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...

Would You Join Looters' Choruses or Join the EFCC Dance in the Streets?

News reaching me from Abuja, Nigeria, state in most unmistakable terms that those who have been indicted for corruption, will be barred from the general elections in Nigeria scheduled for April 2007...

Edo PDP Solidarity Strengthens Prof. Osunbor’s Chances

In this poignant election year, very few candidates vying for governorship positions have the level of solidarity among party members like Osunbor does at this point...

EFCC’s Advisory List Is Appropriate

We do not need an EFCC list to know that almost all the major players in the political arena, particularly the governors, in seven years plus did not give a good record of their governorships...

Who Really Qualifies to Fight Corruption in Nigeria?

To fight corruption in Nigeria, would it require a virgin or an angel? Should we fight corruption by hiring foreign agents, just as we do with foreign football coaches and technical advisers?

Who Really Qualifies to Fight Corruption in Nigeria?

To fight corruption in Nigeria, would it require a virgin or an angel? Should we fight corruption by hiring foreign agents, just as we do with foreign football coaches and technical advisers?

In Loving Memory of NAL…

In the military, a commander who fails to achieve his operational objective and under whose watch a calamity occurs will face a disciplinary action that includes but not limited to a court martial.  But in the corporate world, it’s a different ball game...

Talakawa Umaru Yar'Adua Will Be President of Nigeria!

Talakawa Yar'Adua is not corrupt! He is the only Nigerian governor to publicly declare his assets before he was sworn in, in 1999 and again, before his re-inauguration in 2003...

Pollution Issue: A Split Second Experience With Death

So this is how it typically ends when a fatal accident happens. No plans, no readiness for death and no goodbyes to loved ones. Who would raise my children? Would they be told I went to Heaven?

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Freedom Coalition: $250m fund to elect Abubakar Umar…(4)

If Jonathan eventually clinches the PDP nomination - which we should pray for, but eventually loses the 2011 elections to a Northerner from the opposition parties, neither Jonathan nor any Southerner will be given the opportunity again to contest in 2015 on the platform of the PDP...

Crisis Foretold

The forces of darkness that are bent on holding Nigeria down are still at work as has been conclusively proved by last Saturday's governorship and State Assembly elections...

Day Onyeka Onwenu Came For The Kill

The sonorous songstress Onyeka Onwenu has just passed, but...

Moslem in America

The anti-American protest in kano which was brought in vivid colour to American sitting rooms as well as the fact that the Nigerian Ambassador to America is also a Muslim have somewhat combined to place Nigeria right in the middle of the changing face of Islam in America.

Fashola: A quintessential leader

Fashola's enviable performance in Lagos state must have been the cynosure of all eyes as his government is being recognised by local and the international community...

‘Bad Boy’ Nigeria @ 60

Independence Day! It’s Birthday Time as Nigeria turns 60. The...

Where Then Shall We Run To?

About six young girls were in the bus. The men violently pulled them up, forced them to undress and began to rape them. As they took turns on these hapless girls, and raped them with savagery and beastly relish, the girls cried in deep pain. And as some of the girls screamed in pain, they shut them up with murderous threats and blows...

Tribute To My Peerless Pearl – Deaconess Comfort Oluremi Ajala (1952 – 2021)

'Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world...

Vision 2020: Can Solid Mineral Get Harnessed? (2)

 Nigeria has in the past largely focused on the development of its oil industry while neglecting the solid mineral sector. However, geological reports show that the country has a strong mining potential...