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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...

Better Leadership: Vice President Atiku’s Promise to Nigerians

Full transcript of the Vice President Atiku Abubakar speech on "Challenges For Nigeria After The Election", delivered at Chatham House, London, on Sept. 20th, 2007

The “Obj Complex”

I was working when the newsflash came announcing that the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had declared in favor of Vice President Atiku Abubakar over his decampment to another party and his clinging to his position as VP. Unconsciously, I jumped up with joy...

Free Advice…But Please Don’t Take My Word For It

(1) How to Offer Bribes (2) Robbing the right people (3) Cheating on Your Man (4) Cheating on Your Woman (5) On Ancient and Modern Sex (6) On Rigging Elections (7) and finally, God is For the Poor and the Weak…

What About Bird Flu?

Pay a visit to Onipanu market in Lagos and see for yourself how vulnerable Nigeria is to this virus, and how unconcerned the authorities are about the dreaded pandemic that is chilling the spine of the rest of the world...

A Few Good Men…

I think it should be a prerequisite for all aspirants of a political office in Nigeria to rent at least the first two seasons of '24' In fact, '24' ought to be included in some miscellaneous administration budget and incorporated as a training tool for every government official...

Are the Meek Inheriting The Earth in Nigeria?

In Nigeria today, the standard that established what is good or bad has been replaced by get-rich-quick syndrome – at all cost. These days, many Christians have abandoned the "Old churches" that have failed to adjust to the new trend of posterity teachings...

Abubakar Atiku and the Rule of Law

I doff my hat to Atiku for sticking to the rule of law. His actions are epoch making, precedent setting. Love him, hate him or be indifferent, it is difficult not to acknowledge and pay respect to him in view of his string of court victories against Mr. Obasanjo...

The Nigerian Judiciary and The Fight Against Corruption

The single most devastating menace and threat to political and economic stability in Nigeria is elite corruption whereby educated persons placed in charge of public administration help themselves and their usually large families with the common wealth of Nigeria...

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Middle East Conflict: The Reality in Nigeria

The US and Israel are on one side. Iran...

Revisiting Nigeria’s political trajectory

The political formation, which eventually secured Nigeria’s independence, was...

Just a Pant

Most blood transfused in our various clinics are gotten from paid donors and families of patients in need of blood. What does this say of us as citizens of this nation? We love money, and we are collectively selfish!

America Votes: Any Lessons For Nigeria?

In my opinion, a good number of American voters are not well-informed. And they are gullible. Most American voters are traditionalists. They stick to their ancestral family party line and pattern of voting...

Nigeria’s Real Enemies

“Then I said to them, ‘You see the trouble...

Power sector: The watts that weren’t!

There was a delusion that the privatization of the...

Agriculture and rural development in Nigeria: a retrospect of the last two decades (1991-2011)

With barely less than four years to the targets year of the Millennium Development Goals to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality...

CNN Attacks On Nigerians In Houston

Why did CNN focus on a few Nigerians in Houston Despite the Enron Catastrophe in Houston? How did CNN manage to neglect the forest of the Enron debacle, while CNN was in hot pursuit of a few crumbs of trees by way of a few Nigerian immigrants involved in frauds?

Oyo State Governorship: Oke-Ogun’s Turn

With all due respect to all of the 2019...

Aso Rock and the Hovering Vultures

Lexicographers have their ways with terminologies. What, for instance,...