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...

Emir Sanusi’s Lamentation!

The 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II recently told a moving story of how a mother watched her sick child die while waiting...

Verifying Abacha Loot distribution in the land of the White Horse

Some years ago, the Federal government of Nigeria and the UN organized a polio eradication programme across Nigeria. To ensure that the Polio eradication...

What should we do with the NNPC?

According to Wikipedia, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC was established on 1 April 1977 as a merger of the Nigerian National Oil Corporation and...

N500 million Suit: Determining EFCC Culpability

A Benin City High Court, on Tuesday 17th October 2019 gave leave to lawyers representing a Mr. Kehinde Samuel to serve Prof Osayuki Oshodin,...

Sanwo-Olu’s Dilemma and the Burden of Lagos State

"Lagos is a shameful state with a lot of “promise” because of the access to funds relative to other states. Lagos gets a lot...

Gov. Obaseki versus Edo Journalists: Matters Arising

All is not well between Godwin Obaseki, and with some members of the Fourth Estate in Benin City/Edo state. There are many accusations and...

Wanted for Nigeria: Good Leaders with Sacrificial Mien!

"Nigeria is 59 while United States of America is 243 years old, Japan was founded on 11th February 660 BC, Russia is 1156 years...

A Sorry Tale of the South West of Nigeria

The Western Region was a subdivision of the Federation of Nigeria until 1967 and its capital was at Ibadan. It was established in 1939...

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Federal Character And Quota System in Nigeria – A Good Public Policy

All Nigerians should in good faith advocate that appointments and how we do business reflect our essential composite make-up as Nigerians, from local government to state and federal levels...

Why Babangida Must Not Run For Presidency Again

I am not a fan of IBB at all, but I must concede that he is a charming, suave, polished and intelligent man. He is also a brilliant schemer. However, this does not defer from the fact that as of today, he is still widely regarded as the man who presided over the most corrupt government in the history of Nigeria...

Obi Nwakanma’s The Horsemen and other poems reviewed

In The Horsemen and other poems, Nwakanma gallops through many seasons of war, ploughs through many cemeteries of fallen dreams, scales okra covered walls and chases dreams that never left our huts in the first place. And the reader comes upon this land of alien deities, and lands exhausted on the unwelcome mats of these strange people that worship feuding gods...

God Is With You

I now recognize that truly circumstances only act to make us forget that God had promised to be with us always. We often get consumed as well as discomfited by the events happening around us...

Like Tunisia, like Egypt, like Nigeria?

You Nigerians are very good when it comes to religious riots and the pursuit of ethnic acrimony. You don’t look at the bigger picture. And that perhaps is the real reason why you may never bring change and development to your people....

Fela Durotoye: Proudly Nigerian

In a country bedeviled by so many problems, Durotoye is like the proverbial Moses, an unflinching optimist in the power of dreams and vision...

Nigeria’s Sick Refineries…

The nation’s refineries are still comatose despite huge amounts of money thrown at them...

Ovie Kpor – The King is dead

I put the question again to Agagu and his docile Deputy. If Asodeboyede was not the only ruling House in Akure, how come Oba Afunbiowo was able to contest on three consecutive occasions? How come Oba Ataiyese was able to contest on two consecutive occasions...

The Northern Counter-Coup Of 1966: The Full Story

While much has been written and speculated about the "Igbo" coup of January 1966, almost nothing has been said about the counter-coup that occurred seven months later. The void of literary material on that second coup is one that I will attempt to fill...

June 12 and the Hypocrisies of a Junta

“If this government truly believes in June 12, the...