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...

Moving Quickly On

Before we move on, we need to deal with a small matter of the newspaper report that the National Assembly is contemplating steps to nullify the elections...

Congratulations!

Those who were unsuccessful at the just concluded elections should embrace the rule of law, due process and democracy. The burden is on them...

The Remains of the Day

I did not vote in the last Nigerian elections. I couldn't have from my abode in Europe where we tried to mobilise the Nigerian diaspora for the Pat Utomi for president project. Though the results did not go the way we had hoped, I am still a happy man knowing that we tried our best to effect change in our country...

The Verdict of History and Posterity

Everything that has been said and written about Obasanjo can be summed up in one simple sentence: he was incompetent and vengeful; he was a failure, a disappointment, a waste and a drag on our national interest and collective goal...

In The Name Of God

For too long, many in the international community have come to the conclusion that nothing good can come out of Nigeria. And at every given opportunity, we have proved them right...

How The Niger Delta People Can Get Their Freedom From a Terrorist Country Like Nigeria: A Simple but Effective Guide (4)

Are the Niger Delta Militants justified in taking up arms against the Federal Government?

How The Niger Delta People Can Get Their Freedom From a Terrorist Country Like Nigeria: A Simple but Effective Guide (4)

Are the Niger Delta Militants justified in taking up arms against the Federal Government?

Congratulations to Yar’Adua and Jonathan for Winning the 2007 Election

The 2007 elections were concluded last week. The exercise was deemed free and fair by both the EFCC and the International Monitoring Group, as well as by all Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora...

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Nigerians Love Justice

Unlike the “victory” awarded to the likes of Akala, Oyinlola, Gbenga Daniel, David Mark, et al, at the tribunals, the impulse generated by Mimiko’s victory, like that of Adams Oshiomole and Peter Obi at the Supreme Court, truly reflected the will of the electorate...

Fear of God and Manifestation of the Sons of God

The fear of God or the want of it is what separates the few on the narrow way from the multitudes in the world and multitudes in the Church on the broad-way. The fear of God is what ‘begets’ those eternal sons of God...

Simple questions for this new APC

Last week, our conclusion as citizens and students of politics was that the most fascinating political formation in the country at the moment is the newly formed All Peoples Congress...

Nigeria’s True Heroes and Villains

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Health-Care Controversy in the United States

The more fundamental issue in the health-care debate is how government can resolve the balancing of competing interests in modern American society, in a fair and equitable manner...

Unfulfilled Promises to Light Up Benin City’s Airport Road

Years of neglect of the lighting-up project of airport...

Africa’s Brave New Ancestor Called Ngugi

Africa has just welcomed the path-finding Ngugi wa Thiong'o...

What the Maroon-Robed One Told Zaina

Zaina was about to hang herself when she saw the snake. As the serpent’s neck swayed closer to her, her hands slipped from the branch and she fell…

Before The 2007 Election Melee…

We mostly allow the most mundane and the most primitive issues swallow and engage our sensibilities, I guess because we still are unsure what we want of ourselves and of those who claim they want to represent us...

Prosperity, Eternity (12): Bosoms: Abraham’s Two, Ours and God’s

Do we have bosoms? Do we know how many battles the church has either shied away from or even “lost”, as it were, because many who say and sing ‘Abraham’s blessings are mine’ have no bosom?