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...

Re: The Pathetic Delusion of Yinka Odumakin

Dear Mr. Yinka Odumakin, I refer you to a publication on page 34 of the November 12, 2018 edition of the Vanguard, in which one...

No More Delay

Sometime in November, 1996, an undergraduate University student made a call and pretended to be George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah, the current President...

Stop Insulting, Inciting Rivers Traditional Institutions against Opposition – TCCO Rebukes Wike

The Tonye Cole Campaign Organisation, TCCO, said it received with shock the reported public reprimand of traditional rulers by the governor of Rivers State,...

History Is Bunk When Tomorrow Becomes Yesterday!

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's...

On the Dismemberment of the defunct Nigeria Airways (and other defunct Nigerian Institutions)

“SPECIAL REPORT: The men who embezzled Nigerian Airways to death, October 29, 2018 by Nicholas Ibekwe, PREMIUM TIMES” A friend who sent the link to...

On The Killing Of Aid Workers By Boko Haram

A second aid worker held hostage by Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, was executed after a negotiation deadline purportedly expired. Hauwa Mohammed Liman, 24,...

The Winning Strategy

Ghana is the 2nd largest exporter of Cocoa in the world after Ivory Coast. Cocoa is the former Gold Coast’s main cash crop &...

Off With These Military Brought Ups!

When the khaki boys struck on the 15th of January, 1966, expectations within the populace, who had grown tired of the political class, were...

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Bola Ahmed Tinubu: A True Democrat or a Rising Dictator?

The question on many Nigerians' minds today is whether...

Have We Been Here Before?

If the state elects to break the law, the citizenry, in who resides the ultimate sovereignty, is being implicitly invited to break the law. Civil society has been shown by example, that the law exists not to sustain society...

My Sweet 16-Year Old Valentine

Her eyes met mine and didn't blink out of shyness and rather than look down like other damsels, she smiled gaily at me. Not sure I returned her smile but she innocently giggled at the sight of me. How could I flirt with an under aged...

Joblessness Does Not Frighten The Poet

It is in my DNA to make very powerful...

Global Peace Security Through Justice Shared Prosperity

The interactions/interconnectedness of today's world has intensified so much that international cooperation is no longer a matter of morality or a desire to hold hands and sing Kumbaya...

Nigeria’s Democracy Is Undemocratic

Nigerians have experienced both the military and democratic rule and many are avoiding the military like a plague but what makes the Nigerian democratic regime different from that of the military?

If I Were Buhari…

…I would not have traveled to China. Not at...

Melodrama Of Power: Now That Yar'Adua Has Arrived

Now that the president has returned, we welcome him back and wish him quick recovery. But then we need to see him and get him to talk to the nation and his people. He needs to physically appear in person to chair the affairs of the nation...

Stemming Hemorrhage In NDDC through Citizen Forensic Audit

The earliest intentions made to stem the tide of...

On The BBC Narrative: Scrutinizing The Allegations Against TB Joshua’s Legacies

In a three-part documentary, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)...