A state of emergency is not a solution, politically or constitutionally, to the problems of Bayelsa state. The ultimate solutions lay in political rearrangements, common sense and tolerance…
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Revisionists are everywhere. For the most part they are attempting to rework history by allowing their prejudices, illiteracy, and preconceived notions to cloud their reasoning. These critics have become masters …
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To be hated and to be loved is one of the ironies of being a Nigerian. If you are a resident of the United States, and you observe your immediate …
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If General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma and members of his advisory committee wants to quit, well, they certainly have the right to do so. Their former vocation and hobbies await them…
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In spite of the current putrid and abysmal conditions, Nigeria is still home to some of the most disciplined, well-behaved, well-schooled and well-brought up women. To find, to meet or …
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There are Nigerians of immense faith, who believe in prayers and in miracles and in abracadabra and all that and so believe that President Yar’Adua will be back to assume …
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There was a time we couldn’t wait to mature. At five, we longed to be ten and then fifteen. At sixteen, we couldn’t wait to be twenty and thirty and …
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For the first time in many years, it seems as though the Nigerian community had a reason to be happy, to celebrate and to reaffirm their Nigerianness. For the first …
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As flawed as successive Nigerian Constitutions have been, it has always, in theory at least, provided for an independent judiciary. In practice, however, this has not always been the case…
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Is Al-Mustapha a security risk? Did he endanger the wellbeing of the nation? Is he a murderer? Did he conspire with others to kill the innocent? Must it take another …
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In the history of contemporary Nigeria, except for the Nigerian Customs Service, I wonder if there ever has been a government agency as reviled and ridiculed as the Nigerian Police …
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Goodluck Jonathan can be likened to a man facing a dilemma: If he acts too fast, he risks committing egregious mistakes in which case his opponents and bashers will pounce …
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In spite of our political, religious and ethnic frictions, no Nigerian will celebrate the president’s ill-health. From the Creeks of the Niger Delta to the cascading hills of Plateau State …
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I do not envy Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. Not many rational and reasonable people would. It is hard to imagine the kind of nervous tension he must have, and is going …
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The history of Nigeria, since 1914 until the present time, has been a history of failures, conflicts, failed promises, shattered hope, endless pain and agony…
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In theory and in practice Africa has always been the primary focus of Nigeria’s foreign policy thrust. History and the political realities of colonial and post-colonial Africa dictated much of …