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Government Against The People

Nigeria is in grave danger more than ever. There is no running away from the dire fact that things are not working properly in the...

Oyebanji: The countdown starts!

At exactly 1:34 pm on Friday, October 16, 2026, Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji (BAO) took the Oath of Allegiance as Governor of Ekiti State for...

The Impossible Death Of Dele Giwa

It has been 40 years since the satanic assassination of Dele Giwa through a letter bomb delivered to his home, but the departed iconic...

Sexual Cannibalism

Assuming women were like the female praying mantis or the female black widow that feed on the male counterpart during or after sex, how many men would have loved or love to be loved by women?

OBJ Deserves To be called “Father of Modern Nigeria”

Who else deserves the honor of being the architect, creator and master mind of this country of ours. A country where anything goes: a country where "modern" policemen depend on harassing the collective psyche of ordinary citizens...

Atiku Press Release: Obasanjo Seeks Atiku’s Impeachment

The bad blood generated over the failed third term bid is expected to culminate in a major political crisis Thursday morning as President Olusegun Obasanjo seeks the impeachment of Vice President Atiku Abubakar by the National Assembly...

Doing Funny Business In Jesus’ Name

I think it is such a shame that people would exploit a peoples' vulnerability and poverty of mind to use the name of God or of our messiah, Jesus Christ as a brand to lay up for themselves treasures here on earth...

When No One Spoke Against Rape

Nobody cared to stop and ask what was amiss. She was being raped! Everybody kept up their pace; it was nobody’s home; she was nobody’s daughter; and it was nobody’s pain…

I am for IBB…

I do not feel any qualms anymore in letting the world know that I am an IBB lover and had been a secret admirer of our one and only former military president...

If I Were IBB…

Former Military dictator General Ibrahim Babangida (IBB) who some people call Maradona or but he preferred to be called the Evil Genius has finally declared his intention to run for the office of President in the next general elections. According to him, Nigeria is in ruins and disrepair and he verily believes that he has the capacity to repair or fix it...

On Bakassi, OBJ is Right

Why fight over Bakassi? The people are important, but as far as I can tell, they still retain their right to Nigerian citizenship if they so wish. The resources the land itself contains is still largely unproven...

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What Alamieyeseigha’s Death Means

Forget what the objective facts are, former Governor Diepreye...

“On June 12 They Stood”: On June 12 They Paid The Prices for Our Today

When the name June 12 comes up, everyone fidgets and wonders the direction of the ensuring political discourse. Even if one were to be thinking or referring to something absolutely unconnected with the Nigerian political failure such as the Mundial World Cup 2014...

Agony Of A Continent

Africa's journey since the first contact with the Portuguese in the late 1490s is what Howard French passionately takes us through in his new book, A Continent For The Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa...

Economic Integration and the South-West

Blind patriotism aside, Nigeria can rightfully be described as a country that is richly blessed in poverty, miserable in abundance, and saturated in wants. As a people, we have had our share of intellectually barren, politically ignorant and pugnacious leaders who emerged from, or forced themselves on us as a direct consequence of prolonged military misrule and dictatorship in the country...

Pini Jason: A generation has been robbed of a beacon of hope

It has been a challenge for me to write this. Several times I tried to write this piece but each time my emotional strength failed me. The reality, however, is that I cannot continue to delay it even if I have to do this misty-eyed as is the case now...

Buhari: Turning Nigeria’s Most Gloomy Moment To Her Most Glorious

On his emergence as Nigeria's President last year, President...

Away With Foreign Coaches!

The man who became the Nigerian coach was a successful failure. Quite unlike Shuaibu Amodu, Lars Lagerback could not qualify his country, Sweden, for the World Cup. He and his managers took advantage of our unreasonable clamour for a foreign coach...

Building Nigerian, Brazilian Heritage With Architecture

‘My great-grand parents were taken to Brazil during the slave trade. Today, my family house in Brazil is Abule-Bamgbose in Bambgose Street in Salvador, Bahia. My cousins live there. Brazilians in Bahia have a religious connection with the Yoruba that is not just skin deep...’

Before The Nightfall

We as a people have had it long and tough. A decision must be made now:  Decision to take our country back from the hands of its slaughterers; fight a good fight; use our vote as our weapon and make good use of it; vote out the useless and vote in the useful...

This Government Is Throwing Up Stones!

Nigeria's long suffering people are all too frequently caught in the crossfire of rampaging wars, millions afflicted with diseases, preyed upon by greedy despots and prevented by corrupt leaders and bureaucracies in a kleptocracy from obtaining basic schooling, medical attention, and any semblance of economic opportunities...