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 Travesty of Public Appointments in Nigeria

“Prof. (Ishaq) Oloyede of JAMB has remitted 5billion to government early in August and yesterday announced another 3billion is ready to be remitted this...

Vice President Osinbajo makes Case for Competent Deputies

Perhaps, one of the critical takeaways in the recent indisposition of President Muhammadu Buhari is the importance of the Vice Presidential and deputy governorship...

Condemnable Acts: IPOB and the Nigerian Army Saga

The Actions of the ignorant, muddied IPOB and the Soldiers of the Nigerian Army are condemnable. The two players' actions are like mess and salt...

Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB: FG Should Not Misuse the Army

You probably saw the video the other day…of Nigerian army personnel in an Armored Personnel Carrier (APC), being pelted with stones, bottles and all...

Atiku’s Increasing Mischief and the APC

For quite some time now, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has elected for himself the role of the main opposition to the All Progressives...

“Yoruba Summit” at Ibadan is a “Fasad”!

"If the elements of the past reappear in the present, the future can (easily) be predicted." - Abdullahi Saidu Wasagu In legal parlance, it is...

Why is Kanu “Begging for War” with Nigeria?

A more coordinated and articulated Ojukwu failed to win an unwinnable war. Reason: he was fighting a country that had all the instruments of...

Corrupt People Cannot/Do not Make Good Leaders!

This statement by the late great Madiba, Nelson Mandela, a true African son and only one of its kinds is what I consider the...

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The PDP Mass Exodus and the Coming Implosion of the APC

The discordant tunes in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party,...

Critical Times, Revolutionary Times (2)

I read Dr. Tunji Braithwaite’s treatise on the need for revolution in Nigeria. I propose, in this essay, provoked by his thoughts, to take national and global views on the subject...

George Bush And African Immigrants: What’s The Deal?

It seems imperative that immigrants in this country, especially those of us from Africa, should begin to ask questions about our stake and welfare in this America where we live, work, pay taxes and raise up children...

Revolution Is Impossible In Nigeria? Some Say NEVER! Says Who?

Since the political and constitutional upheaval in Tunisia, followed by Egypt and now Libya, Jordan, Bahrain, Yemen and so on, some Nigerians have publicly commented that Nigerians can only dream of Egyptian and Tunisian style revolutions and political uprising...

Kanu Agabi’s Bad Verse On Lagos

So many Nigerians, especially Lagosians, were miffed by the recent statement attributed to one of Obasanjo’s choice minions, Kanu Agabi that Lagos is an evil state…

Don Imus And The Rutgers Girls

Don Imus's issue brings to the fore the indecency in the use of language by some big time anchormen and women on American airwaves and cable networks...

Agony Of A Continent

Africa's journey since the first contact with the Portuguese in the late 1490s is what Howard French passionately takes us through in his new book, A Continent For The Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa...

Bukola Saraki’s Palace in London: One Sacred Cow Too Many!

Dr. Bukola Saraki was elected the Executive Governor of Kwara State in 2003. He replaced his father's former political godson, Mohammed Lawal. The later had fallen out with Bukola's father, and therefore, had to be shown the door...

Reading culture and mass exam failures

In connection with a deliberate, orchestrated attempt at discouraging countless students from engaging in any thorough academic studies and excel academically any longer, careful checks have revealed that most private school proprietors/proprietresses, owners of registered/unregistered tutorial centres scattered all over the country are culpable and neck-deep in perpetrating exam malpractices...

The Retired Ambassador Peter Anegbeh’s Inaugural Diplomatic Coup d’état Speech: A Rejoinder (1)

Despite the fact that the diplomatic coup d'état staged by the retired Nigeria High Commissioner to Malaysia, Mr. Peter Anegbeh, to oust the out-going leadership of NIDO-MY and usurp its leadership was considered foiled,  Mr. Anegbeh and his cohorts re-grouped and went ahead to conduct an unauthorized Annual General Meeting...