Nigeria Matters

We constantly clamour for change in our society but refuse to accept the fact that age-old dogmas, beliefs and practices may have to give way to new paradigms. Change has …

I was born in Ibadan and I understand the rudimentary politics of that state. Since the days of penkelemes to the days of the Cicero of Esa Oke till this …

There is fraud in the land, and this fraud has been escalating in bountiful dimension since the beginning of this democratic dispensation. Our public officials have elevated the game of bribery …

I honestly believe that one of the observations that separate or distinguish the developed countries and the Free World from the developing ones and those still in mental chains, is …

I have no clairvoyant ability. No one does. Psychic and related “abilities” are all bull. No one really knows what tomorrow holds. All we can do is observe, poke the …

Under what sane political system would an Adedibu sack the House of Assembly and hold the Governor ransom? Under what reasonable political system would Adedibu commit criminality and still be invited to …

If we examine some aspects of specific African cultures in a rigorous manner, we can find explanations for the most sober and even the most trivial events in contemporary society…

Why does the United States, a nation supposedly friendly with Nigeria, always find itself frequently engaged in the throwing of verbal and undiplomatic projectiles and cudgels at Nigeria?

If the constitution is amended to meet the prayers of Obasanjo, what stops the next president from abridging or violating the constitution? If he won’t obey the constitution, what stops …

The new wave of robbers don’t snatch purses.  They rob banks and highly rich locales.  They don’t appear like armed robbers.  They are your frustrated neighbors that suddenly made it rich.  They …

Please, could somebody just walk across to President Olusegun Obasanjo’s cozy castle in Aso Rock and ask him how he felt when he saw the report that the two survivors …

Why would Ogbeh, a man who claims he cares for the nation, boldly deliberate and chair a committee that divides and donate the presidency of the nation to the North …

Why is it tha President Obasanjo never get credits for the successes of his sundry reform efforts? Why is it that there is always some political motivation or ethnical motivation or …

I remember one of the early conversations I had with Pastor Bimbo when I had questioned the existence of Heaven and Hell. I recall saying to her that I would hate …

I remember one of the early conversations I had with Pastor Bimbo when I had questioned the existence of Heaven and Hell. I recall saying to her that I would hate …

To keep Nigeria guessing is fast becoming an instrument of policy under Obasanjo. Even in his declared War against Corruption, our deadliest cancer, the best our Commander-in-Chief is doing, is …