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...

None of us will leave this World alive!

I always refuse to put all the blame on the British for our current maladies and unfortunate circumstances. Yes, they seem to have handed...

Nigeria: The Task Ahead

History is such a powerful tool in many ways than we all can ever imagine. Each & every developed nation in the global community...

Mrs. Kemi Adeosun: A Casualty of the War Against Corruption in Nigeria

Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, a Nigerian British-born Technocrat who was educated in Britain and worked there until she returned to Nigeria for an appointment with...

On that Tinubu/Ambode Spat

Whichever way the reported faceoff between Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, the Governor of Lagos and one of his predecessors and National Leader of APC, Asiwaju...

An Open Letter to Kemi Adeosun

Dear Sister Kemi, "Kòlè yé won...yí ò yé won lóla!!!" "Truth is an essential norm that is very scarce, only the inquisitors or truthfinders are sure...

Sowore: When Tomorrow is too far!

Omoyele Sowore must remember Et tu brute! As he goofed few days ago, those who high-five him today may downgrade him or be his...

PDP, Atiku, David Mark and their Restructuring Bogey

Restructuring seems to be the most attractive lingo for opposition candidates and their supporters as the 2019 general elections approaches. To those in PDP,...

Direct Primaries Will Strengthen Nigeria’s Democracy

One of the most profound decisions the Adams Oshiomhole-leadership of the All Progressives Congress is bringing to party politics is the adoption of direct...

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As We Await Jega’s Imperfect Elections In 2015

I don’t know what was probably on the mind of Attahiru Jega, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently when he warned Nigerians not to expect a perfect election from his INEC in 2015...

An open Letter to President Goodluck Jonathan

I am writing on behalf of the deprived, dehumanized, hapless and traumatized poor people of Nigeria to express to you their disgruntled impressions about your government...

Democracy, Corruption And The Rule Of Law In Nigeria

We should put issues in perspective and be a bit more realistic and impartial, at least as far as Democracy, Nigerian-style is concerned...

Folashade, Feyisara Laniyan: A Painful Earthly Loss, A Monumental Heavenly Gain

’Shade, now you have departed, who shall set the pace for me?  Now you have been translated to glory who shall challenge me? I wonder, I do wonder...

18 More States?

I once bought fish in Portharcourt with distended stomach filled with crude oil. My friend, Green Douglas, who had a thriving  farm of cassava, yams and other agricultural products, now queues up to  be given contracts to clear weeds!

Reparations: The New Battle Lines

George Bush does not want to hear of reparation or apology for slavery...

What Do Men and Women Want?

Most people don't even spend the time to get to know their partners before marriage. For such people, it is enough that their partner is from a good and well-to-do family, it is enough that their partner is from a religious and or spiritual family...

Is Government in Nigeria a family business?

Running the government by consensus without fiscal responsibility and accountability and robbing Peter to pay Paul is what has gotten us into the predicament we are now in...

The Great Syrian Debate: Roundabout Diplomacy in Geneva. (5)

Syria is asked to join the Chemical Weapons Treaty regime and hand over all chemical weapons to an international control authority, yet to be constituted...

Police brutality and democracy! Whither Nigeria

I am deeply troubled by the current pattern that our civilian democracy is trending in Nigeria.  It is frightening and if not curtailed, will metamorphose into a cancerous worm that will envelope the entire fabric of the society...