State of Mind

President-elect Gen. Buhari in an opinion article published on New York Times yesterday April 14th, wrote on how his administration will tackle the terror group, Boko Haram. Read below… When Boko Haram attacked a school in the town of Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria, kidnapping more than 200 girls, on the ...

On April 6, 2015, I issued a brief statement after a press parley during the Easter break. The statement contained a very bold prediction on the outcome of the April 11, 2015 gubernatorial and state assembly elections in Lagos State. As you may rightly now know, that which I predicted ...

The Igbos are the wandering Jews of West Africa.. gifted, aggressive, Westernised; at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by the mass of their neighbors in the federation – Henry Kessinger (famous American diplomat) Back in the days, men made fortune out of war, war was business. But today, ...

Harold Lasswell (1936) defines politics as “Who Gets What, When, and How”. Those in political power decide who gets what from their particular human polity. In democratic countries, elections decide who gets to be in power and thus decide who gets what from their particular human polity. There will be ...

If you pay attention to the current electioneering in Nigeria (March, 2015) and listen to the two main political parties, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressive Congress, APC you would notice that neither party has stated its agenda; neither has told Nigerians what it wants to do ...

Once again, Nollywood and President Jonathan are disconnected from the priorities of Nigerians. Millions are hungry and the country is headed off a cliff and what we get is the President having weekly dinner with celebs at Eko Hotel. Mr. President should know that all entertainers in the country won’t ...

For Nigeria’s military, times have never been this challenging. Plagued on the one hand by the fiendish activities of some twisted minds that have taken over a vast cut of the country’s northeast region, it is on the other assailed first by the charge of corruption against its leadership by ...

In a piece titled “Democracy, Deferred”, award winning author, Chimamanda Adichie described the recent postponement of the general elections as an act of desperation from an incumbent terrified of losing. Below is the article published on The Atlantic… Last week, Victor, a carpenter, came to my Lagos home to fix ...

Some people have accused me of not liking politicians, so let me set the record straight. I don’t! They have done more harm to our nation than the military (their first cousins). At no period in our nationhood has the opportunity for reversing the dehumanising nature of a politically corrupt ...

Muna Obiekwe was a damn good actor. Quite good. I never really met him nor knew him personally but I admired his acting skills onscreen whenever I watched the movies he featured in. He was an actor who had a panache beyond comparison in many of his roles. I always ...

Hafsat Abiola is a human rights, civil rights and democracy activist, founder of the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), and daughter of late business man/politician, MKO Abiola. Her letter below Dear President, As young global leaders we would like to express our deep concern about the recent situations in Nigeria. ...

Read this interesting article sent in Adewale Adeoye, CNN African Journalist of the Year Award Winner ..He detailed his experience during a recent fact finding visit to the Synagogue Church of All Nations.. “Amazed. Amazed. Pastor Temitope Balogun Joshua amazed me. I was part of a delegation that visited him ...

Etcetera writes open letter to Christ Embassy head pastor Chris Oyakhilome. Greetings in the name of the lord. I hope this letter finds you in the best of spirit and health. I write to you, in the same form that Paul wrote to the Ephesians expressing his advice and counsel ...

When you are conducting job interviews your goal, if you are rational, is to find the person who can best do the job as specified by your work organization. Presidential elections are hiring interviews, this time the interview is conducted by the entire nation. The entire nation want to find ...

Every person needs a philosophy, a frame of reference to which he refers everything that happens to him and in the world. A good frame of reference is not necessarily true but referring the events of this world to it enables one to make sense of the things that happen ...

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Here are the losers of 2014! (In no particular order).. 1. May D May D seem to be the architect of his own misfortune. Since releasing his debut album, the self acclaimed Sure Boy has been a very lazy artiste, choosing not to put out records every now and then. ...

2014 is indeed a wonderful year for some artists, we saw the rising and falling of many, Topping the List is non other than. 1. ORITSE FEMI aka MUSICAL TaLIBAN The Double Wahala crooner who moved recently from Ajegunle to his Lekki home, He is also a proud owner of Range Rover evoque 2014 ...

Report by Declan Eytan for Forbes magazine Illusionists flown in from Spain, flowers imported from France, or an R&B superstar flown in from the United States. No request seems to be out of line to Nigeria’s rich when it comes to the most beautiful day of their life. And don’t ...

On this last Sunday of 2014, Naija Vibe brings you the 10 most controversial pastors of the year. Ayo Oritsejafor The Founder and Senior Pastor of Word of Life Bible Church tops our list of most controversial Nigerian pastors of 2014 for his involvement in the private jet caught smuggling ...