Nigeria Matters

Corruption a la Nigeria is a reactive phenomenon.  It is a crime perpetuated out of the need to survive in the moment and reserve enough for the dicey future.  It …

Imagine a ship at sea that is in trouble. The lights keep going out. The engine is faltering. The rudder is unreliable. The first mate is drunk. The crew is …

The women in Nigerian politics have come a long way.  Theirs has been a very thorny and torturous journey through a very narrow and murky path in the nation’s political …

For those in the West, negative projections on Africa serve a very veritable purpose.  In the United States, for instance, the homeless, the hungry and the poverty-stricken members of the …

I cannot help but laugh when I hear Obasanjo and some of our leaders complain that our system of Justice is rather slow, and there is nothing they can do …

Nigeria is not among the announced countries slated for debt relief or cancellations, and in large measure, this is what I accuse President Bush of, he did not want Nigerian debt …

June 12, 1993 was that almost impossible day in the horizon of a country that had been written off as a colonially-induced tragedy of the worst kind; a date that …

I put the question again to Agagu and his docile Deputy. If Asodeboyede was not the only ruling House in Akure, how come Oba Afunbiowo was able to contest on …

I put the question again to Agagu and his docile Deputy. If Asodeboyede was not the only ruling House in Akure, how come Oba Afunbiowo was able to contest on …

It does seem that Obasanjo is no longer ready to pretend about the now undeniable fact that he is in office to serve only himself, family and cronies….

At the end of the day, the War against Corruption is going nowhere under this President. If future Nigerian leaders make the Obasanjo model the gold standard in selfless leadership, …

I would certainly not be bothered one bit if I never got to see the wife or concubines of any ruler until the expiration his tenure. We are almost forgetting …

The Constitution is being tinkered with again by the so-called National Confab summoned by our current President who had again refused to let our nation have a Constitution we can truly …

We fought for the masses by increasing the pump price of petroleum and decreasing that of kerosene. But somehow, some rascals in the ministry forged my signature. Now, I think …

I am sick and tired of all the fake princes now showing up their faces in Akure today. I know quite a few of them as princes in their own …

To whom much is given, much is expected.  Nigerians have sacrificed a great deal and given much patience to its leaders over the years.  It is therefore no surprise to …