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...

The Law Is the Last Hope of a Scam

What a laugh when it is claimed on high that the law is the last hope of the common man! Law and the common man...

Nigeria: From Egypt to Egypt?

Those who are familiar with the history of the Israelites will understand why their story in the wilderness will not be complete without a mention of how, at a stage, they...

Again, who killed Bola Ige?

It is eighteen years since Bola Ige, Afenifere chieftain and former governor of the old Oyo State, departed this wide, wild world of war,...

Are there double standards with US Policies with Nigeria

Most Nigerians woke up on the morning of 3rd December 2019 to read a very curious news item, published in nearly all major newspapers....

The Town Crier in the Heat of the Sun

As said in the first part of this series, there are political and non-political assailants in the visible and non-visible “corridors of power” who...

Aso Villa: Walking in the Valley of the Shadow of Death (1)

Asked by some would-be foreign investors filled with trepidation about doing business in Nigeria, former President Olusegun Obasanjo responded thus: “Should you encounter any...

Osun: Now that we have the 7th Assembly!

When we juxtapose the imperatival idealism of the legislative arm of government in Nigeria, vis-à-vis the preponderances of unenforceable pieces of Acts of Parliament, and the needless ambiguity in...

Stemming Hemorrhage In NDDC through Citizen Forensic Audit

The earliest intentions made to stem the tide of underdevelopment of the Niger Delta were made some 18years ago by President Olusegun Obasanjo. It...

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On The Road With UBA In London

News of the London road show by the United Bank for Africa had been making the rounds among the Nigerian community in London for weeks long before the train came into town...

Fear of God and Manifestation of the Sons of God

The fear of God or the want of it is what separates the few on the narrow way from the multitudes in the world and multitudes in the Church on the broad-way. The fear of God is what ‘begets’ those eternal sons of God...

Doing Things the Wrong Ways and Expecting Different Results

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The “Within the Trees” workshop, Transforming Poetry to Sound

The “Within the Trees” workshop, March 19 – 21...

Is Enough Really Enough?

The crowd of Young People had gathered at Eagles Square and with placards they chanted "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" and marched towards the National Assembly Complex but they were cordoned off by fierce-looking Policemen...

Can Nigeria implement a social security scheme?

In what could be said to be a major paradigm shift in Nigeria’s poverty reduction strategy, the Federal Government last March empanelled a National Working Committee on Social Security Policy headed by former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, to advise it on the modalities of implementing a social security programme in the country...

Of Explosions and Implosions: Goodbye to Red October

What an interesting irony it is that the enduring memory indented upon the national consciousness, following the curious decision to celebrate the nation’s half-century of existence as an under-performing post-colonial geographical expression, is the memory of deafening reverberations of death producing explosions...

The PDP Mass Exodus and the Coming Implosion of the APC

The discordant tunes in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party,...

Culture of Political Appointments in Nigeria: For Competence or Compensation?

By Nasiru Usman Massallachi The 2023 general election in Nigeria...

Rivers: Those That Would Abandon Amaechi

Around Amaechi are people one could call spoilers within. They are sharks that swallow both the small and big for the hunger of wealth...