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Nwosu And June 12: A Call For Social Action
- By Ephraim Adinlofu
- Published Yesterday
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
I have now come to the conclusion that members of the ruling cabal in Nigeria are plain demons. I thank God that those generation of unpatriotic military officers are gradually losing their firm grip on power...
The Insults and the Injuries are Piling Up on Us
- By Dele A. Sonubi
- Published Yesterday
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
The current situations in Nigeria are disgusting me and I am feeling like puking or giving up hope that I will ever see a country where righteousness prevails...
The Emotional/Relationship Life of Jesus Christ
- By Felix-Abrahams Obi
- Published Yesterday
- Religion & Philosophy
- Unrated
The emotional wilderness I passed through made me reflect on the emotional and relationship life of Jesus Christ, and I was amazed at what I found out...
Probe The NDDC And Scrap It!
- By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
- Published Yesterday
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
We know it as truth that in Africa, any time mothers decide to cry out on any issue, it is always difficult to deny them an ear...
Taking The Niger Delta To The Chatham House: Convicting The Blood! Curtailing The Oil!
- By L.Chinedu Arizona-Ogwu
- Published Yesterday
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
That the Nigerian economy has lost more than one billion dollars a month and hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude a day since 2006 due to unrest in the Niger Delta is not a fresh story...
TRUESAID – Shaping democracy for "betta" Nigeria (Part 1)
- By Hayatu Sanusi
- Published 07/16/2008
- Nigeria Matters
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The trouble with Nigeria is simply arrogance of power based on complete lack of accountability from its leaders. All else - corruption, traffic jams, police brutality etc, etc are simply details of these...
Failures of the Intellectual: Barack Obama, Black Agency, and the Burden of History
- By Pius Adesanmi
- Published 07/16/2008
- Position Papers
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“No, you can’t!” has, for five centuries, been the life-force of modernity’s negation of black agency. The Obama sign offers a choric, antiphonal negation of an original negation...
On Bended Knee: Abacha’s Climate of Fear and Today’s Climate of Impunity
- By Sheyi Oriade
- Published 07/16/2008
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
It is time for ordinary Nigerians, the perpetual victims of oppressive regimes, to put an end to their supplications and rise from their bended knees...
"TheNews" Vs Kalejaiye: The Stinking Judicial Romance In Osogbo
- By SOC Okenwa
- Published 07/16/2008
- Nigeria Matters
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The Lagos-based popular newsmagazine 'TheNews', whose motto is "Defining the present, Shaping the future", stirred a huge national controversy by its last week's edition captioned: "The Scandal of Judges: How Osun Tribunal Was Compromised"...
Sitting Electoral Tribunals: A Party Influence or Public Interest?
- By L.Chinedu Arizona-Ogwu
- Published 07/16/2008
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
President Yar’Adua can take his chances and hope that Nigerians will accept another fixed result in 2011. Or he can lead from the front and push electoral reform as the priority of his presidency...
Memo To The Electoral Reform Panel
- By Peter Claver Oparah
- Published 07/14/2008
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
I don’t think much of the intention of the Yar’Adua government to reform the electoral process. Although he had empanelled a body, with a sprinkle of some credible personages, he and his government have showed disturbing streaks of abhorrence towards reforming the rouge system...
Politics And The Future Of Nigeria
- By Ope Ajayi
- Published 07/14/2008
- Nigeria Matters
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Few weeks ago, it was announced that the administration will be spending over US$600m on power, does that not mean that that the US$16b spent by the last administration is gone?
Recent Articles
Now, Will President Yar’Adua Be Kind?
- By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
- Published 07/14/2008
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
Quitting now would be more redemptive of Yar’Adua’s person than being remembered later as the groping undertaker of a richly endowed but seriously ill nation?
Africa's Jumanji
- By M. Savi
- Published 07/14/2008
- Africa & World
- Unrated
Watching Jumanji reminds me of Africa. Hoping for the best, rolling the dice every which way expecting a certain outcome, but more often than not, a Pandora's Box seems to be unleashed no matter which way the dice rolls...
Re-calibrating The Radical Thrust of Intellectual Diaspora
- By Taju Tijani
- Published 07/14/2008
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
The sign of the times now demands that a growing collection of intelligent Nigerians are vocalising and constructing a historic trajectory with a self-ennobling mandate to offer holistic solutions to the damaged social values of Nigeria...
