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MKO Abiola's Martyrdom And The Machinations Of The "Nigerian Factor" - Niyi Osundare
July 14, 2008
I consider my presence here today a rare privilege and a golden opportunity. Nothing can be more pleasing, more fulfilling, and, I daresay, more intimidating, than being in the midst of those intrepid men and women from various occupations...
By Is'haq Modibbo Kawu - Yar'adua's Dysfunctional Nigeria Etc.
April 10, 2008
Locked within the uncertainties of those three hours, I was reflecting on the Hobbesian jungle that our country has become: life is truly nasty, brutish and short in Nigeria today, and in a most poignant sense, the gridlock was a metaphor of...
Obasanjo’s $8.3b Rail Deal Unsettles Yar’Adua
March 19, 2008
The Presidency is in a fix over the $8.3 billion contract for the modernisation and expansion of rail lines awarded in the dying days of the Obasanjo administration. A committee set up to review the project submitted a report that did not favour...
To Hell With Protocol - Pendulum By Dele Momodu
February 5, 2008
I love Nigerians. Our ways are just too unique. We have the greatest praise singers on earth. Not since the time of the griots of the ancient Mali Empire have we seen the likes of sycophants we find in our dear country. How can one ever forget...
This Day Editorial 2007: A Transition Year And Its Controversies
December 31, 2007
The year 2007 finally comes to an end today. Politically, the year was very eventful for Nigeria . It witnessed, for instance, the first ever successful transition from one democratically elected civilian administration to another...
Exit Ribadu? - Essay By Wole Soyinka
December 28, 2007
I can only hope that Benazir Bhutto’s followers will forgive me for saying this, but the news of Nuhu Ribadu’s removal from the anti-corruption Nigerian organisaton known as the EFCC will have, in all likelihood, a far more devastating...
Poverty Destroys Dignity AN ESSAY By Bala Muhammad
December 10, 2007
May you never be embarrassed! About ten years ago, when I was working at the BBC World Service in London, a story broke that a Nigerian had been ‘arrested for stealing toilet tissue paper’. Not one or two or three rolls of tissue paper, but...
101 Things You Need To Relocate To Nigeria - An Essay By Godson Offoaro
November 28, 2007
First, the down side of Nigeria. Its economy has predominant characteristics of a third world's. It is No. 35th on Transparency International's rating on the list of the world's most corrupt nations. It used to be No. 1. Thanks to the EFCC...
The Case Against Corruption - An Essay By Ikenna Anokute
November 24, 2007
There's a patience in the Nigerian nature that is hard for a foreigner to understand . It is a patience that beats good conscience and imagination . To undersatnd it will make you wonder why protesters are not spilled into the streets of Nigerian...
Siemens’s Who-is-who Corrupt List - An Essay By Azubuike Ishiekwene
November 20, 2007
For the second week running, the country was in the news for the wrong reason. The dust over allegations that Wilbros, the US-based oil services company paid $6million bribe to key Nigerian government officials had barely subsided when...
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