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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...

Yours Sincerely, Wada Nas

Let me challenge the Military Chiefs to open a debate amongst their men, women and officers and if the consensus is to strip Abacha of honours, then it is a task that must be done immediately.

Nigeria vs. Argentina: A True Test Of Faith

Is a good football match on Sunday morning enough reason to skip church?

A Surfeit of Love at the Fountain of Knowledge

Everything we love, we first violate. Is it not evident that our best expression of love to the objects of our affection is usually the invasion of their most intimate spaces?

The Spirit of Ken Saro-Wiwa

Anyone can pick a cause, but few are picked to lead movements. When a heart has been bruised by the sufferings of others, the spiritual connection among those people has extraordinary strength...

2003: Should Nigerians Be Afraid?

Power in itself is good but in the hands of a reckless man it is intoxicating and lethal. Our politicians desire power for the sake of it and for nothing else.

Acts of Violence

In Nigeria, poverty contributes to violence and violence in turn fuels poverty...

Before They Came

Our ancestors were not idol-worshippers...

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The Bastard Fathers of Modern-Day Democracy and Politics in Nigeria

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Minna Sanhedrin and More Pertinent Issues

The symbolic event of Friday, May 11, 2017, had...

Before it REALLY is Too Late

Some Nigerians with a sense of history and enough patriotic blood in their veins have tried to remind our power-drunk political leaders that at this rate, we may be inadvertently inviting the military to truncate our democracy.  Rather than heed their advice, our leaders put their blinders on as if merely wishing away coups is enough to prevent one...

Will President Obama Save the Black Race?

The hope for President Obama has ecstatically gripped not only African Americans, in the Black world, but apparently all people of Black African ancestry all over the world...

Recipe for Revolution

They say it cannot happen here. President Goodluck Jonathan’s men told us after a Federal Executive Council deliberation that the Egypt-style revolution that began in Tunisia and has become a shooting war in Libya cannot happen in Nigeria because our country has a ‘constitutional order.’ Whatever that means...

Atiku’s Earthquake Exit From PDP: Real Change Or Same Old Tricks?

In a move that has sent shockwaves through Nigeria’s...

The Death of Human Capital

A candidate during the last presidential elections once campaigned for teachers to be the most highly-paid workers in the country. This might seem like a big joke for any dimwit that is ignorant of the indispensability of teachers...

Nigeria Under President Goodluck Jonathan: A Catalyst For Participatory Democracy In Nigeria – Myth Or Reality?

In the process of deepening our embryonic democracy, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan since elected as president by a wide margin of votes cutting across the six geo-political zones that make the country, has been encouraging civic involvement and urging Nigerian politicians to give way to a society that rightfully demands that its representatives and institutions be more  accountable and transparent...

Regulate unemployment and poverty, not Social media

Sometime in 2014, and prior to the 2015 General...

Oyebanji: Knowledge, Development And Human Wellbeing

Since assuming office as the Governor of Ekiti State...