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...

Nuhu Ribadu’s List Of Prejudice

It will be difficult for one book to contain the names of all the corrupt people in Nigeria, because that book could well be a multi- million page book…

Lawlessness Unlimited

Whenever I look up the meaning of the words anarchy, confusion, chaos and pandemonium in my dictionary, it is always illustrated with a map of Nigeria. Everybody is in charge there. Nobody is in charge there...

Leadership, Decision Making, The North, The Military And Development In Nigeria: A System Analysis (Part 1)

In this article, using a system analysis approach, I'll try to show or prove that the probability of a leader succeeding, at least as far as the Nigerian context is concerned, has a lot to do with his origin. Using econometrics, we will try to find a correlation between good leadership and the origin of a leader...

Decoding Animal Talk Jagbanjantis!

Obasanjo as a specimen never ceases to amuse me. This is a man that nominated a Vice President for two terms, I mean twice in the space of four years and then turns around in the eighth year to tell us he is the most corrupt politician in the history of Nigeria. No be animal talk be that?

Problem Has Changed Name (PHCN)

The bitter truth, which would be too hard to shy away from, is that NEPA has worked so hard to distinguish itself as one of the most excruciating problems of the Nigerian nation, which has even terribly worsened since it took on the new name of PHCN...

The Natural Evolution Of The Nigerian Politician

Could there be something in government that turns all our leaders in Nigeria into monsters?  Is there a controlling spirit or are they all just outright immature, not able to delay gratification?

Before You Judge Them…

Our country as it is today is threatened by a total breakdown of law and order. There is the ever increasing rate of armed robbery, the abduction of expatriates, corruption, bickerings among our leaders...

We are Asari Dokubo!

We from the Niger-Delta should carry this consciousness about and around us: that anytime Asari Dokubo is put in chains and locked up in a Black Maria, it is we who are also locked in a Black Maria and are in chains. I say this because there are a couple of persons in our midst who are mostly responsible for the travails of the Niger Delta...

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Boko Haram: Looking Beyond The Current Strategy

The fact that Nigeria is not alone in this problem should give the administration the motivation to work with other nations having similar problems. There is a long standing history of terrorism in countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel etc., therefore, Nigeria can learn quite a lot from their intelligence units...

If Ehindero fails…

 I do not know how it happened, but since he commenced work as the Nigeria's Chief Cop, I have never been able to shake off the stubborn feeling that Mr. Ehindero may indeed represent a healthy and edifying surprise in the Nigeria Police, if the regime that appointed him would allow him free hand to duly police the country...

The Significance Of All Saints Igbo Language Anglican Church In DC

It was a very important day in the history of Ndigbo in DC area with the formal inauguration of All Igbo Anglican Church in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington on Sunday September 16th, 2007...

Accursed is the Land

Accursed is the land where the young are slaughtered...

Taunting the Critic

Self-appointed guardians of political possibility who desire to mask...

Suffering and Smiling In Lagos

Lagos is probably the only town in the world that has no official “Welcome to..” signage on its borders. What Lagos has is just a “This is Lagos” sign. The hidden message in this cold and unwelcoming signage  is that ‘This is Lagos, what you see is what you get’...

Shall We Tell The President?

I borrowed this title from the British thriller writer,...

2012 Budget: fiscal prudence, subsidy removal and other issues

Allocating 72% of the budget to recurrent expenditure seems to me very outrageous, and a move away from the government mantra of fiscal prudence. Though, as one analyst observes, it is not easy to cut recurrent expenditure in one fell swoop...

American Gunboat Diplomacy and Global Security

If they want peace, nations must avoid the pin...

Nigerian Men and their Foreign Wives

Culturally, Nigerian men are overbearing, controlling, and paternalistic.  They relate to their fathers and mothers differently. They believe it is “a man’s world” and so they have the tendency to relegate women to subservient roles. I am stunned by the transformation Nigerian men, married to non-Nigerian women, have gone through in the United States...