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...

Rabid Ethnicity as Factor Holding Down Nigeria

Without doubt, fervent ethnicity is one of the greatest bulwarks holding down the growth and progress of the country and in this mad inclination...

Depoliticizing and Taming the Herdsmen Menace

Gradually, the Fulani herdsmen have become a synonym for terror, horror and bloodletting in Nigeria. It is so bad that virtually all criminal acts...

Nigeria’s Democratic Euphoria is over!

The elation over Nigeria’s experiment in democracy is over. Reality is once again at our doorstep with the worrying questions about our future –...

Femi Fani-Kayode Needs our Love!

"Buhari’s son accident, a sign from God for Buhari to resign" – Femi Fani-Kayode Source: Daily Post This period calls for national and cultural recompense for...

Fitting End To The NGO Regulatory Bill

At the House of Representatives Public hearing of the obnoxious NGO Regulatory bill last week, it was reported that everybody that spoke at the...

On the Origin and Foundation of Inequality in Nigeria

Man has dominated man to his injury                       - Ecclesiastes 8:9 There are several overt and covert reasons why the Nigerian State has remained backward in...

Opposition in a Democratic Dispensation

The thesis of this piece is that until political parties in opposition are more organized, purposeful and functioning beyond participating in elections, it is...

Nigeria’s Necessary Transition To Reality

Without doubt, Nigeria is in transition; transiting from a consumerist economy to a productive economy. Perhaps, since independence, the focus of our economy has...

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Taunting the Critic

Self-appointed guardians of political possibility who desire to mask...

Jonathan Goodluck and Dame Patience Goodluck-Jonathan: Mirror Images of the Nigerian Quandary

Virtually all aspirants have alleged Jonathan to be ruling and heading a government of corrupt persons. Although these aspirants are merely saying what prevails in the minds of most Nigerians, the PDP is saddened that Buhari, a leading Presidential aspirant in the ongoing democratic dispensation is favoured by the electorates because he is seen as an incorruptible person...

Nightmare called Enugu/Port Harcourt Expressway

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Are Nigerians United Against Corruption?

I have maintained in the past that I abhor corruption because of its consequences. You would think that all reasonable persons, especially Nigerians, are united against the corruption scourge, and therefore intently focused in the war against it?

How old is Peter Esele?

There is a new generation of Nigerians rearing their dynamic heads and determined to put their mark on their country. Age is an important element that unites them, for they are young and indeed they define themselves as young...

Obasanjo: A Namby-Pamby Appeal

Obasanjo is a president that is incapable of understanding basic fundamentals of problem solving. He portrays an impression of a traveller who cares less about the compass needed for his journey…

ITF Celebrates 100 Years Of Excellence: Rethinking Tennis Development Funding In Africa

Tennis Federations in Africa continue to face difficult challenges in this century. Some of the challenges include lacking the funds and human resources needed to promote and grow the game at the grassroots level, introduce tennis in schools, train coaches, and organize adequate junior tournaments locally and nationally...

A Contrarian Confronts Obama

There have been year long adulation and euphoric overindulgence for an Obama presidency. These have been calibrated in many ways. Media houses, political pundits, housewives, students, black Africans have all been smitten by a new addiction - Obamamania. Even women in the US are shaving their pubic hair in support of Obama...

Bracing up to another phase of the Ogoni Struggle

By Innocent Edemhanria Ogoniland, located in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, is...

People Of This Nation: Grieved By Government, Gratified By God

Government can never resist the impulse to coerce and intimidate its citizens. The lure of power and money is just too strong and the will of most men, too weak. Even those governments founded on freedom will eventually succumb to this cancer...