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...

Chief Francis Doukpolagha, Bayelsa State and the PDP

No matter the standard of measurement that is used to measure genuine leadership, accountability, transparency and service, Chief Doukpolagha meets and exceeds all those yardsticks...

UN Job: Did Obasanjo Block Okonjo-Iweala?

It will be disastrous if the president saw Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's UN job bid as payback time, an opportunity to extract his vengeful pound of flesh as it is being insinuated in diplomatic circles...

Globacom: A Giant Among Telephony Service Providers In Nigeria And Africa

I wouldn't know how to thank Globacom for its wonderful initiatives in Nigeria. Over three years in operation, it has helped break the monopoly in the industry...

We Must Adjust This Catheter Life Of Ours…!

One of the reasons that one can safely adduce for the seeming numbness and complacency of the elite, the hoi polloi and the international community against the oppressive tendencies of the Obasanjo government is that we have all been brainwashed to suppose and agree with the dictum that 'even the worst civilian government is better than the best military dictatorship'.

Remembering Chief Obafemi Awolowo

Twenty years after his passing, Awolowo lives on. He lives through his friends and family. He lives through his disciples. He lives through the great things he did for Nigeria...

A Battle Cry To Reverse The Poor State Of The Nation (Part 3)

The need for the South to unite and form a joint political platform is imminent. There is the need for the Yorubas and Igbos in particular to forget the past and work together to achieve a common goal...

Soyinka’s Eruption and Nigeria’s Opposition Infantilism

The insertion of certain voices of reason into public discourse usually changes not only the tone of that conversation but the direction. Professor Wole Soyinka's recent eruption, I'm afraid, has shown the persisting lack of discernment that pervades the moribund opposition movement in Nigeria...

Soyinka On Buhari: A Blunder, A Weak And An Unnecessary Analysis

Soyinka, for whatever reason, is missing a simple point: At this point in our nation's life, Buhari is one of a handful of men that can bring sanity, probity, clear direction and accountability to our socio-economic and political landscape...

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The Mountains and Hills of Life

When translated into life situations, those who attempt the mountains have inadvertently conquered the fear of failure which hold back many of us from fulfilling our true potentials...

Goodluck Jonathan or Muhammadu Buhari? (2)

Contrary to the mirth some later day revisionists peddle...

Now, Will President Yar’Adua Be Kind?

Quitting now would be more redemptive of Yar’Adua’s person than being remembered later as the groping undertaker of a richly endowed but seriously ill nation?

The Nigerian media industry, Internet revolution and competition for advert

Very soon we will start to see Nigerian papers charging for some aspect of their online news, despite the not so successful experimentation of the Punch Newspaper. But as we are witnessing now, competition for online advert will intensify concurrently with that of the print paper...

Bayelsa 2012: Why Governor Timipre Sylva Must Go

Indeed, anyone who understands the Bayelsa political landscape understands that the opposition against the governor is rooted - not in sectional and low-politics - but in his mammoth incompetence...

The Responsibility of States for Good Governance: A Note to the National Dialogue

The relationship between the Sovereign State and its citizens and others is said to be bound by a social contract...

Conversation with Arthur Lee

"I focus on connecting with the audience, so that they feel like I'm singing to them, that I'm singing to every person in the audience..."

Does African Philosophy Exist?

Were our forbearers non-thinking creatures? Are we still thinking? Do we have a school of thought that equips our policy makers, guides our scholars and provide guidance for our development? Or are we just living on borrowed thought and precepts?

The Trials Of Brother Emeka

"I flog a lot. I have canes. If husband and wife mess up by having misunderstanding, I have to settle them. But the person that is at fault, I must flog. If the person refuses to be flogged, I will send him out of the church". - Rev. King

Nigeria’s Senate Presidency And A Whiff Of Corruption

Just when you thought it is safe to come out of the woods and support our politicians, especially after a very flawed election full of massive riggings, mayhem and death, there comes our daft, clueless, insensitive political class who called themselves Senators, electing a dubious, to put it mildly, Senate President...