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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...

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...

Obasanjo Sings With His Choir Boys While Nigeria Burns

Obasanjo's government tells Nigerians that one of its reforms is to accumulate huge foreign resources. Of what importance are such resources while hunger has snatched a lot of our beloved ones from us?

Between Dr. Abati, CNN, Nigerians & Nigeria

In writing Between CNN and Nigeria, Dr. Abati misapplied his skills, his education, his talents and his advocacy skills. Worse, he did all these in support of CNN, a media organization that has created a cottage industry excoriating Nigeria! Is Dr. Abati seeking some sort of award from the Americans?

Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and his Witch-hunting Brigade

It will be difficult, really difficult, to find thirty Nigerians in public service over the age of thirty with clean hands and clear conscience. Public service has now become the safest and surest way to get rich...

Can You Tame A Wild And Crazy Class?

This is my story concerning how I managed the wildest and craziest class in my school. I must let you in on it that my methods were a little crazy too...

What Will You Do Or Say?

You've been passing yourself of as an intellectual busybody, venturing opinion on this and that, and on matters that sometimes do not concern you. You rub politicians' noses with your satire and hope to get away with it.  And then out of the blues, CNN invites you to come and discuss the matter...

Voters’ Cards: A Costume In Fools’ Play?

Democracy I believe operates on the basis of freewill and choice, thus franchise as a right should be taken with free will. In other words, the people have the right to either enfranchise themselves, or refuse to be part of it...

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High Cost of Governance, Bad Governance: The Relationship

What is going on in all the three tiers of government is tantamount to, if not worse than, bold-faced, daylight armed robbery of the people of Nigeria. It is calculated that our rulers consume over 80% of the total revenue that accrue to Nigeria in the name of governance...

Framing the jurisprudential synthesis of the confederal republic of Nigeria

Modern societies should use the merits of computer technology in framing the synthesis of governance, rather than dwell on nostalgic reminiscences of old ideological postulates, long exploded...

A Short Commentary on Chukwuemeka Odumegu-Ojukwu

The Minister of Police Affairs wants us to believe no one is above the law. They want us to believe there is a level playing field in Nigeria when it comes to law & order...

Legal Implications of The Benin Appeal Court Judgment In The Edo State Governorship Election Petition

By the judgment of the Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin City, in respect of the appeal from the Edo State election petition tribunal judgment that lied with it, the Judiciary has once again demonstrated that it is the custodian of the nation’s nascent democracy and the last bastion of the people’s rights...

Nigeria – The Nation That No One Loves

As the prices of oil edges to $70 per barrel, we have the capacity to compel America to re-negotiate their national feeling for us, to re-align our options in a calculation that experts have long identified as the next gulf...

Ibusa Union, London Branch: Problems and Prospect

Human nature and human relationships are buoyed with conflicts. We can never do without them otherwise human existence would be boring. But when some conflicts become so entrenched and seem to be dragging on for too long thereby acting as a cog in the wheel of progress...

Nigeria is Argentina’s bitch again

Nigeria’s loss to Argentina at the 2018 world cup...

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...

An Open Letter to President Umaru Yar’Adua 2

Mr. President, we have a model to show us the way. It is not Dubai, as some commentators on the Niger Delta have suggested. It is Venice. It is Venice, not Dubai, because like Venice, the Niger Delta is in the main a collection of islands and marshy terrains...

Attahiru Jega and the Search for a Nigerian Hero

Nigerians seem to be in constant search for public heroes - competent little messiahs who will not hesitate to put their conscience above their life or subordinate self to the common good despite temptations and inconveniences of doing so...