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...

Nigeria is Bleeding Profusely!

If you want to settle down to savor a hotchpotch of soup you made in the village populated by longthroated individuals-and of a thousand demons,...

It’s time to choose candidates – Princewill

Fresh after returning from the national convention of the APC in Abuja, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the “prince of the...

Fayemi: Second Coming of a Long Distance Runner

When he was farcically rigged out as Governor of Ekiti State four years ago, the perpetrators of that dastardly electoral gangsterism thought that Dr....

Reactions trail Gov. Wike’s “Why the Riverine cannot get a University”

Recently, Governor Nyesom Wike gave reason Rivers Ijaw cannot get a University. The governor, while speaking to the people of Ekpeye Ethnic nationality who...

Buhari’s June 12 Fulfilment and Confab 2014 Promise

Better late than never is what many Nigerians are saying today.  The news of the Presidential honour for Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, the...

On June 12 as Democracy Day

The formal recognition of “June 12” as the new date for the celebration (I prefer marking) of “Democracy Day” in Nigeria, and the bestowment...

June 12: And the Daniel finally comes to Judgment

And from nowhere, June 12 that has assumed the form of abiku, shot up last week to victory in quite an unexpected form when...

The Ghost of June 12

"The evil that men do live after them" - William Shakespeare With Obasanjo and Babangida as friends you don't need enemies for Nigeria. These twosome...

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Libya, Ghadaffi and The Fate Of A Tyrant-Leader!

Political power without the support of the people cannot endure. The Libyan strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, has carried out indiscriminate slaughter of his own people, just because they feel the game is up for him...

Dewdrops of Memory: Isanlu and the Islam that I knew

The Islam that I knew was already in full swing decades before my head kissed the earth of Isanlu, my home town in Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi State. As is the case all over Nigeria and Africa, life in Isanlu was suffused in colourful forms of traditional spiritual expression until Christianity arrived...

Keeping Pace with Soludo All Over Anambra State

It is well-nigh impossible keeping pace with the man...

Political Parties and the Political Process

In Nigeria, the Constitution went out of its way to literally make the political parties the engine of democracy and the political process. It is those roles assigned to the political parties that I want us to revisit and perhaps have a shared feeling of their relevance to our political lives...

Again, A Case of Uncounted Billions

To a first-time visitor, much of Nigeria is likely to appear like the wreckage of a long war, what with its gutted roads, rutted infrastructure, the near-absence of electric power, and the paucity of pipe-borne water...

Between Blood Diamonds and Blood Diamond

I believe that the presence or absence of conflict is a vital element in the determination of the relevance or irrelevance of a work of art...

Operation Amotekun: An Experiment in Community Policing

In a nation where so much of the rich,...

Is The N2 Trillion Revenue Windfall A Gift From Tinubu — Or The States’ Constitutional Right?

When Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, recently...

Help Comes From Unexpected Places

Mike continued to pray silently. He wasn’t even praying for God to deliver them, rather he was asking God to accept their souls for he considered himself and Mohammed as dead men walking...

The Forgotten

The Mushin People are not just forgotten by an average Nigerian, they are also forgotten by Lagosians. Despite the enormous development going on in Lagos, this part of the world knows no pleasure...