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...

Boob Jobs And Other Nonsensicalities

Why is it that almost every TV station you turn to you are inundated with procedures for boob jobs, nose jobs and every other 'job' imaginable and purely for cosmetic reasons?

In Those Days…

In those days, when an undergraduate walked the streets, everybody rallied round him; the elders thronged him for the ever-involving intellectual debates and news about the latest discoveries, while the children flocked about him to listen to fables from 'I don't know where'…

A Battle Cry To Reverse The Poor State Of The Nation – Part 2

For every Northerner occupying a federal government post at any level, there are at least 100 Southerners that are more qualified but are being denied the opportunity...

A Battle Cry To Reverse The Poor State Of The Nation – Part 2

For every Northerner occupying a federal government post at any level, there are at least 100 Southerners that are more qualified but are being denied the opportunity...

Ladoja: A Governor On The Marble Of History

Saddam's fate may one day befall the un-elected godfathers of Nigerian politics when constitutional checks and balances reveal they are nothing but tyrants...

Buy Your Chieftaincy Title Here

Nigerians in America who might have the ambition of seeking political office in Nigeria need to contact this writer in order to earn some political points...

The Coming Anarchy and Low-Intensity Conflict

We have a president who, along with a select few, is sharing, stealing and mismanaging the nation's resources. Additionally, the president has a penchant for disregarding the check-and-balance provision of the Nigerian constitution...

Many Ups, Few Downs for the Nigerian Judiciary

In the past, I have had cause to praise the Nigerian judiciary for due diligence and hard work. Under normal circumstances, I am the last person you want to look up to for words of praise for any branch of government...

Don't miss

Nigeria, The West and the Girls; Response to a Friend’s Query

It’s always been a struggle historically to get the North to embrace Western Education, something they reject strongly. It is not uncommon in the North for a wealthy 60 something year old man to want a 12 year old as a bride...

A Christmas Sexual Journey to Lagos

Christmas is a time when many Nigerians abroad go on a carnal carnival to Lagos to recharge exhausted libido. Lagos is becoming a city to relight the fire and not a place for the sexually static...

Traffic Congestion In Lagos: The Beginning Of The End?

The renaissance of good and innovative leadership going on in Lagos is so obvious and compulsive that it can not go unnoticed by any objective observer that has visited the state in the last 18 months...

Farewell Chief Gani Fawehinmi: Champion of the Masses

I felt a strong urge to step outdoors to espy the night skies, in the fervent, but furtive hope of catching a glimpse - however fleeting - of the ascent in celestial skies of that great soul which for 71 years animated and embodied the flesh of the man we came to know, admire, and respect as Chief Gani Fawehinmi....

‘Tis The Season For Scandals

Scandals, scandals. We do not even know what is going on in the states and local governments. The ones we know and read of are associated to the federal level. And there are more to come, I bet you...

Obasanjo Plans to Squander Nigeria’s Foreign Reserve

"Madam, I just want you to be more communicative with people. I have just called you to ask a simple question and you are ripping me apart as if I am some hardened criminal. I am not a criminal..."

The Confessions of House Speaker Oladimeji Bankole

When you ride on people’s back, you may be tempted to take them for a ride, abuse them, exploit them, rape them, deride them, cause havoc to their ecology, encourage social tension and dislocation, and may see no reason to engage in the development of their land...

Obama Envy: Bill Clinton Finally Bows to the Inevitable

These can not be the best of times for Bill Clinton. I mean, it must be difficult for a man who prizes himself as one of the greatest strategic and tactical political minds of his generation...

What the Maroon-Robed One Told Zaina

Zaina was about to hang herself when she saw the snake. As the serpent’s neck swayed closer to her, her hands slipped from the branch and she fell…

Decongesting Nigerian Cities: Stemming Rural-Urban Drift in Today’s Nigeria

It is mostly in Lagos and other big cities in Nigeria that one can find an able-bodied, well-fed beggar, who can see, hear and speak, is not in anyway physically challenged, and is straight-faced about his lazy means of livelihood...