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...

How Not To Resolve The Niger Delta Crises

Despite the army of million dollar salary earning crises managers and PR executives in the employment of the oil companies operating in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria, It is still baffling that the oil companies did not see the current crises coming...

Education And Democracy In Nigeria: Looking At Obasanjo’s Legacy

My generation has a significant role to play in the new political dispensation. This will require a change of behavior and a lot of trial and error as well as a lot of patience and hard work...

Who Killed These Men and Women?

Who killed Sunday Ugwu, Momoh Lawal, Odunayo Olagbaju and Janet Oladapo? Who killed them? Who killed Ahmed Pategi and his police orderly? And who killed Victor Nwankwo, the younger brother of Arthur Nwankwo? I wonder if any murder case has ever been conclusively and satisfactorily resolved in Nigeria...

How To Survive A Fidel Castro Surgical Operation

There are so many things you should have in mind before you go for a major or minor intestinal surgical operation in a private clinic in my country...

The Cheat In All Of Us

All over Nigeria, the beans are being spilled on the sordid past and present of Nigeria's politicians and government officials, perhaps opening their can of worms has become a national past time...

Should One Respect the Office or the Politician?

Can we insult Olusegun Obasanjo without denigrating the Presidency? Can Olusegun Obasanjo fight Atiku Abubakar without dragging the exalted office of the Vice President into the mud?

2007: Again, We Have Lost It

Those who use age to rationalise Nigeria’s insalubrious political conduct forget that in the same western hemisphere with America is a country called Haiti, the world's first black-led republic which became independent in 1804. Today, Haiti remains the poorest nation in the Americas without a scintilla of democratic culture…

Why Atiku Will Be President In 2007

As the days turn into weeks and as the weeks turn into months, inexorably dragging us all to the semi-evil days of Nigeria's election in April, it is not a hard thing to do to predict the outcome or the result of the elections...

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Why are Customs People this Wealthy and Healthy?

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When No One Spoke Against Rape

Nobody cared to stop and ask what was amiss. She was being raped! Everybody kept up their pace; it was nobody’s home; she was nobody’s daughter; and it was nobody’s pain…

SARS, EndSARS and the need for thorough Police Reform

The recent nationwide mass protests by angry Nigerian youths...

Nigeria Will Overcome

For Nigeria to survive and overcome, genuine, not discredited...

Doctrine of Satan, Sin and Eternal Soul

There is priceless information that touches on a far more serious matter than any other subject matter you can imagine. We will endeavor to visit it here. And so, we would desire a ready and open mind and total earnestness...

Ahiara Diocese: Time For Truce

I find really disturbing the on-going slugfest over who should succeed Late Bishop Victor Adibe Chikwe as the Catholic Bishop of Ahiara Diocese...

Is There Peace Without Justice? Rethinking Peace

There is more to peace than the absence of war. Moreover, there is no peace without justice. This article is a rethink of the notion of peace...

Prosperity, Eternity (11): Giving and God’s Yardstick of Approval

How does God expect us to give? It is not according to how you wish or will; it is according to His wish or will and according to His needs and the needs of His children. How does God score what we give? What is His yardstick of appreciation? Is it according to what we give? No!

Developing Nigeria’s Economy: The New Challenges Of Industry Policy-Making

Through industrialization, developing nations aspire to achieve higher economic growth, and to eventually attain developed nation status. Yet, it remains doubtful whether the approach of industrial policy-making in developing countries has indeed been successful in transforming their economies...

This democracy shall not crash

The result of clueless leadership is the constant dashing of hopes of the next generation. Planning is based on religious mumbo-jumbo auctioned at the altars of prosperity gospellers...