Since time immemorial, Nigerians have cried to God for vindication and intervention in the affairs of the country, and the rescue of the nation from the strong forces of opportunists called politicians…
President Obama’s administration does not have a policy on Nigeria. The only semblance of US policy toward Nigeria can be summarized as snubs and slaps and collusions with unsavory characters in Nigeria…
They tell you this all the time as a journalist in this country: “This profession is like the military. Once you are told ‘go’ you just go. Nobody cares how you do it. All that matters is that you bring the story.” I have heard such small-minded and outrightly anal lines severally…
I have now concluded that someone ought to tell Mr. Cheney that he “Should shut up already, and just go away!” Mr. Cheney ought to stop rattling and rankling Mr. Obama’s administration, ever so frequently…
One hopes that the Obama who went to Accra and spoke eloquently about Nigeria’s leadership crisis has not permitted himself to be led into the contradiction of prescribing IBB as the answer. Or even as a factor in finding the answer to Nigeria’s quagmire…
It was distressing that the Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab botched Christmas day bombing incident has put Nigeria too on the global terror map. But the chilling news is that to Al-Qaeda, it has spotlighted the country as a place to invest…
The making of Goodluck Jonathan, the Acting President, is a true evidence of how Nigerians can exercise their powers. Power belongs to the people…
Amaechi may be hiding under the guise of the Rule of Law to hoodwink the masses, but keen observers know that if there is any government that is corrupt in the history of the world, it is his…
The images that rushed at me when I heard the name, University of Abuja, were images redolent with the Abuja razzmatazz. I had reckoned that as the nation’s capital and centre of unity, its university should be a reasonable representative of the city’s ambience…
Attempts to sustain democracy in Nigeria tend to receive threats from those who are keeping awake all-night to crunch into power by hook or crook…
The evil, corrupt, barely educated political elite, especially those in the ruling party, PDP, have played a sleight of hand to subvert the rule of law and do away with the provisions of the Nigerian constitution…