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Peter Obi – Obasanjo’s Hope?
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Economic Sectors – Not Complementary
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Does National Security Expire?
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Are Vice Chancellors to Blame?
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The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 6
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The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 5
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The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 4
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The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 3
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The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 2
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The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 1
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A Bullet For A Rogue Harms Only Thieves
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Omissions According To Dara
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Who Eats Who: The Sweetness of Nigeria?
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Nigeria – A Society of Extremes
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Yankius: Arsenal F.C. & Fainting Thief
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Corruption is the New Meaning of Life
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Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership
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“Blame or Claim” Governance: Buhari’s Only Hope
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Nigeria Lies: Recovering Loot
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Nigeria Decivilising: Governance by Self-Hating Leaders
The complete metamorphosis of the butterfly is a thoroughly adequate analogy for civilisation: the gradual progression from egg to slug to pupa to imago [the...
Nigeria Needs a Fearsome Electorate
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Who Will the EFCC Cadet Graduates Serve?
Who Will the EFCC Cadet Graduates Serve? People when no dey happy, people when know dey look – Fela Kuti, Overtake don Overtake Last week...
The “Babangida Must Go” Protests
The “Babangida Must Go” Protests: A Missed Opportunity for Revolution Young, obscure student leaders in 1989 led the best chance of a revolution Nigeria had...
Trapped by the Guilty Accuser Syndrome
Nations Trapped by the Guilty Accuser Syndrome Numerous factors are acutely responsible for the persistence and worsening of the phenomenon of corruption in many democracies....
The Crisis of Leadership: Part 2
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Corruption Is Now Spiritual: Nigeria
Corruption Is Now Spiritual: Nigeria Anti-corruption is not a simple task to handle and it is not always straightforward. There are practical exhaustive steps to...
The Nigerian Federation and its Colonies: The Niger Delta and Bornu
As much as many may try, it is not possible to make sense of the current political realities of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by...
Tony Blair and the Case of Campbell’s Law
Tony Blair and the Case of Campbell’s Law When sociologist Donald T. Campbell proposed his eponymous Law, one wonders if he expected it to be...
Why Evans the Kidnapper is King in Nigeria
A “billionaire” kidnapper, Evans, is now the new icon shining in the dull skies of Nigeria. One may ask how a ruthless kidnapper can either...
How Democracy Fails Nigeria
How Democracy Fails Nigeria There has been too much optimism in what Nigerians widely tout as the ‘dividends of democracy’, i.e. the benign and enabling...
The Crisis of Leadership
The Crisis of Leadership – The Case of Nigeria Excerpt of a talk ‘The Crisis of Leadership – The Case of Nigeria’ given by...
Reflections on the May Elections
Reflections on the May Elections: The Relevance of Voters? Never underestimate the wisdom of the old saying, “what Britain needs is another good war”. Peace,...
“Coconut Head” Corruption
“There is no good name for a terrible disease” – Urhobo proverb. “The solution to Africa’s problems lie solely in Africa” – George Ayittey. Coconut Head...
Aso Rock Suspensions
Aso Rock Suspensions and the Game of WHOT When the suspensions of the Secretary to the Federal Government, Babachir David Lawal, and the Director-General of...
EFCC: Stage-Managing Cash Seizures?
EFCC: Stage-Managing Cash Seizures? Where is the Government of Nigeria (GON) or the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) winning their war against corruption? Nowhere....
Why Stage-Manage Cash Seizures?
Why Stage-Manage Cash Seizures? The current sensation in Nigeria is the mysterious discoveries and seizures of large sums of money (mostly foreign currency) found at...
How Leadership Fails Nigeria
How Leadership Fails Nigeria Hope for good governance and good leadership in Nigeria seems to be an increasingly distant confidence. What happens if the leadership...
The “Diaspora Paradox” and the Nigerian
The “Diaspora Paradox” and the Nigerian One of the most challenging experiences a Nigerian [or other African nationals] in Diaspora will ever face is encountered...
Ibori Won!
James Ibori is both Nigeria and a Nigerian in the most representative of terms. The Ibori Corruption Saga has much less implication for the ex-governor of Delta...
Foreign Investment: Nigerian Electricity
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Electricity: Fashola Tell Nigerians
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Dr Joe Abah: Two Experts, Two Bureaucrats
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Buhari Has Panama-Proofed Nigeria If you were to ask President Muhammadu Buhari what the most successful thing a person could achieve in Nigeria was? If...
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?
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Buhari: Uncollected Gas-Flaring Revenues
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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...
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...
Oshiomhole Betrayal: Swiss Account Socialism
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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...
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
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Nigeria: Loans For Unsolicited Proposals
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Senators Make Corruption Easier
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Loans Will Not Save Nigeria
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There Is No Fuel Scarcity Cartel in Nigeria
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Fuel Scarcity and Other Curses
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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...
Anticorruption in Nigeria: Insulting
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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
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Another Christmas: James Ibori and the “Invisible Man”
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Dasuki’s Warning to Buhari : Anti-Corruption Miss Road
Col Sambo Dasuki has sent a strong warning to President Muhammad Buhari; and the encoded message is “back off! or we both will share the...
Show Us a Frivolous Corruption Petition!
Show Us a Frivolous Corruption Petition! In the arena of corruption, especially at the grand level where billions of dollars are stolen as a rule...
Gagging Social Media: Nigeria
Gagging Social Media: Nigeria Ouch! The Nigerian Legislative Houses will through a least beneficial and developmentally obtuse act of legislation, the “Act to Prohibit Frivolous...
Sambo Scandal & the “Owners of Nigeria”
Sambo Scandal & the “Owners of Nigeria” The “Sambo Scandal” (concerning one Col Sambo Dasuki) is just another story when compared to the full scale...
Fuel Hoarding and Governance Failure
The GON is getting very tough at the “tail end” of the oil sector by punishing retailers of petroleum fuel for “hoarding” like they have...
Warri Pipeline Disaster: Negligence and Rumours
It has been a week now since the news of the explosion of an oil pipeline line in Warri occurred. The explosion happened just behind...
Bombing Niger Delta To End Bunkering? 2
Bombing Niger Delta To End Bunkering? To say that the Government of Nigeria (GON) handles issues of the military of nature with either weak short-term...
Bombing Niger Delta To End Bunkering?
Bombing Niger Delta To End Bunkering? The Government of Nigeria (GON) has sought to undertake a very unusual method of stopping or deterring “oil bunkering”...
Is the TSA a Panacea to Corruption?
Is the TSA a Panacea to Corruption? Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a diehard neoliberal, adopted the Treasury Single Account (TSA). This was when she was Minister of...
“Everybody Wants Change but Nobody Wants to Change”?
Accepting failed leadership as a good thing is surprisingly very well-accommodated in Nigeria. “Excuses” are the most valued tools in the hands of Nigerian leaders, their...