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...

Dino Melaye continues to Run from his Shadow

For Dino Melaye, that rambunctious and swash buckling senator from Kogi State, the cloud still looks ominous. For someone that relishes hugging the limelight,...

Kidnappers in Nigeria: Death Sentence for Treasury Looters?

The Nigerian senate on the 28th of September, 2017 passed a bill into law promulgating death sentence for kidnappers in Nigeria. If these are normal...

Ndigbo: As 2019 Beckons

For Ndigbo, another chance beckons in 2019. Yes, in 2019, Nigeria will go through another election process. After the self-inflicted tragedy of 2015, the...

Accursed is the Land

Accursed is the land where the young are slaughtered for expressing a contrary opinion. That nation has betrayed tomorrow. That land is finished where the young...

Beyond the Nnamdi Kanu Rhetoric and the Igbo Question

This issue of Biafra agitation and the Igbo question in Nigeria federation has been dangling in the air for quite some time now, but...

A New Name for Nigeria

My brothers it is good as we share information on personal safety and on exercising caution as we deal with domestic staff. However, I...

It’s Better to Reason Together, Please!

After this war on corruption, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari should as a matter of urgency trigger a referendum to discuss our continued unity as...

On the Epidemic of Greed in Nigeria

Like the British Psychologist, Oliver James put it in his book, Affluenza, I could conjecture that there is a correlation between the increasing access...

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An Interrogation of the British Intelligence Records on the January 15 1966 Coup

The three-part series on the revelations from the British...

Naija Notes: What Abacha Owes You!

The money Abacha and his family stole will buy every adult Nigerian a pair of jeans trousers, a bag of garri or a dinner at the Sheraton Hotels...

Niger Deltans must control the NNPC

For years since independence, the North has always insisted on controlling the police, the army, the petroleum that they do not produce and even produce the president. Where this whole bravado came from I cannot tell...

A Nation In Distress

The smoldering smoke from the ill fated Dana Airline crash in Iju Ishaga, a suburb of Lagos, has gradually died down and with it, a nation tottering on the brinks of security maelstrom has gone back to its troubled sleep. Life, as in the greatly unsecured and un-assured form we have known it as Nigerians, has assumed its normal style...

There Is Something Rotten Going On In Bayelsa State

This is corruption. This is theft. This is gross irresponsibility on the part of the state! Does the state not have competent legal officers to pursue the rogues who perpetrated this fraud?

Puny Men, Vendors of Impunity

Bankole appears to be an expert in matters of pugilism. Last June, he presided over a session of the House that degenerated into an all-out brawl. That shoving, clawing, knuckle-throwing and clothe-tearing spectacle has since become a top draw on youtube...

Zik Deserves November 16 To Be National Holiday

Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s foremost nationalist and first president,...

Nuhu Ribadu: A True Defender of The Rule of Law

Winning the war against corruption is of substantive significance. Winning the war against corruption will determine Nigeria's place in the world says Nuhu Ribadu...

Reply to a Rejoinder by Carlisle U.O. Umunnah Regarding Ngozi For President

While it may be an over-generalization to label all Igbos charismatic, sometimes a self-evaluation of the individual in the mirror might bring out a perceived confident smile; while to the on-looker, it might represent a boorish arrogant smirk...

About Life’s Tragedies

One thing about impartial, dead reality is that ubiquitous tragedies - feared guests you hate to have at your table - imperiously find their uncheerful, rugged routes to your life anyway. Tragedies are ostensibly mere alien stories when you are not a victim of their brutality...