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...

What’s Your Age Got To Do With Your Participation In Politics?

A lot of the governorship aspirants fall within the forty or forty something range. I hope you realize what this means in terms of the kind of parentage and the kind of opportunities that these politicians were exposed to as children...

Why Iwu Failed

Everyone now knows that Iwu and his INEC were simply unprepared or unwilling to take Nigerians beyond the usual sad, discomforting stories that had attended past elections in the country...

Why Iwu Failed

Everyone now knows that Iwu and his INEC were simply unprepared or unwilling to take Nigerians beyond the usual sad, discomforting stories that had attended past elections in the country...

Are Nigerians Actually Poor Losers?

The experts believe that because many Nigerians cry foul at losing the elections in favour of the dominant political party, then, they really must be poor losers...

Searching and Waiting For Reuben Abati

Do you know that those meyguards at Trafalgar & Locke House will not allow me to see Mr. Abati? On Monday they told me I didn’t have an appointment to see Oga; on Tuesday I was told “Oga go come tomorrow;” On Wednesday it was “Oga just left for important meeting…come Friday.” On Friday, I was told another story...

When a Nation sits on the Keg of Gun Powder

The Nigerian people woke up on the 14th of April and met a different country and a determined leader who wanted to win elections by sheer coercion...

Abracadabra: Professor Morris Iwu’s magical elections

On Sunday 15th April, 2007, Nigerians woke up to witness the worst shock of their lives. Professor Morris Iwu's abracadabra had defied their wildest imagination...

A National Charade

I shake my head and bemoan an opportunity lost. If anyone tells you an election took place on Saturday, call such an individual a bold faced liar...

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Will Obasanjo Explode Yar’Adua’s Anti-Graft Balloon?

For the past few weeks now, Nigerians have witnessed with utter disbelief details of the worst form of heartless plunder this nation had ever witnessed, perpetrated with utmost impunity and even fanfare, under the direct supervision of Obasanjo...

June 12: Abiola and a Posthumous Presidency!

One year after the death of Chief Abiola, General Sanni Abacha died. Though his death was unexpected and sudden, it was a welcome relief to the people who have for several years been gagged, coerced and silenced by a regime headed by an empty headed drunk...

Ebereonwu: Tribute To A Rebel Poet

Ebereonwu believed that football as played by Jay Jay Okocha, boxing boxed by Muhammad Ali, the procession of arts, the web of a spider, the silence of a graveyard, when a man falls in love with his house girl, are all poetry...

‘Labalaba’ and the Suya’s fire: Why the short and ugly are married 2

For every relationship or marriage there is always the third man or third party...

Presidential Gaffes and the Hypocrisy of the Media

“I will not go out and campaign again and...

Police: Nigeria’s Boys in Black

The Nigerian police has a fearsome reputation for excessive use of force and extrajudicial killings. Annual reports from local and international human rights organisations document, in a gruesome parade of statistics,  fatalities from brutal police assault...

Nigeria and her too many Wars

Wonders shall never stop happening and as I look...

Of Black Churches, Black Scientists and the Nobel Prize for Medicine

According to a report in the Michigan Chronicle, a...

Rejected For Loving a Nigerian Man

In marrying my Nigerian husband, I find that I, an African American woman, have taken on the entire country’s fight as well.  I mean I am called on, through thoughtless remarks or questions, to defend my choice...

The Chilling Advertisement for Al-Qaeda

It was distressing that the Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab botched Christmas day bombing incident has put Nigeria too on the global terror map. But the chilling news is that to Al-Qaeda, it has spotlighted the country as a place to invest...