Nigeria Matters

President Tinubu’s Recent Lines of War

President Bola Tinubu recently set Nigeria’s political spaces on fire by declaring that “all is fair in politics”. According to the president, killing, cheating,...

Dìbò k’ó se’bẹ̀ and the raw reality of politics (2)

As Adlai Stevenson Jr. famously observed, “A hungry man is not a free man.” This truth conveniently haunts our troubled polity, where politicians tend...

The FG’s $3.05 Billion Poverty Reduction Plan

Poverty is arguably Nigeria’s biggest nemesis, closely followed by systemic corruption and insecurity. Regrettably, the country’s poverty is self-inflicted. There are countries in the...

Dìbò k’ó se’bẹ̀ and the Raw Reality of Politics (1)

The current state of what we call “politics” in Nigeria throws one back in time. One is reminded of Nigeria if, after decades, someone...

David Umahi: Collapsing The Boundaries Of Reason

Many people argue that government officials in Nigeria wield metal shields to protect themselves from justice after willfully breaking the law. Proponents of this...

Osun guber: Lessons from Ekiti (2)

From all indications, the surge in voter interest is a clear signal that Osun is a bigger test and, fundamentally, it is the last...

Femi Gbajabiamila’s Dance At The Market Square

It is difficult to argue that Nigeria is not trapped in a tragic cycle of systemic plunder. Every successive government shamelessly adorns a putrid,...

Liberation Of Anambra As A Nigerian Exemplar

Thursday, July 10, 2003: The abduction of Governor Chris Nwabueze Ngige of Anambra State shook Nigeria up. It was unheard of, unprecedented, that a state...

Reflections on the IGP’s visit to Osun

Nobody knows what to make of last week’s visit of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Olatunji Rilwan Disu, to Osun State, nor the...

Osun guber: Lessons from Ekiti (1)

The off-cycle election in Ekiti State, which secured the reelection of the incumbent governor, Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji (BAO), should be interpreted as a roadmap...

Pastor Adeboye and the Rhetoric of Politics

I have always been fascinated by the evident but veiled alignment between religion and politics. This complex intersection is effectively dramatized by American-born English...

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Nigerian Men and their Foreign Wives

Culturally, Nigerian men are overbearing, controlling, and paternalistic.  They relate to their fathers and mothers differently. They believe it is “a man’s world” and so they have the tendency to relegate women to subservient roles. I am stunned by the transformation Nigerian men, married to non-Nigerian women, have gone through in the United States...

Is Genevieve Nnaji Nigeria’s First Movie Superstar?

What is this Nnaji mystique that has her audience colliding heads so joyfully, crawling, craving some time in her sun? Star quality is what it is. The amount of talent dripping from her little finger is more than many of our other female leading ladies have combined...

Why Do African Men Go Home to Marry?

The African male is perplexing. He can be enigmatic. He can be everything and sometimes, nothing. He can be sweet and loving and caring and benevolent and at the same time oppressive. His life is full of contradictions. In so many ways, he is a wounded animal as a result of his historical past...

Mobil’s Oily Battle Over Intellectual Property Rights

The eight-year long battle between Commandclem Nigeria Limited and Mobil Producing Nigeria Limited, over ownership of patent and intellectual rights to a chemical invention for offshore drilling seems in sight…

Lost in a Sea of Hair Weaves

One can understand some black women wearing wigs for the same reasons that some white women do; because they are losing or have lost their hair. One can even make allowances for wigs being worn for the occasional change of look. But how to explain young women with full heads of hair who will never be seen dead with their natural hair?