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...

Plane Crashes, Corruption and the National Security of Nigeria

Once in a while, a plane will crash somewhere in the world. This was exactly what happened in Nigeria on Sunday, September 17, 2006, when a military plane crashed. As much as one endeavors to rationalize that the plane crash was an unfortunate incident, there is a tempting desire to probe more...

A Message to the National Assembly

The frosty relationship between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku Abubakar has taken a dangerous turn. As at this moment the Presidency is not only divided but literally at war with itself...

When Chinwe Met Obinna

Without a job and regular income, stuck with two kids and an uncaring absentee husband, Chinwe began to suffer from the heavy burden of all the emotional roller-coaster. She is now a shadow of her former self, and gone with love are her beauty and fashion sense...

Nigeria’s Last Virgins!

A couple of months ago, when I was shown the topics to be treated under the subject called "Sex Education" which tender children in both junior and secondary schools in Lagos State are now being forced to learn, I could not imagine that anyone outside a mental home could be wicked enough to design a subject with such insidious contents...

EFCC…A Necessary Evil

If the EFCC is perpetrating vendetta, so be it. It is a necessary evil that might as well come back to hunt the perpetrators. It is OBJ's EFCC today, it will be someone else's tomorrow...

Muhammadu Buhari: A Giant of a Man

It is my hope that Nigerians will right the wrongs of the past, restore my hope in their goodness and sensibility, and also make it up to Muhammadu Buhari, a great man who deserves to be the next executive president of Nigeria...

Celtel’s indiscretion with language

What Celtel as a new player in the Nigerian telecoms industry is doing today is ignore one of the most powerful structures in English syntax, the simple sentence, to appeal either to our sense of values or to our base emotions...

Obasanjo and Atiku should fight!

Our political stratosphere once more is awash with the expectation that because two clumsy elephants are fighting, it is either that the grass would suffer a loss or the heavens will fall...

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There Was A Poet Called Christopher Okigbo

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Every Woman (4)

"I get all carried away, let me tell you a little about myself. I'm pretty sure you have met my friends, and they have all described me as bubbly. Indeed, I am bubbly, but most times, I only appear to be bubbly. Austin proposed to me after we found out I was pregnant with our daughter, Ekanem. He claims that he would have proposed even if I wasn't pregnant; I know I only accepted his proposal because I was pregnant..."

Speaking Truth to Power: Generation of the Sixties Our Time Has Come!

In the past few decades in Nigeria, many of the best and brightest of a generation departed the land, including the writer of this article. We escaped and emigrated abroad on different aeroplanes...

So That Man May Be Free

When you look at all the people in the world then you start to appreciate those who left their feet on the sand of time, people who did things that is worth remembering them for, the heroes, the champions of the poor and the helpless...

The Beauty of Growing Old

Life comes at us in uncanny ways. We may lose a home, a job, a career, or things that mean a lot to us. Some may face financial ruins, illnesses, or debilitating injuries. Things happen. Life happens...

A Beacon Among Shadows: Dr. Zauro and the Promise of Youth in Governance

By Dr. Mohammed Haruna In an era when cynicism about...

A Season of Kettles and Pots

Nigeria is a country where anything is seemingly possible;...

America's Tribute In Light (A Lesson in Attitude)

Today, as America leads the crusade of the war against terrorism, the effects of the September 11, 2001 attack remains visible but quite contained by the American attitude.

Independence Speech: The Oracle Speaks Not

This is not the time to preach hope. Why hope, when what you are hoping for is here in Nigeria? Hope feeds no one. The people are hungry. The people are afraid of their own shadows...

Prosperity, Eternity (7): Being that Faithful and Wise Steward!

When we use the unrighteous mammon the way God expects them to be used it is only then that we can be entrusted with the true riches. In other words only those who are using the unrighteous mammon faithfully on earth can be given or rewarded with the true riches in all of eternity...