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...

COVID-19 And Nigeria’s Pathetic Leadership Deficite

There is no better warning about the growing confusion that seems to be gradually beclouding the federal government’s response to the coronavirus challenge than...

SGF Boss Mustapha’s Amazing Discovery

Rarely ever in our systems of government, be they military autocracies or civilian democracies, do Secretaries to the Federal Government (SGF) make news headlines....

Are the Alarm Bells Ringing a Timeout for Nigeria?

If “Covikk one nine (1.9)” as pronounced by President Buhari in his (COVID-19) broadcast does not rouse us all to the ever present dangers...

Making sense of Oshiomhole’s reprieve

Once upon a sociopolitical space, there was an unknown ‘Edo Boy’, who came into limelight through the Textiles Industry, where he was a paid secretary of its Union....

Emir Sanusi: Kings as Subjects

If there is any credence to the notion that Mallam Lamido Sanusi’s appointment as the 14th Emir of Kano occurred with undue haste, in...

Nigeria: One Country, Wasted Visions

“We must make sure about two things, namely: that our principles are just and that are methods are practical; for nothing destroys her own...

Power Politics and the 2023 Virus

Theories of political parties are hardly more than systematic efforts to understand or clarify the relationship between the powers vested in persons to exercise...

As Emir Sanusi becomes history!

To Nigerians, that the 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has been dethroned is incontrovertibly established. However, the nuances and the sociological imports of his dethronement should not be lost...

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El-Rufai is Governor of the month

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Barack Obama: The Symbol of the New World

It is important that as Obama barracks to the presidency, that he remembers the key factors that will determine his success or otherwise in the race. It is thus important that he formulates a formidable economic policy...

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Much Amiss

Who made Chris Uba, a man without proper education, profession, skill or finesse, “an elder and veteran politician” in Anambra State? How did he get access to Asorock? How could he wiggle out time to see the President while his betters in every conceivable way have to wait on the list?

American Defense Budget; Biggest Corporate Welfare, Massive Cuts Are Overdue!

Cutting the American Defense Budget or Military Spending is panacea for economic recovery, budget balancing and deficit reductions...

The Loneliness of the Expired President

It’s not only drugs that expire; presidents also expire....

Wetin You Carry! A Therapeutic Metaphor?

Wetin you carry is a metaphor. It is the shame of a continent. A nation of 155 million people. An unfulfilled promise. Totally inept, uninteresting, visionless, violent and lacking character. Equally depressing, because she will be 50 years old next year...

Big Brother Africa: Tayo Faniran and the Lessons we Learnt

A lot of people who consider themselves 'serious minded'...

A Mouth Sweeter than Salt: An African Memoir

This is not so much a memoir but a rollicking history lesson told by Falola with all his might. If I was a dictator I would decree that every African must buy this book and read it. This boy soldier offered us a long peep into the rich dark corridor of a patriarchy...

Gov. Fayose and His Fellow Travelers

When relics of uncivilized, primitive and medieval men who...