2017: “Saint Buhari” and More Economic Stagnation
The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian character. There is nothing wrong...
Ibori: Innocence By Tribalism
Ibori: Innocence By Tribalism When I read the article titled ‘The Welcome Party for Ibori’ by Simon Kolawole, it was thought-provoking journalism considering the context of Delta...
Wole Soyinka and Forgiveness For Mourning
Wole Soyinka and Forgiveness For Mourning The man, Wole Soyinka is forgiving and commuting personally designed punitive sanctions once again. And in the most “magnanimous”...
Can President Buhari Still Change Nigeria?
An interview of Grimot Nane on the immediate political future of Nigeria by freelancer Opey Sonto, September 15th 2016. SHOW MORE (more…)...
Osagie Ize-Iyamu Was A Pyrate, So What?
Osagie Ize-Iyamu Was A Pyrate, So What? There are few people on record who have been more critical of University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGFs) in...
Buhari: Uncollected Gas-Flaring Revenues
Buhari: Uncollected Gas-Flaring Revenues When it comes to attacking and witch-hunting the defenceless, or the underestimated, President Muhammadu Buhari has a heart larger than Zuma...
Hunger Is No Blessing
Hunger Is No Blessing While most Nigerians are adept at hiding and ignoring their nation’s hunger and poverty, the past year has not permitted the...
Can Buhari Win The Oil War?
The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) may not be a praiseworthy entity to many but their emergence and defiance have provided a thorough and incisive diagnosis of...
Learning Applied Science in Schools
Institutions, Habits and Learning Applied Science in Schools By Grimot Nane Written for Government College Ughelli Old Boys Association UK Annual Dinner, Paddington Hilton,...
Fantastic Nigeria: Amaju Pinnick and the Olympic Football Saga
So many Nigerians (particularly those from Delta State) I have come across in the UK very recently appear to be the alter ego of Amaju...
The Leadership of a Bad Brother – Angle 4
The Leadership of a Bad Brother – Angle 4 Everyday people in this everyday world of ours bear witness to everyday evil and wickedness. Every...
Urhobos Once Spoke Great
Urhobos Once Spoke Great Part I I am Enemuadia, a young male eghele and wrestler, at home with my father, Bamon. His real name is...
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Jesse Kingdom: Hometown Names
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Give Nigeria Back Its Stolen Funds in UK
A keynote lecture presented at Green Economics Institute 11th Annual Conference at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, England on the 29th of July 2016. The...
Nigeria: Stealing in the Name of Nuclear Power
Nigeria: Stealing in the Name of Nuclear Power Anytime you hear that a new great ‘developmental project’ is being planned and undertaken by the Government...
The Leadership of a Bad Brother – Round 3
The Leadership of a Bad Brother – Round 3 The third instalment of The Leadership of a Bad Brother has the same context and focuses on the...
The Leadership of a Bad Brother – Number 2
The Leadership of a Bad Brother – Number 2 The diary I titled, The Leadership of a Bad Brother I give its second rendering. It...
The Leadership of a Bad Brother
The Leadership of a Bad Brother Reflections on the leadership of someone have inspired these musings. As ordinary as they are, daily I can best...
Oshiomhole Betrayal: Swiss Account Socialism
Oshiomhole Betrayal: Swiss Account Socialism When the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari announced an increase in fuel price, it was steep. From N87 to N145...
Biafra in the Mid-West: A Missing History?
Biafra in the Mid-West: A Missing History? If one asks the everyday person from Edo or Delta States, which make up the now-defunct Mid-West region...
Nigeria Should Thank Buhari For Not Revealing Corruption List
Even though President Muhammadu Buhari was riding on a high crest of fame and popularity during the Anticorruption Summit held recently in London, it was...
Buhari: Continuing The “Too Big To Convict” Anticorruption Sham
The first corruption prosecution of President Muhammadu Buhari’s reign has succeeded. The former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration Safety Agency (NIMASA), Raymond Omatseye, has...
Anticorruption Is Better Social Organisation
Anticorruption Is Better Social Organisation This article starts and concludes with the following sentence. “Governance and corruption are about social organisation on a scale that...
Is Britain More Corrupt Than Nigeria?
Is Britain More Corrupt Than Nigeria? Corruption occurs in every nation and at all levels in systemic and non-systemic forms. To compare corruption in Nigeria...
Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria? 2
Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria? 2 How will the Northerners and other Nigerians react to a political outcome like “The 17 Southern Governors Decide Fulani...
Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria?
Getting Ready to Islamise Nigeria? The recent pronouncements made by Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, astonished many. He said he intends to “regulate” religion...
Blood Will Flow In the Streets
Blood Will Flow In the Streets “Empowerment” has a strange meaning in the Nigerian context. It is “the sharing of money” by politicians to clients,...
