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...

Ekweremasu’s Coup Baiting and our Assumed Receding Memory

Less than three years in opposition, Ike Ekweremadu who is the highest ranking PDP member today is already baiting the military and reminding them...

Can Jagabanisation make APC Electable in 2019?

The Jagaban of Borgu, the lion of Bourdillon and Asiwaju of Lagos, Ahmed Bola Tinubu has been called out of the woods to heal...

National Assembly’s Meddlesome Intrusion In INEC Independence

The Bukola Saraki-led National Assembly is on a mission to tinker with the order and schedule of elections. The National Assembly members are certainly...

Sowore and other Envisioned Youths: The Audacity to Rewrite Nigerian History

During the locust years of the Military presidency of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, responsible Nigerian youths domiciled in complacency and disillusionment with the evil...

Get It! Buhari Will Not Restructure Nigeria!

By May this year, the PROTRON, President of the Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari would have ruled Nigeria for three years. In the last...

Be a Part of History

About 100 years ago, the Spanish flu wiped out 5% of the world’s population; it was reported as one of the deadliest disasters in...

Tortoise: The Ebora in the Kingdom of Nigeriana

Once upon a time, a group of assorted animals converged in an expeditious hunting. Ijapa was unanimously made the leader of the team of...

We Deserve Better

The APC-led government of General Buhari came to power on the mantra of change. Fighting corruption, reviving the economy and fighting insurgency were the...

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Africa and the Pestilence of Imported Gods

How can a society hand over its head on a platter to a conqueror because he asked for it? How can a people yield their gods to be decapitated or burnt at the conqueror’s fires simply because the conqueror just showed up, knocked on the door and politely asked for that?

The Nagging Sycophancy of the Igbo Elite

In Igboland our political elite are completely detached from the suffering of the people. Based in Abuja, Enugu, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Awka or Owerri they partake in the national dispossession without qualms...

Child Support, Alimony and Palimony: Coming Soon to Nigeria

Poor Paul McCartney, against all advice, he refused to have Heather Mills sign a prenuptial. And now he is going to pay for his mistake. Damn, doesn’t life suck? Hey fellas, when it is your turn, please have her sign the damn papers. Love is good; but not good enough!

Failures of the Intellectual: Barack Obama, Black Agency, and the Burden of History

“No, you can’t!” has, for five centuries, been the life-force of modernity’s negation of black agency. The Obama sign offers a choric, antiphonal negation of an original negation...

Leicester: Lessons In Greatness

Leicester City is one of the oldest cities located...

Our Clueless President…

I first saw that irresponsible phrase on Facebook after those bokoharamic bombs began to fall on churches in the North. Our people were aghast at the seeming inability of the ‘government’ to do something about the very well organised arrangement by very well placed persons to give the dog a bad name and hang it...

Nigerian, Heal Thyself

Every Nigerian is a physician, whether or not he or she went to medical school; we learn to diagnose ailments and self-medicate at an early age...

Barack Obama: The Symbol of the New World

It is important that as Obama barracks to the presidency, that he remembers the key factors that will determine his success or otherwise in the race. It is thus important that he formulates a formidable economic policy...

The Future is Orange

As the six authors posed for photographs holding their books, the magnitude of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's achievement struck me. She looked almost incongruous, out of place - this young black woman in the line up of largely white middle-aged women...

The Graveyard of Ambitions

Somalia is found in the Horn of Africa with...