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...

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...

Applying for a Nigeria Driver’s Licence – A Study in Wasteful Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy (/bjʊəˈrɒkrəsi/) refers to both a body of non-elective government officials and an administrative policy-making group.  Historically, a bureaucracy was a government administration managed...

Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye’s Peep Into Nigeria’s Looting Culture

Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye is not only a quintessential Nigerian writer and journalist, he is, undoubtedly, one of the most formidable literary and social critics in...

Buhari is not a Nigerian!

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria is not a "Nigerian." Buhari's actions, honesty, frugality, integrity, utterances, intentions, speeches, ultrasonic conservatism, demeanor and dispositions to naughty...

Of Fulani Radio, Football and National Security

There is something good in the Fulani Radio said to be planned by the Federal Government. Other Ethnic Radio Stations need to be set...

Who Hates President Buhari?

In the buildup to the 2015 elections, the wild, uproarious promotion of General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC),...

Ibadan Abroad: Ibukun Awosika of Africa; from Oke Foko to First Bank

Ibukun Awosilka used to reside in Oke Foko  an economically challenged area of Ibadan. She has come long way to become  the chair person...

Who Is Nigeria’s Conscience – Remembering Gani Fawehinmi?

  Monday, April 22, was the 81st birthday of Gani Fawehinmi, the late brilliant and successful lawyer and one of the very few credible human...

Don't miss

The Great White Throne Judgment

This is the scene that separates the wicked dead forever. It comes after the millennium reign and rule of Jesus Christ here on earth. It is the final judgment of the dead who have been held in Hell since the time of Adam till the commencement of the millennial governance of the earth by Christ...

The Willis Knuckles Saga

There are quite a number of lessons to be learnt from the scandal which hit the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Administration in Liberia recently...

Religion In Nigeria: Do You Really Believe In God?

Religion, I believe, was created to control the ignorant. If you are looking to me to tell you there is no God, don’t. I have no clue. He’s never talked to me. He’s been extremely silent…

Madam Speaker Plays Her Level

What are Etteh and her people doing with Toyota Land Cruiser vehicles? Have these people totally wiped off the notion of service from public office?

Daniel Bwala and his Prophetic Inclinations

In the last few days, Nigeria’s media spaces have...

The Evil That Men Do…Does Not Mean Anything in Nigeria

Most of our rulers (and the followers), probably due to some warped and debased genetic aberration do not seem to have any sense, understanding and appreciation of the difference between Right and Wrong; between Good and Evil...

Nigeria vs. Argentina: A True Test Of Faith

Is a good football match on Sunday morning enough reason to skip church?

Andoakaa, Nigeria’s Public Enemy Number One!

The impact of pervasive corruption in Nigeria, its impact on daily life, its magnitude and far reaching ramifications on public infrastructure, the overwhelming permeation of corruption on how life is lived in Nigeria is glaringly obvious...

Jega'a Wobbly Start and Our Huge Expectations

Contrary to expectations, the much awaited parliamentary election in Nigeria turned to a huge anti-climax. The hype, the high hope and the huge expectation loaded into the election to start what is considered a critical test of democracy flailed and floundered...

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

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