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...

Power Must Shift to the North!

Let us make it categorically clear to the exponent of power shift to the North that the people of the Niger-Delta as well as other stakeholders in this country were not consulted when that so-called 'gentleman's arrangement' was brokered and agreed upon...

Portends of a Failed Election in 2007

There is a vital factor that makes any election credible and that one factor is that whatever it is that is put on ground to make that election credible must be absolutely transparent...

Governor Goodluck Jonathan: His Critics and His Friends

There is something amiss in Bayelsa State. It is slightly difficult for me to lay my hands on what it is, but suffice to say that there seems to be a growing culture of intolerance...

Andy Uba And The Anambra State Hot Seat

Now that Andy Uba has formally resigned from his position as President Olusegun Obasanjo's special assistant on domestic affairs, it appears that the stage is now set for him to launch his gubernatorial campaign in Anambra state, an ambition that many believe is the root cause of all the crises in the state...

Naija Women Can Play The Game Too!

I don't think it is out of place for us to concede that a woman's brain is not an organ of her sex. If we keep saying that women are weak because of their physical configuration, how else can we reconcile this with how much they have held their own against us?

Shall We Also Impeach The Common Man?

The way it is today, if we impeach a governor because he refuses to dance to the familiar song of a godfather or that he is not our party man, it leaves us the common people in an impeachable position...

I thank God for Esther, ADC Plane Crash Survivor

It is not often that one happens to personally know the survivor of an accident not to talk of the survivor of a deadly plane crash...

Peter Obi Is Not A Politician

Peter Obi may have danced on the grave of his political future by accepting what many at the time regarded as a poisoned chalice...the appeal court ruling which upturned the 'election' of Chris Nwabueze Ngige...

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Further Discussions on the Future of Africa (3)

The Seminar condemned the rising tide of racial abuse of Africans, who play professional football in Europe. The Seminar held that any racist postulations that are degrading  and inhuman  are  retrogressive steps  in human relations...

America's Peace Plan: A Classic Diversion

Are the Jews more important than the Arabs? Is the life of an Israeli more precious than the life of a Palestinian?

This House Is Not For Sale!

Is poverty the only thing we appear to have accepted as inevitable component of life in this part of the world? What about crime? How come crime appears to have gradually become too natural with us in Nigeria here...

As The Deregulation Blues Resonates Again

The hounds are unleashed on this god-forsaken and raped country again. They are laundered in their legion to prey on hapless and battered Nigerians. They have dusted their cannibalistic writs and are spewing utter balderdash that supports the renewal of their strength against the sagging life line of Nigerians...

Nigeria and the part of our past (1)

On October 1, 1999, I wrote an article titled...

My World Without Women!

A man's best friend is actually a woman even when he denies and refuses to admit. As loyal friends, they would not dump you even after they marry and would make you become their husband's friend so they can keep you forever as a friend...

The Niger Delta and Nigeria

Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder, especially with the Niger Delta and all the issues surrounding it. Things are degenerating very fast in this region and only sincere, focused, impartial and committed leaders will be able to defuse these problems, or else there will be no North, South, Niger Delta or indeed, Nigeria for anybody to call their own...

Oil Gas Industry Activity and the Niger Delta Environment: The Role of Environmental Law

Practically all stages and operations of oil & gas exploration and production are accompanied by undesirable discharges of solid, liquid and gaseous wastes. They include many hundreds of individual hazardous compounds...

Tinubu’s Intimidating Persona: Why We Should Speak Out

Reading through a press statement purportedly written and signed...

Nigerian Politicians Defecting to Other Parties: Some Other Ethical and Legal Issues

Before any politician can justify disembarking from his party and seeking accommodation elsewhere, he must show written evidence that he has assiduously tried to correct his party’s wrong policies to no avail...