by storm, and we are on the precipice of history...

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..

Either Here or There: Coming to America…

In America, I would always be the African girl who sounds different, looks different and just could never quite blend in. In Nigeria, I would become the American girl who could not speak pidgin and could not make ukodo, yet who insisted that she was Nigerian...

A Democratic Revolution in West Africa: What Ghana’s Elections Mean for Nigeria

Former Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has achieved an...

Urban Legends: Fooling the Rest of Us

In recent times, our mail boxes are inundated one time or the other with tons of urban legend messages that heed us to watch out for rat faeces-infested coke cans, poisonous spiders in airport conveniences or HIV-infected pins at cinema hall seats...

If I Were President Yar'Adua…

If I were President Yar'Adua finally I would consider stunning the outside world as I mark my one year in the saddle by renouncing my illegitimate mandate!