Health For All The Poor Hard-Working Nigerians

There are so many promises – Health for all, Food for all, Water for all, Education for all, House for all, National Health Insurance, Economic Empo...

Nigeria, Bursting At The Seams

Nigeria, Bursting At The Seamsculled from BBC News, June 3, 2005In the six years since Nigeria passed from military rule to democracy, an estimated 10...

Democracy Day: Nothing To Celebrate

The second phase of the current democratic experience had gone half circle with May, 29 being its symbolic expressions.  The date marked the init...

The Limits of Democracy

culled from Guardian, June 1, 2004D EMOCRACY is now a catch-phrase, in fact since the mid-80s the wave of democratisation as a derivative of structura...

The Media In Nigeria - Part 1

In 2003, I wrote an article on the Nigeriaworld, titled: “Professional Responsibility in the News Media” I stated that: “The role of the media i...

COMMEMORATION OF THE 2005 DEMOCRACY DAY

My dear fellow NigeriansOn this Democracy Day 2005 let us give gratitude to our Creator, Almighty God for sparing our lives, keeping us from disaster,...

What Nigeria Lost By Abacha's Untimely Death Well-thought Out Provisions Of The 1995 Constitution

I was an elected member of the 1994-1995 National Constitutional Conference, which sat exactly for one year (June 26 1994 -June 26 1995) and had reaso...

Identity, Values and The Thesis Of Muslim Marginalisation In Nigeria:

For almost three months now what occupied the mind of some of Nigeria’s best brains, especially from Northern part of the country, at home and abroa...

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times:

The Limits of Executive Extortionism

It was Professor Wole Soyinka, the noble laureate, who coined these right words to describe President Olusegun Obasanjo’s excessiveness in Abeokuta,...