Fulani Herdsmen are Spies
Fulani Herdsmen are Spies Fulani herdsmen have always secretly been subversives. They monitor and report on activities throughout the length and breadth of Nigeria. And...
Nigeria: Loans For Unsolicited Proposals
Nigeria: Loans For Unsolicited Proposals How can a so-called modern nation be perennially managed since Independence by way of “unsolicited proposals”? President Muhammadu Buhari came...
Who Has Ever Seen The Nigerian Declaration of Independence?
Who Has Ever Seen The Nigerian Declaration of Independence? It may surprise most Nigerians that there are disturbing questions over who has ever seen and...
Senators Make Corruption Easier
Senators Make Corruption Easier Corruption is essentially a phenomenon that is highly secretive mostly because its perpetrators seek to avoid the consequences of detection, prosecution...
Loans Will Not Save Nigeria
Loans Will Not Save Nigeria: The Hidden Costs of Borrowing President Muhammadu Buhari won many die-hard supporters purely because he refused to play the game...
There Is No Fuel Scarcity Cartel in Nigeria
While there is a clearly identifiable oil production and exploration (E & P) ‘cartel’ constituted of mostly multinational corporations (with local clients) in the upstream...
Are Fraternities in Nigeria Cults?
Are Fraternities in Nigeria Cults? Try a Validated Checklist. It is almost a rule that, as a member of the public, you will encounter UCGFs...
Fuel Scarcity and Other Curses
If it is true that countries can be ‘cursed’, Nigeria’s most prominent curse will be constantly having “Good Leaders Surrounded By Strictly Evil Men”. It...
Nothingness: Fraternity Ladder Ambitions
Nothingness: Fraternity Ladder Ambitions (UCGF) University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGFs) in Nigeria are a usual a ‘dead end’. Yes, for those with benign ambitions and...
The Nachi Lake “Miracles”: Poor People, Poor Society, Poor Governance
The Nachi Lake emerged ‘spontaneously, out of the ground in Nachi, Enugu State, Nigeria in 2011 and has since become a “health spa” of sorts....
Are Buhari’s Fears a Signal of the End of Nigeria?
In December 1984 my late father made a remark that I could not understand at the time, he said, “the leaders of Nigeria will know...
Political Ambitions in Diaspora
Political Ambitions in Diaspora: ‘Obasanjo Say Make I Come’ Between 1999 and 2007 there was an acute frenzy of political aspirations occurring among Nigerians in...
The Niger Delta “Overlooked” by Government
The Niger Delta has been exclusively the undisputed source of Nigeria’s vast but plundered national wealth for five decades. When President Muhammadu Buhari came to...
Mr President ‘Changes’ From Poor Man to Rich Man
Femi Aribisala is undoubtedly one of the brightest and most effective journalists and bloggers writing out of Nigeria. He is one writer who indeed never...
Buhari’s Choice and the Expected “Fashola Miracle”
When President Muhammadu Buhari won the 2015 general elections, he did so largely with the support of neutral and anti-PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) commentators. Everything...
Nigeria’s “Medical Mail Brides”: Part 2
Nigeria’s “Medical Mail Brides”: Part 2 Not all medical professionals (doctors, nurses, pharmacists, radiographers, medical laboratory technologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists etc.) married from Nigeria...
Nigeria’s “Medical Mail Brides”
Nigeria’s “Medical Mail Brides”: Can the Men Handle Them? It has become increasingly apparent that the most desirable women in the eyes of Nigerian men...
#FreeEse: A Tragedy or Hot Air?
It will be interesting to hear what pundits have to say about the “sexual relationship” between the adult male, Yinusa, and Ese Oruru a 13-year-old...
Anticorruption in Nigeria: Insulting
Anticorruption in Nigeria: Insulting Anti-corruption from any technical or non-technical perspective is invariably about preventing, detecting and prosecuting corruption. The proceeds of corruption is another....
“Women’s Rights” as Theme of African Union Summit: Really?
The leaders of the Africa Union when in congress to discuss the problems of the continent, the outcomes are predictable. The stuff put on the...
Corrupt Manhood: Bleeding Nigeria
Corrupt Manhood: Bleeding Nigeria It is amazing how much Nigeria’s corrupt officials and their clients spend on sex and women. Girls, ladies and new wives...
Buhari Allows Corruption Fight Back
Buhari Allows Corruption Fight Back Anti-corruption is a complex and difficult task but some certain fundamentals and necessities need to be adhered to in the...
Nigeria Fighting Corruption Unthinkingly
Nigeria Fighting Corruption Unthinkingly The Government of Nigeria’s (GON) decision to somewhat expediently ‘fight corruption by scandal’ is by far the most inappropriate way to...