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...

Special Prayer for Election 2007

Ordinarily, an election is supposed to be a transitional and political process whereby the electorate freely and willingly choose those that will govern them. In our case, the situation is different...

Advise from a well-known Nigerian Chief

Let men tell you what I have been telling anyone who would listen: if you are in a position to steal public money, please, by all means, do so! If you don't, you are a bloody fool...

My Niger-Delta: A Marshall or Master plan?

There is almost nothing anybody can do now about the imbalance that all the years of oil exploration and exploitation has exacted on the ecosystem of the Niger Delta and on her peoples. The only surviving paw-paw tree behind our house in the village just withered and died, just like that...

Scores to Settle

I have looked beyond this mere quarrel thing between Mr. President and his VP Atiku. I understand they are toying with the sensibilities of the already intimidated and impoverished masses...

Oga Andy Carry Go

Oga Andy, no mind dem, we dey your side. Now wey everybody don desert you, remember say me dey, dey root for you, and so make you remember me when you land for Eke Awka...

Lessons for Pat Utomi from Oshiomole

It will be with great regret that I will be giving you tomorrow's news today; Newsflash: Pat Utomi loses in Moonslide in the April Nigeria Presidential Election...

A Message To The Youth of Nigeria: Don't Let Them Do This To Us

When you go to assassinate a political opponent, or to hijack a ballot box and you make any mistake, you will be the one to be destroyed, and not the politician that sent you...

The Murder of Oluwatoyin Olusesan

I read with utmost disgust, the detailed news reports of the gruesome and needless murder of one Ms. Oluwatoyin Olusesan...

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Nigeria; 2011 Elections, The Leadership Challenge (3)

It would appear that the young voters in Nigeria have become analytical and prefer performance ability to supporting ethnic chieftains. It can be recalled that this type of consciousness put Obama in the White House...

The New Democracy And The Crashed Confidence

Despite some progress by the government of ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo in fighting corruption and improving the economy, Nigerians are deeply disappointed with how the country has turned out...

Mount Her, She’s Yours For The Grabbing

To some men, women are just objects and are a must-have only like the chairs, plates cars, etc in your house. In the best case scenario, they are merely to be tolerated rather than be valued...

Take Back Nigeria: A Call To Civil Duty

By CBN Ogbogbo Title: Take Back Nigeria: A Call To...

South Africa: We Are All Victims

South Africa has pursued post-apartheid policies, the consequences of...

Revisiting the University of Port Harcourt ‘Gang War’

I have been made to understand that Ikezam’s murder was not inadvertent. It has been said that the murder was purportedly prompted by his victimization of some students who felt that they needed to pay back hatred for hatred...

A Life…At Forty

There used to be a saying that a fool at forty is a fool forever. In our situation, this may not be the case because of the peculiar nature of our social, economic and political environment, a situation that has condemned many of us to the perennial late starter syndrome...

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...

A Tale Of Two Nations And Their Leadership

Has anyone ever wondered what the 'second' democratically elected presidents of Nigeria and South Africa had seen in their deputies that motivated them to make overt efforts to prevent their deputies from ascending to the presidential seat after their second tenure?

Truth about African Relationships: Beyond the Rhetoric

Nigerian women in Diaspora love Nigerian men. I can attest to this. They are fiercely protective of us, and they take good care of us too. Woe betides any African man that will deny this...