Nigerians were angry that Cecilia Ibru got off as light as she did.  Over the past few months, she was vigorously pursued by the EFCC on allegations of abuse of office, granting loans up and above an approved CBN directive and using depositors’ funds for personal use…

I wonder why we need to be policed all the time, why voluntary compliance is so lacking. Self-discipline has been thrown out the window, and we need the brutal arms of uniformed men to coerce compliance out…

My parents did not teach me to be arrogant, neither did my teachers. Arrogance is something you could pick up along the road of life, and sometimes too when you seem blessed with the benefit of some hindsight…

The event that saw to the emergence of Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo as the Peoples Democratic Party’s national chairman was a two-horse race between him and the former National Vice Chairman, Mr. Chukwu Ozichukwu…

Incidences of fire on our markets, are becoming a threat to the nation’s economic growth/development. Physical markets in Nigeria are perhaps the largest employers of labour in the private sector…

Law is the most potent instrument of class struggle and because laws are made by the ruling class in order to solidify their class position in society, the legislative organs  of the state  are dominated by powerful dominant groups.

I suspect that most Nigerians are almost exclusively riveted by the unfolding drama of who’s going to emerge president, by hook or crook, in next year’s election…

What an interesting irony it is that the enduring memory indented upon the national consciousness, following the curious decision to celebrate the nation’s half-century of existence as an under-performing post-colonial geographical expression, is the memory of deafening reverberations of death producing explosions…

On October 1st 2010, Nigeria celebrated her 50th independent anniversary, while the euphoria among the “high and mighty” is still at its peak, and the nostalgic feeling among average Nigerians is still fresh in our memory, it is instructive that we keep in view, the 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index

The collective unconscious of the conservative, hegemonic North, to paraphrase Carl Jung, is to collectively destroy the chances of President Goodluck Jonathan’s victory in the coming presidential poll…

The effort to transform Nigeria can only be meaningful if competence and character are not sacrificed on the altar of federal character, says the National Transformation Party…