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...

The United States Military Earned its Respect, but the Nigerian Military Has Not

In the aftermath of the civil war, the much expanded size of the military, around 250,000 in 1977, consumed a large part of Nigeria’s...

Oyo State Governorship: Oke-Ogun’s Turn

With all due respect to all of the 2019 Oyo State gubernatorial candidates who are not from the Oke-Ogun area, it is the turn...

Open Letter to President Muhammadu Buhari

Dear Mr. President, Consistency and enforcement of expectations provide the basis for effective governance. Lack of effective communication and shoddy information dissemination will soon tarry...

The Vindication of Justice Ayo Salami

No doubt, the recent appointment of Justice Ayo Salami by the National Judicial Council (NJC) as the Chairman of the panel to monitor cases...

Why Buhari must act fast!

Buhari's efforts seem to be failing because of shoddy information from Aso Rock Villa, the seat of government. PDP and the children of corruption...

Where is President Buhari?

The recent happenings in our nation have led to the question, where is president Buhari? The answer remains a deafening silence. A lot of...

Comparative Analysis of the Nigerian and American Presidencies

Like America, Nigeria is a federation. America has 50 states with Washington DC serving as the federation’s capital. Nigeria has 36 states with Abuja...

President Buhari, Buhariphobics and the World Bank Hoopla

Only an entrenched and implacable Buhariphobic will work himself into unnecessary ecstasy over the comments of the President of the World Bank, that President...

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Rochas, Ndigbo and APC

Perhaps, the most strategic, visionary and fore-sighted political move from the South East in recent times is the decision of the Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, to join forces with other progressive Nigerians to form the All Progressives Congress...

Oyebanji: Knowledge, Development And Human Wellbeing

Since assuming office as the Governor of Ekiti State...

The Coming Anarchy and Low-Intensity Conflict

We have a president who, along with a select few, is sharing, stealing and mismanaging the nation's resources. Additionally, the president has a penchant for disregarding the check-and-balance provision of the Nigerian constitution...

Ndigbo: Architects of our Own Problems

As Ndigbo, we shouldn't pretend that all is well...

Global Economic Crisis: Impact on the Education Sector

Four interrelated global crises are mutually reinforcing each other: climate change, the energy crisis, the food crisis and the financial and economic crisis. But of these, the consequence of the global financial meltdown on the Nigerian educational system at all levels will be more devastating...

Son of the Soil

Lagos is a state under siege, my friends. That's what you call leisurely robbery attacks that go on for hours without any police assistance in sight.

Ibadan: A Coliseum of Warlords

Unrepentantly, Ibadan indigenes still mourn with curious nostalgia the inner valour and natural rascality of Chief Lamidi Adedibu. But, the fire, this time, if it ever burns in Ibadan, will peel away Adedibu's violent legacy like a Gentile's foreskin in a Jewish sauna bath...

The Fourth Estate and the Other Estates

In order to be worthy inheritors of Burke’s fourth estate, rather than usurpers, Nigerian journalists ought to reclaim the moral and intellectual estates. This process would entail, above all, attention to the place of language in journalism...

Profound Implications of an Obama Presidency

I must confess that I stayed up all night yesterday, against all odds, gloating as the results of the Iowa Democratic Party caucus trickled in. as the night wore on, it was clear to me like many others, that hope has triumphed over the old paradigm...

The Right Way to Protest Injustice

For any Establishment profiting off any status quo; the...