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 Future is Bright

One of the most iconic sculptures in the world today is that of the Boadicea group, strategically placed by the crossing into the Westminster...

Who Is Attending To This Volks-Mile 2 Traffic Gridlock?

If there is anything suggestive and/or indicative of the fact that the Ambode-led Administration had underperformed, it will definitely be the seemingly odious and...

Needless Hoopla Over Presidential Veto Of Amended Electoral Bill

Recently, President Muhammadu Buhari declined assent to the amended Electoral Act, as passed by the Saraki-led National Assembly. The President gave enough reasons for...

President Buhari at 76

Dearest PMB, Happy birthday Mr. President! As you add a new year to commemorate your birthday tomorrow, and to commence a new journey into another...

Oyedepo’s Antithetical Beautiful Gift to Buhari!

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion” — JIM ROHN. I want to unequivocally congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal of Nigeria...

“Transition Hours” under his “Watch”

Unsolicited Oga Jona's Book Review:   “After the kidnap, as if on cue, protests broke out within days. They were neatly choreographed and nicely distributed around...

Tonye Cole: His assassination attempt and what happens next – Princewill

...Calls on the international community, particularly the US, UK and EU ambassadors to buckle up A frontline Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers...

2019 Imo State Governorship Election: Hope for Owerri Senatorial Zone

Since the one term tenure of Late Senator Evans Enwerem from Ikeduru in Owerri senatorial zone as the governor of Imo-State, the zone has...

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The Party is over for PDP

Many have wondered about the staying power of the PDP when it is structurally and institutionally prone to suicide. I am beginning to believe those who say that the wizard behind the party was President Olusegun Obasanjo and his Aso Rock cash...

The Trials Of Brother Emeka

"I flog a lot. I have canes. If husband and wife mess up by having misunderstanding, I have to settle them. But the person that is at fault, I must flog. If the person refuses to be flogged, I will send him out of the church". - Rev. King

Is the Nigerian Judiciary Robotic Constrictive in the Corruption War?

What is the purpose of law? The purpose of law in Nigeria certainly, cannot be to give ringing endorsements to persons who have been censured, persons who have received public opprobrium at home and abroad...

Egyptian Liberation: The Triumph of Human Will and Dignity

Egyptians must understand that the driving away of the dictator was an opening to a long journey to democratic dispensation. Egyptians maybe in quick need of calling for an election, which is a good thing, but an election is not tantamount to democracy...

How Not To Steal From The Chimamanda Brand

At the drop of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s name a...

Are we Dangerously Intelligent? II: Umar Yar’Adua, The Unwilling President

I think the biggest question to all Nigerians at this critical stage in nation building should be “Is being indifferent part of being dangerously intelligent that we take the easiest way out...?"

Obasanjo’s Hubris, Buhari’s Dilemma

Buhari has reportedly told his Arewa brothers that his government will ensure that sharia gets the kind of recognition "it deserves" when he comes into power. The question is, how far will these recognition go and at what cost will it come?

Shall We Ban Religion?

Our younger brother’s wife was bleeding, losing a lot of blood, laid out on a bed at the National Hospital, Abuja.  She had just delivered a baby, their second in just over two years.  My sister informed me that despite serious pleas from everyone in the family, from clinical staff at the hospital, and from concerned strangers, my brother refused to give his consent for his wife to have blood transfusion...

Dr. Orlando Owoh: A Canary in the Afterlife

The Canary is a small songbird that was used...

Time To Probe Nigeria's $12bn Debt Repayment

With the return of democracy in 1999 it became obvious to those looting the country's economy using so called national debts that it wouldn't take long before Nigerians began to demand explanations for the country's debts...