Nigeria Matters

Oyebanji: Beyond BAO2BAO!

​In the experience of Nigeria, focusing largely on the post-1999 return to democracy, second terms have turned out to be a mixed bag. Very...

Teachers’ Day: Nigerian Teachers Deserve Better

October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...

Do not pity President Tinubu

“We have corruption, insecurity, and many problems confronting us … but don’t pity me. I asked for the job. I campaigned for it. No...

EFCC FOI denials: A Remedy

Matters related to Freedom of Information denials by the EFCC reared a head recently at a seminar organized by an NGO in Benin City....

The People Are the Government!

"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."  - Thomas Jefferson Does the government fear us?...

Uwa m na Theresa

He was unfit. We told them. His antecedent was a summary of grotesque incompetence. We screamed and clawed. We jawed and fought. Friends left. Strangers cursed us....

Why Is Everybody Stealing In Nigeria?

“Why is everybody stealing in Nigeria? Please, why the stealing? Here, in our country, stealing seems like an act of worship, that if you...

The Femi Fani-Kayode in us all

The last 48 hours has witnessed varying degrees of reactions to the trending video of a former Minster of Aviation in Nigeria, Femi Fani-Kayode,...

Fighting Corruption in Nigeria

A proposal of Action Points developed from critical analysis of the inherent problems with fighting corruption and evaluation of good practices; relying on my...

#RevolutionNow is about Progress. Nothing less!

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete”. – Buckminster...

Procurement Monitoring in Edo State: ANEEJ builds Capacity of CSOs & Journalists

The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has concluded a 2-Day capacity programme, tagged ‘Workshop for CSOs and Journalists on Procurement Monitoring...

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Royal Complicity: How Nigeria’s Traditional Rulers Enable Political Misrule

In Nigeria’s complex political history, traditional rulers have steadily...

Muslims giving Islam a bad name

What is rampant in Nigeria today are major cases reminiscent of the kind of ethnic cleansing that took place in Burundi, the Sudan and in Kosovo. Usually disguised as tribal cases of intolerance, it is becoming clear that these are brazen acts of terror directed at Christians from their Muslims brothers...

Ekiti Crisis: An Insight to 2011 Elections

For Gods sake, we do not need Angels to tell us that the solution to our electoral problems is the re-introduction of Option A4. This is a tested and trusted method...

The African Olympics AD this century

Organisers of Olympic opening events are taking their cue from the musical, Chicago, and when it will be time for Africa, Richard Gere’s ghost will be ever so lightly tap taping with patent leather shoes, smiling and urging...

Unity

It is also preposterous to say that black people would vote for a black man no matter how moronic the fellow is. That generally is an insult to the black people...

Too easy to blame just Jonathan

With his recent declaration intent to change the name of University of Lagos in honor of the winner of June 12 1993 presidential elections, Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has again confirmed what many of us of think of him and his administration: he is leading an error-prone presidency...

A House Divided: Shettima’s Bombshell And The Beginning Of The End For Tinubu?

Vice President Kashim Shettima has set the entire political...

Civil Society Engagement In Nigeria: CONGOs Perspective

In 2010, comrades who were inspired by the quest...

Of executive profligacy and legislative docility in Nigeria

It is given that the ability of any democratic government to deliver the concrete benefits of good governance to the citizens is determined by the smooth functioning of the executive, judicial and legislative arms of government. This assumption reinforces the theory of separation of the powers of the different arms of government to prevent arbitrariness, tyranny and recklessness...

Oprah’s Campaign of Calumny Against Nigeria

Sadly and painfully, it has come to pass that our daughter, the highly achieved and accomplished Oprah Winfrey, has chosen to add her high profile voice to the campaign of calumny against Nigerians and invariably, Nigeria...