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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...

That EFCC List: Where is the Outrage? Where is the Indignation?

Why do so many Nigerians defend some Nigerians engaged in corruption? Where is our collective righteous indignation and outrage against our public enemy number one, corruption...

Paul Adujie and the EFCC List: Making a Mockery of Justice

It was wrong - wrong in law and wrong in basic decency - for the EFCC to release a list of allegedly corrupt officials and then imply that the listed are guilty. If the EFCC has the evidence, let them go to Court...

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...

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...

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An Unfolding Political Apocalypse

America has lost its prized ability of balancing diplomacy with military toughness. Slowly and surely, the walls of isolationism have been brought down but it seems that the US is stuck in some sort of rut where it cannot engage the rest of the world...

Minna Sanhedrin and More Pertinent Issues

The symbolic event of Friday, May 11, 2017, had...

Of Pseudo Religion and Crass Politics

The contents of this piece are bound to elicit plethora of harsh reactions from some holier-than-though ones among us; the highly religious, but less spiritual, fanatical adherents of the several religious bodies in Nigeria, most especially some know-it-all arrowheads of the two major religions - Christianity and Islam – and their largely ignorant disciples...

Jos: A Repeat of Rwanda?

The United Nations, international community and the International Criminal Court (ICC) must know that Nigeria is in the midst of genocide in the proportions of Rwanda in 1994...

A Walk Into Misery

Life here as we saw it was a dark cloud without a silver lining. We have become so dead to the wailings of the poor in our bid to get ourselves rich...

The United States Military Earned its Respect, but the Nigerian Military Has Not

In the aftermath of the civil war, the much...

History, Posterity and Nigeria in 2035

The history of Nigeria, since 1914 until the present time, has been a history of failures, conflicts, failed promises, shattered hope, endless pain and agony...

American “Jobbers” And 4-1-9ners: Fact Or Fiction

Vulture companies buy up the debts of poor countries at reduced or cheap price and turn around to ask for payments much higher than these countries were originally owing, and often taking these poor nations to court if they cannot afford to pay...

An Abject Abdication of Responsibility

Most of us who are offended by our wayward ways as a nation need to minimise the  analyses and come together in order to initiate something that will catalyse positive change in our society in decades to come...

Who is Unfit for Command?

The man who dodged combat and the bullet or the man who faced up to both for the Love of Country?