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...

Obaseki and the Political Chess Game in Edo State

The political tussle of supremacy in Edo State, for those of us who are concerned citizens, can best be described as an attempt by...

Governor Makinde’s Assets Declaration

Forty-Eight billion naira! That’s a heck of a lot of money! That’s how much asset Governor Seyi Makinde declared recently. That’s novel. Forty-Eight billion...

An Open Letter to President Buhari on RUGA Settlement

Dear Mr. President, “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but...

NDDC is Committed to the Development of the Niger Delta

The management of the Niger Delta Development Commission said it has noticed a flurry of attacks in the media against the commission in the...

Bigmanism, Impunity and Corruption in Nigeria

  “Nigeria is not only the country with the largest black population in the world; it is also, in all probability, the country with the...

The Resurrection of June 12 and Buhari’s Place in the History of Nigeria! 

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to...

June 12 and the Hypocrisies of a Junta

“If this government truly believes in June 12, the last presidential election wouldn’t have been allowed to stand because it did not reflect the...

Nigerian Security Challenges: The Way Forward

As a security consulting professional, I still find it difficult to comprehend the current lacuna in the Nigerian Security System owing to unhealthy rivalry...

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Nigeria At 50: Antonyms Of A Nation

This is our golden opportunity to re-write Nigeria's history by coming together with one voice to elect good leaders to lead us to a new Nigeria...

Drinking From Our Diverse Well

A multinational society like Nigeria can reconcile unity and diversity only if it does not confuse unity with uniformity and seek comprehensive cultural uniformity among its ethnic nationalities. It should evolve its unity out of its diversity by encouraging its cultural communities to evolve a plural national culture...

Buhari’s Death: The Political Earthquake That Could Shatter APC’s Northern Stronghold

Former President Muhammadu Buhari has died in London at...

How The Niger Deltans Can Get Their Freedom: The Action Plan! Part 8

The Niger Deltans should not be naive nor have any illusion as regards to a new ministry set up by Yar'Adua and the criminals surrounding him. Suffice to say that the ministry is as good as the official paper that was used to type its creation...

The Death of Nigerian Sports and A Walk Down Memory Lane (1)

I would like to take my fellow countrymen and women down memory lane with some facts about sports in Nigeria not too long ago; and maybe we will wake up to how desperate our sports situation is. It made me proud and cry at the same time...

Hair from Hong Kong Bleached Skin Favored by Black Men?

What does our unwillingness to retain our identity say about us? What does it this say about our state of mind and our sense of selves?

Readers' Responses to a Labor of Love

There are times when I think I need a personal assistant to help with responding to the emails I receive from readers on a daily basis. In all, one can never tell how readers will respond to any given essay...

Who Killed These Men and Women?

Who killed Sunday Ugwu, Momoh Lawal, Odunayo Olagbaju and Janet Oladapo? Who killed them? Who killed Ahmed Pategi and his police orderly? And who killed Victor Nwankwo, the younger brother of Arthur Nwankwo? I wonder if any murder case has ever been conclusively and satisfactorily resolved in Nigeria...

Obasanjo and Babangida: Re-enforcing Peace with Joint statement

Nigeria is in a delicate trajectory point but has not reached what physicist calls an "Escape velocity" which literally means a point of no return. Not yet! Nigeria can be salvaged, even made whole again when patriots and lovers of stability vow to restore the country to her lost glory of 1970s and early 80s...

Umaru Yar’Adua: Dead or Alive What Does It Matter?

Some five thousand people in any given Nigerian city suffer from catarrh on any given day, yet, they don't go to Germany for treatment...