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...

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...

Aviation Disasters: Futility of Manic Deregulation

Nigeria has been dogged by aviation disasters in the past decade. From small jets to large bodied flying machine, our air space is simply unsafe...

2007 Presidency And Zonal Configuration: Panacea For One Nation?

There seems to be an absence of unbiased Nigerians on the stage who want to sow the seed of honesty and integrity in the new generation...

Engineering Nigeria for Superpower Status

We must not underestimate the capability of our Nigerian engineers to perform and provide solutions to nagging problems that deserve technological answers...

The Niger Delta Today

It is no secret that the only thing that holds Nigeria together is the spoils from oil and gas. The story of Nigeria is the story of greed, excesses and corruption made possible by oil. Without oil, there would be no modern Nigeria...

America Votes: Any Lessons For Nigeria? (2)

2007 is Nigeria's chance to take democracy to another level...a level of positive politics.

Nigeria: Exhibiting Mentality of the Abused

In a country of over 60 million university graduates, we have not managed to produce a head of government that has seen the four walls of a four year college prior to his ascendance to power in forty six years, yet we claim to be a thinking people...

The Forward Never Soldiers

This morning I was constipated and guess whose fault it was? Sure you got it! My local government chairman! I don't know who he is but I chose conveniently to blame him. Why should I take the blame for overdosing on my own gluttony?

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Pastor Adeboye’s Bold Retraction: A Lesson in Humility and Leadership

In a rare display of humility, Pastor Enoch Adeboye,...

An Ode to the British Edition of Reader’s Digest

It's often a matter of propriety to shower praise...

Indeed, The Police Is My Friend

A couple of weeks back, some men of the Nigerian Police showed me the other face of the institution. A pleasant face that has changed my perception of them. In place of the image of the bad eggs who are doing so much to drag the name of the institution in the mud, I now have a view of a laudable sense of gallantry and patriotism...

Dialogue with a Random Republican ‘Christian’

“For my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.”...

Of Slaves and Masters

Maybe there is the need to make immigration laws less friendly for those without any form of education or skill, like these uneducated girls and ladies, whose only means of living is what is between their legs.

Global Security in the Aftermath of 9/11

On September 2001, during the first year of the...

Lessons from Kwara State

One has often wondered when individual Nigerians would begin to ask themselves questions such as “what can I do?” or “what can we do?” to solve the nation’s myriad of problems and realize its great potentials...

The joy of normalcy

One of the greatest and perhaps most damaging idiosyncrasies of Nigeria is the quest for greatness without ever striving for normalcy. There is a sort of a born-to-be-great self-delusionary mindset that has for long induced Nigerian leaders and its people talk about achieving greatness when they have not even got the basics of normalcy right...

An Airport For Achebe

There is a Chinua Achebe International Airport in Anambra...

The Immigration Process: Bringing Your Nigerian Husband To America

I want you to understand that if you have not met your Nigerian fiancé in person, DO NOT waste your time and money… you will be denied.