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...

Professor Ladipo Akinkugbe and Nigeria’s arrested Development

Professor Ladipo Akinkugbe, Philosopher, Statesman and Physician in his Autobiography titled, FOOTPRINTS AND FOOTNOTES, revealed he visited the then President Olusegun Obasanjo forty times...

Why the Igbos are Marginalised in the Geopolitics of Governance in Nigeria

This is the time to strategize and clamor for the emergence of an Igbo president of Nigeria in 2023 after the second term of...

Mourning My Country Part II

I must have sounded very caustic, cynical, contemptuous and sentimental - as some would have by now concluded - in the blunt manner I...

A Quick Precautionary Note To Buharists And Buharideens!

Watchers and political strategists of unfolding global political events will not underestimate Atiku's candidacy in Nigeria. Buhari and Buharists shouldn't thread that road too,...

That PDP Dollarized Primary and the Renewed Campaign Against Vote-Buying

After the Ekiti governorship election, where it was bested by the All Progressives Congress (APC), the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) raised a terse allegation...

Ambode: Why we shouldn’t dismantle the ladder of success

The results of the APC primary election in Lagos State few days ago is very instructive. What we must take away from it is...

Tinubu, and Ambode’s Scrotum

Nigerian politics is a funny amphitheater of absurdity. It would have been the funniest comedy skit, if not that it is dangerously toying with...

Mourning My Country

I beg the readers of this piece to excuse my rather sarcastic, pessimistic and raucously discordant tone, which is born out of my candid...

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Obasanjo: A Once-In-A-Life Time Opportunity Lost

The third term agenda as I predicted has already failed. This article is my own post mortem on Obasanjo’s worst mistake as a leader and statesman...

Rewriting History Written In Blood

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The Impact Of GSM On Nigerians

Looking back to what life used to be for all of us before the GSM revolution, it gives one a clear understanding of its positive impact on Nigerians...

What Is Happening In Imo?

I sincerely hope that it would turn out to be true that no form of sabotage was at play in this mysterious fire that consumed the official residence of the Imo State Governor...

Why Aren't You Married?

He had a nice face, his nose was round like mine, and his eyes were smiling at me. He looked like a cool breeze, like fresh rain on a summer morning. I liked looking at his face...his face just took all the butterflies, known and unknown, away...

Igbos of Delta State and Crisis of Identity (Part 1)

It is unfortunate that our crisis of identity extends to our own Igbo brothers and sisters across the Niger who are supposed to know better. Unfortunately, they regard themselves, as “the proper Igbos” while the Delta Igbos or Ika Igbos or Western Igbos are regarded derogatorily as “Hausa-Igbos”. ..

From Grace To Grass: How Saraki, Ahmed turned our Amusement Park into an Amusing Park

The Ilorin Amusement Park situated along the Unity-Taiwo axis...