The Madness Of Our Leaders
- By Akintokunbo A Adejumo
- Published 07/12/2008
- Nigeria Matters
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Some of our Nigerian politicians and leaders are so mad that that they keep their loot in their houses; some of them even bury cash in graves; while some of them just go on buying every property and business in sight, despite the fact that they can only sleep in one room at a time...
Dying In Public
- By Lakunle Jaiyesimi
- Published 07/12/2008
- Health
- Unrated
I hereby make public the news of the private death of a private man, who discovered the cure to AIDS; in the hope that when I discover an added cure to the disease, I would make it scientifically public, so when I die I die in the public...
Going to Meet Black America
- By Pius Adesanmi
- Published 07/11/2008
- Life Abroad
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No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't blend. They caught a whiff of the continent the moment they saw me, even before my accent gave things away. Everywhere we went I was moved by the brotherhood and fellowship that was extended to me in the middle of so much poverty...
Do Not Rob Us
- By Imole Joseph
- Published 07/11/2008
- Personal Development
- Unrated
It’s been confirmed that the wealthiest place on earth is not the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria, neither is it the diamond fields of South Africa. In fact, it is not the oil fields of Saudi Arabia...
Congratulations To V.O Adefela At 70 The Celebrated “E in C” of The Famous NAN
- By Dele A. Sonubi
- Published 07/11/2008
- Miscellaneous
- Unrated
"I do not regret returning to this country when I did. We had goals, we were encouraged by our vision of creating a better world. But I regret what Nigeria has turned into and how people are currently behaving..."
The Executive/Legislative Tango in Abeokuta
- By SOC Okenwa
- Published 07/11/2008
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
It can not be seen as a 'crime' or the extra ordinary when members of a State House of Assembly seek for accountability and good governance in conformity with their constitutional briefs...
“6e” to the Rescue of National Capital
- By Victor Mamora
- Published 07/11/2008
- Personal Development
- Unrated
We must put a discontinuity to the slavery ideology in the governance of Nigeria and value mental development of Nigerians...
Nigerian Banks, ATMs and Customers: Matters Unending
- By Adewale Ajani
- Published 07/9/2008
- Business & Economy
- Unrated
While it is well understood that banks are not non-profit making outfits, banking should albeit be practised in a very professional and idealistic manner. Nigerian banks should desist from continuously devising means of ripping their unsuspecting customers of their deposits in trickles...
Corruption, Opposition, And The Ribadu Experience
- By Ken "SKC" Ogbonnia
- Published 07/9/2008
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
Corruption is Nigeria’s number one problem and has continued to endanger the chances of any meaningful national development and unity. But why have the different anti corruption programs failed to yield the desired results?
An Advice to The Nigerian Government and Transcorp on NITEL
- By Akintokunbo A Adejumo
- Published 07/9/2008
- Science & Technology
- Unrated
Transcorp and the Federal Government should concentrate all their energy on reviving NITEL, and not wasting our money, time, energy and other resources on going into mobile telephony. Others are already doing well in that area...
The Arewa Consultative Forum and the Niger Delta Conflict
- By Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
- Published 07/9/2008
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
The upcoming conference is nothing but a charade, another in a long line of government’s duplicitous acts. Solve the Niger Delta problems for the sake of justice, peace, and stability...
Fire on the Mountain – A Mind of Your Own
- By Adewale Ajani
- Published 07/9/2008
- Arts & Reviews
- Unrated
It will be dim-witted not to appreciate the works of Asa who landed on the Nigeria music shores a couple of years ago. Listening to the France-based Nigerian performer sing can’t but captivate an individual...
NAFDAC: Agency For Security Fees Or Safe Foods?
- By L.Chinedu Arizona-Ogwu
- Published 07/9/2008
- Health
- Unrated
In Nigeria, more than 3,000 substances are being added to foods for the purpose of preservation, coloring, texture, increasing flavor and more. While each of these substances is legal to use in Nigeria, whether or not they are all something you want to be consuming is another story all together...
Frantz Fanon, Umaru Yar’Adua, and the ‘Workers’ in the Niger Delta
- By Pius Adesanmi
- Published 07/8/2008
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
Does anybody know President Umaru Yar’Adua’s mailing address? I know he’s in Aso Rock but what’s the P.O.Box or the P.M.B.? I have a gift for him: a brand new copy of the last edition of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth...
The Fabulous Williams Sisters
- By Sheyi Oriade
- Published 07/8/2008
- Sports
- Unrated
This past weekend, the lightning of sporting genius and success of Venus and Serena Williams struck again for a combined seventh time in nine years...
