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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...

The Foreigners Are To Be Blamed

The accusation in the statement attributed to Gana often provides refuge for the illiterates amongst us; the type of people that perpetrated the catastrophic destructions in Kaduna are as guilty as Gana who unknowingly is inciting Nigerians against Foreigners...

Naija Notes: The End of Nigeria

The Northern mob is senseless and filled with nothing but atavistic madness and insatiable blood lust. Once it is set loose it will not stop...

“Isioma Daniel Should Be Hanged.”

In as much as many reasonable people in our country accept that the writer may have overstepped the boundaries of his bigotry or recklessness, it ought to be granted that there are rights in our Constitution that empowers Isioma Daniel...

Bola Ige: A Personal Remembrance

The cream of Nigeria’s political and intellectual class had gathered to do honour to their own, when a message came from the SSS...The book launch could not be allowed to go on...

Naija Notes: The Rot in the Senate

A bevy of scantily clad beauties swooped down on the nation last week, ensuring CNN had some good things to say about Nigeria for once...

Return Of The Retired Generals

Nigerians, having been battered from several years of military violence, have come to accept "obey the last order" as a means to get things done within a civil setting...

Africa Union And The Challenge Of Continental Peace

Powerful African countries like Nigeria and South Africa are wary of losing their own regional influence and concerned at any initiative that would weaken their sovereignty or ability to act independently...

Africa Union And The Challenge Of Continental Peace

Powerful African countries like Nigeria and South Africa are wary of losing their own regional influence and concerned at any initiative that would weaken their sovereignty or ability to act independently...

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Open Letter To President Goodluck Jonathan

We were probably most democratic in pre-October 1960 under the British Colony when the people were more in participation with the national integration. Soon after that, our journey has been in the valleys of various non-democracies, all of course installed in our name...

Corruption Fight In Political Disguise

If ethical governance is narrowly defined as the constant attempts by governments to legitimize themselves through the establishment of a transparent and honest leadership, the battle against corruption is one of the major indicators of shaping it...

English is not my First Language

In trying to be grammatically correct in the English language, or to imitate the American accent, some of us who did not learn English as a first language deviate from the objectives of a conversation…

The Olympics and Great Britain’s magic wand

Take just an English and you have a dull person, take two English and you get two dull people, take three English and you get a great nation. That in part is the story of the successful Olympic Games we are currently witnessing in London...

Dateline 2011: The Buhari/Ribadu 'Deadly' Combination

Majority of Nigerians, at home and abroad, are agreed that our motherland is terribly 'sick'! Yes, she is suffering from what one could call 'statehood tumor', an ailing condition that is similar to the prostrate cancer that has killed many rich men and women. And to combat the malady and save her from imminent death she has been taken to the emergency ward of a teaching hospital...

Iborinitis (2)

A band of stupid, senseless, brain-dead local urchins had to engage the state police in hand-to-hand combat to defend a man who stole their destiny and pauperised their future. Political education among our poor is still low in Nigeria...

The Ijaws: Lonely, Hopeless, Forgotten

"The further away you are from where the resources of this country are produced, the better you profit from it. The people who are nearer are poor..."

Nigeria's Olusegun Aganga: Monitoring the increasing external debt and rising inflation

Nigeria’s external debt is currently over $5 billion dollars. Many Nigerians will be surprised to hear that Nigeria is still an indebted nation after she exited from the debt of Paris Club and London Club in 2006...

Abubakar Atiku and the Rule of Law

I doff my hat to Atiku for sticking to the rule of law. His actions are epoch making, precedent setting. Love him, hate him or be indifferent, it is difficult not to acknowledge and pay respect to him in view of his string of court victories against Mr. Obasanjo...

The Travails of Citizen Chidi Duru

Let me disclose from the outset that Nze Chidi...