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...

Nigeria: The Monster In Our Midst

While the hurricane of impeachment continues to blow hot in Plateau State and Anambra State, a lot of questions are yet to find answers...

Anambra is about Igbo Failure

Igbo individuals are least conscious in Nigeria about their group interests. Our people typically and traditionally think about their personal interest first...

Ahonaruogho, Fashola and Kargbo: Icons of an Ivory Tower

If there is indeed any time and any moment in the life of any man to take up a lyre and compose a song of praise to God because of man, I think for me, this should be my finest hour...

Obasanjo, Beware The Ides Of March

If Nigeria dies today and in this year of 2006, the only name that will be called for crucifixion is Obasanjo's. If Nigeria heads towards extinction, Obasanjo will bear the blame...

‘We Must Get The Nigeria Project Right’ – Pat Utomi

‘Prof. Utomi stands heads and shoulders taller than all the candidates who are currently jostling for Nigeria’s top job, in terms of integrity, character and intellectual assets’

Anarchy and the Rule of Law in Ekiti and Plateau

Events of the past few weeks in my home state of Ekiti and the Middle Belt state of Plateau have been nothing short of alarming...

EFCC: The Next Level

Much has been written about the selective investigation & prosecution of the EFCC. Some have openly canvassed that Ribadu is a tool in the hand of the current President being used vindictively against the enemies of President Obasanjo...

The God of Obasanjo and Fani-Kayode Versus God of Nigeria

In this article, I shall attempt to add my voice to his patriotic vociferation and make my own dialectic analysis on Femi Fani-Kayode, President Obasanjo and the God both of them claim to serve...

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SARS, EndSARS and the need for thorough Police Reform

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

Jonathan Doesn’t Know Poor Nigerians

If anybody wanted proof that Nigerian “leaders” do not occupy the same space and time as most of their country folk, President Goodluck Jonathan amply provided it in an astonishing speech he gave last week...

Social Media; Global Family, and the Proliferation and Misuse of Short Forms

What I am concerned with is the fact that the reduction of the world to a global family has quite naturally led to a proliferation in the use of short forms. I mean short grammatical forms and of course acronyms...

The Silent Epidemic: Why Nigeria Must Stop Turning a Blind Eye to Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment is a cancer eating deep into the...

Governor Abiola Ajimobi and Oyo State in a Hurry

I had often heard that Oyo State was difficult to govern and Ibadan, in particular, was impossible. And I had often wished I governed the State one day….just for one day…so that I could demonstrate exactly how to govern the State...

A Protester At The American Embassy

"Where did you order them to take me, white one? To kill me?" I abused him well and launched violent torrents of vituperative criticisms on Bush and his descendants even those unborn...

God Is Not Formless But Real!!!

The oneness and orderliness of the universe, amply demonstrated by the structural and functional unity of its component planets, stars and galaxies, render polytheism absolutely illogical and untenable. It is absolutely improbable that one god created the day while another created the night...

2nd Niger Bridge: Boon, Bait and Boondoggle

Amidst prevailing weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, news...

President Obasanjo's Diplomatic Finesse Unheralded In Nigeria!

President Obasanjo has been a bulwark of success and the fulcrum of his drive is Nigeria and all of Africa, but he is most unfortunately under-appreciated in Nigeria, hence he can be said to be the proverbial prophet without respect in his domain...

Who Sits In The Seat After Obama? Americans Decide 2016

In dealing with the challenges of emerging worlds, Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton has proved that she is possessed with the capacity of not only leading the highly competitive process of American society, but an increasingly in secured world beyond 2016...